I used to have a load of plastic terrapins which I kept in a plastic box. I kept them in the cupboard surrounded by ripped up newspaper in order for them to "hibernate".
I'd take them out every so often to make sure they were ok...
A childhood belief about toys

others believed things like this
- I used to think that doctors added plastic to your face in plastic surgery.— caro
- I used to think that plastic surgery actually involved using plastic.
— JohnJ - I used to believe that plastic surgery was done with plastic knives.— Vicki J.
- That at meetings adults sat on plastic chairs surrounding a large piece of meatAnon
- My Dad told me that the big bales of hay wrapped in plastic sitting in the fields on farms were cow eggs.Anon
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon