I BOUGHT IT BECAUSE I WASN’T ALLOWED TO HAVE IT AS A CHILD

Reddit asked, “What’s something you bought as an adult because you weren’t allowed to have it as a child?” Some of the responses:
– “Dinosaur bed sheets and pillow cases. I first bought them in my 50s.”
– “Mouse Trap, the board game.”
– “That game where you have a hit the ‘iceberg’ blocks and not break the ice causing a penguin to fall. It’s not that I wasn’t allowed to have it, but that in school other kids would use it and I never got a turn. I bought it for my niece and we had a lot of fun.”
– “Band-Aids with cartoons on them.”
– “I buy my kids a lot of Play-doh, and other messy things that my parents wouldn’t buy me because the house always had to be presentable in case the Queen was coming over.”
– “When I was very little, we would go through the Sears Catalog to make our Christmas Lists. For 5 years I asked for a Crawl Thru Tunnel. I never got one. I bought my cats two of them.”
– “Any time I’m traveling and there’s a penny press, I use it. 7-year-old me is absolutely delighted every time.”
– “Chucks.”
– “A gumball machine.”
– “Taco Bell (we’re Mexican).”
– “A waterbed. Terrible idea, do not recommend.”
– “An Advent calendar. My mom said she never got me one cuz she knew I’d eat it all in one day. She was right.”
– “A big tub of Nutella. I wasn’t allowed to have too much sugar as a kid, so now I keep it stocked like it’s a kitchen essential.”
– “My first week of college I realized that I could eat an entire loaf of garlic bread for dinner and not get in trouble. I later learned why my mom didn’t allow me to eat an entire loaf of garlic bread for dinner.”
– “When I got my first job in high school I got a box of those Andes chocolate mints you would get at restaurants. Instead of waiting for the rare occasion my parents take me to a restaurant and they happen to give them with the check… I realized I could buy the whole damn box.”
– “I painted my bedroom black. It’s amazing, and shove it, mom.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What’s something you bought as an adult that you weren’t allowed to have as a kid?