October 30, 2009
Loopy’s Halloween Costume
Happy Halloween to all of you! Our first customers of the day (on a Road Trip from Oklahoma) rang the doorbell promptly at 10 am. When we opened the door, we were greeted with masks and a loud “Trick or Treat!” So we filled up their bags and purses with lots and lots of yarn as their treats for the day. (Um, no. Just kidding. They filled up their own bags quite well!) We wanted to make sure you knew that both Big Loopy (who stands on top of one of our yarn shelves, 
keeping an eye on things every day) and the Little Loopies (who congregate on the Loopy Island up front) are dressed for the day. Elf Donna makes sure that they are prepared for the different seasons. And then Susan brought Halloween tattoos and made us wear them. Should I keep mine on for the wedding that I’m attending tomorrow in Ohio?
I have a new cookbook that arrived this week and I think it’s my most favorite ever. (Which says a lot, because I may be guilty of collecting cookbooks…) It’s called “The Pioneer Woman Cooks“. I can’t remember how I stumbled upon The Pioneer Woman’s blog, but I have enjoyed reading it over the past year. What I like about her brand new (first ever) cookbook is: great recipes (and ones that I will actually make), step by step pictures, and fun stuff to read about life 
on the ranch. Most of the new recipes that I have tried lately have come from her, and I was so glad when I read that she had a cookbook coming out this fall. I think it would make a great holiday gift for several people on my list. (You know, the ones I’m not knitting for. And since I’m only 
knitting gifts for a handful of people this year, there are quite a few on the “no knits” list.)
<– Look – pictures of horses! I always wanted a horse, growing up. I never got one. And I also wanted an Easy Bake Oven that never magically appeared under the tree. Do any of you remember “really really really” wanting some particular thing? (Because, you know, that’s the way we talked about such things at that stage of life: really really really. Like you’d REALLY REALLY REALLY die if you didn’t get it). So were there things you really really really wanted and … never did get? Or does anyone remember spending a few hours poring over the Sears WishBook, making your list of things you had to have in order to survive another year of life? Or does this whole conversation just really (really really) date me? Yes? Never mind, then.
Sheri whonolongerwantsanEasyBakeOven.
ButI’dstilltakeahorse,evennow.
Mary said,
October 30, 2009 @ 11:42 am
I wanted the Suzy Homemaker oven! That makes me even older than the Easy Bake Oven generation. It never magically appeared under my tree either!
Jennifer said,
October 30, 2009 @ 11:43 am
I remember the Sears wish book. So there.
I also always wanted an easy bake oven, so I got one for my daughter. And a horse. I haven’t gotten her one of those, yet. 
. I’ve got my eye on that book too – I’m glad to hear its good!
Abigail said,
October 30, 2009 @ 11:43 am
I would spend hours going through the American Girl catalogs making lists of things I wanted.
My mom, bless her, bought me Samantha and Kirsten. The sad part was that I rarely played with them. I have them…and they’re both in perfect condition, but they were mostly just displayed.
Ah well, they are “retiring” Samantha so maybe if I hold onto her she’ll be worth something in twenty years.
Doubt it though–now I make a point of giving gifts that can be USED and used up
just lori said,
October 30, 2009 @ 11:44 am
I have that cookbook too! Preordered it, and will be making the steak sandwiches for lunch or dinner on Halloween.
I love The Pioneer Woman, and her blog, and that most of the recipes in that cookbook will get made in this house over the next few months. (I’ve been making her poppers, plain style, for months, and have some in the freezer now.)
Laurie said,
October 30, 2009 @ 11:45 am
How funny that you always wanted a horse, but never got one…I always tell people a horse was the only thing I ever asked my Dad for that he didn’t get for me (I was the only daughter out of five kids!). My brothers had motorcycles, hunting stuff, etc., but all I ever wanted was a horse! Come to find out, it was Mom’s fault…to this day she is scared to death of horses and just knew I would get kicked in the head or something if I ever got one. I think my grandfather would have gone in on a horse for me too, as he loved them as much as I did, but Mom wasn’t having any of that! I had to be satisfied with going on trail rides every year when we went on vacation in New Mexico or Colorado – Do they still have places where you can go ride horses in Colorado? Like you, I would still love to have one today….and yes I definitely remember poring over the WishBook for hours, making out my list!
