So I got a Wal-Mart circular in today’s newspaper and it had all the hot toys for this Christmas.
Pity the poor parents who are going to go bankrupt buying this stuff.
You know what the kids want. They all want those gaming systems that are gonna set you back at least $200 just for the gaming console or a laptop computer that’s gonna set you back around $400 or maybe the latest and greatest bicycle that’s gonna take a couple hundred out of your checking account.
Christmas, my friends, is getting so expensive that even Santa’s cutting back this year.
And that got me to wondering, if parents had to buy today what they bought us as kids, what would they be paying?
Bad news.
An arm and a leg.
Take a simple Monkees hand puppet, for instance. I don’t know what it cost my parents back in the 1960s, but it sure wasn’t $44 and rising on e-Bay.
All for a puppet where you pull the string and it says classic lines like, “Hi, I’m Mike…How do you like my new drums..Terrible.” Or, “Hey, What are you building (sound effect),,nothing now.” Or “We’re having more fun than a barrel full of people (noise effect).”
How about Creepy Crawlers? Remember those “toys,” with an oven and metal plates that could have given you third-degree burns when you pulled them out of the oven?
Well, the “goop” itself is going for $52. The Thingmaker Creepy Crawler’s Eeks! set will cost ya $31.
Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows Game 1969 Milton Bradley?
A cool $48.88.
How about a Johnny West doll?
Get yours today for only $45.
Wow, was it really that expensive to be a kid back then?
It’s too bad our parents didn’t hang on to them after we moved away from home.
I’d love to spend an afternoon reliving my childhood with my old GI Joe.
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