What did you buy as an adult because you couldn’t have it as a child? 🧒

[Helenahandbasket]

The American girl Doll one broke my heart. I want to send her all my daughters old AG stuff.

[LucyHenderson-qy]

The person who bought a whole ice cream cake is my new hero 😂

[Calvin]

2 and 6 Prove free will is real And adults don't use it enough

[Peterellaisbackbaby]

“Because I’m a grown man and no one can stop me.” Legend.

[fanofpink]

I feel the American girl doll one. I wanted more than anything as a little girl is a wedding dress Barbie. My dad would always say no and even yelled at me once for wanting it. That stuck with me so when I became an adult and made my own money I bought the wedding Barbie. I feel like I claimed that piece of my childhood I was missing for years.

[jay]

It posses me so much when parents make kids do hobbies they didn’t ask to do, or are bored of. I’m fine with having to finish the season (if it’s a team thing, or there’s a show or something like that), my parents always let me and my siblings quit, and now I have things I actually enjoy doing because of it.

[SarcasticAnimatics]

Food i fucking like. Its so weird to say but buying my own groceries is the best thing thats ever happened to me. I grew up with borderline almond parents, my father constantly talked about how he thought he was overweight (he is pretty in shape for his age) and my mother is underweight and eats barely anything. Im a picky eater (bad tastes are incredibly overwhelming. Brocoli has almost made me throw up on multiple occasions) but my parents would force me to eat gross shit anyways. Since id rather starve than eat something i dont like (as a child and now), i learned to eat as much good stuff as i could so when there wasnt something i liked avaliable to me i didnt starve. Not to mention that they also treated deserts like rewards, which taught my adhd brain to yearn for sugar as a source of reward/dopamine. All of this resulted in wildly maladaptive eating habits that ive had to unlearn starting college.
Buying my own groceries now means i get to chose what the hell im eating. The control i have over my diet means im eating healthier, both in dietary content and portion size. I also eat on my own schedule, which meant i was eating 4 smaller meals each day instead of 3 larger ones.
Im back home for winter break and yet again facing the lack of good food to eat, but im not eating as much anymore. Instead of overeating for every meal, if i do accidentally overeat for 1 meal i dont feel the need to eat the rest of the day because it keeps me full. Its so freeing to be eating more normally, and to have control over it.
Thanks for reading lol. I hope none of you have experienced this

[hollyeileen]

the last one is an incredibly scary cycle i see far too often, parents restrict what their kids eat the kids grow up to feed their kids in abundance then those kids go on to restrict. teach your children moderation, not restriction, not abundance.

[wolfgirlpup]

My mom told me no more stuffed animals. I got a new one once I moved away :)

[nikig]

Can’t believe she sold your doll. Damn.

[altoidsours]

Ball jointed dolls. Back in the day they were so expensive. $500 for a quality one, but even the very small ones were like $200 a doll. My friend had some and they were so awesome and I always wanted some myself. Now there are BJD blind box dolls for relatively cheap and I was so happy and excited when I got my first one. I've gone a little nuts with them and have a bunch now.

[shmoopyroo]

Not denied it but now that I’m not in a house of 7 I can finally have some nice yummy food and snacks in the fridge that won’t vanish in literally a day or two. I unlocked the ability to have chocolate sauce to make choccy milk for after my workouts instead of stashing hot cocoa mix away in my room to hide from the food goblins and awkwardly make myself some hot coco as my post workout despite being sweaty af

[Swiftie-onew]

Nah the Crayon one is every kids dream

[hollywu]

My husband's many relatives and friends children. I buy them gifts I want because there were not much fun toys when I was their age. Feels like reliving and rewriting it all.

[raybarrie]

I loved the Daughters of the Moon books in middle school. I read 12 out of 13 and my parents wouldn't buy the final one because their money was better spent on drugs, I guess. Special kind of cruel to deprive me of the ending. Bought myself the first book. Maybe I'll see how it ends, maybe I'll hate the book as an adult. 🤷🏻

[E.T.]

A DVD box set of the Lucky Luke cartoons. Because at age seven, when there was a rerun of them on TV, I pleaded with my parents to let me watch them even though they ran during our normal dinner time. It worked for less than a week before they started forgetting and I would never be allowed to watch while eating. Eventually the run finished with me having watched fewer than a fifth of the episodes. I kept my eyes open for another rerun for years, but it never happened...

[pretzelicious]

I buy whatever I fancy when I look at a fast food restaurant's menu. Not because I was denied fast food, but because I was always denied a choice, maybe it was financial struggles but my mom always bought the cheapest combo that could be eaten between both of us.

[TisMePyper.S]

Because of not having money as a child, now I do, all I want to do is spend. But luckily I’m learning to save now

[hanoh]

For me it was restaurant food. My parents always thought eating out was a waste of money. Which I agree it is especially with a family of 6 but when I got my adult money I ate out in restaurants for a couple of months until I had to adult and prioritize bills and rent

[The_Ducks]

You know what Im going to but therapy sessions thats what Im going to buy 😁