Bonney said,
October 30, 2009 @ 11:49 am
I can remember talking endlessly about the NEW doll, Barbie. Hours and hours were spent on a little pamphlet that one of my friends gave me. In the end my big brother bought me a redhead bubble hairdo Barbie that I played with almost every day. I wish I still had her.
Hariamrit said,
October 30, 2009 @ 11:51 am
I really really wanted a dog, horse and goats. Got them when I was an adult and i really really am glad I got to have my dream. Now I really really really want more time to knit.
Karen said,
October 30, 2009 @ 11:51 am
I remember going through the Sears Wish book and later the Toys R Us big Book with my daughter. My parents went crazy one year trying to find me a cabbage patch doll (it was the year that it was big) and low and behold, it was under the hunnukah bush for me (there’s really no bush, just joking)
Sooze said,
October 30, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
I love that the Loopys are dressed up for Halloween!
vismajor said,
October 30, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
Ha! I totally remember poring oh-so-longingly over the annual Sears Wish Book. My sister & I would fight over who got to look through it first, and (unless I’m misremember, which happens as I get older) we had elaborate systems for marking which of us wanted which items. There were some items that’d have overlap between us, but with a 5-year age gap, they weren’t common. Ahhh, this takes me back.
Laurie said,
October 30, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
I had an Easy Bake oven when I was little and my daughter had one when she was little. While they were fun, the size of the cakes were so tiny that it didn’t seem worth the effort to make them! A horse would’ve been better….
Susan said,
October 30, 2009 @ 12:31 pm
I guess I was one of the lucky ones and had an Easy Bake Oven. I loved it who knew that a lightbulb could do all that. I also made sure that my daughter had one. And at 20 she and her Father still thinks that it is cool to use it when the weather is bad and we are stuck in the house….lol Such Fun! I did always want a horse also but that never happened. And now that I am a few years older
I don’t want one it would cut into my knitting time.
The good old days of the Wish Books. All of them Montgomery Wards, Sears, Pennys, I couldn’t wait till the mailman brought them to circle what I wanted and when I got older it was The List…. Wait a minute there is something familar with that picture…. wish lists, attacking the mailman when he comes…. Any one else see the simularities?
Eunice said,
October 30, 2009 @ 12:43 pm
My niece always talked about wanting the large Barbie head so she could play beauty shop. Her friends found her one for her 30th birthday. Maybe your horse will still come.
deknits said,
October 30, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
I got that cookbook yesterday, too – it’s fabulous, I can’t wait to make something from it! The thing that I always “really, really” wanted as a kid and never got was a Lite Brite…Mom would never let me have one. Now that I’m an adult, I can see what a nightmare all those little plastic pegs would be…
Gayla said,
October 30, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
I too wanted an Easy Bake oven and was denied. A few years ago a friend at work bought one for me and we would make mini cakes in the office. I had no idea you could still buy them.
Lynne T. in Culver City, CA said,
October 30, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
The pages of the Wish Book were dogearred by Thanksgiving. Bro’s b-day was 12-6 and mine was 1-20….whatever you really really wanted either came for his b-day and then Christmas was somewhat of a let down…In my case, if I did not get it for Christmas I KNEW it was coming for my b-day….however the pony, even to this day NEVER arrived….but I did have the first Tiny Tears in my neighborhood !! She was a TRIPLE Really !! Such wonderful memories !! Thanks, Sheri for reminding us of “the good old days” !! Happy Halloween !!!!
MAKW said,
October 30, 2009 @ 1:02 pm
I love the Sears Wishbook! My mom used to let us cut out pictures of what we wanted to bring in a plastic bag when we went to see Santa – we were allowed one gift from Santa so we spent a ton of time pouring through the book.
Maria said,
October 30, 2009 @ 1:06 pm
Oh yeah, I wanted the Easy Bake oven.
The other thing I remember really wanting and not getting was Dusty and her motorcycle. For some reason I thought that was the coolest thing.
http://www.thedolllounge.com/dusty/Dusty-Main-Page.html
I also really, really wanted Tiffany, the doll who had the top of the head that flipped around to change from blond to brown. I got one in the end. I tried to cut the blond into a Farrah flip, but not surprisingly that didn’t quite work. In the end, however, it was ok as the shorter hair was better hidden when she was brown haired, and overall I liked that better.
