What is the best gift you have ever received?

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I would say for me between the laptop I got last year or the ps4 I got two years ago.

As a kid- a pair of kickers.
As and adult- a Nespresso machine

When i was 4 my dad made me a wooden cooker and made an entire rest of kitchen out of boxes. 45 years later i still have the cooker carefully made so the eye level grill was perfect height for my little 4 year old head.

A Michael kors watch for my 21st. Got with dh when I was 17 and he always promised that once we had money he would get me one, I don't think I have ever gone a day without wearing it

As a child my sindy ballerina doll. I coveted that doll and couldn't believe it was finally mine.

As an adult hard to say. Probably a ring dh's aunt gave me that had belonged to dh's great grandmother. I wear it every day and will pass it on to one of my daughters who will be able to wear a ring belonging to her great great grandmother.

Best expensive present- sewing machine because it has given me the ability to make lovely things.

Best thoughtful present: my handmade quilt which is so beautiful and will be an heirloom.

Best random cheap present: my microplane grater . I would never pay that much for a grater but it's really super :)

An experience from the Mysterious Package Company.

The box set of Supernatural when I was.... 16 I think. Seasons 1-6 at the time.

Winky I seemed to get something in my eye reading your post.

As a kid: Tomy Tronic 3d - we were quite skint and I secretly wanted one but didn't tell my mum and dad because I knew it was £35. Thank you Nana for being a terrible secret keeper.

As an adult: A complete set of the Narnia books. A friend and I had been talking about when we had read them as kids and he had trawled charity shops to make up a set in the 80's covers I had described.

A kindle

My friends clubbed together and got me a llama walking day too. Was yours on the South Downs?

A giant fake engagement ring with a note "If you say "Yes" we can choose a real one! I said yes...!!!

A car! On a Christmas where dp and I weren’t getting each other anything
I hadn’t even passed my test, but it encouraged me to do so, I’ve had freedom ever since

A peaceful and stress free Christmas with goodwill to all men and women

I didn't start learning to drive until I was 31. DP bought me a car to learn in. Hands down, best gift ever. Just thinking about it makes me smile

A halogen heater when I was a student living in a damp horrible flat. We used to huddle round it in the living room.
As a kid it was the chemistry set I asked for 3 years running, eventually got it and it was brill.

This year, and it isn't even a present for me! My sister lives the other side of the World and I miss her every day. Two days ago I got a Christmas card from her asking if I fancied a travel buddy on this year's adventure - her Xmas present from my BIL is flights so she can come and join me.

My friend bought me a iPod shuffle once (in the days before your phone became your music player) and she pre loaded it with all my favourite tunes.
That was lovely and thoughtful.

Bit soppy but dd2 was born beginning of Dec a few years ago.
She's truly the gift that keeps giving (big loved up emoticon)

When I was 5, I really really wanted one of those children's laptops, a bit like the leapfrogs of the mid 1990s! With a desk to put it on like I'd see the kid on the advert with.

We had barely any money at the time, my mum had given both to my sisters a few days before and everything was upside down. My mum and Dad both warned me that Father Christmas might be able to fit down the chimney with a desk, that the laptop might be too expensive for him.

I'd resigned myself to not getting them, but came down on Christmas and there they were, a slide up bureau desk with the laptop on top, I remember feeling absolutely ecstatic!

My mum told me a few years later that my dad (a taxi driver) had decided at the last minute to go out and work ALL Christmas Eve to buy it, and then rushed to toys r us literally minutes before they closed.

I've never forgotten it and it gives me the warm fuzzies still!

Tis that's Lovely!

A smooth skin gold 2 years ago. I no longer have permanent stubble, I feel so much more confident as it was the one thing I found completely hideous about myself.

A swing and slide in the garden for my third birthday.

I still remember the thrill when I opened the back door.

Kindle

Tiny tears when I was 5. I was sooo chuffed F.C. k ew what I wanted! And also some expensive perfume when I was about 19...from my parents who don't do expensive gifts.

DH has given me some really lovely presents, but it's not such a shock coming from him.

Tis that's given me something in my eye...
Lots of heartwarming stories on this thread!