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Best Christmas present ever

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TurkeyDinosaur · 22/12/2023 13:59

What has been your favourite gift you've ever received for Christmas?

I still remember the joy of receiving a pair of fur lined boots at aged 8, and a Timex watch the following year.

What's yours?

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MargaretThursday · 22/12/2023 14:40

A dolls' pram.
A proper old fashioned one with a toddler seat on top.

Best Christmas present ever
FartNRoses · 22/12/2023 15:04

My Walkman! Can’t remember my age but I was thrilled!

ShadowKitty · 22/12/2023 15:39

Madonna 'Like a Prayer' LP when I was about 11. It was all shiny and new and I thought the artwork on the front with the jeans and necklaces was so edgy and cool. It probably had all the song lyrics on the inner sleeve too but I can't remember... I bloody loved Madonna!

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DramaAlpaca · 22/12/2023 15:41

A Girls' World as a pre-teen, and a cassette player as a young teenager in 1978.

Taytocrisps · 22/12/2023 15:41

A Sindy dining room set. There was a table, chairs and tiny plates and wine glasses. I thought it was the most amazing present ever. I'm assuming I got a Sindy doll with it but I don't really remember the doll.

Also, leg warmers. They were all the rage because of Fame and I thought I'd never get a pair. I got some plain red ones as part of my Christmas clothes but I also got a pair as a present - they were navy and had snowflakes ❄️ on them. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

Christmassss · 22/12/2023 16:11

Mine was also the Sindy dining set, it came with brass coloured knives and forks and blue velvet chairs.

countvoncount · 22/12/2023 16:28

A basket of fruit shaped and smelling soaps, with bath pearls that were meant to be the grapes.
I would have been 12/13 at the time and I've never ever forgotten it, can't even remember who it was from

changename01 · 22/12/2023 17:00

Cuddly toy that was also a nightie case

DawnButlersGayGiraffe · 22/12/2023 17:11

Twin cassette player with radio. Used it for all my mix tapes and used to listen to Capital FM while I did my homework.

Mynx · 22/12/2023 17:16

A ‘diamond’ ring when I was about 7. It probably cost no more than 2/6 (I’m very old!) but I can still remember my happiness when I opened it. Nothing I have received ever since has brought me such joy (including a real diamond ring many many years later!)

Curtainpoles · 22/12/2023 17:26

On Christmas Eve 2020 I got a covid vaccine (healthcare worker) - had to wait in the cold in a very long queue but I was ecstatic about it 😁

MysweetAudrina · 22/12/2023 17:28

Probably my new born baby doll. Me and my best friend who lived across the road got one. We both called the Deirdre. Our Mams had put new born baby outfits in with them and e we spent that Christmas feeding, walking and changing them. My friend sadly died very young but we were the best Mammies to those dolls.

shellyleppard · 22/12/2023 17:29

A twins dolls pram when I was about 7 or 8 years old.....its lasted for many years. The cats eventually turned it into an outside bed

Nynaeva · 22/12/2023 17:30

Cassette recorder
Oscar, the first soft toy I ever fell in love with

Krampussy · 22/12/2023 17:31

Mr Frosty.

gotomomo · 22/12/2023 17:31

Walkman as a kid though this year I have an engagement ring!Grin

MonkeyPuddle · 22/12/2023 17:32

Barbie Beach House. It had a pull down bed and a balcony. I loved it.

shockeditellyou · 22/12/2023 17:33

My Lego garage with multi-storey car park that had a working lift!

Hatty65 · 22/12/2023 17:33

A Holly Hobbie rag doll. I think it was my 'obsessed with Little House on the Prairie' stage..

Taytocrisps · 22/12/2023 17:36

gotomomo · 22/12/2023 17:31

Walkman as a kid though this year I have an engagement ring!Grin

Ah that's lovely news @gotomomo. Congrats!

MaidOfSteel · 22/12/2023 17:37

A cassette player! It was late 70s, I think. I loved it. I would make up tapes from songs in the top 20, as it was then, by recording them off the radio on my dad's music centre, then play and rewind to my heart's content!

ToothFairy2023 · 22/12/2023 17:38

As a child toss up between spirograph, mini cadburys slot machine or a bike.

As an adult my son a Christmas baby.

evtheria · 22/12/2023 17:40

Sony Walkman

Fannyfiggs · 22/12/2023 17:41

I got a Fame outfit in 1981 or 82 I think. Sweatshirt, rara skirt, leg warmers and white leather trainer boots all with the fame logo on.

I thought I was the bee's knees wearing it 😂

BurntOrangeAutumn · 22/12/2023 17:44

MysweetAudrina · 22/12/2023 17:28

Probably my new born baby doll. Me and my best friend who lived across the road got one. We both called the Deirdre. Our Mams had put new born baby outfits in with them and e we spent that Christmas feeding, walking and changing them. My friend sadly died very young but we were the best Mammies to those dolls.

Ah that's lovely 🤍 sorry about your friend
I love your user by the way, I'm actually reading that rn!

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