What Christmas present did you get as a child that you'll never forget?

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For me it was a cabbage patch doll when everyone was going mad for them in the 80's. My mum swore blind for months that they'd sold out and it was gonna happen for me. I remember unwrapping her and being overjoyed, and my mum having that smug look on her face . 20-odd years later I inadvertently named my DD after the CP doll's middle name nothing ever beat that present! She's still in my attic (the doll. Not my mum)

S0upertrooper, wasn't it called a Stylophone, because you had to use a stylus to play the notes? I vaguely recall something like this, although I didn't have one - I think I was probably getting a bit too old by that point!

One year my parents gave me a Virgin airlines kit bag. I was until they said we were off to NYC the next day (flying Virgin as I liked the Crystal Gayle song in the ad at the time). I don't remember as much as I'd like but I know we did Radio City on my birthday and it's pretty much the best surprise I've ever had. They didn't have money to throw around either.

4 first class stamps from a spinster great aunt. My mum got a can of hair spray and my dad got 4 toilet rolls x x

I got a little yellow typewriter when I was about 6 or 7yo from Santa. I remember it mostly because it was too big to fit in the stocking.
It was much bigger than presents usually were for us, and I found out later that it had been bought for someone else, but then they didn't want it, so offered it to dm.

Also a dolls pram at a similar age. This had a toddler seat on top and was the most fantastic pram ever. It was second hand, but I was amazed with all the little bits it had. I still have it.

@Heuschrecke you're correct, stylo-I'll blame that on auto correct, which is as shit as the stylophone was!!!

Buzz light-year, the year that toy story came out. My mum had an actual fight with a a woman over it, apparently she tried to take it out of my mum's hands, mum lamped her. I still actually have him

A step machine

#chubby

I grew up in a household where Father Christmas was a bit of a shit (I've had many visits to the Stately Homes thread)
I will never ever forget the Christmas when my fantastic aunt bought me the A La Carte Kitchen.

To this day, it's still the best Xmas present I EVER got.

There's a few that really stand out. Fashion wheel is one of them, played with it for hours and hours creating different looks, another is girls world.

Aged 4 a nurses outfit. In beautiful striped cotton, with a little hat and a cross-body bag with a Red Cross on it that I filled with mint sweets. It had a cape and everything.
Utterly wonderful.

My parents constant disappointment in every gift I bought them with my pocket money. I was never good enough.

The year I got my beloved werebear. He could be cute or mean looking by folding over a part of his head to display fangs and claws on his paws. I always had him mean looking and he kept me safe from monsters!

Also the year i got my joanna doll for Christmas, she was the same height as me. Sadly my brothers made me watch child's play and I was scared of her so gave her away to my neighbours kid!

Money was very tight in our family so presents were modest. But I remember loving a Snoopy jigsaw puzzle. Also every Christmas I would get a new Enid Blyton or Chalet School book, reading the book would be my highlight of the day.

So many happy present memories. A desk and chair for my room, a lovely yellow bike, and a pound puppy mother and babies which I was sure I wasn't going to get because my mum said she wasn't going to buy me such rubbish. I was such a lucky child. Only ever had one Christmas when I was disappointed with my main present, which isn't bad going really! 😂

A naf naf jumper and Benetton jacket. Was so desperate for them and never had designer clothes before then. This thread reminds me of this men.

*this meme

A dolls house made by my dad. It wasn't big and fancy but he spent his evenings making it when I was in bed. My mum helped make curtains for the windows and cover the wooden furniture in felt and they bought a little family for it.

My sister and I both got dolls prams one year and my brother got a snooker table - that must have been a good year as they were expensive toys with 3 children.

I remember getting a toy sweet shop that had real sweets in it, I loved it!

Various dolls and soft toys who were all much loved.

A polar bear reversible jumper/sweatshirt that I wore all the time.

I was lucky.

I got my dd a hudl (cheapish tablet) a few years ago, she was about 8/9yo and have her reaction on video, it makes me a bit teary as she was so shocked, grateful and delighted. We're not a big technology family and it was the first time she had been given anything like that. Kids can be grateful these days...

Sindy house and all the furniture including the four poster bed. And also a giant colouring book

A sega Mega Drive!

A tent in the shape of a caravan. Apparently I spent the entirety of Xmas day in it

I can only remember 1 present...a giant teddy bear. Interesting...I can remember sleighing in the snow, going in for hot chocolate, going to a shopping centre and seeing all the christmas lights...

I had an etch a sketch, dolls house, rollerskates etc, they must have been presents, but what I remember most is things we did, not stuff we got

We didn't really get presents at Christmas (tended to get money in an envelope), so I always remember when my parents bought me Sheldon the Keyper. I kept him for years.

The big yellow teapot.

36 years later it is the gift I remember.