10 Items That Were Almost Certainly On Your 2002 Christmas Wish List
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10 Items That Were Almost Certainly On Your 2002 Christmas Wish List

From Polly Pockets and Bratz dolls to CDs and Beyblades, these were the essentials.

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10 Items That Were Almost Certainly On Your 2002 Christmas Wish List
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It's Christmas Eve in 2002. Santa is coming anytime now, and you know cause you've been stalking him on the NORAD Santa Tracker, so you say goodnight and run to your room. You bust through the colorful beads hanging down in your door frame that you got from LimitedToo and then proceed to jump onto your beanie baby filled the twin sized bed. You lay in bed dreaming about all the things on your Christmas list that you carefully conducted and sent to Santa via the giant red mailbox in the mall.

Here are some things that may have been on your list:

1. Bratz


In 2001, these big-lipped and terrifying looking dolls made their debut. On your Christmas list, you probably specified which out the four original girls you just needed to have, either Yasmin, Cloe, Jade or Sasha.

2. A razor scooter

It wouldn't be Christmas without these scooters making you fall to the ground after smacking the life out of your ankle while you're riding around in your unfinished basement. Having relay races with your siblings until one of you falls off and cries is usually how you spent your afternoons.

3. Coconut the dog for your American Girl Doll

Cause Samantha NEEDED a dog with a magnetic mouth and purple hat.

4. Polly Pockets

It's all fun and games until your little baby sister comes along and rips an outfit...or accidentally eats a shoe.

5. Junie B. Jones Books

No one was more relatable to your 8-year-old self than Junie B. When opening a new book you didn't even bother with the introduction cause you knew damn well that the B. stood for Beatrice.

6. Live Strong bands

There were probably 10 of these on your wrist while writing your list and long sleeve shirts became problematic. Do I put them over my shirt or under and just roll my sleeves? At this point in your young life, you supported any cause that would give you a rubber bracelet to stack on your arm.

7. CDs (specifically Avril Lavigne's)

You couldn't wait to pop them into your big Hello Kitty CD playing and blast "Sk8er Boi" and "Complicated" on repeat. The emotion that you could induce and the hatred you had when you sang toward your totally non-existent boyfriend were concerning to say the least.

8. FurReal Friends

It was like having your own real life tiger, so technologically advanced wow great job 2002.

9. A Nerf Gun

You honestly were just not cool if you didn't have one of these.

10. Beyblades

Beyblade tournaments were equivalent to the Olympics during indoor recess.

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