What was your all time favourite Christmas present?

[PrueHalliwell]

Hi all,

A thread has just reminded me of my favourite Christmas present I got when I was around 6 or 7 and I was just wondering about everyone else's?

Mine was a cat. I don't really agree with giving animals as present but my beloved cat died a year prior from cancer and my parents said I couldn't have another one so I just sort of accepted I'd never have a cat again (kids are dramatic haha) but we went to my grandmas and she was like "oh I've left your present on the bed, go and get it" and I walked in and there was this little cat with a pink bow wrapped around her neck ( it was removed straight away ) and honestly I was so happy and the cat was the sweetest little thing and she became my best friend, I'm even tearing up a bit now thinking about that Christmas.

Just a light hearted thread as I don't think Christmas should be about material things.

70s child here..one of those red plastic things that you put mini bars of Dairy Milk in amd then you had to put a coin in to get one out, like your own miniature vending machine

God it made me tear up thinking of your cat haha.

DH bought me a kitten for Xmas. We moved into our new house the week before, our first house together. That cat is now my old boy at 12 years old. I love him, he's such a sweet cat.

Around 1980- one of those Homepride msn baking sets.

Around 2000 - when everyone clubbed together and got me skis.

oh my. I always wanted one of those and never got one, I'm so jealous!!!!

Toss up between a bike and my dolls house...loved them equally

I had one of those too. That's what I thought of when I read the title of the thread.

I was 12, in my first term at grammar school, and my dad bought me a puppy much to my mother's disgust. He died a few months later so it was our last Christmas with him.

I've had many dogs since but none of them had the special place in my heart that my Christmas puppy had.

As a kid I got a bubblegum machine. You had to put a coin in and turn it and it slotted out a bubble gum like the real ones you see. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

A post office set my Aunty Joan bought me. I was 6. It had little envelopes and writing paper and pretend stamps. Also had a stamper. I stamped all over the envelopes, then the writing paper, then the wallpaper in lounge as parents were in kitchen. My Dad was not impressed. I had a chocolate machine too also gift from my Aunt Joan. My parents had 5 children and not much money. My Aunty Joan had no children and always bought us wonderful gifts and took us to pantomimes and to visit Santa. I still miss her and she died 10 years ago next March.

The Simon Says electronic game….mid 1980s. Absolutely loved that game! Then a few years after that a Sony Walkman 😀

Plasticraft in the early 70s. I encapsulated everything I could lay my hands on in plastic

Mine was a pony. A bad tempered wee biter destined for the meat man that my grandad offered £20 for

A Sindy dining room set with six posh chairs and all the crockery and cutlery. I absolutely loved it.

@caringcarer i am still SO sad I never got a post office. I was telling my DD about them earlier this week

Sindys dream house, with the lift that went up and down the side.

Sindy’s dream house, with the lift that went up and down the side
I really wanted one of those, I had a bookcase and I made each shelf into a different floor of my pretend house.
I have an adult’s dolls house now.

This. I fucking loved it although my poor parents probably regretted buying it. It was the only time I was given a joint birthday/Christmas gift( December 25th birthday), as it was, for them at the time, quite a lot of money.

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Frogger in 1983.

Still got it, in its original box too.

A whole lot of different clothes for the two dolls that me and one of my sisters adored, there were school uniforms, pyjamas, knitted jumpers, hats etc plus cardboard beds for them with duvets and sheets and pillows. I must have been about seven at the time. We played with them together all through Christmas and for years afterwards.

We didn't find out until years later that it was the Christmas the family very nearly hit the breadline, there was no money at all for presents, and my mother made and sewed all of the clothes out of scrap odds and ends of pillow cases and bits of fabric. Our parents were very worried we'd realise that Christmas was scraped together on a shoe string. We didn't. We never noticed at all.

A sewing machine that my mum bought me when I was about 19/20. My sisters were crowing about how mum had bought me a rubbish present and it was so uncool (before I opened it) but I LOVED it, learned to use it and used it for years before upgrading to a better one. It's the only decent, thoughtful present my mum ever bought me, a jewel of a present among a lifetime of disappointments 😂

I only ever wanted dolls for Christmas so it would probably be one of my many cabbage patch kids or Timmy ( Tiny Tears).

I got a Raleigh grifter bike when I was about ten. I'd asked for one but my parents weren't very well off, and they'd said no way could they afford one and took me to Woolies to look at their cheaper bikes which I wasn't very enthralled with.

I'll never forget the shock and excitement of coming down Christmas morning to that bike ❤️

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your post is lovely.

My cabbage patch doll and my finders keepers swan! Best 80s Christmas ever, I know my mum and dad had to put in overtime hours to make Christmas special for us so now that I'm an adult it just makes you appreciate this more and now I know why they were so happy with my reaction that Christmas when I opened my best two Santa gifts 😁,

This adventure kit when I was six or seven. I loved the Famous Five and this made me think I could be them.