Question of the Day - Sunday, September 8, 2024 Part 2

[fionasmom]

Last week we talked about a favorite childhood possession, so this week I wondered if there were a toy or other possession that you either did not like or never wanted. I liked dolls in general, very generally, but can also relate to the hotel commercial where the family mistakenly books a creepy room full of dolls and makes a quick exit.

One Christmas, my mother (who loved small babies) told me that she had a very special gift. When I opened the box, it was the most awful doll I had ever seen and I could not even start to disguise how shocked I was. This was not because I expected a replacement gift or wanted something else, but just because I found it horrifying. I don't have the doll any longer. It was a Vogue Baby Dear doll, long before Chucky but certainly in the ball park. It did not have the sweet expression of the Baby Annabelle dolls, or the like, but a pushed in disgruntled looking face.

Vtg 60s Vogue Baby Dear Wilkins Floppy Doll 18” REBORNPrice Reduced To Adopt | eBay

As you can see, the doll got the last laugh as they are clearly highly collectible and now going for an unbelievable amount.

 

[NY cat man]

Yes; when I was, I think, 11 or 12, my parents gave me a basketball and hoop for Christmas. Even at that young age, I hated basketball. We had to play it in gym class- half-court, shirts vs skins- and I hated every minute of it. I was fair to middling at it; I just hated it

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Ok I agree that doll is creepy! Its just the kind of thing my grandmothers would have loved too. Which I guess makes sense since my parents were both children in the 60s. Maybe it inspired Chucky. It's SO hard when your told it's a very special gift and then it's such a letdown! Like not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings but!!!

I think all the didn't like/didn't want things I got were more in the clothing category. The one I remember the most were these big bear foot slippers when I was 6ish. They did NOT feel nice inside. They were bulky. My feet were always hot so I hated slippers to begin with but we weren't allowed on the tile kitchen floor at Grandma's with just socks or bare feet. We have a picture of my cousins and I where I am wearing them that day. But after they went home with me; I don't think I put them on more than once or twice.

My Grandma was famous for buying things WELL in advance to give years down the road because she just knew we would need the thing. Like bras she bought probably in the mid 80s for granddaughters who wouldn't need them till the 90s. And this granddaughter didn't not take after her side of the family even when I was skinny.... I lucked out with that one. There were also some very nice quality but decades out of style sleepwear for when I got married. My mom thought one set was for nursing and was hysterical over it. I ended up giving them to a friend who liked vintage stuff and was smaller than me. So at least they didn't go to waste! It's a shame because that material did feel very nice!

 

[MonaLyssa33]

I can't think of a toy that I was gifted and didn't like, but I do remember getting an outfit from my grandma that was a horrible choice for a teenager. It was a matching outfit of a jean vest and elastic jean pants both of which had embroidered flamingos all over it. I never wore it.

 

[Margot Lane]

I can't think of a toy that I was gifted and didn't like, but I do remember getting an outfit from my grandma that was a horrible choice for a teenager. It was a matching outfit of a jean vest and elastic jean pants both of which had embroidered flamingos all over it. I never wore it.

I hear you. Was so happy when my dog chewed up the Barbie grama gave me, as then I didn’t have to tell her how much I liked it. There was also that creepy doll in pink whose soul job was to robotically iron clothes all day. No thanks.

 

[IzzysfureverMom]

At the time it happened I did not know it related to me or anything. When my son was very young my in laws gave him a jack in the box.They wound in up and it played music. He is sitting there smiling and then a creepy clown pops out of the box. He screamed bloody murder, so they repeat it ( really?) and more screaming. So that was was the end of that. I called my mom and she told me someone had bought me a jack in the box and I had the same reaction. SO SO creepy.

 

[denice]

The only things that I remember getting that I didn't care for were clothing.

