Little things that brought you absolute joy as a child

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For me it was silver balls on cupcakes. Such a simple thing but we didn't have them very often, so whenever I saw some on a cake I'd bubble with excitement. I bought a cake today with some on and I swear, I was five years old again!

I had the opposite problem - cartons left out in a warm room in summer so they were lukewarm by the time we got them! 🤮 I still can't drink milk to this day!

Yes I remember we had these.

Buying a leather bookmark from a museum gift shop on a school trip! Dark red green or blue, with the gold embossed picture of wherever you'd been on it, and the flipping fringed end! Straightening it out, then messing it up, then straightening it again. I can still smell it

Such luxury! As a 70s child growing up in an Edwardian terrace without CH or DG, just a gas fire in the living room, I can still remember getting out of the bath in a - literally - freezing bathroom in winter, hair dripping, and hurrying shivering downstairs to get warm in front of the fire!

My mum would sometimes bring us home iced gems from the shops, I loved them. Also scented rubbers, pencil toppers, glitter, or a brand new untouched pack of markers or crayons.

Musical boxes. My dad used to buy my mum elaborate boxes of chocolates and some of the boxes were musical.

Fry's Turkish Delight every Saturday morning, a bribe from my dad so that I wouldn't mention the six packets of Benson & Hedges cigarettes he had hidden at the bottom of the shopping bag to take to work. You unwrapped the shiny, bright pink wrapper.

New shoes, which I used to put by my bed so I could peer over the mattress and glory in their scent and shininess.

Saving the grilled mushroom to the end when we had a big cooked breakfast on Sunday.

Choosing books at the library, in particular a series about twins in different countries eg 'The Eskimo Twins'

Starting a new exercise book at school and carefully writing my name on the cover.

Climbing into pink flannelette sheets when the bed had just been changed (my mum was chaotic so it didn't happen often).

Skipping round the toadstool (plastic) at Brownies.

Glitter wigs, loved them

Pogo sticks. Swingball. Spelling words with Alphabites. My mum giving my burger a ketchup smiley face.

What a wonderful thread.
For me, it was scented stationery sets in little boxes with drawers, themed with whatever was popular at the time - Victoria Plum, Pierrot dolls, Sarah Kay.

Was this the jewellery box? Everyone seemed to have them in my era. It played Swan Lake. I loved mine.

The WH Smith “Win A Pony” competition.

I was pony mad with no chance of ever having my own. I used to enter every year and hoping/fantasising kept me happy for weeks 😀

I loved Avon Pretty Peach bubble bath & soap on a rope. Can still remember the excitement receiving these as a birthday gift.

Lovely to hear all these happy memories.

Going to my grandparents and we'd have fresh orange in a fancy glass with a glacé cherry. If look through my grans button bag.

Being able to do a handstand and the feeling of being balanced properly and able to hold it. Similarly the joy of being able to do a cartwheel or Arab spring.

Lying in front of the fire watching TV with my family on Saturday evening. Especially with our cat curled up with us.

Weekly trip to the sweet shop - cola bottles, white mice, candy cigarettes which you pretended to smoke on cold mornings, rhubarb and custards etc.

Like others have said, a new set of felt tips, clean sheets of paper, joy of colouring.

Sad that tech trumps most of these for my kids, despite my best efforts.

Ah the sweetie fags with the red tip
The chocolate fags with the thin white paper and came in a cigarette like packet.
The stringy chocolate tobacco.
The joys of a 70s kid 😄

Marathon bars.
Mum buying prawn crackers for us from the Chinese takeaway and feeling them fizz on our tongues.
Snow. Anytime it snowed it made me feel so good. I still get that same happy feeling now when it snows, even if it's just a flurry.
Crab fishing at Blakeney Harbour. THe thri of feeling one pulling at the line and then releasing all the crabs at the end and seeing them race down the jetty with their googly stalky eyes, and sideways scurry.
Collecting conkers and watching the leaves change colours in the woods.

The smell of that purple ink from the carbon copy machine.
Choosing books from the Puffin book club catalogue at school and the excitement of them arriving!
New ballet slippers, I loved the smell. Going to the dance wear shop to get them, and hoping mum would buy me a tutu.

My mum used to make me the most exquisite tiny dolls, about 1" tall, like little rag dolls, and she would leave them in strange places for me to find when I got home from school. I've still got most of them 60 years later ☺️

Getting a new sheet of glitter angel scraps and putting them between the pages of a books to take into school to show my friends and to swap.

Yes !!!!
To me, it was the same smell as those milk bottle gum sweets.
I was so convinced that the play doh would taste like it, I put some in my mouth.... YUK!

Angel delight with sprinkler

A nice pen and notebook. New book. Fresh bedding.

Pretty much same as now

Ooh I've just thought. The Webb Ivory Christmas catalogue! The excitement of waiting for the things to arrive!

Dynasty and The Colbys.

I (much later) visited the country house in Stanford CA where Dynasty was filmed and was very excited to see the famous swimming pool and the staircase down which Alexis pushed Krystal!

Peas in the pod eaten from brown paper bags. Usually at my Paternal grandparents place we would get the coin to runndownnto buy then. I can remember sitting on a warm doorstep eating them.

I'm still fondnof raw peas in the pod in my.50s.

Ladybirds. 🐞 Someone on our road had a hedge around their front lawn that was always covered in ladybirds in the summer, I would sit for ages looking at them and letting them walk all over my hands.

My Naughtiest Girl in the School books by Enid Blyton. I longed to go to boarding school because of those books.

Spaghetti bolognese night (usually a Thursday).

Jolly Rancher sweets. They used to come in an electric blue pack and had mouth-wateringly tangy flavours like orange, cherry, apple and watermelon. It was a good day at school if someone brought a pack of those in to share.