Have you ever asked your now adult children...

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...what their favourite Christmas present was, that they received as a child?
I asked mine this evening after reading a couple of threads from people who are struggling with Christmas.
Dd1 27 said her most favourite presents was mousetrap.
Dd2 22 said her favourite gift was a nail dryer shaped like a dog.
Neither of these were expensive and they actually can't remember most of their "main gifts".
So I was just wondering what was your child's favourite gift?

Pound puppies, cabbage patch kid.

@Knittingnanny I was born in 75 and my mum thought Barbie was common but not Sindy???

My favourite presents were the sindy house that my dad built. Monopoly, solitaire and also a board game called Talisman which we still play the original of.

@bamboo12 I also remember "I want to bite your finger" but I was really scared of being bitten!

Funnily enough, we were talking about this the other day. I don’t remember discussing it with our sons, but for our daughters, it was a no brainier, they both said at the same time..... “ the Barbies and all their accessories “. Each year they were excited about the next “ Barbie “ addition. My husband used to moan, it was lovely to go to church, because the rest of the day was about putting Barbie bits together!

My bike.

I got a TV for my room one year when my dad had got a big bonus. I bloody loved it! Felt like a right high roller. To this day I can't get to sleep without watching the ten o clock news.

My favourite gifts were a box filled with costume jewellery that my dad said he got from the jungle ( treasure)

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A penguin with a lock box in the back.

Both were from the car boot and cost next to nothing and they were the best thing ever!
I would recommend no parent ever feel they have to provide £$ of presents just think about something you know they like and be creative xx

My stand outs were a Girl’s World styling head and the Fisher Price post office. Hours and hours of fun. I loved them so much..

I don't have to ask my DD what her favourite present was. She still mentions it often, the Girl's World blond haired head thing. She adored it and her dad was mightily pleased that she stopped using him as a model from then on.

Mine can only remember the later years - I pad and Xbox (dull answer I know)

My favourite present ever was my life size baby doll, Elizabeth when I was 5. My mum was pregnant with my little sister at the time.When said little sister was 18 months old, she scribbled all over Elizabeth's face with indelible green marker pen. I have NEVER forgiven her and am NC to this day. (That last line might be a lie).

Wineloffa Your choices and NN? are you my DD?

my kids loved these grabbers

Mine was also a yellow game boy, a yellow CD player with Aqua CD (not a huge fan of yellow it was just a coincidence!), I also got goldfish that year so I was very spoilt! My earliest memory of Christmas presents is a box of tiny chocolates shaped like Forever Friends bears. They were only a stocking filler but I was so pleased to have my own box of chocolates!

Just asked my two DSs 15 and 11. They're not adult but older.

DS 15 said a wooden pirate ship with wooden people.

DS 11 said the game pop up pirate.

A wicker hamper from F and M that she had got from a charity shop, and had filled it up with Anne French face masks and cleansing lotion, Barry M and Rimmel make up, loads of body shop stuff, make up brushes, loads of lovely bits and pieces that she must have been buying over the year, as we didn’t have much money. This was 30plus years ago and I still have the basket and use it.

#Isabellerossignol, I had one of those too. It was sold 15 years ago (after sitting in my mums loft for decades) for a tidy sum!!

I just reread that it was favourite toy as a child and that present I wrote about was as a 13 year old, so fave as younger child was Sindy doll ballerina

Spirograph and a giant doll in Spanish dress.

A night before Christmas Garfield soft toy holding a concert ticket to see Bros when I was 10 or 11 - was so excited!

I remember several very clearly.
The fisher price tree house when I was small.
Then a magic year when I got a radio cassette. I also loved recording the charts, but I also loved making fake radio programmes with my friends. I'd give almost anything to have been able to listen to those now I'm older, to hear me as a young child and see if I sound like my girls do, and to listen to the craziness my friend Jennie and I got up to.

@underneaththeash I also got Sindy not Barbie. Was also a 1975 baby!

A diary with lock and key my mum gave me when I was 11. It was red with pink pages.

I remember my uncle popping over on christmas morning when i was 6 with the most amazing dolls house. He was an AA man and he told me that he'd had a call out on Christmas eve and when he got there it was Santa and his sleigh had broken down! My uncle fixed it and Santa was so pleased that he had saved Christmas that he gave him his most special present - this Dolls house, as a thank you because he didnt carry money! It was beautiful and had wallpaper in all the rooms and working lights! I was totally blown away and it brings a tear to my eye even now as i never got to thank him as an adult for making it for me as Santa obviously got all the credit! Thank you Uncle Michael!!

The Christmas I was ten (which was also the first Christmas I officially didn't believe in Father Christmas, although I'd worked it out the year before), my mum filled a wicker basket with loads and loads of stuff from the Bodyshop: Dewberry shower gel and body lotion, those little soaps shaped like fruit, body spray and best of all, a lipstick! I felt SO grown up, it was my favourite present that year and the one I remember most clearly of all my childhood Christmas presents.

I still have a small plastic bear that Father Christmas gave me 30+ years ago! I have a cuddly bear that he brought me as well, but it was faulty. I was clearly a gullible child as we exchanged him at a local shop for a new bear. My parents' excuse was something along the line of the shop being an exchange point rather than Santa having to come out again!