Toys that you always wanted, but Santa never delivered?

My stepdad was an interesting man. He had two daughters, one from an affair his late wife had had before they married, who he adopted, and one that was biologically his. When year for Christmas they adopted daughter got a waterbed, his biological daughter got a quarter horse gelding. His rationale was that he'd given both girls what they asked for, my mom was like, and you never stopped to think about the discrepancy when you were writing checks? Another year my mom had hunted far and wide to find an affordable open box Sony Trinitron that matched the specifications I needed for some piece of AV gear I wanted hook up to it. She finally found it at a decent price with minor scratches and dents. Stepdad saw it and realized it was a better TV than the Sylvania or whatever larger but crappy TV he'd bought new for their bedroom and tried to pressure my mom into swapping it, so that I would get a brand new TV that didn't actually do what I needed it to do and they would get the better Sony… She refused.