Diann said,
October 30, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
I also really, really, REALLY, wanted a horse. A big red horse that I rode for the very first time when I was 8 years old. His name was (go figure!), “Big Red.” His owner offered to sell him to my father for $25. Big Red lived in Houston, Texas. I lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I cried all the way home from Texas when my father would not buy that horse. It still makes me sad; many, many, many years later.
Now it is time to go knit something “Frankish” and cheer up!
southparknitter said,
October 30, 2009 @ 1:47 pm
I remember the Sears wishbook too. My mom loved Christmas and would look and look and look.. She started shopping in June. I don’t think I ever wanted an easy bake oven. For sure, I don’t want one now or the real kind either (use mine for storage). I did want a Barbie doll which came out when my mom thought I was too old to have a doll.
Kathy said,
October 30, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
the Sears wish book, how we loved it. It was worn to tatters by my siblings and me, with inky check marks next to the things we hoped Santa would bring. I remember my brother asking for a miniature CocaCola delivery truck, which came with little cases of bottles, he played with it for years. Dolls, stuffed animals—I remember a plush pink poodle who doubled as a pajama bag with a zipped compartment underneath, I loved it year round–and at one point kept my knitting in it! Alas, the wish book never offered a pony or horse at all. I was bummed when Sears discontinued the wish book, making Sears like Just Any Old Store.
LittleWit said,
October 30, 2009 @ 1:53 pm
I definitely remember the Sears Wishbooks. We would always flip through those to pick out what we wanted for Christmas. I also remember really wanting a Starter jacket and not getting one because people were you know killing each other for them. But then I did get one a couple years later when they weren’t as cool.
Lael said,
October 30, 2009 @ 2:03 pm
I never got my Easy Bake oven as a kid either – but after I got married, my husband got me one for Xmas one year.
Joannah said,
October 30, 2009 @ 2:22 pm
The Sears Wishbook! I have five sisters, so our pre-Christmas wishlist planning was an event in itself. I’m not sure we got much (if anything) from the wishbook…but we did get to adopt/rescue a pony who needed a good home. Mom clearly had our priorities straight
Valerie said,
October 30, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
For me it was a Barbie camper. I never did get that either, but I still survived. Our equivalent in Canada of the Sears Wishbook was the Eaton’s catalogue. We had the pages of that memorized, I think. Then after Christmas, all the people and furniture were cut out for paper dolls.
Thanks for the news that the PW cookbook is out. I’ll have to look for it.
Suzie said,
October 30, 2009 @ 2:27 pm
I always wanted an Easy Bake Oven, too. Mom compensated for that by getting me small pans that I used whenever she baked. I also wanted a Lite Brite. I actually got one for my first graders when I was a teacher. They weren’t too enamored with it, but then I taught after computer games were already a big thing. I suppose a Lite Brite is tame after that. I did want a horse as a kid, but now as an adult I know how much work they are so I don’t want one any more.
Ann said,
October 30, 2009 @ 2:28 pm
I really, really, really wanted a jewelry making kit. Never did get one. But it occured to me a couple years ago that I could now take a jewelry making class as an adult. It was fun and I finally got to do what I wanted to do many years ago.
Allison said,
October 30, 2009 @ 2:31 pm
I wanted a big Barbie house that my great-grandmother got me. To date me the furniture was all cardboard and I remember how mad my Dad got putting is all together. That was the last Christmas that she was alive and I still remember that she always got us what we wanted from that catalogue.
redriverknitter said,
October 30, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
I too wanted a horse growing up, and I wanted to live in the country like my grandparents.
I eventually moved to a small farm.
Shortly after we got married my darling husband asked me if I would like a horse.
Silly me … I said sure (how was I to know that my beautiful yard would be no more!)
Now, almost 9 years later, my yard is still an awful sight, but we have 8 horses, most rescued from being in a bad place. With us they get lots to eat, and they get spoiled, but you would think we could figure out a way to have them, and a pretty yard? (still working on this, as we wouldnt want to “banish” them to the pastures or anything like that, not when all the shade trees are in the yard by the house.)
