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What did you most want for Christmas when you were a child?

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curiousgeorgie · 07/12/2014 12:03

Someone just wrote about Mr Frosty on another thread and I got a little shiver remembering how much I wanted one and how excited I was when I opened it on Christmas morning Grin

DH remembers getting a Spirograph and a snooker table !! (Must have been considerably richer than we were!) and having to keep it up in the living room all Christmas Day Smile

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cookietrue22 · 07/12/2014 13:04

Haha Bertie! I didn't get a kitchen either even though I really wanted one. Maybe that's why I've got one for DS this year.

I sound ungrateful, there are so many things I did get!

WowserBowser · 07/12/2014 13:17

I remember being so excited to get a baby skates. She could barely stand.

What did you most want for Christmas when you were a child?
weaselsquirrel · 07/12/2014 13:35

A toy dog that walked on the lead I think it was called scamp? It was the only thing I asked for year after year and I never got one Sad

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RosesandRugby · 07/12/2014 13:52

Oooo I got a Keyper and my DD plays sits it in the corner gathering dust with it now.

I always wanted a bed jacket Blush one of those silky quilted ones. I remember visiting my Grt Grt Grandmother who was about 97 at the time and I must have been around 4 and she sat in bed wearing one and I always thought she looked so regal and glamorous in it. I never got one Sad

HollyJollyDillydolly · 07/12/2014 13:52

I really wanted a Mr Frosty too :(
My cousin had one and a red electronic word game thing I can remember the name of but reeeally wanted.

HollyJollyDillydolly · 07/12/2014 13:55

Ah it's this, looks shitter than I remember :)

What did you most want for Christmas when you were a child?
areyoubeingserviced · 07/12/2014 13:56

A cabbage patch doll
Didn't get it

Skyland · 07/12/2014 13:59

Major Morgan. I always told santa when he came round the doors on Xmas eve but I never got one. Guess I should have told my mother instead of keeping it a secret for santa!

wickedlazy · 07/12/2014 14:00

I think the best christmas present I got, was getting my room redecorated. I was about 14, had begged mum to let me have the box room (letting younger sister have the big room we had shared). Just because I was desperate for my own space. Got the room done how I wanted, and new bedroom furniture that summer, on the understanding I wouldn't get much at christmas, no big present. I got lot's of little presents, bath stuff, make up etc, but being able to sit in my lovely grown up room, listening to my new cds, doing my make up for that night in peace, was worth it Grin

emmelinelucas · 07/12/2014 14:06

A Plasticraft kit and a walkie-talkie doll
I didn't get either !
I remember being very pleased with a tape recorder and a travel alarm clock.

wickedlazy · 07/12/2014 14:10

The ultimate present I really wanted/ would have been heart broken to not get, was a barbie lip gloss maker when I was about 7. I got it. But a few years ago, was talking with my mum about how all I wanted that year was the lipgloss maker, and how things have changed to kids wanting playstations, etc. She then went in a huge huff, shouting that I was an ungrateful bitch, I got a TV (small old style with big back one) that year, amongst other things, and how dare I say I only got a lipgloss maker, and if I got a playstation the year after Hmm think she rather missed my point. If I hadn't got the playstation the next year I would have been a bit put out, but not getting the lipgloss maker I would have been devastated, and isn't it funny how it can be the silliest, most random thing that a child really yearns for. She still doesn't see what I meant. and was such a huge fight it still gets talked about in a family legend sort of way

wickedlazy · 07/12/2014 14:11

*and I got

Takver · 07/12/2014 14:14

A sindy horse. My lovely lovely uncle and aunt (who had three boys and really wanted a girl so were a great source of frilly girly presents!) gave it to me and I loved it to bits :) Even better I found a second hand one ultra cheap in a boot sale (because it only had 3 legs, but who cares about that) not long after so I was the envy of my friends . . .

I have no recollection of Mr Frosty at all (born late 60s, so maybe too old?) but a childless friend who had always hankered after it gave a set to my dd a few years back - which would have been great except we didn't have a freezer!

NitramAtTheKrap · 07/12/2014 14:19

Another Mr Frosty. A camera. One of those dispenser things that gave out tiny dairy milks.

DM chucked the lights alive down the tip in 2007 :(

MehsMum · 07/12/2014 14:24

A goat. Seriously. I even worked out where I could keep it.
Never got one: eventually I had to make do with looking after someone else's sheep.

I was a rather peculiar child

zen1 · 07/12/2014 14:28

A Palitoy Merlin. I never got one (too expensive!), but I did get a Mr Microphone, which I loved Smile.

snappybadger · 07/12/2014 14:30

Yes a Mr Frosty here too! Never got one, and it always left me baffled as I thought FC was supposed to bring the thing you really, really wanted! I can understand now why my not-very-well-off parents didn't want to waste their limited money on such a piece of rubbish but at the time I was devastated year on year when it never arrived under the tree.

The only other thing I remember hankering after (and not getting) was a badge maker. But I also remember fondly the year I got a toy koala bear to replace the one my grandparents had brought me back from Australia that I'd lost. It seemed really magical at the time that FC knew I wanted one :)

velocityofrudolph · 07/12/2014 14:35

A pony..I asked every year from 5 to 15...never got one, still haven't forgiven my parents Grin, even though we had nowhere to keep it, and I knew nothing about looking after one beyond my once a week ride.

Only other thing I remember really wanting was a Tiny Tears,which I did get, and loved until her limbs fell off

PureMorning · 07/12/2014 14:37

Mr frosty.
My older sister got it

I'm still bitter and bring it up every year.

Also wanted a dream phone

mejon · 07/12/2014 16:31

A girl's world and that treehouse with a little family in it. Didn't get either. I got DD1 a fake girl's world thing last Christmas. Twas shite and she's barely looked at it apart from to smother the whole face in greasy lipstick.

everydayaschoolday · 07/12/2014 16:53

I came on to say Mr Frosty. I got slippers...

oneowlgirl · 07/12/2014 17:55

Puremorning - what did your sister think of it? Was it tat or actually worth having?

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/12/2014 18:22

The Walking Dog (I think it used to bark too Yap Yap )

The Cadburys Mini Chocolate dispenser ( too expensive to get the refills )

And a Magic Oven that baked cakes and came with icing and sprinkles.

I did get a set that made clear perspex moulds- you could put shells and twiggy shit in. Unfortunately, DSis put waaaaaay too much hardener in the resin, so I got two from the set. A paperweight and a seahorse encrusted egg timer. The rest of them I made stayed as sticky ,liquid resin Sad

southeastastra · 07/12/2014 18:37

I always wanted to win the whsmith win a pony competition. I wonder if anyone did ever win one