Jan 24, 2022
Do any of your characters have a favorite toy from their childhood? Do you?
Easy answer to this question is no, I haven’t written childhood toys into any of my stories. But, as always, there’s a gotcha! Not toys, but Harmony, my librarian-turned-internet researcher, has many of her childhood books.
I mention her collection of Nancy Drew in the stories, but she’s kept many other books as well. She’s got a copy of The Three Musketeers that was given to her by her uncle. A few of the James Bond books were added to her library when she was in high school.
There’s one small section of a shelf with children’s stories. Dr. Seuss is there for sure, along with Where The Wild Things Are and many others.
And it’s not a toy or a book, but Harmony also has her mother’s African Violet—well, at least a plant that is several generations down from the original cutting. She’s kept it alive through crisis after crisis.
And me?
I’ve still got a few things from my childhood, if you count high school. Coming from the middle a large family, most of our toys were passed down from one child to another as they were outgrown, just like our clothes. I never was attached to dolls or stuffed animals and had no desire to keep them. I’ve held onto a magnetic chess/checkers set I used to take to school, although I never played seriously, and a few books I claimed as my own from the shelves in the attic. (I may have previously mentioned the Narnia books I ‘borrowed’ from one of my brothers and never returned.) And I still have some of the embroidery thread that was my grandmother’s. (I know, it probably is unusable.)
I’d love to hear what childhood toys or belongings you’ve held on to. Tell us in the comments if you like.
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Jan 24, 2022
Do any of your characters have a favorite toy from their childhood? Do you?
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Yes, I still have an old Chess set. Whenever I pick the pieces out of the box an aroma wafts out of the box that reminds me of my father.
That must bring you happiness.
We moved home several times when I was younger Unfortunately, that meant leaving a lot of my childhood behind. Now, lots of those things are worth a fortune.
If you read the fine print, those toys are only worth a lot of money if they were never played with. Which goes against the whole reason for kids to have them.
Magnetic chessboard – interesting memory from high school. I’d stopped playing chess by then. I don’t remember why I lost interest.
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