Would’nt give them up, but I am always thinking about a way to fence off at least part of the yard. Oh well, maybe next year!
TMTTYRR said,
October 30, 2009 @ 2:57 pm
I wanted an Easy Bake oven, too, but when my mom got sick when I was 10 and I took over in the kitchen, I had an even better oven.
And while I wanted a horse, that wasn’t so dire as my aunt had a race horse farm, so I got to go visit. I remember there used to be a play house that was like a giant kid-size doll house, complete with furniture. I always wanted one of those. One year there was a bedding set in the Marshall Field’s catalog that I just adored, and another year I just had to have a Kick ‘n Go. (Which didn’t work on the sidewalks and I promptly fell off and got hurt once the thaw happened, I know BFF Liz is shocked by that.)
Melanie said,
October 30, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
I spent hours with the wish book.
I thought I would die if I did not get the Barbie head that came with makeup – you could do her makeup and hair and then wash it off and do it again. I never got it. I seem to have lived………
Barbara said,
October 30, 2009 @ 3:21 pm
I’m a lot older than most of these people are, but there were things that I wanted
also. My father was a championship bowler. I wanted a dog and a bicycle, but
my dad bought me my own bowling ball and shoes. He said “the other things
were not important’. Eventually I got the dog and the bicycle but I was a
teenager. I did have my share of dolls though.
Melissa B. said,
October 30, 2009 @ 3:23 pm
I did have the Easy Bake Oven and LOVED it! Sorry!
For the item that I REALLY, REALLY wanted was a sibling! I am an only child and I asked for YEARS for Santa to bring me a sibling! I even said I would settle for a Foreign Exchange Student! I never did get that want….However, I do have 4 amazing kiddos!
Helen said,
October 30, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
I too loved my Easy Bake Oven! I still am upset with my mother for throwing it out.
We got one for our daughter but it wasn’t the same. She wants to bake the real deal and is actually quite helpful.
Enjoy the weekend and I think it would be quite humorous if you kept your Halloween tattoo for the wedding!
Teri said,
October 30, 2009 @ 3:46 pm
So funny and too true!
I must admit: I was spoiled. I had an easy-bake oven and a horse (pony). But I never had a Barbie – not even a Skipper!
Even though I really really really wanted them and circled them in the JC Penny’s catalog.
Amy said,
October 30, 2009 @ 4:01 pm
My really really wants did not come until I was a teenager. Mostly it was the fashionable items at the mall that my family could not buy….
Dr. Martins one year…
Designer purse another year…
Grandmas are awesome!
Margaret said,
October 30, 2009 @ 4:32 pm
I got an awful lot of nice toys as a kid, even an Easy Bake Oven. But I never really asked for toys, my Mom and Dad were good at getting just the right things for me. My favorites were the little electric Singer sewing machine in its own flower print case my mother bought me. (I wish I still had it!) And the Peugeot 10 speed bike my father bought me.
The only grumpy Gus moment I can remember over a toy was when I got a Skipper doll. I felt cheated since she had no boobies like a Barbie. Thing is, I don’t remember ever even wanting a Barbie. Kids. .
Lou said,
October 30, 2009 @ 4:33 pm
I had an Easy Bake Oven! And I got it for Christmas one year. It made cakes the size of muffin tops. Seems to me they must not have tasted that great because I don’t think back and say, “Gee, I sure miss the cakes I used to make with my Easy Bake Oven.”
I really, really, really want to go on a knitting cruise, but that will have to wait another year or so.
Have fun at the wedding and Happy Halloween!!
Bonnie Herrmann said,
October 30, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
I remember waiting breathlessly for the Sears and J. C. Penney Christmas catalogs to arrive. Once they did, I spent hours and hours going over them and marking items or writing up a list. Then when Christmas morning arrived it would all go out of my head to be replaced by the wonderful gifts I did actually receive. I could never remember what all I wished for compared to what I got. All of which says that I was very, very blessed!
noallatin said,
October 30, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
When we were little my brother and I got to pick our Christmas gifts from the big Sears Wish Book. That was fun. I didn’t get an Easy Bake oven since my mother thought if I wanted to bake I might as well do it for real. We got Thingmakers insted. Plastic goop got poured into metal molds and baked that made flowers, creepy crawly bugs.
