Fisher Price record player

Guess what my DH found in the loft today? Our DD's Fisher Price Play Family House. I am so pleased!!!
Now off to eBay to look for all the people, beds, tables and chairs etc, ready for when DGD is old enough to play with it

When my daughter was about 2/3 she had one of the FP "televisions" I think secondhand and she loved it but could not turn the knob that set the sound going. So she would follow us around asking you to rewind it all the time.

We got rather fed up of the tune so somehow we "lost it" and only turned up again in a cupboard about six years later when we moved house.

Very naughty mummy.

I have got a bit carried away on ebay and bought some vintage Fisher Price: a garage, minibus, car lift, aeroplane, camper van, cars and lots of people.

They are such a hit with the GC - the only toys that they really play with on their own and go off into their own fantasy worlds. Fisher Price can't be beaten!

But the original garage is so valuable now - £100 on ebay!

We had the record player, and the camper van with the boat on the top! Wonderful toys, almost indestructible.

We have the record player too. Bought about 36 years ago. Both my DDs played with it plus all their friends throughout their childhood.

We bought it out again 10 years ago as our grandchildren began to arrive. Now 4 grandchildren later the littlest at 2 years old still plays with it.

Its been stood on, tossed about and generally had a hard life but it still works perfectly. I shall be handing it over to one of my daughters for their grandchildren !!

Oh Lord! I'd forgotten all about the Fisher Price record player! Didn't they come with half a dozen coloured plastic "records"? Nursery rhymes on them I think? Flippineck, been ages since I thought of that!

I recently bought a Sylvanian Family Windmill from a local charity shop. It came complete with clockwork sails, furniture and little creatures and their clothes. I never had a daughter, only sons and so didn't know the significance of my bargain until DIL arrived and was overjoyed to see it! She'd had the exact same toy when she was a child but, like most of us, had given it away or thrown it out when she grew too old for it. My granddaughter and DIL play for hours with it now and have even bought new creatures to go in it.

I got a FP record player with records recently from a car boot sale for £6 ready for the new DGD (who is due tomorrow!!). Her father (DS2) will approve as he does some DJing and loved his vinyl records. It will be a while before she is big enough to play with it but she can have it for going to sleep music.

But the original garage is so valuable now - £100 on ebay!
don't tell DS, I gave his away
and the tv, the campervan etc etc.

Couldn't you just kick yourself when you think of the toys that you gave away or chucked out all those years ago? £100 for a FP record player!