What were your favourite childhood treats and rewards? Tell LEGO® and you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED

[AngelieMumsnet]

We’ve been asked by the team at LEGO® to find out about our Mumsnetters’ favourite treats and rewards from their childhood.

What sort of treats and rewards did you get during your childhood? Maybe you were given a chocolate bar for good school work? Or perhaps you received small toys as a reward for good behaviour? If you were a child today, what would be your ideal treat or reward? Perhaps it didn’t even exist when you were a child?

Either way, whatever childhood treats and rewards you loved before or would love now, LEGO® would like to hear about them!

Please share your thoughts on this thread and be in with the chance to win a £300 Love2Shop Voucher. Every MNer who posts a comment will be entered into the prize draw where one MNer will win the £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!
MNHQ

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[Heels99]

Paper dolls! They were our favourite reward to choose as children. We used to draw extra clothes for them as well, we had lots used to get them from the newsagent at our grandparents, fond memories! Pick and mix to go with it.
Also used to love the uncle remus kits!

[RoosterCogburn]

A book. Invariably Enid Blyton.
I used to be taken to Woolworths and spend ages choosing.

If you'd told me as an adult I could be at home and download practically any book to a device in an instant I wouldn't have believed you as that would have seemed like a dream come true.

[CheeseEMouse]

I remember getting a Sindy doll when I stopped sucking my thumb. Definitely a great reward for me as they were my absolute favourites!

[kierie]

Chocolate! Still works now!

[tshirtsuntan]

A quarter of cola cubes or pineapple chunks on a Friday....dad's payday!

[Ausflug]

Postman Pat stationery from the Post Office. I remember you could get exercise books, and possibly writing paper as well.

A bottle of cream soda was a huge treat to have on Sunday.

I don't know what I would want if I was a child today; probably still stationery

[rupert23]

i used to get an Enid blyton book as a treat and i collected the series i used to love reading as a child and still do when i have the time with five children! i love the Magic faraway tree

[CitronVert]

I used to get Wade Whimsies, anyone remember those? Little miniature pottery animals. I was a bit of a goody two shoes so I had quite the collection!

As this is for Lego, I thought I'd share that my ds's treat of choice is Lego Minifigures. He's got quite a few full series and still collects them now at 11 ( and shows no sign of losing interest!)

[JemimahPuddleduck90]

I absolutely loved getting new books when I was younger and have kept every single book I ever had as a child so that my own children can get the same joy (hopefully!) from them as I did back then.

Every Sunday my Nanna would give us £1 after church to buy sweets with, she still did this even when I was 20!

If I was a child in 2015 I think I would probably still want books, toy-wise though, I did used to love toy kitchens and remember having one that sizzled and a little whisp of smoke would come from the grill - I think I'd like something like that again!

[pegster]

It was books for rewards in my house, I was an avid reader & went through them very quickly. Did get my ears pierced as a reward for finally stopping sucking my thumb - I was 13 so long awaited.
My children get small toys generally - picked themselves on a special trip to the toy-shop.

[NerrSnerr]

Packs of stickers for my sticker book. Still remember the smell now.

[PinPon]

My mum was a keen gardener and would plant flowers that she would encourage to bloom for her children's special days. I still remember her trying to get a bud to open to celebrate my exams :-).

If I were a child today, I'd like time with my parents doing things that I enjoy: going to the beach or rock climbing. Or a new book and the opportunity to read it always feels like a treat.

[Kraggle]

A book or chocolate for me when I was little. Dh favourite treat was Lego and dd now gets a book for good behaviour.

[CMOTDibbler]

We got 10p for sweets if my mum was feeling in a good mood on a Friday (no sweets at any other time). Used to take me ages to choose what would give me maximum sweets for that - this was in the days of 2 fruit salads for 1/2p.

[throwingpebbles]

Books! Always books! But I loved them! I would happily sit and read all day
For my boy he either likes Lego mixels or a new toy car or some stickers

[OhHolyFuck]

Twinkle magazine, or Bunty as I got older, through the door every Saturday morning!

[CollatalieSisters]

20p for sweets on a Saturday! My parents were very firm about sweets during the week, unless it was Christmas or your birthday.

[MimsyBorogroves]

Whichever ice lolly my heart desired after an injection. This was a real Big Thing.

Bring on the Fabby Feet!

[moopymoodle]

Every Friday we got £4.25 pocket money and I loved going to ships to buy magazines, spice girl photos and sweets!

[Nottheshrinkingcapgrandpa]

New books were my treat- I always remember my Granny taking me into the bookshop, and me taking ages to choose what I wanted!

My eldest would want Match Attax. Every. Single. Time!

[OnMyShoulders]

My Dad would take us for long walks and we would get an ice pole or a quarter of green grapes in a brown paper bag from the grocers. I remember my fingers were always filthy after eating them!

[GreyerbytheDay]

My parents weren't one for rewards as such. The only time we got a 'reward' was being taken for a chip butty and a milkshake in the local cafe if we had behaved ourselves on the annual school shoe buying trip.

My DD has a 'lucky bag': I buy small inexpensive bits like stationery, bubbles, Cbeebies magazines, stickers and Lego (Friends polybags, minifigures and Mixels are great as not too expensive) when I see them at a good price, wrap them then - if i want to reward DD for something specific, like behaving well at a special event, or after an injection for example - she gets to have a dip in the lucky bag.

[missorinoco]

A book, usually Enid Blyton, occasionally a book token, or once a Sindy Doll. I can still remember walking up and down the aisles of the toyshop deciding which doll to get.

Sometimes we were given 10p to get a pick and mix from the sweet shop. That was amazing!

[flamingtoaster]

I didn't really get rewards as such but my mother really loved chocolate so we would often have a chocolate treat together - she would buy a bar specially from the local shop. Another treat was Mum and I meeting her brother in town and going to a large cafe to have Horlicks (which had masses of foam on the top thanks to their machine) and a chocolate digestive biscuit - I adored that and even as an adult I would make myself that combination but could never get the masses of foam.

If I was a child now I would want a big electric train layout with proper landscaping. I was given a wind up train my cousin grew out of and I adored it but always wanted to build landscape for it.

[Maiyakat]

Rainbow crystals - basically sugar dyed with food colouring - tasted so good! For a big reward, a Sylvanian Families baby