BTW, thanks for the colorful yarn from the October Blog contest. My learning to knit 15 year old son even liked it.
Lisa in Los Angeles said,
October 30, 2009 @ 6:07 pm
I think you’ve tapped the reason why I have so much yarn!
I haven’t REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted anything as badly since childhood (Wonder Woman Barbie doll that I got) and unlike childhood, if I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want a skein of a particular yarn, I’m at a place in my life where I can just buy it.
Which, to me, is sort of miraculous.
As a child, I remember my mother telling me that when she and my dad got married she could buy all the yarn and fabric she wanted and she felt “rich, rich, rich!” I think that’s stuck with me as my own personal definition of wealthy: able to pay all your bills, put some aside for savings and still buy all the yarn and all the fabric you want.
Elaine said,
October 30, 2009 @ 6:12 pm
Where in Ohio are you going? I live in Dayton, Ohio Would like to meet you. My daughter and I are thinking about a trip to your place in St. Louis sometime. Have a good time at the wedding. Elaine
nancy said,
October 30, 2009 @ 7:34 pm
For me, it was an electric train. I wanted one more than life itself. Never got one. My grandfather gave one to my little brother when he was about 5, but I never got one. It took a long time, for a 12 year old, for me to forgive my grandfather for that perceived snub.
Julie said,
October 30, 2009 @ 8:18 pm
I always wanted a canopy bed. Never got one. (As a kid, or as an adult.) So when I got a divorce, I sold my ring and bought my very own canopy
Carol said,
October 30, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
Loved the Sears Wishbook! As a child, I’d spend A LOT of time going through it–didn’t want to miss anything. But what I REALLY REALLY REALLY had to have was my Chatty Cathy doll… “Hello, my name is Cathy. What’s your name?” Yes, I did get it, and I pulled that darned string on her head to make her talk A LOT–in fact, I pulled it so often, she lost her voice!! What a wonderful memory!
Monica said,
October 30, 2009 @ 9:11 pm
I love the pioneer woman’s blog also
you didn’t miss much by not having that Easy bake Oven, light bulbs aren’t the best heat source for baking. i would still like a horse too.
Tracy said,
October 30, 2009 @ 9:17 pm
I rilly, rilly wanted a chemistry set or rock tumbler. *I* got the Easy Bake Oven. Guess that told me what my gender role was supposed to be!
Love that cookbook!
Here’s the thing about horses (I grew up with them): riding them is tons of fun. Cleaning out stalls, getting up at 5am to feed, brushing them (you think a cat or dog is big?), getting them water when the pipes at the barn are frozen….these are some of the parts that are less fun
And of course…the VET BILLS.
Heather said,
October 30, 2009 @ 10:10 pm
It was never a gift. Me?
I wanted to marry Mr. T.
I still do, even now.
Del said,
October 30, 2009 @ 10:43 pm
I also love The Pioneer Woman, her hometown is my hometown and her dad is still a Doctor here. My sister and I loved picking out things in the Sears Christmas catalog and I felt sad when many years later the catalog was discontinued. Having a horse as a child was wonderful. I got one of my worst sunburns riding for hours in the hot summer sun and loved to ride when it was snowing and all the days in between. What great memories!!
Lisa said,
October 31, 2009 @ 2:00 am
I never had the Easy Bake Oven–but I got to bake in the real oven. Lite Brite–yep–Creepy Crawlers and Incredible Edibles (can’t still be around now–they were completely unsafe, but I never burned myself on them!) I did have the horses–but looking back, I also had one of the coolest things ever. I had a kids knitting machine. I suppose it would have been similar to a Bond, I remember knititng striped scarves on it in my older brother’s high school colors. I wonder what happened to that knitting machine.
Cin said,
October 31, 2009 @ 8:02 am
There was one Christmas when all I wanted was a pair of rollerblades. “You don’t have to bother with anything else, Mom, that’s really all I want.” So when we were opening presents and my sisters opened up rollerblades I looked around for my box, but there was none. All I wanted was rollerblades, but my sisters got them but not me. I look back on it now and know that it’s because my feet had passed the threshold into adult sizes, so the rollerblades were a lot more expensive for me, but it makes me be a lot more willing than I otherwise might have been to make socks for big feet. Imagine not getting the only thing you wanted for Christmas because your feet were too big!