 

[Winchester]

Not in my childhood, but last year. Bob found a cat doll at a yard sale and gave it to me. This doll was the creepiest thing I've ever seen in my life. Made of wood, a Cheshire-cat grin, and nails sticking out of it. I took it and thanked him, but, honestly? It gave me the creeps. Every time I came back to the computer room, that thing was here, just grinning.

And one day, I had had pretty much all I could take. I threw it in the garbage. But I think maybe I should have burned it. That's how bad I felt with the thing in the house. I've never said anything to Bob and am really hoping he'll never take notice. Bob's never been back here, so I think I'm ok.

 

[KittyFriday]

One of my sets of grandparents had a clear favorite child, and therefore clear favorite grandchildren (and it wasn't us). My Christmas and birthday presents from them were always things my grandma won at Bingo. Random keychains, picture frames, and once even a set of bingo markers (the ink ones). Just bizarre junk - it would have been better to have not gotten anything at all.

 

[neely]

All those creepy doll stories remind me of The Twilight Zone episode, Talking Tina. Off hand I can't think of any toy or possession I didn't want except for my aunt who gave me pajamas every year for my birthday. She was my mother's sister so I asked my mom if she could say something to my aunt. Either she didn't want to hurt my aunt's feelings or my aunt didn't lister to her because guess what I got for my next birthday???

 

[MoochNNoodles]

I guess I did get a not so appreciated doll. I was a teenager though. My step grandma had grown up very poor and never had toys. So she loved stuff. And she gave toys long after we were of that age. It was a larger porcelain doll dressed as Snow White. One set of eyelashes was glued on upside down and the dress needed padding in the chest. I fixed it up a little and passed it on to one of my mom’s coworkers kids who i heard loved it. So that was my gift out of it. I also got to pass some Barbies on to my youngest stepsister.

 

[catloverfromwayback]

I can't think of any toys I was given that I disliked or didn't want. Several that I inherited or just seemed to be around - my siblings are older than me. I remember a golliwog that gave me the creeps but that must have been binned early on. I always disliked my brother's teddy bear, because it was one of those with a rubber snout and manky fur (my brother chewed it when he was a baby, apparently) and white button eyes (Mum had to replace the originals). Ugly thing, glad it wasn't mine.

 

[vampiric_conure]

There was this 2-foot tall doll I got for Christmas that made noises and had a speaker on the back. I FLIPPED OUT because I was terrified of the speaker. I was 6? 7? Yeah. The doll gave me a weird vibe. Thankfully my younger sister loved it and kept it around for years. I told my aunt about it, as it was her gift to me, and if she remembered it. She didn't, but I told her I was sorry for freaking out over it, LOL!

 

[catloverfromwayback]

That reminds me of a big doll my sister had. It had a crack across its belly (it was made of some rigid 1950s plastic) and that crack scared the bejezuz out of me.

 

[Kwik]

Last week we talked about a favorite childhood possession, so this week I wondered if there were a toy or other possession that you either did not like or never wanted. I liked dolls in general, very generally, but can also relate to the hotel commercial where the family mistakenly books a creepy room full of dolls and makes a quick exit.

One Christmas, my mother (who loved small babies) told me that she had a very special gift. When I opened the box, it was the most awful doll I had ever seen and I could not even start to disguise how shocked I was. This was not because I expected a replacement gift or wanted something else, but just because I found it horrifying. I don't have the doll any longer. It was a Vogue Baby Dear doll, long before Chucky but certainly in the ball park. It did not have the sweet expression of the Baby Annabelle dolls, or the like, but a pushed in disgruntled looking face.

Vtg 60s Vogue Baby Dear Wilkins Floppy Doll 18” REBORNPrice Reduced To Adopt | eBay

As you can see, the doll got the last laugh as they are clearly highly collectible and now going for an unbelievable amount.

That has got to be the most awful doll face I've ever seen in my life- it no wonder you were shocked ,I'm surprised you didn't cry when you saw that face!

