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?

Look!

Girls World, bloody loved that present!

A Compendium of Games that came in a toy suitcase circa 1964.
Played with it for years. Tried to hold onto it but my mum had a habit of chucking out stuff that she didn't want in the house.

Then when I was 12 my uncle brought me a second hand Fidelity record player(he'd got it in a house clearance). Oh my word I was ecstatic and I kept hold of it until I was in my mid 20's I then bought a proper hifi stacking system.

Chocolate machine.. oh the glee!

@BillHadersNewWife same!

Mine was one of those cardboard play sweetshops. Used to get one every year though 70s and 80's and ADORED IT. I can still taste the sweeties. The thing only really lasted for as long as the sweeties listed otherwise its was a cardboard shop background!

I honestly can't remember the big presents. A bike once maybe?

Also my absolute favourite 'toy' was a cardboard box. Id make a car or train for my teddies for them to have adventures. Cut windows, make a door, put a bit of string in the front then drag it round the house. That was magical to me.

Obsessed with cardboard clearly.

Btw I was showered with gifts at Xmas. My point is that despite the expensive toys and bits a cardboard box is my best memory!

A CD player with the newest Take That single (babe)

Two stocking presents - a tiny rainbow rubber in its own little case and a bag of bath pearls tied with curly string. It was magical!

I've only got one adult child so far, but I can't even remember many of the presents we bought her. I think the present she will remember best is the doll's house that DH and I built for her that was a scale model of our real house. It was a work of art if even I say so myself! We worked on it every evening after she had gone to sleep for several months, and keeping it hidden was almost as difficult as building it.But I am 99% sure that was a birthday present rather than for Christmas as I remember sneaking it into her bedroom before she woke up, and I think it was already light, which obviously wouldn't be the case on Christmas Day!
My own favourite present as a child was a probably fairly cheap transistor radio that I got when I was 10 or 11. It was in a red fake leather case with a big dial on the front. I loved having my own as until then I had had to beg my sister to borrow hers. I remember asking my mum if it was really for me or has it been pit with my presents by accident. I was so excited.
One thing I always wanted but never got was a red plastic thing that dispensed mini blocks of Cadburys dairy milk if you put a coin in. My mum said it was a waste of money and she was probably right, but I still wanted one. In fact I still do!

I still have my children's Furbies up in the loft I might get them down and see if they still work.

They used to drive me mad and one night I said to my husband "I am just off to bed now" and one of the Furbies opened its eyes and said "nighty nighty" I was up those stairs like a flash! they reminded me of gremlins! lol

I’ve just messaged my kids to ask them. Mine were a second hand, portable record player (my parents), and later, a radio cassette player (my Grandad).

When I was little, a second hand set of stickle bricks in a painted biscuit tin covered in magic roundabout stickers, and the single of Two Little Boys 😬.

@CaptainCallisto my sister was in to chilly too. Her favourite Christmas is the year mum bought a chilly dessert for Xmas lunch

Mine was a pink fluffy hippo which had 5 little babies in her tummy, from father christmas. Still have it somewhere.

Also still have a bean bag he bought in about 1990.

I remember the stockings we had so much more than the presents we unwrapped from family etc. Not to say I didn't like opening presents, I did, but the stockings were so exciting.

Mine was an electronics kit when I was 10.

I went through the projects in it and then went on to do things like set up an alarm in the hall so I knew when my parents were heading for bed so I could switch my light off.

More recently I got a new kit so that I could get some students to make logic gates.

I was so excited.
One thing I always wanted but never got was a red plastic thing that dispensed mini blocks of Cadburys dairy milk if you put a coin in. My mum said it was a waste of money and she was probably right, but I still wanted one. In fact I still do!

Me too.

When I was a teenager (in the late 70s) I got a a dark brown swing coat for Christmas which had a little cherry brooch on the lapel. I adored that coat as up to then I only had frumpy functional coats but this one was fashionable and meant no one made fun of me at the youth club anymore.

My own CD player and now 44 when I was 11. I felt all grown up!

Also a baby all gone and polly pockets. Would spend hours playing with them!

Not my children's but my own favourite present was a second hand doll's pram, styled like a silver cross. I was so happy that day.

I didn't get many gifts for Christmas (we weren't well off) and some of the cool gifts I kinda remember I wasn't allowed to use or play with.
I remember getting bigger gifts as I grew older but they weren't really what I wanted. Same theme if you will but not the actual item.

Eg I got a Barbie house (and not the nice house either!) when I really wanted the Barbie caravan.

I was the oldest of 4 cousins and I always ended up getting exactly the same present as all the young cousins. Hated it. Didn't want what they had (that was after Mum had died and my Dad's sister was doing her best to cheer us up)

My dad also used to believe my sister when she told her my toys were his and would hand them over.

The post office! Home bargains have a version of this in, got one for dd (6) cost about £8 so I can play 😂

Mine were Tiny Tears and Tiny Tim!

Mine was a pink glittery sweatshirt that my dad brought back from a trip to Canada. I always hated pink and sparkly stuff as a kid, but I hardly took that top off until I grew out of it. I think it was special because I knew it was usually my mum that sorted the gifts, and this was something my dad had chosen for me.

The other thing was a book of the bedtime stories that my mum used to make up every night. She wrote a bunch of them out in a notebook for me, and drew pictures. That was very special, but I think I was too young to appreciate how much work she must have put into it.

I got a black fluffy rocking horse and we called him Beauty. My birthday is in November and my horse mad mum got him for my first Christmas so I was about 5 weeks old!
I'm now 33 and he's currently in my shed, DD was born on the 11th November and guess who she is getting for Xmas, although he's a bit less fluffy these days!

@MoiraRose well the OP said adult children. we are all somebody's adult child so it's not as if it's not relevant, additionally many (like me) don't have adult children yet so we can't ask them.

My favourite toy was my Cabbage Patch doll back in the early 80’s I called her Katie, my mum told me when I was 17 that it was a knock off cheapo one (looked so real to me) because she couldn’t get hold of one that particular Christmas.

Mine was sylvanian families! Then my Walkman when I was a bit older.
My boys aren’t quite grown up yet, but Ds1 would probably say his first iPhone, and ds2 his tablet 🙈
Dd loved the Christiano Ronaldo Barcelona shirt I got her one year..