Carolyn Ell said,
October 31, 2009 @ 8:36 am
I always wanted an American Girl doll but never got one… I’m still disappointed about that!
Annette said,
October 31, 2009 @ 8:39 am
I really,really wanted a dark blue cashmere sweater, just like the ones all of the other girls had in my school. I went to a catholic school (in the day when the nuns wore habits) we wore uniforms, and I remember I had to beg my mom for the longest time, for that cashmere sweater, then finally Christmas came, still no sweater. I cried, my daddy took heart to my distress, talked to mom, then I got my cashmere sweater! I was so happy…I’m still in love with cashmere to this day.
Meg said,
October 31, 2009 @ 8:43 am
Ha! I also wanted an EZBake Oven! But what I really, really, really wanted was a Snoopy SnoCone Maker. Which would have ruled. And I asked for a subscription to the Economist for like 8 years in a row, but never got it. Now I get it for free at work, so that’s ok.
Kelly said,
October 31, 2009 @ 11:01 am
I remember lying on my stomach, next to my brother, on the living room floor. Between us was the Wish Book, and it was one of the few times we’d not be fighting. Instead, we’d be entranced, slowly turning the pages and dreaming of all the goodies that we might have. Mom would provide us with paper and pencils and stern instructions to make a good list for Santa.
Granted, the lists were long and crammed with stuff that never actually made it under the tree, but it didn’t matter after all. The wishing was the best part. The looking. Hell, half of this stuff we knew we didn’t like/wouldn’t use/never get. But it was toy heaven for the two of us.
And I did have an EZ-Bake oven. I used it once. You didn’t miss much.
Jean said,
October 31, 2009 @ 12:02 pm
I wanted the EasyBake oven and a horse too!
Never did get the over – mom’s argument was that she let me use the big oven any time I wanted, Why did I need a tiny fake one?
The horse, on the other hand, I did get. I was 10 and he was a 3 year old retired racehorse that was way more horse than we had any business with, but I loved him from day 1, and we worked out our differences over time and I could do anything with him. And I wouldn’t have traded him for all the EasyBake ovens in the world!!
Ellen said,
October 31, 2009 @ 2:25 pm
I wanted a horse too, but since I grew up in a city and one of six kids, obviously I never got one. However, my husband bought me horseback riding lessons for my 50th birthday! I took them for about 6 months and it was fun. Unfortunately, I came to the adult conclusion that if I were to really get a horse, I would have to get up really, really early to shovel out the stall before work!q
Annie S said,
October 31, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
I still want a horse. I also pined for and never received: Easy Bake Oven, Snoopy Sno-Cone machine, Lite Brite and a Ken doll for my Barbie. Those wishes were never fulfilled, yet Santa always brought me something I didn’t know I wanted but really loved.
This year? Yarn. I am always befuddled that I don’t get it for X-mas. Ever.
Kim said,
October 31, 2009 @ 4:08 pm
They are too cute in costume
I never got the Easybake oven, but I get to play with a real one now 
Carol said,
October 31, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
No Easy Bake Oven here either – I was baking w/the real oven pretty early. Same with the toy sewing machine – here, have some fabric scraps, needle & thread. I made a ton of ‘couture’ doll clothese that way! I did get my Liddle Kiddle Cinderalla Castle; my poor parents ’cause I was up at 3 am that year! They had probably just gone to bed (Dad was a truck driver & always came home in time to put the presents out for his two little girls.
Catherine Ristola Bass said,
October 31, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
I wanted my own BB gun instead of always glomming on to my brother’s. But I did get a real bow and arrow!
julie said,
November 1, 2009 @ 9:37 am
I absolutely remember looking at every single page of the Sears Wishbook and making my long, long, long list of things I just HAD to have! I am with you, Sheri! (Guess I am dating myself, too!)
Angela said,
November 1, 2009 @ 10:49 am
OMG!!! Easy Bake Ovens were the most fun things ever. My sisters and I spent hours playing with ours. I think we had several over the years (they didn’t last very long). And the Sears Wishbook, I couldn’t wait for it to come out every year! I think you should go ahead an get an easybake oven, if they’re still available, you’d love it.
