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!

In fairness you can still buy those at 5 for £1.25 and free delivery (I am a party bag expert).

Any of the ‘girl’ comics - Tammy, Jinty, Mandy, Diana etc and a bag of Maltesers.

The TV programme that came on about once a year (usually on Christmas Eve) showing clips from classic Disney films.
In the 70s there was NO other way to see these films, except when they were shown from time to time in local cinemas. So these little clips were HUGELY special and rare.

Oh the local library was such fun- with those lovely handwritten tickets - seeing a much wanted book on the shelf was a win.

The kids magazines then used to smell of newspaper- papers don’t smell the same since digital printing took over.

The Twinkle comic with Nancy the little nurse, she nursed sick dolls back to health. Amelia Jane books and later Jinny at Finmory books. Cherry lips and floral gums (these were a treat sometimes from my gran), the ones you get now just don’t taste the same. Pippa dolls. I only had one but I remember the excitement of looking at them all in a shop window in Glasgow on a rare trip to visit my aunt. When I got home there was a brand new Pippa doll at the bottom of the bag I’d had with me, I’ll never forget the excitement of seeing her.

Sarah Kay stickers and my complete album which I still have (I'm 51).

A white paper bag of white chocolate mice.

Sledging in Yorkshire in the late 1970s.

Peeling the rinds off to release the beautiful shiny conkers.

Mint Viscount biscuits, eating the lovely biscuit, then carefully smoothing out the wrapper and making it into 'emerald' rings.

Chocolate concrete and pink custard for pudding at school.

A parcel from my grandmother. She would send things quite randomly, and they were always things that I loved.

Lurpack Butter 😁. Staying with my Grandad in the 1960's he was only in his 60's then, a coal miner and a widower. We thought he was ancient. Me, my brother and my cousins stayed overnight. He served us Jacket Potatoes (which had been cooked for hours) on the floor on newspaper in front of the coal fire and the television watching a black and white Western film but there was Lurpack Butter with an open glass salt cellar (which all mining families had and I still have) I have never tasted anything like it, he wasn't well off but he insisted on that. Oh the joy and taste of real butter, I still have to have proper butter these days. Can cut down on everything else but this is still my must have. Plus he bought us Kelloggs Variety Packs for breakfast with full cream milk. (All these things just wouldn't be acceptable today I know ie butter, all sticking our childhood fingers into communal salt, coal fires, eating off the floors. I certainly wouldn't let my DGC do any of this ! ) Different times yes, but still a reminder to me that simple things give children joy and memories.

Pogs. I used to love collecting them. Never did anything with them but I loved them 😆

Orange and pineapple squash and sandy sandwiches on the beach in Jersey
Jelly shoes
The smell of my grandma's roast lunch
My Grandad treating me to 'tuck' sweets, usually toffo's and mint aero.
Stickers, especially fluffy,scratch and sniff ones
Victoria plum perfume.
Midnight feasts at a friend's house.

I had a little kaleidoscope and I absolutely loved it, would spend ages looking through it amazed by all the colours and patterns

Dairylea Triangles for tea at a GM’s house. My mother would never buy such things, largely down to being almost permanently skint. Ditto orange jelly with mandarin oranges in. Luxury!

Novelty rubbers that looked like juice cartons etc. My very favourite was a black heart shaped rubber with a little rainbow on one side, in a clear plastic box. Perfection!

@Kattuccino that was my favourite in my collection too. I thought it was quite sophisticated.

Birthday cards that played a tinny electronic tune when you opened them.

Vienetta...

I really need to get my kids a fancy mint vienetta. Wonder if they think it's as posh as I used to think it was 😂

My dad picking me up from school on the bike, riding through the fields and stopping at a farm which had a farm shop- getting a strawberry split and riding back home.

I just loved the sounds it made when you cut into it. Same with Magnums and Mars Ice Creams

Oh I forgot Artic Roll with the jam

When I was about 5 we were all at my Aunts for tea , she'd made some biscuits that were 2 Royal Scot shortbreads glued together with jam, icing on top and 3 silver balls .
I was anxiously waiting for the plate to be handed round as I wanted this ........only to see my Nana pick up the last one .
<Gutted> I had a jam tart ( not the same)
It has plagued me over 50 years later I still hold a grudge !

Oh another memory, the Avon book! My aunt was a rep and me and my cousins would sift through the books sniffing the perfume pages and making everyone sniff the tiny tester vials

Sometimes my Dad would bring home those little cocktail umbrellas from the bar at the golf club. Loved those.

Also bubble wrap. Such a massive treat.

I still buy fortune telling fish every Christmas for my adult kids' stockings 🤣. You can get them on eBay!

Fuzzy felts. I had whole worlds going on that I'd create and recreate over and over.

Was rather sad when my own kids showed zero interest in them!

Aww that's such a shame. My nanna was greedy and would always pick the best for herself first, portion herself the biggest of everything etc. my parents always made the kids choose first, and that's how we do it. I can only imagine that in her youth she never got the chance for the "better" bits and so maintained that adults get the best bits.

Buying stickers and putting them into a photo album. The holographic ones, smelly ones shiny ones, puffy ones... Going to a shop to puruse them ❤️❤️❤️