[merylsilverburg]

Originally Posted by Meiko

What things you regret you had to throw away?

Well, the incident I'm about to share isn’t really totally about regret but it's something like that.

It happened to my sister when she was a little girl. Before I was born, my parents and sister lived in a small apartment and our uncle and his wife were staying with them for a couple of weeks. Now, my sister had this little castle playset that she really loved. She brought it over from Taiwan so it couldn't be found in the States. It was obvious my sister really loved it because, even now, she remembers what it looked like, what color it was, and how many towers it had…and my sister hardly remembers anything, okay.

One day, our aunt had mistakenly used or threw something that belonged to my mother away and our mom didn’t realize it until a couple of days later. Well, our mom has a tendency to blame us instead of thinking that perhaps other people may be in the wrong. So when she confronted my sister, my sister, obviously, had no idea what she was talking about and kept repeating over and over that she didn't do it. Our mom got fed up so she went over, grabbed the castle, and threw it against the wall where it broke. My sister was really devastated and our aunt finally said that it was her fault when she asked our mom why my sister was crying. Unfortunately our mom was too proud to admit she's wrong so she never really "made it up" to her and just pretended the incident never happened.

So, that's sort of a regretful story because my sister regretted she had to lose a toy she loved over something that wasn't her fault. Irritating but that's the way it is.

I get very attached to my items but a lot of my childhood toys were thrown away except for maybe some stuffed animals. Most of the stuff I owned were very generic; you can still find them nowadays (except maybe the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" action figures…I had one of them…Leonardo, I believe). Oh, and maybe some of the toys now are reproduced differently and look horrible…like the new "Strawberry Shortcake" stuff…how fugly are they?!