Best Xmas presents you ever got as a child?

[nurseyn]

What were some of your favourite Xmas presents you got as a child? A little trip down memory lane.

Mine were:
A tinker bell toad stall house/playset
Barrie stamps (stamps with Barbie figurines on top)
Polly Pocket treehouse (magnetic one)
A DS lite
A tub of Crayola felt tips that were chunky
Jane Eyre/Wuthering Heights on dvd
An original Jessie doll from Toy Story 2

May think of some more! Bonus if you guess how old I am

I remember having the story cassette tape and book set. Where the tape reads the book to you.i loved it and remember spending years using and enjoying them. I can not think of what they was actually called tho.

My Little Pony grooming parlour
Nintendo NES, and a few years later a SNES
Lundby dolls house which I wish so much I still had. It had beautiful furniture including a red velvet suite in the living room and a fireplace that lit up.
The Jolly Christmas Postman which I still have and love reading to my daughter
A Rainbow Brite doll that smelled amazing (that vanilla-like plasticky smell)
Fashion Wheel
A Keyper shaped like a swan, and its baby

Not all in the same year!

My dad always made sure I got arty stuff as well as toys and one thing I really loved and always remembered was a set of Caran d'Ache watercolour pencils in a tin.

My A La Carte kitchen. My mum put it in her loft and my 4 year old has been playing with it non stop since she was 2. So it’s stood the test of time!

@evilharpyinapeartree yes I received Rainbow Bright - my daughter now loves that too! Also Caran dache... i was obbessed with art materials and stationery! I’m so glad my mum saved all the good stuff from my childhood for my kids

This is a lovely thread @nurseyn

Sony Walkman

Also: a tin of olives, to eat ALL ON MY OWN IN ONE GO

Guessing between 23-26!

@Thebookswereherfriends omg I remember that a la carte advert. I so wanted to be that little girl serving my parents breakfast in bed. Hence why I bugged them for it. That ad exec must have really known what appealed to 6 year olds as I was enthralled by that advert and remember it so vividly!!

@norbert23 you pushing your cat in the pram, that is just adorable!!!

A fisher price record player! I loved that toy 😂

Barbie's Dream Cottage and a BMX bike.

I was quite aware that myy parents barely had two pennies to rub together, so I wasn't expecting anything like those presents when I got them!

Mine was my game boy colour and a sticker making machine type thing.

I'm guessing you're around 23 as I'm 28 and was very much a teenager for the era you described.

Yeah I think early 20s too. I'm 29 and a DS Lite was only out in my later teenage years.

I loved my Gameboy Colour - I got it with Pokemon Yellow

A doll house that my grandad hand made. It was beautiful, he'd carpeted it with offcuts from my house ❤️ lots of Playmobil furniture and people lived in there.

I also had the little model horses and stables that I would play with for hours!

A computer was about 8 megabytes of memory ( crazy now) but it was such a special gift was my gcse year so came with lots of educational discs too ... loved looking through the encyclopaedia on disc ... taught my mum and little cousins how to use it.

My dad was a hero to have set it up for me that must have been a long Christmas Eve for him ❤️

Barbie crystal horse and carriage. I just googled, you can get them on eBay, now 'vintage'. Oh the memories! I adored it.

Girls World
Mouse Trap
Enid Blyton books

Then, teen years:
Spectrum ZX
Jackie/Patches/Blue Jeans/J17/Mizz annual
Eyeshadow set
“Now” compilation CD

3 little mince meat pies, what an amazing story, what beautiful parents, love and devotion, that's really touched me!

All of that packaged into a wondeful memory

My first bike.
Roller skates - the old metal and leather straps type with a key which was always getting lost I seem to remember.

For me a few but again the special was a basic wooden sleigh df made me and with something burning put my name on the side. We had mega snow that winter too so he took me out on his runs, pulling me along 😁.

Mine was a small wooden music box that played Brahms lullaby and a tiny record player with tiny LPs I thought it was the bees knees.

A tall doll called Rose, I still have her, my parents stood her at the end of my bed.
An etch a sketch.

A box of chocolate squares with Swiss scenes on each paper. It was from an auntie who didn't like me so I was thrilled.
I've often wondered if it was a regift but I loved the chocolate.

A red Phillips Roller ghetto blaster, i must have been about 7 or 8 my mum had told me a couple of days before xmas that Santa might not be able to get a red one and i was gutted, i can still remember opening the livingroom door on Christmas morning and it sitting out on top of the box pride of place. It lasted years as well, my dad used it up to a couple of years ago, it must have been 30 years old.

Mine were my barbie dream house, polly pockets and Cadburys dairy milk despenser. I'm guessing you're 25

I have recounted this Christmas story before on MN.

When I was small, in the late 1940s - early 50s both my parents had businesses to run and Ivy came to live with us as what, in those days, was known as a ‘maid’, though her prime rôle was to look after me.

On the run up to one Christmas, Ivy had been busily knitting a complete outfit for a doll. Jacket, dress, vest, pants, the lot. It was in pink wool and absolutely beautiful. When I asked about it, she told me it was for another little girl she knew, who had a doll like mine. I was completely taken in by this.

I will never forget the wonderful surprise on Christmas morning of opening a parcel and finding the array of perfectly created clothes.

Ivy lived with us for several years, I was her bridesmaid when she married and we are still in touch. I have been invited to her 90th birthday party next year.

We met up a few weeks ago when she attended my brother’s funeral and of course we talked about my best Christmas present ever.