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!

Yes, those Kelloggs Variety Packs! The extravagance! The choice! For high days and holidays only.

And little coloured balls of bath oil that would dissolve in the bath, and you'd later find a melty plastic cyst stuck to your bottom... 😝

I've always had a hankering after an adult sized rocking horse, on sliders, not rockers, so it doesn't go careering all over the room. I'd ride myself into a dream world every day. 😁 🐎

My dolls house, Lunby 3 storey, I used it from about 6-9 years old, I dressed the family, and posed them daily, served them miniature food, I embroidered and made the curtains and bed linen and cleaned it with a tooth brush. It had antique style furniture, that I got at specialist shops, grand piano, a marble fireplace, tins and cutlery, bathroom and kitchen units. It had a framed painting of me in it. It had electric lights and chandeliers. I cut buds in the garden and put them in the vases. I wrapped mini presents to go under it’s Christmas tree.

My mum saved it and it went to my daughter, she got it at about 4 (maybe too early) - she trashed it.

Coming out of the local swimming pool and being able to choose any snack I wanted from the vending machine. Absolute heaven.

Bouncy balls - the clear ones that had glitter or sparkles and sometimes they had like a little galaxy in them that looked like it was floating. I was obsessed with them.

Collecting those plastic little ball things that you attached to your bicycle spokes so they clacked together and made noise when you rode. I can’t for the life of me remember what they were called but I had loads of them.

Knitting with my Nana, I was obsessed with how her knitting needles clacked together, she was a very fast knitter. She would give me a pair of her small needles she used for making sleeves, would cast on 10 or so stitches for me and I would knit next to her clacking my needles too.

My Nana taking me and my sister to the haberdashers on the market and we would allowed to pick out our buttons for the next cardigan she had made for us. This was the height of excitement for little me. I still remember my favourite buttons.

God, I love fuzzy felt! I might buy for my 3 year old.

Collecting huge bags on conkers and watching the conker fights in assembly (teachers called kids to the front who wanted to participate)

Long bike rides

The Christmas float that came down our road and running out in pjs to meet santa in the dark

Advent calendars

10p mixes and the bubble gum with cartoons in

Angel delight

Walking to the library with my dad on a Saturday morning and then to Greggs for an iced finger

Saturday clothes shopping with my mum and sister

Flower fairies

Snow globes

My first cassette player

Flying around the kitchen in roller boots

Knocking on for friends

Water fights in the summer

A coke and slice of lemon in the pub

Fish and chip crisps

Going to the pub with my dad and putting songs on the jukebox

Swimming with my mum and sister and then the joy of a Pot noodle on a Friday night

Friday night tv with mum-Roseanne, Cheers, Golden girls

Watching The Wonder years on a Sunday as a family, the light shining through the window

A jewellery box off my grandparents with a ballerina twirling and a song I wish I could remember

English breakfast at my grandparents house

Watching teletext at my grandparents house and siting in one of those chairs you could move and sit back in (we had neither of those at our house!)

Body shop gift baskets for friends at Christmas

Bath pearls

Sticker albums-Love is and E.T

Collecting Garbage pail stickers

Smash hits and putting A-Ha posters on the walls

Soz that was a lot!

Feeling quite emotional now, hope my dd looks back fondly on her childhood ❤️

Sticker books, I remember a barbie one in particular but I had a few.
Smelly paper, fancy paper we called it and used to trade it.
Granny always slipped me a few coins every time she saw me, and she saw me a lot!
The Kellogs package arriving in the post
The latest Smash hits magazine
My Mum's pal or my uncle taking me sea swimming way out of my depth where Mum wouldn't let me go.
Calling into a random house to see someone's litter of kittens or puppies that we heard about.
And yes @Hoochyvida those Clarkes shoes. Remember the ad, a girl saying something like 'the key, princess!'
Quest books, basically gaming in book form..to follow the forest path turn to page 207, to take the goblins advice and avoid the forest go to page 180.
7up for Sunday lunch.

Also Sara Lee cheesecake bites that you kept in the freezer.

And Entenmann's chocolate cake in the foil/tin.

What a lovely, nostalgia inducing thread. Thank you for the fuzzy, warm memories of a more innocent time 💗

• going to the library to borrow whatever books I wanted
• also toys in cereal and Polly pocket as PP mentioned

Those school shoes with toys in. Used to love them

Annuals. I was born in 87 but my mum used to buy old Bunty and Jackie annuals from 70s and 80s from charity shops for me. Loved them. Will dig them out of my mums loft one day.

Hubba bubba. I used to collect it lol

Bath pearls! Loved them. There used to be a little shop in fenwicks Newcastle that sold botanical bath bombs with bath pearls and glitter and allsorts in them. Such luxury.It was a rare treat as we only went near Christmas to see the window, so I'd save my pocket money from September so I could buy a few. Then one year it was just gone, I was gutted.

What a lovely thread, so many memories brought back! I loved the little bath oil pearls and the plastic Gloworms. I have kept one for the last 35 years and my daughter has it now kept safe all those years

I also used to have a bouncy ball that smelt like watermelons. I love it as a child

Blue tack. Especially a fresh packet.. pulling off that top layer of paper 🤣

Lovely thread OP. I can still remember the thrill when I came home from a week with my Grandparents & DF had installed electric lights in my dolls house. Those tiny switches & bulbs!

God it's all coming back to me. Diablos used to be so popular at my school. I remember getting a pink sparkly one for my 10th birthday and I was over the moon.

I've just bought some fairy lights like those!!

An animal bar from the post office.
Ice cream cut from a block and sandwiched between two wafers. Also from the post office!! Collecting marbles.

Jetballs - I thought they would bounce as high as the moon!

Yes! I was obsessed with mine. Lovely memories

Saturday morning when my Twinkle magazine would be delivered - highlight of my week! Then getting 15p pocket money to go and buy sweets 😊

Chips after swimming at the local pool - they tasted so good because swimming always makes you hungry!

Staying at my grans and staying up late watching telly and making ragrugs.

Walking up to the big lake on the common with my dad and skimming stones.

Ooh and getting the Christmas edition Radio Times.

Reading my new annual in bed on Christmas Day night!

Getting new shoes - I’d go to bed placed so I could see them as I went to sleep and when I woke up! 😆

Scented erasers.

Glitter.

A new set of stationery every September.

Covering my school books in wrapping paper.