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Speaking of storing old toys, I dare not say how many children's books that we have packed away, I could start a library.

Books! don't even go there, we have a weakness for books in our house and it is so hard to part with them.

This will date me, but my all time favorite toy was a Holly Hobby rag doll. I wish I would remember where it went. Lost it I think in one of our moves when I got older.

Oh this sounds wonderful! I'm not aware of anything like that being available around here but I would have loved it!

My favorite toys were my paper dolls and writing/art kits.

This was always my downfall, too... and my daughter's. Unfortunately we had all of her outgrown books packed in the basement in our other house and there was a flood. We're collecting quite a library again, though!

I loved art and craft sets when I was young, do you remember Spirograph? I remember having a perfume making set too, and a plastic craft set.

Yes, I had a spirograph, it kept me amused for hours, I doubt that they would give it a second look these days, they can do all their patterns on the computer.

I had one, too, and loved it. Luckily it was still around long enough for my daughter to enjoy, too. Another one in that category is Etch-a-Sketch.

I'm still wondering how those perfume making kits escaped my knowledge! Even if my mom didn't want me to have one, I would have heard about it from others, I think. Is there a brand name or era attached to it so I might look it up?

When I had one they only did straight lines, but I still loved it. By the time my kids had one it did curves and you could draw so much more with it.