Things you've always wanted but never had?

[Popcornshovel]

One of these bad boys...

 

[cococookie]

A landline phone that looks like lips

 

[littlepup]

A mr Frosty. I must have asked every Christmas and birthday to have one. Never got one

Don’t worry, they were crap you couldn’t get the handle to turn to crush the ice without the strength of 1000 men so it was basically syrup on ice cubes!

 

[WetFish101]

When I was young, I always wanted to wear glasses so I did all the stuff they say makes your eyes weak - I would nick my dads spare glasses and wear them, sit too close to the telly, all the bad stuff. I got glasses when I was about 14. Now I spend a fortune on contact lenses and never wear my glasses in public.

 

[Fifi91]

A mr Frosty. I must have asked every Christmas and birthday to have one. Never got one

 

[Popcornshovel]

A landline phone that looks like lips

Omg yes! And have it in the bedroom so I can sit on my bed and gossip about boys with my friends (even though I'm 35 and married)

 

[pinkmug]

After watching so many American shows set in the suburbs as a kid, a double door fridge with an ice maker seemed like the height of opulence.

I wanted a clear landline phone with a very long chord in my room.

I also wanted a kid on a bike to deliver our newspaper every morning by throwing it in our nonexistent garden from his bike but that never happened either

 

[LittleMy]

Also a Mr. Frosty. As an adult and parent myself I now see how shite they are and why my mum wasn’t having it

 

[Lalla]

Kids today will never know the excitement of the Christmas Argos catalogue, or the Christmas edition of the Radio Times (when there were only 3 or 4 channels to watch)

 

[Ingognito.Queen]

This furniture -

 

[Lalla]

A landline phone that looks like lips

You've reminded me that growing up I really wanted one of those phones where you hold the bit up to your ear and speak into the base, I'm not explaining it well so I've added a picture

I also really wanted at various points in my childhood an attic bedroom, a tomato sauce bottle shaped like a tomato, and a caravan

 

[barre19]

I was absolutely desperate for one of those skip hopper (?) thingies, a hoop to put your ankle through and you swing it round your feet and jump over it. The really jazzy ones had a counter on them too.

My mum refused to get me one cos I had no coordination and she said I’d break my ankle. But she eventually caved and I got one for my birthday. Guess what happened?

 

[Sibz]

I'm surprised the people who make Mr Frosty haven't used this common experience to their advantage and made a christmas advert where parents who never got it when they were young and their kids now wanting it both get a mr frosty from father christmas and are finally happy

 

[AshMay]

This is bringing up memories of circling stuff in the argos catalogue!

 

[SaltandPepperChicken]

Desperately wanted a perm when I was a teenage

I grew up in the 80’s. I had a perm and a mullet. AT THE SAME TIME!

Christ, I can’t bare to look at those photos now

 

[Rodneytrotter]

I always wanted a pony and still do

 

[TapToBoreMeRigid]

I got my bro a knockoff version of Guess Who. It was called Who is it? My poor brother

 

[Kim Mild]

Bit lighthearted. What have you always wanted but never had?

I've always wanted a dimmer switch for my ceiling lights. I hate bright lights. I've just been reminded of this by a Facebook post asking for recommendations to remove one.

 

[Rxt156]

friends

 

[bubbadabut]

Another vote for Mr Frosty. With the number of people who wanted one of these things, but never got one...it makes me wonder if they even existed in the first place! Was it some kind of Argos catalogue conspiracy?

It's probably more to do with the fact that everyone's mum saw it and thought "I'm not wasting good money on that piece of shit!"