I can't believe I did that!!

Skylar

Skylar

Teeny Tiny Baby Pony
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I sold a lot of ponies on Ebay awhile back and while I was packing them up I looked at my SS Twilight and realized how pretty she was. I have kicked myself since that moment for including her in that lot!!
Has anyone ever accidentaly let something go that they really wanted!! Ahhhh! :eek:

Anyway, I would like to have a SS Twilight back somehow. I'll have to find something to sell or trade and post with more info later.

Thanks for listening to my vent!!
 
I had a huge lot o ponies, accessories & playsets, & I gave them all up, for free. & I`ve been kicking myself for it since & been trying to get all that stuff back.
 
When I was twelve, I sold pearlized Baby Cotton Candy in a yard sale for two dollars. I could have saved the 25 dollars I spent trying to get another one when I was 20. :oops:
 
My mom sold her house and moved to another part of the US. She left an entire houseful of stuff that she didn't want to take cross country. There were quite a few things (including my entire childhood MLP collection) left in her attic. I was working 2 jobs and pregnant and trying my best to get everything I wanted out of there before the estate cleanout people came. But of course, they came a day early* and trashed everything that was left in the house, including the MLP collection.

*apparently it was the correct day, the realtor gave me bad information

It's taken awhile, but I've been able to get back a lot of what I lost (MLP-wise) plus some new/old stuff that I always wanted and never had!
Still looking for a FF Blossom though!!
 
Whenever I think of all the times I just passed up ponies at garage sales it makes me so upset! When I was younger, I'd only buy the ones I really wanted, but back then, no one knew that they were worth anything so they were super cheap! I should've just bought them all! >_<
 
Not to get off the topic, but how did the ponies cost back in the 80's. My mom (with her selective memory) said she paid $8 a piece for them. I had the first year Blossom, Cotton Candy and Butterscotch. I think she's a little off, since the new ponies now only cost $5-$8 each. I thought they cost $2-$3 each back in 83-84.

Anyone have any idea?
 
chateaushelton said:
Not to get off the topic, but how did the ponies cost back in the 80's. My mom (with her selective memory) said she paid $8 a piece for them. I had the first year Blossom, Cotton Candy and Butterscotch. I think she's a little off, since the new ponies now only cost $5-$8 each. I thought they cost $2-$3 each back in 83-84.

Anyone have any idea?
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It probably depends a little on area and what store you were in. But I clearly remember my weekly allowance being just enough to buy a new, single pony. And my allowance was $5.00. So where I was (Philadelphia suburbs) they were prolly $4.99 or so.

Rose
 
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Before I got back into seriously collecting, I sold my cousin's collection on this board. Between the Sandcastle/Shovel twins, and Baby Leaper, I could gladly kill myself. I sold them for so cheap, and she had initially told me I could keep a few for myself as payment for doing it for her. I also sold her Paradise Estate on eBay for, like, $5.

*growls*

I was pretty mad when I started collecting again and saw the going prices for all those things. :)

~Ariana
 
D'awwwr... no, I've never regretted selling any ponies, though I've only ever sold one. (Die, eyelash princess, die! X 0-) ) But I do regret never buying anymore when they were still in stores... or joining the activity/fanclub as I wanted to, or getting any MOs or anysuch like that! Sniffle. : 0-J
I also really regret losing all the stuff I misplaced, sloppy child that I was *exasperated noise* ...and still kind of am, lol, although I keep better track of all my stuff by leaving it in strategically sorted piles all around the house (drives my mom nuts; my dad does the same thing, although not with ponies, granted--lol). But I have no idea what happened to my beloved petite merry-go-round, or where all my petite ponies got to... just a leetle too small to keep track of at that age, I guess. : 0-P My brother lost all his too. I suppose I should just be grateful that not everyone was as careless as we were and you *can* still find *some* for sale! Though not nearly enough. ; 0-P

$8 seems high to me o_O $5 sounds a lot more likely...though I generally only got ponies a few times a year, when I got good grades and got to pick out one (small) thing at the toy store. I didn't get allowance 'til a good deal later, more's the pity (although I do have trouble envisioning what a four year old would do to earn allowance, true, hah... suppose I could've helped sort laundry or something <.<;; ).
 
red_velvet_rose said:
chateaushelton said:
Not to get off the topic, but how did the ponies cost back in the 80's. My mom (with her selective memory) said she paid $8 a piece for them. I had the first year Blossom, Cotton Candy and Butterscotch. I think she's a little off, since the new ponies now only cost $5-$8 each. I thought they cost $2-$3 each back in 83-84.

Anyone have any idea?
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It probably depends a little on area and what store you were in. But I clearly remember my weekly allowance being just enough to buy a new, single pony. And my allowance was $5.00. So where I was (Philadelphia suburbs) they were prolly $4.99 or so.

Rose
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Well, my mom was only making $4.15 at the time i got most of my childhood ponies, so they couldnt have been to much more then $3.99 here.
 
I gave a little girl i didn't even know a color swirl pony. I'm all for spreading pony joy amoung little kids but I wish I had done it with a pony that wasn't worth so much being that all her dolls had hair cuts which means the pony probably has one now too. :?
 
I gave up my childhood Woosie. Now I can't even remember what I traded her for. So if any of you have a NM Woosie with LLE on her hoof and "Woosie" on her tummy, that was mine.
 
In the UK 80s ponies cost $8-$12 each. Even ponywear was around $8 I think. My mum remembers buying them for me and I've seen the adverts in the comics. One of the playsets, either Paradise Estate or a smaller house-type one, was $60. The new ones are double the price as well over here.
 
You guys make me feel alot better!

At least I don't feel so bad now that I know I am not the only one that has done something silly with her ponies!!
On the subject of when they were available in the 80's and 90's. To bad we didn't know then what we know now!!! :lol:
 
When I was like 13, a lot of my childhood toys were stored in a shed outside. It was so broken down, my parents decided to burn it. They told me to scavenge anything I wanted, but being 13, I didnt think about my ponies. Most of them, I believe were out there. *sigh*
 
jsut this past xmas.. iwas in a bad money stpot and had the seller mutual withdraw on a lot i was buying. wqas gonn abe $97 shipped.. 116 ponies including 3 mo birthflowers, leaper fleecy ss twilight, an it. looking bowtie, a few sweetheart sisters... S*sigh* im kicking myself i really am. im so stupid for it. the ponies, fter shipping, were 87 cents
 
Hi all,
I am a newbie to the tp but have been collecting ponies for years *in the dark* so to speak. Anyway, 2 years ago I picked up 3 ponies at a yard sale for .75 cents. There was a twinkle eyed whizzer, a fairly ratty so soft cupcake and then a green unicorn with a parrot (that I now know is mimic). I already had one of these that I had picked up at a g-sale as a kid so I gave the duplicate to a neighbor kid who loved birds. She promptly gave her a make over with nail polish, lipstick and *gulp* scissors. Of course, now that I have spent time over the past year being more of an active collector I have learned her value. I am soooo kicking myself now :cry:
 
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