Mindy said,
November 1, 2009 @ 7:43 pm
I was very lucky since I did get an Easy Bake Oven. It wasn’t near as much fun as it looked like on TV. The only thing that I really ever wanted BAD that I didn’t get was a pair of green patent leather shoes. (how impractical was that?) So…I did the next best thing and bought a shoe store when I grew up! I now buy my granddaughter totally impractical shoes and it makes us both happy!
Kay said,
November 1, 2009 @ 11:06 pm
I always wanted an Easy Bake Oven too. I also wanted a horse. I never got either one! lol I never had a Raggedy Ann and Andy doll either so when I was about 14 I asked for a set. My mom and dad got me a set from a lady who made them. Darn it…mine looked like the real deal but Ann did not have a heart embroideried on her chest. Oh well….I still have those dolls.
Wanda in AR said,
November 2, 2009 @ 8:15 am
I learned to play the piano when I was 4. I would go over to various friends house and play and play. I begged and begged for a piano, even thru my teens. I practiced thru the years at friends and at church, but I never got a piano. I moved out at just before my 23rd birthday (yes I moved out late in life not counting leaving for college) when I got married. I never did get the piano. About 2 years later, my parents purchased a piano. To this day it is a sore spot with me. After they got it, my mother had the nerve to tell me, you will have a piano when I die. I answered back that I would burn it before I would let it in my house. What my mother doesn’t really realize is I have no plans of letting that piano in my house.
Helene said,
November 2, 2009 @ 9:50 am
I really really really wanted a dog. We lived in a small apt in the Bronx (my mom is still there after 52 years). My parents would say that when I grew up and had a home with a yard, I could get what I wanted. Well my husband had a dog when we married but the dog died when our youngest was 7 months. I waited til she was 3 to consider a dog and found out that she was highly allergic to dogs. So I have patiently waited for 18 years. She left for the summer June 3 and I got a dog June 7. My daughter was home for a few weeks before starting college and her allergy wasn’t that bad. So at 53 I finally got my wish. Happy is 1/2 lab and 1/2 golden retreiver and didn’t make it through guide dog training. She is a joy.
Helene said,
November 2, 2009 @ 9:52 am
Friday I needed an easy apple tart and found a recipe from Pioneer Woman on the web. It was great. I had no idea this really is a person with a blog and a new cookbook. I can’t wait to see it.
Seanna Lea said,
November 2, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
I don’t remember wanting anything that badly. We moved a lot growing up, so anything I became too attached to was easily something to go into storage the next time we moved. I mostly wanted books, which was fine because Mom loves books too.
Sandy said,
November 2, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
I really, really, really wanted a bride doll. I probably got socks and underwear and a blouse instead. I was raised in the 40′s and 50′s and there was little money for gifts.
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traceyincincy said,
November 3, 2009 @ 10:19 am
HAH !
my parents have 3 horses …uhm…lets call them pets …well, they dont ride them ….
they just love them …and put them in and out of the barn every day..clean the stalls …get the water ….open the different grazing gates ….and my mother feeds them carrots and apples ….so Sherri …maybe you could just ‘horse sit ‘ the next time they go on vacation !!
katiedo said,
November 3, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
Did you know the Pioneer Woman will be in St. Louis, Nov 17 at the Left Bank signing her book?
Abby said,
November 4, 2009 @ 4:02 pm
Oh man I was spoiled. I would look through the Fleet Farm Toy Land Catalog. No sears wishlist for us. I got the cabage patch doll when it was the craze. I got my barbie (fake) house, the barbie convertable, a 10 speed, a walkman, the easybake oven, and a turtle.
My brother & I never got what we really wanted, another brother or sister. Dang.
kathyd said,
November 6, 2009 @ 10:51 am
I was absolutely floored when I got the easy Bake Oven because the only person I told was Santa in the Goldblatt’s store in Hammond Indiana (I grew up in NW Indiana) My mom was totally against that toy, so I never told her I wanted it. But I knew Dad had something to do with it because the package was marked “Yo Ho Ho” instead of Santa’s “Ho Ho Ho”.
We lived on a farm so I had the horse-lots of work but wonderful.