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 used to go with my nanan every Saturday to the market. She'd get me some cockles at the fish market and some coconut mushrooms. I always looked forward to our trips together

Ooh, I had that exact one - I've still got it more than 40 years after receiving it as a birthday present! It came from Argos.

Pear drops!
Mr Frosty - never had one!
Patent shoes - never had any! 🤣

Aw my kids used to do this at my Mum's when they were little 💚

Ice magic!!!

Blowing bubbles into a glass of milk with a straw.

It was so much fun!

For some reason, my mum always told me to stop it. I never understood adults...

Being allowed to pick a particular coloured plastic fork in the chip shop and being lifted up from the floor in order to be able to do so.

Always chose a pink one.

Going to the indoor market and buying real second hand baby clothes for my baby doll. I was 10 years old. So simple and innocent compared to today ☺️

Oh wow 🤩 I had one of those reversible Dalmatian jumpers from the market, they were really thick and poofy 😁 I'd forgotten about this 💛

My neighbours (tv show) sticker album.
My little cassette player and microphone so I could practice being Kylie Minogue.

My little Pony night dress
Teddy Rupskin
A pair of glove and each finger had a different face and plaits.

My dad coming home on a Friday with a creme egg and care bear stickers for my panini sticker book.

My Dad always thought marbles were dangerous so my older bro used to hide them. Bit like a squirrel, buried in the garden. I found them one by one and kept them in my secret box. Still got them.

I liked twiddly winks and was really good at flipping them. They did the high jump and long jump in my Toy Olympics too 🤣

A jewellery box with a wind-up ballerina dancing to Strangers in the Night before a tiny little mirror... had bigger-all jewellery but would keep rare and interesting stones, leaves, cake decorations, whatever sparked my magpie-like infant curiosity...

Light-up anything - torches, toys, dolls houses, pens...

'Bugger-all jewellery'. Much like now. 😄

Hundreds and thousands of
Kelloggs bike reflectors

Pony books. Jill Ferguson. The Pullein-Thompsons. Monica Dickens...

Sorry hundreds and thousands
AND
Kelloggs bike reflectors

Not that many bike reflectors 😆

I had a Mr. Frosty. It was crap! I only used it a few times I lost interest. 🤷‍♀️ 😅

What a lovely idea for a thread !
Christmas morning sack.
plastic high heeled slippers that looked like glass .
A new Pippa doll.
New copy of Tammy and Misty.
wendy houses
paddling pools
ballet clothes and shoes ( even though parents couldn’t afford lessons)
the seaside.
my first pets. Mice and hamsters

My friend always had iced gems in her packed lunch. I remember begging my mum to put me on packed lunches so I could have nice things like that but she refused because the thought a hot dinner was more important than cute biscuits. From that day forward I chose all the things I wasn't allowed from the dinner hatch. Cheesy chips every day? Yep. Turkey twizzlers? Yep. Ice-cream? Yep. Even though I was supposed to be 100% dairy free 😂

I lived on my pogo stick in the summer 😍

On another cereal based note, there was muesli that bore little resemblance to today's muesli but you could draw pictures in it with a spoon .
Ditto honey pudding - like angel delight but honey. Free gift from that was a fabulous Winnie the Pooh money box

Space hoppers, pogo sticks and that pole with a tennis ball on a string.

Angel delight

Swingball - it bloody hurt if the ball caught you !