Celebrate the day by looking in your cupboard to see if you have any stupid toys from your childhood. If so, take them out to use for the day. Get some batteries back in your Teddy Ruxpin or Furby, and see if the toys still work. Let a Slinky fall down the stairs. Take out your Pet Rock and watch it sit there doing nothing. If you don't have any stupid toys, go out and buy whatever toy is this year's fad. If you don't know what that is, ask a child what everyone is asking for for Christmas, and then you'll know. Now that you are grown up, maybe it's time to move away from stupid toys, and just buy stupid gifts instead. There have been some pretty daft toys over the years which were 'must-haves'. Or maybe disappointing toys might be a better description. Here's the one that caused us most grief:
Beanie Babies, the house seemed to be full of them............................ I'm not certain that they didn't breed. Nintendo Wii, actually got a fair bit of use ............ especially at parties and especially by the adults after the children had gone to bed and the adults were well served with fermented and spiritual liquor and the Dancing Mat addition was rolled out.
I bought a Teddy Ruxpin for my nephew about 30 years ago. Ten years later it's voice went but he had looked after it that well my sister-in-law took it back and they exchanged it.
I would imagine we all have at least one very big, rusty silly toy in the garage that we dont get time to play with...
Jenny remembers mothers rolling under the shutters as they opened the doors at John Lewis because they were so desperate to get to a Tamagotchi.
It all came flooding back, the tears if it hadn't been looked after and died and how somehow it became Mrs C' job to look after it because they had been banned from school.
Is that the one with shiny buttons where it needed feeding pie and mash for breakfast and kept saying oi!!! guvnor.
Nobody's kids have bloody SeaMonkeys? Evil shrimp things that used to die and decompose in a plastic jar of shrimp droppings.
I used to spend hours responding to the following commands ... "Bop it, tweak it, spin it, flick it!" .... Then they produced this:
