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)

Disco roller boots. I was so happy I could have burst. My mum cried when I opened them because I was so happy! They were white with a red stripe and they were AWESOME.

A doll’s house that my Dad had made that I really wasn’t expecting. It’s still in the garage at my parents house, waiting for my dad to restore it which sadly I don’t think he is able to do now.

A proper silver cross dolls pram - it had a pram bag and my mum had made blankets with ribbon edging for it. My sister got one as well but it was no where near as beautiful as mine. They were second hand but I didn’t know at the time, and it wouldn’t have mattered anyway. I loved that pram.

A Sindy wardrobe - it had silver paper for a mirror, and my mum had made Sindy outfits to fill it with. That was the year my sister got Paul’s (Sindy’s boyfriend) red sports car. I never got Sindy’s dining room table that I really coveted !

Not about me. I had loads of stand out prezzies as a child but what I treasure most is the year a relative bought my daughter a huge toy which came in a massive cardboard box. All other toys were forgotten and both my daughters spent the whole of Christmas day inside this box with a torch. They even had their Christmas dinner in there. It taught me a lesson that you don't always need fancypants prezzies for your child to have a good time. They still talk about their ' big box Christmas'

A stylophone. My sister broke it on Boxing Day.

A have a few . A twin buggy ( ironically I am a childminder)
Purple people eater
Girls world

I also had the stylophone

I always wanted a baby alive but never got one .

Mine was a dolls' house.

My father had a carpenter make it, an exact replica of our home. I was so delighted I burst into tears ( eight years old). Still have it in the loft.

Both of my parents are no longer with us, and the family home is long sold, but I can be transported back so easily via the dolls' house.

Cinderella Polly pocket castle. I remember because it had snowed for the first time .

I also had a Silver Cross dolls pram. I adored it and was devastated a few years later when my mum made me give it to my niece (only 6 years younger than me) who I knew wouldn't look after. Sure enough next time we visited it was already rusting in the garden. I was devastated.

I also remember having a Tressie doll (where you wound the hair in with a key). I pulled the hair right out on Boxing Day and she (a classy brunette) was replaced with a mousey one.

I was three months old for my first Christmas and my mum wasn't fussed about me having a present. Dad was having none of it and went out and bought me a beautiful teddy which, 55 years on, sits looking as good as new on my bedroom chair

A doodle bear ❤️

We were not well off, but one year my parents had some unexpected extra money and I got not only a Cabbage Patch Kid but also an Acorn Electron computer. I was absolutely gobsmacked. The CPK was called Laura Peggi. I don’t know how that would go down with the baby names board.

I can't remember exactly what it was called but I remember this amazing play office thing (might have been a post office?) with a typewriter. It was in a briefcase style case thing. I thought it was the bees knees. I remember very clearly playing with it aged around 6 or 7 on Boxing Day while my mum and dad watched The Poseidon Adventure and wondering what it would feel like to staple my thumb. It hurt. A lot 😂

I loved my major Morgan the electronic organ and kept the card music inserts in a tin to stay nice. One day the whole lot vanished and I was devastated .... given how often I used it it was likely taken by my parents. The noise was not pleasant, like having teeth drilled but in your ears.

Other than that, my sheldon keepers, my little ponies and pound puppy. My ultimate gift was a typewriter and then a C64 and that encouraged me to write and so started my career

When I was five I was bought a ceramic bedside lamp in the shape of a windmill. It had a family of mice sitting around a table inside, and contained a little music box so if you wound the sails it played Tulips from Amsterdam. I loved that lamp, and now dd has it.

The music box broke a few years ago; I took it to a clockmaker to see if he could fix it. He couldn’t but he found an identical little music box attachment which he fitted instead, only now it plays La Vie En Rose instead.

I had a Sheldon keyper too! I loved my a la carte kitchen, light bright, fashion wheel and Lucy locket

I LOVED my Electronic Detective game bought one Christmas for me in the 70’s!

I’ve just looked it up to screenshot a picture and all the characters names came back to me.

It was fab!

Easy bake oven!!! I made cakes all day and I still have it. Tried
Googling it but they only seemed to be sold in the USA now.
And I loved my cabbage patch dolls, bought ds ones years back but they don't seem to be the same

Bauer Turbos. Best fucking day of my entire life

A Sony Walkman and Nik Kershaw’s latest album cassette. I must have been about 13. Spent all Christmas Day plugged into it, slouching in a bean bag ‘watching’ TV.

Floral Garden set by Britains. You could plant flowers, arrange paths and lawns and get loads of accessories. I adored it and would save all my pocket money to buy bits. I had the greenhouse, a pond, garden furniture, a dovecot...

Ironically you couldn't get me to do gardening now for love nor money

An little orange frame tent for Sindy. I was the happiest little girl alive. My big brother assembled it for me on Christmas morning and I was absolutely delighted with it. My other memorable present was a gold plated digital watch from Argos. It was horrible, looking back at it, but I thought it was the most gorgeous thing I had ever seen.

Oh my god @Howyoualldoworkme - I just googled Floral Gardens. I want one! That looks amazing. I would have loved that as a child. I might have to buy one from eBay.

VenusClapTrap It's wonderful isn't it? I had so much of it. A cold frame, a hose on a reel, the pond with fish etc. It's so expensive to buy now though.

I've no idea what happened to it all. My parents divorced, remarried and had more children. Most of my toys were passed on (without my knowledge) and wrecked

a Care Bear from my Uncle when I was about 8. My (academic - it's relevant) parents didn't believe in giving such "vacuous tat" to their children so I was over the moon when I opened it as I'd been desperate for one for ages.

I must have been 6 years old and I got given (don't ask me why), a battery operated tank. But it freaked me out because it could turn itself end over end, so if it got to a wall, it wouldn't stop.
It would climb it and flip over and come straight back!

I got a Sheltie puppy - she was just gorgeous and started a lifelong love of owning Shelties.