I had Baby Dear,who was adorable- the TV commercial showed her moving her " lifelike ' arms & legs and she was so tiny but porportionately appropriate to be a baby size for a little girl---- I loved that little Baby Dear & asked if I could take her to school( kindergarten) so my Mom pinned her inside of my coat- when my Mom picked me up after school she was not there- Baby Dear was gone,we searched everywhere but she must've been kidnapped because there were few places she could have fallen----- thank goodness she wasn't replaced with Baby Dear Wilkens!

I didn't like dolls very much except for Barbie,I liked horses or animals so someone( don't know who,not my parents) gave me a Unicorn,I cried and asked my Mom to take the horn out of the poor horses head---- so I never liked horned horses,til this day I remove the horn ( Ive done that to several statues,lol)...and didn't like poles going through horses either until I got older and started to collect Carousel horses- when I was small they upset me ....I didn't like Pez either ( animal head on top)

 

[Kwik]

That reminds me of a big doll my sister had. It had a crack across its belly (it was made of some rigid 1950s plastic) and that crack scared the bejezuz out of me.

Was it " Susie Walker".... I had one in I think around 1960,she was a big rigid 2 or 3ft( life-size) doll I disliked immensely - she was made to walk with the child holding it's hand but didn't work well and toppled over all the time

 

[Krienze]

Oh, I can answer this easily.

The cursed, the vile, the horrifying..... Teddy Ruxpin. -shudder-

I loved it, originally. Talking teddy. Was cool.

However one night, while I was asleep COZY AND ANGELIC MIND YOU, in my bed.... I hear this thing speaking in pure demonic glitchy sounds. Can't even make out the words. I scream, I cry, I run to my mommy... who of course comes to check out this possessed teddy bear.

Anyway turns out it somehow ended up picking up a phone call from the apartment below where our landlord lived. His wife was on the phone with someone and was speaking Italian, so when it came through I couldn't understand the language and add that to the distortion, it sounded so scary lol

I made my mom put it in storage anyway.

 

[Kwik]

Oh, I can answer this easily.

The cursed, the vile, the horrifying..... Teddy Ruxpin. -shudder-

I loved it, originally. Talking teddy. Was cool.

However one night, while I was asleep COZY AND ANGELIC MIND YOU, in my bed.... I hear this thing speaking in pure demonic glitchy sounds. Can't even make out the words. I scream, I cry, I run to my mommy... who of course comes to check out this possessed teddy bear.

Anyway turns out it somehow ended up picking up a phone call from the apartment below where our landlord lived. His wife was on the phone with someone and was speaking Italian, so when it came through I couldn't understand the language and add that to the distortion, it sounded so scary lol

I made my mom put it in storage anyway.

That must've been terrifying for you---- it's such a funny story though,thank goodness you found out what really happened or you'd have kept some Holy water in hand just in case you ran across any teddy bears! Rofl

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Oh, I can answer this easily.

The cursed, the vile, the horrifying..... Teddy Ruxpin. -shudder-

I loved it, originally. Talking teddy. Was cool.

However one night, while I was asleep COZY AND ANGELIC MIND YOU, in my bed.... I hear this thing speaking in pure demonic glitchy sounds. Can't even make out the words. I scream, I cry, I run to my mommy... who of course comes to check out this possessed teddy bear.

Anyway turns out it somehow ended up picking up a phone call from the apartment below where our landlord lived. His wife was on the phone with someone and was speaking Italian, so when it came through I couldn't understand the language and add that to the distortion, it sounded so scary lol

I made my mom put it in storage anyway.

Sounds worse than my friend’s little sister’s Tickle Me Elmo they had to throw in the shed because it would go off randomly and scare her. I mean Elmo giggling at 2 am IS creepy! They would hear it walking by the shed too. Maybe that could be like a security system because id run!

 

[Mia6]

one Christmas Nicole gave me a chia pet and the clapper, i grew basil, ha!!!!