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What was your favourite childhood Christmas present?

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Scr00gy · 19/12/2020 12:45

Mine was a massive bag of sweets and a rabbit fur coat (handmade by my granddad). I remember petting it, it was so soft! Then eating so much chocolate that I threw up. I was about 5/6? My mum tells me that there were toys as well, but I don't remember them at all, I was just enamored with the coat.

This was obviously decades ago and in a country where you need to wrap up warm unless you want frost bite!

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nevergoingoutagain · 20/12/2020 13:05

Sindy swimming pool! We were staying at my Granny's and it was the biggest present under the tree. I felt so special lol

TheAnswerIsCake · 20/12/2020 13:08

@zaphodbeeble

Sindy House - this one, it was bloody amazing

I came on to say this exactly! My birthday is in January so I got some new furniture for it then. I bloody loved Sindy - much preferred her to Barbie. I ended up with quite the collection - I had a swimming pool, a hospital and a Range Rover over several years. Pretty sure most of it is still at the back of my parents‘ loft.

Other favourite gifts were a Pound Puppy - I was desperate for one and so happy to get it. I also remember a Crayola drawing set which had diagrams with lots of arrows to connect to draw different rooms and then stencils and images of furniture to trace so you could design the interior. It was awesome, but no one else ever seems to have come across it!

TheAnswerIsCake · 20/12/2020 13:10

@JacobReesMogadishu

Omg, I just googled them and they’re £200 on eBay now, the 1980s dream castle!

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Oh gosh... I had one of these too but pretty sure it wasn’t a Christmas present (my Mum disliked MLP and didn’t want me to have them - pretty sure it came from grandparents.) It ended up in my parents’ loft and I so,d it online a few years ago for around £100.

JacobReesMogadishu · 20/12/2020 13:29

I gave mine away! And all my original ponies, I had about 40 of them!

Gensola · 20/12/2020 13:29

I had the Polly pocket dream mansion which was sort of the last Christmas I was young enough for toys.
A porcelain doll with a red velvet dress and long curly brown hair.
For some reason I remember a clear plastic duck filled with smarties that was at the top of my stocking one year too. And a troll doll with pink hair

Ellapaella · 20/12/2020 15:44

The year I remember most was when I was 9. I got a barbie doll (crystal barbie), Madonna The First Album, a huge bag of gingerbread and Dylan Thomas's A child Christmas in Wales. I can vividly remember lying in the chair in front of the coal fire that night scoffing gingerbread, reading the book and feeling utterly content and happy.

bubblylocks · 20/12/2020 20:56

Oooh I have a few!

Nintendo DS was probably my most used toy, I used it for years. I had to beg my mum for it though!

Dr Who box set (each year when they were released I got the new one as I was obsessed and that was always my best gift other than the year I got the DS)

A black, ginger fairy doll (either Barbie or Disney). Can never find it when I google it but it was my most treasured item ever.

Very jealous at pp who got a Cabbage Patch doll! I have bought one for my DD this year and a few of the small ones for my DS to make up for lost time

Vinosaurus · 20/12/2020 21:04

Birthday care bear - come from a very academic family and gifts were predominantly educational, this gift from my uncle (whom I hardly knew/know) was the BEST.

Lovemusic33 · 20/12/2020 21:10

[quote maybemove]@Lovemusic33 that last my favourite Polly pocket set! I’d play with it for hours! All the coins would sit neatly in rows underneath. I actually kept it and all of my other polly pocket sets and had a huge box my dds played with - until a few years ago and my husband decided to clear out their toys and threw the whole lot away! (I couldn’t talk to him for ages)

I don’t have a lot of memories from when I was younger, but one Christmas I do remember my papa coming to visit us and he brought me these tiny dolls, one had a high chair and one was in a baby walker, they actually walked but I’ve never been able to find them since or what they were called. I was fascinated by them.[/quote]
Was the walking baby one of these?

What was your favourite childhood Christmas present?

EnPoinsettia · 20/12/2020 21:11

My mum sewed me an outfit modelled after Princess from Battle of the Planets.

G Force!

pinkpetal2 · 20/12/2020 21:12

Mine was the dolly who you fed food too and it disappeared of the spoon! Also she smelt like cherries. I can't remember what it was called now? I think it would of been around 1999 maybe.

Lovemusic33 · 20/12/2020 21:13

Also remember getting the keypers pony when I was about 7 or 8, I think I played with it for years. I recently found one at a car boot sale and had to buy it, it’s now in the loft gathering dust.

Tigger001 · 20/12/2020 21:13

Teddy Ruxbin, simply perfect.

mnahmnah · 20/12/2020 21:13

Sindy house too! I was very lucky that year. I also got the Barbie swimming pool and Barbie nightclub, with flashing lights and revolving dance floor

Tigger001 · 20/12/2020 21:15

I also had the first boy doll that had a little willy, he was lovely with little blonde hair

InTheCludgie · 21/12/2020 10:14

Loving reading these, am getting all nostalgic! A couple of years back I discovered the old Argos catalogues from the 80s online, took a real trip down memory lane browsing those and remembering stuff I got for Christmas as a child

maybemove · 21/12/2020 13:20

@pinkpetal2 baby all gone!

maybemove · 21/12/2020 13:21

@Lovemusic33 omg I’ve got a tear in my eye that’s exactly it!! Aww thank you I’ve never seen them since

AliceMcK · 21/12/2020 13:23

A big pink cuddly mouse, it had a rainbow tummy, i loved it and had it for years. I think I was about 8 when I got it.

pinkpetal2 · 21/12/2020 14:22

@maybemove that's her! I'd love to smell her again. Sounds creepy typing it out

mamakoukla · 21/12/2020 14:26

A ream of paper

timtam23 · 21/12/2020 20:02

A dolls' house. It was handmade, I'm not sure who made it for me - possibly a friend of my grandparents? It had 4 rooms and later my dad took half the roof off for me so it had a loft space as well. I loved that house so much. Mum and dad kept it in the loft and when they moved to few years ago they asked me if I wanted it ( I think they kept it all those years for when they had grandchildren but my boys weren't bothered about dolls' houses) I told them I didn't want it back so they took it to the tip. I so regret it now. I'm not sure what I'd do with it but the memories & nostalgia are still so strong. I did ask them to bring up all my old dolls' house furniture though. I spent all my pocket money furnishing that house.

Paperyfish · 21/12/2020 20:06

@zaphodbeeble

Sindy House - this one, it was bloody amazing

Omg! I had that exact one! I loved it so much 😍

MysweetAudrina · 21/12/2020 20:26

Definitely by new baby born. Me and my best friend who lived across the road both got one from Santa and we both called our doll Deirdre. I spend Months feeding, changing, walking and playing with her. I can still remember the smell of her head. They were very lifelike at the time and I remember getting a few funny looks from people when I mishandled her.

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