Things your friends had, but parents wouldn't let you have

[4NDR01D]

-Big Wheel. My mom said it was too low to the ground and cars couldn't see me.
-I did have Mattel Slime, but only for a few days and then it was off limits. The only time I remember my grandma being mad at me (i ruined her carpet).
-Firecrackers (small ones like black cats) were always illegal so I never had them unless my friends went to the States for vacation and brought some back.
-Several band t-shirts when I was in grades 7/8 and high school.(specifically the Sex Pistols, the Cult, Dead Kennedys and Suicidal Tendencies)

[Figuremod73]

Looking back it was a little expensive but...A commodore 64.
I wanted one of those badly.

[HardyGirl]

My mom vetoed Slime too, but I got around that and bought the gumball machine stuff. (I had to hide it!)

[palitoy]

Slime, Fire Crackers, Big Shogun Warriors, Buck Rogers figures, Green Machine/Big Wheel.

[megoat]

Firecrackers were off limits (they were also illegal in where I lived).
Any sort of dirt bike/ATC/Motorcycle/Moped.
Trampoline.

Basically anything my parents thought would kill or maim me!

[thunderbolt]

Slime, but I could have Silly Putty, Play Doh, Shrunken Heads, Creepy Crawlers makeer.

[JediJaida]

I never got video games, because she would simply tell me that we couldn't afford it, and that junk was for boys anyway.

My mom was also against rack toys (you'd just break it!), stuff from TV (I can't afford that garbage! Tell your father to buy it for you! And he was too cheap to buy anything for me.)

Mego's World's Greatest Supergals (you have enough dolls! Grow the F*** up already! I was eleven at the time.)

Disney books (Those are for babies! You're not a damned baby!)

[Mikey]

Motorcycle

Wasn't allowed to get one till I was 15 --- even though I had a car at 12

My mom hated motorcycles with a passion

[TomStrong]

My mom was totally against video games when I was a kid. All my friends at school would talk about them like it was the greatest thing. Neither would my mom let me watch horror movies. I didn't see Friday the Thirteenth till I was a grown man. She finally relented on the video game thing when I was a teenager though.

[torgospizza]

5" die-cast Shogun Warriors. Mom was afraid of the spring-loaded fists and missles, like one could go through someone's skull or something.

[kingdom warrior]

Atari video game system My Mom was totally against video games in the house. She felt I'd want to stay in and play with it all the time....she said heck no...
I bought my first system Nintendo as an adult and she was right about them.......

Other than that she never withheld anything from us.....

[HardyGirl]

First, let me preface this by saying that I'm really happy for Brian's new book, but I can't feel that joy some of you feel, b/c my mom would never let me have Rack Toys. And that got me thinking about some stuff other kids had that my parents, (or should I say Mom), wouldn't let me have. (I know, Nerd Therapy time, right?) Some other examples are:

*a Big Wheel (I'd outgrow it too fast)
*a lunchbox ("you'll just lose it")
*Wacky Packages (even though I got some from Wonder Bread, and I did buy a few and had to sneak them in)
*an "OOOH" hat (ski mask, and it was "for boys")
*Pro-Keds sneakers (also for boys)
*trick-or-treating (only to folks I knew in our building, which took all of 10 mins.)

In all fairness to my mom, I think that b/c she was an "older mom" (37 when I was born), she just didn't care about the "coolness factor", and sometimes was just way too practical.

So what things were you denied that your other friends had?