Not really for me, but for my boys.

I bought them season passes to Loveland ski area this year and they have been taking snowboarding lessons. I started in 4th or 5th grade. My boys are in 1st and 2nd grade.

We also had a boat when I was very young and my father sold it before I learned how to waterski. I bought a used 1998 inboard wakeboarding boat this past labor day (Moomba Mobius). I picked up a wakebaord for my boys for Christmas and will teach them when the warm weather rolls around.

I also bought them pellet rifles last year for Christmas. My mom never allowed me to have a pellet or BB gun.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
Ed, it's not a Nikon, but I have a Canon AE-1 that you can have if you want it.

Carl that would be awesome that was the other camera I dreamt of!

Sure thing, Ed. I'd like to see it get used. We'll arrange a time and place to meet.

I cant say I wanted a whole of stuff from my teenage years. I wanted to be a fighter pilot. Ended up frozen to the Christmas tree as the BUFFs taxied by me.
No real regrets.
I do wish I could find my first real gun I had as a teenager for what it cost my old man:
Colt Commander 9mm. $125.

I wanted a cabinet video arcade in the 80's.
So I made me one.

As a kid growing up in New Jersey in the 70s and 80s we had dirt bikes.
The area we rode was broken up in to the people riding motorcycles side and the people shooting guns side. I was safe no one ever crossed paths.
We would let some of the shooters ride our motorcycles if they would let us shoot their guns. It worked out well for everyone.
The one thing I always wanted was an AR15 rifle and living in New Jersey they were hard to find.
When I moved to Florida in 1999 I did not realize how gun friendly it was for several years and finally bought my first AR in 2008 when I was 43.

I recently called Linda Carter to see if she would indulge me in some of the wants I had when I saw her in "Wonder Woman" in the '70s.

She wanted to know how I got her number and kept yelling something about a restraining order.

As a little boy I wanted guns that would shoot real bullets.

Oh! Look...!

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
I wanted a cabinet video arcade in the 80's.
So I made me one.

Cool!

Most of my youth’s desires have been tempered by the realization that I work too hard for my money to piss it away.

I remember being about 10 years old and I couldn’t wait to Get my license so I could cross the border to Indiana and buy all the fireworks we couldn’t get in KY. I got my license and never had the money to spend. It was hard enough to scrape enough money together to get to school each day

I also really, really wanted a jet ski. I asked my dad monthly for one until I moved out of his house. I still toy with the idea, but it doesn’t excite me. It would just be easier to get across the lake than using the boat.

I did buy my dream boat (Malibu waksetterVLX) a few years ago, but I almost talked myself out of it. My wife got sick of me looking and always moaning about the cost. When the right one came along, she told me to buy the damn boat already.

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Originally posted by Valpo Fz:

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Originally posted by 6guns:
Ed, it's not a Nikon, but I have a Canon AE-1 that you can have if you want it.

Carl that would be awesome that was the other camera I dreamt of!

Sure thing, Ed. I'd like to see it get used. We'll arrange a time and place to meet.

You still have my contact info? Email me I think I lost your number a few years ago.

When my age was still in single digits the canned cake frosting came out. My mother was frosting a cake and gave me a meager spoonful and not the frosting left in the can saying something along the line that it would give me worms.

I promised myself that when I grew up and got a job that I was going to buy a can of frosting and eat the whole thing!

I've yet to do it.

CW

About the only interest I had as a child/young adult that I eventually satisfied was to ride a motorcycle. At age 35 (yep) I bought my first one, a Honda 350 twin. Some years later I upgraded to a Yamaha 650 vertical twin, and in 1984 I traded that in for a Harley-Davidson Sportster. I loved that bike! But in 1989 I had a bad accident (car crashed into me) and I had to give up riding. I'd been interested in motorcycles (Harleys, especially) as a young man, but I was inhibited by the "Biker" image and the fact that (as far as I knew) no one in my family had ever had a motorcycle and they frowned on them.

My dad and uncles were all hunters but I did not want to kill anything so I never participated. After joining USAF I found reasons to enjoy shooting pistols and I have a large number of them now. Since I didn't crave guns as a youth, my interest in them now doesn't count for the OP, but it exists.

flashguy

I bought some nice things as a teen and into my early college years. After 7 years of college I had to sell practically all of them. I've bought most of them again. I still do not have my 1970 Chevelle that I built out of boxes in high school but had to sell. Maybe one day, but damn they increased in value by ridiculous amounts.

I dreamed of those Outdoor Life magazine covers, white canvas tents glowing from lantern light, campfire with fresh game cooking, mountain background.

It was simply out of the question for a long time. A once in a lifetime experience I've been able to repeat many times now.

A couple of years ago for Christmas I bought myself an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle... does that count?

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I recently called Linda Carter to see if she would indulge me in some of the wants I had when I saw her in "Wonder Woman" in the '70s.

She wanted to know how I got her number and kept yelling something about a restraining order.

You might have had better luck if you hadn't misspelled her name.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I recently called Linda Carter to see if she would indulge me in some of the wants I had when I saw her in "Wonder Woman" in the '70s.

She wanted to know how I got her number and kept yelling something about a restraining order.

You might have had better luck if you hadn't misspelled her name.

He said he called her. He didn't send a letter.

One of my best friends had a girlfriend who had a similar body and long dark hair like Lynda. It was amazing to see people stare and react to her when I was out with them. She was a bit cray cray. To get her to move out of his apartment, he called the police on her, when she was talking to them outside, he went inside and locked her out.

If I had a girlfriend that looked close to like Lynda, I'd spend thousands on an authentic WW costume.

One thing I always wanted was a set of mag wheels for my cars. Always got used and abused ones, never a new set.

Finally in 2010 I bought a new in the box set. They are on my 67 Pontiac, photo of it is in the Gallery Thread under "American Muscle".

When I was in high school (1971) I worked my butt off to pay for my '67 Mustang hardtop, which I loved, but my two best friends had '65 and '66 Mustang convertibles. I was envious.

Last year, at age 64, I bought a 2017 Mustang Convertible.

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Originally posted by vthoky:
A couple of years ago for Christmas I bought myself an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle... does that count?

You'll shoot your eye out.