S/O AG thread.. Are there any toys you are saving forever.

My daughters Groovy Girls & accessories, I still think they are so cute and fun.

My preemie cabbage patch doll from when my brother was born premature. Favorite books. I would be saving my awesome Barbie Dream House if my dad didn’t throw it away without telling me.

We've kept some favorite books - but only true favorites - and we'll probably keep some favorite LEGO. That's it. I just can't see saving a ton of toys. There are always new things.

Thomas and friends.

Star Wars

LEGO

Only the expensive toys. Lego, wooden Thomas, and AG. My mom kept a lot of my toys and my DD never played with them.

Only a few things honestly. My kids are beyond toys for the most part (16 and almost 15). My ds wasn't into many toys as a kid(he's a spectrum kid). He had Woody & Jesse dolls from Toy Story and we'd written his name on the bottom of their boots like in the movie. So we have both of those. And other than those 2 things, the only other thing he was into was Legos. And he still loves them but he's out of room for storage. He builds the sets and doesn't take them apart. He has an entire closet filled with shelves that are packed. Also shelves around his room with bigger sets. There are thousands of dollars in Legos in his room. From the age of 5 until probably 2 years ago, for every birthday & Christmas that's all he wanted. If he ever decides to take them apart, we'll definitely store/keep all of them. He also has 2 Trofast storage bins filled with extra parts.

The point thing from the girls is dd#1 has a little stuffed bear she got when she was born (named Bear-Bear). She still has it and if/ when she no longer wants it, I'll keep it. Other dd didn't ever have an attachment to anything like that.

My daughter’s My Twinn doll. It looked so much like her when we got it for her it was neat.

I also have the Cabbage Patch doll that my grandmother had wanted. This is when they were hard to get. I was teaching and let the kids know I wanted to get one. One of the parents contacted me and I was able to pick one up from her.

Hot Wheels, Lego, and Schleich resin animals. DS used to love to play zoo. :-)

DD’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse toys (she had a couple different ones), the Sesame Street play set with all the little characters, her loveys from when she was a baby, and the Teddy I bought for her when I first learned I was pregnant. She has in her room my lambswool stuffed dog, a stuffed Kermit the Frog, some Santa Bears and other toys that were mine when I was little. I won’t get rid of those either. I also have my mom’s Shirley Temple doll and her twin’s Dionne Quintuplet doll from when they were little girls in the 1930’s.

On a related note, I had a Mickey Mouse Colorforms set when I was a kid that I loved (and that didn’t get saved, probably because pieces got lost). I found a vintage set exactly like it on eBay a few years ago and bought it for myself for my 50th birthday. 

ETA: I’ll keep the LEGO sets forever too, because $$$, because I like them, and because I secretly bought them all for myself!

Our dgk’s always enjoy playing with the toys I saved from their parents’ childhoods. They often get here with a plan of what they want to play with next.

Last weekend I pulled out a photo album to show the 6 year old pics from 35+ years ago of his uncles playing with the Fisher Price toy he was playing with that day.

Also have a ton of Tonka, LEGO, and Barbie stuff (including a hand crafted wood doll house). They have also all loved the stuffies and books and puzzles our kids enjoyed before them.

We have saved all my son's legos and his Thomas the Trains (steel and brio type wooden ones) with all the track.
For some reason I've saved all the beanie babies I collected - some come out at holidays, most are in a box.

We have a huge ottoman filled with video games - I guess we'll need to deal with that before we move because I'm not hauling them around!

I still have my teddy that my aunt gave me when we immigrated here along with the stuffed donkey my parents bought me when we sailed on the Queen Mary - they're in my scrapbook room on a shelf together.  I'll never ever get rid of them.  I still have the Queen Mary pin as well that was given to me when we sailed.

They are still sold, but they look a little different to me. Our favorite was Billy Blazes 😁.

My great grandmother’s child’s tea set, my grandmother’s doll, my mother’s rag doll with its bed, my own rag doll that my grandmother gave me.