Have you ever asked your now adult children...

[fatulousatforty]

...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?

@DragonMamma I had one like that one Christmas I absolutely adored it, mine was lilac though. I got Bros, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan tapes to go with it.

Apart from the above I have a few other Christmas presents I loved too;
• A dolls pushchair, must have been around 6 it was cream with a navy corduroy hood
• My cabbage patch kids dolls, they still ‘live’ at my mums
• A red hi-fi (an upgrade from the above tape player) it had a record player and two cassette players, I thought I was the bees knees because I could put the speakers in different parts of my room.

As an adult without a doubt DD1 (although she was slightly late!) I know it sounds incredibly corny

They would probably say the ds's they had, they still use them 14 odd years on. Subsequent tech breaks quickly

A Lego set. I had slept with a picture of this particular set under my pillow for literally months.
The feeling when I actually got it on Christmas morning was unbelievable 😊

My favourite thing was a toy treehouse. It had a swing, a slide and a dog. I was devastated when my mum got rid of it when I was about 11 as she said I was too old for it. I still haven't got over it to this day. God I loved that treehouse. I had always wanted a dolls house but we were too poor and this was the next best thing.

Record player
Grease album
Dress like the girls from grease wore!

I had a beautiful Silver Cross Carriage Pram in cream with a Green Hood and Apron bought for me by my grandparents. I fell in love with it and walked up and down outside our house with my favourite doll in it. I really wish it had been saved but I don’t know what happened to it when I outgrew it. It was probably too big to store anywhere.

My Jem and the holograms dolls. I loved playing with them so much. They each came with a poster and cassette, I listened to them over and over again and believed I was actually going to be Jem when I grew up, or at the very least, have pink hair.

Drum kit!

Oh, a giant Coca Cola hifi that was shaped like a can. I adored that thing!!

For me, it would either be my plush My Little Pony Lickety Split, or the Fluppy.

Sammi I had the “I Want To Bite Your Finger” game, loved it! I seem to remember it would leave a circle of fake blood (ink) on your finger if you got bitten.

Sorry this was like my Fluppy, I wonder where my one ended up. My mum took all my toys to the tip after I’d saved my favourites in the attic 😕 I don’t think I’ve ever truly forgiven her!

Mr Chimney, best gift ever (I was only 5) 🤣

My cassette tape player/recorder, it was black and funky silver squiggly bits across the from and round the speakers and a clear blank cassette tape that had pastel colours spools and bits in it and I would sit and record the top 40 on a Sunday trying to hit record and stop to just get the songs, then the following year I got a walkman so could listen to my tapes on the go, but they got so stretched from the constant playing and recording that everything ended up really slurry.

Its mad how many people are saying what their favourite toys were when OP actually said what was your child's favourite toy.

My DDs was a Sky Dancer when she was about 7. Kind of like a Barbie with a stand and a cord you pulled and she went flying across the room

One of mine spent all Xmas ages about 7 ignoring all requested gifts, and playing with the toy Police handcuffs bought by his great grandma.

As a teen, a double set of Marks and Spencer deodorants. Night and day themed and the night one smelled like pepsi cola. Never matched that satisfying scent but it was probably just a filler pressie.

"Now that's what I call music" cd.
No number required They must have thought there would be just the one.

I don't see dd until tomorrow, but my favourite present was a 'big doll', two foot high or more, a little girl doll not a baby. I liked her very much and called her Suzette after a character in a book. I did cut off her eyelashes to see if they would grow again, but it turned out she wasn't 'real' so they didn't.

My Petit Talking Typewriter, I can still hear the electronic voice. The hardest word on the hardest level was conscientious and I still spell it out in the typewriter's voice when I write or type that word

Oh and a Snow White figure made of soap, I can still remember what it smelled like.

Mine was a recorder and book. I had much more expensive gifts like a tv and cd player but the recorder stands out the most.

Another favourite was slime sometime in the 70s. It's not new!

I remember getting a fisher price garage, with a lift, ramps, cars etc. I loved it, and spent hours playing with it 😃

My least favourite present was a gigantic doll. My parents were getting rather concerned about my toy preferences, so informed me that I would be getting a doll, despite my protests. She was huge, and called Georgina. I gave her a short back and sides, and enlisted her in the foreign legion 🤔

My favourite present was a talking cabbage patch doll. It used to say some random crap such as "I like spinach and icecream" I wish I'd kept some of my toys.

Waffly me too! Mine was purple with worms in it! It came in a plastic dustbin! I forgot all about that till you mentioned it! The worms were so realistic!