The most remembered present you received as a child

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Over 30 years ago my aunt. (Who died a couple of years later age 42) bought me and my siblings a child size porcelain mug. They each had a cartoon drawing on the front and a small corresponding teddy inside. So mine said "I'm a little Angel" and had an Angel doll. The other two said Vampire and Monkey. They all fit our personalities too. I was very quiet.

My dd's would definitely not appreciate them as much as I did however I've looked and cannot see anything similar. I'd love to see a photo of one again.

What's your story?

First xmas I remember I was 3 I think (at a push 4) was also the most memorable gift.

I got a wendy house, like plastic pipes and a plastic sheet type one... I thought it was so cool having my OWN house and spent months drawing pictures and 'wallpaper' to decorate the walls of my very own house.

A REAL shop till!! I was absolutely over the moon with it. I set up a shop in the shed, kept mini boxes of Kelloggs cereals, empty washed butter tubs etc.

Everything was priced up, and I had real coins in the till drawer - it was amazing 😁.

A lundby dolls house. I LOVED it

My aunt bought me a glo-worm when I was about 4 or 5. Squeeze him and he would light up. I didn't like the dark so he was perfect.
I remember quite a lot of presents from when I was a child. Christmas and birthdays were the only time we ever had anything new so they seemed more special as you'd had to wait so long for them. Not like these days when if something is needed they have it as soon as possible!

A sindy doll house, it was amazing & I loved it but I cried all day because my parents hadn't got me anything at all for Christmas (everything was from Santa) & I thought they had just forgotten me.

Also a bottle of tipex one year which was very confusing for a couple of days until we saw my grandparents & they gave me a typewriter

I got this koala toy in about 1988 when I was six. I absolutely loved it. No idea who bought it for me or what happened to it but I used to love watching the little koalas rhythmically climbing and sliding.

A clockwork money box, it was a coffin and when you put your coin in a certain spot a spooky skeleton hand came out and grabbed it! Slightly weird and creepy, but fascinating!

This!

I have two, one is a plush Snoopy dog wearing a tennis outfit. Which I still have!

The other was a Girls World. For those who don't remember those, they were just a doll head that had a tray on the front do you could do her hair and makeup. I don't remember the what or why's but one day I decided to remove her makeup with acetone or even nail polish remover, and I wiped away her entire eye!!

I was so devastated and my mum tried to draw it back on again with a permanent marker. She really (obviously my mum is no artist) just didn't look the same again after that, and now I don't even remember what happened to it.

My 6th birthday. I came down to one of the playmobile Edwardian mansions. Apparently my dad and brother were up all night building it for me.

I LOVED it. My parents kept it and it's now in my daughter's bedroom.

I had one of these as well. Totally forgot about it until i read your post.

Oh my, I never forget waking up on a Christmas morning and Santa had brought me a 'Sheena' doll. You could make her hair long or short by turning a little wheel on her back. She had on a purple sparkly outfit and I loved her! Lump in my throat remembering. What a lovely thread

A fun fax with loads of stickers. Mum actually let me open that one early as I was pining for one so much!
A pink Fluppy Dog. I loved that so so much. Just found one and my heart skipped a beat when I saw the pic!
An elderly neighbour who used to babysit for us got me an awful porcelain clown. When I was writing my thank you notes I said “thank you for my clown, it’s a nice thought I hate it and next year please get me something nice like a Fluppy Dog”. Got massively told off for that and I’ve never forgotten the importance of graceful thanks!

Cabbage Patch kid which probably says how old I am.

I am now 57! So this was a while back btw!

My dolls pram, complete with a Tiny Tears doll and the shopping basket was full of baby doll clothes my mum had knitted. We were always absolutely SKINT in my childhood so this Christmas particularly sticks out, I think my mum had been left some money and my sister got a bike, too. My mum had wrapped up a tiny little box, and when I opened it there was a note saying ‘look behind you’ and my dad had quietly brought it in. It was magical 🥰

My aunt made me a doll like this (a bit smaller) for my 8th birthday. I loved her! More than 40 years later she is in pieces in a shoe box in my wardrobe.

So, Cinderella, and a Homepride flour man baking set.

That's lovely 😊

Not at Christmas but I went to sleep one night having attempted to make a dress for my Sindy, making a horrible mess of it 😂
When I woke up there was a beautifully sewn dress there on my bed which my mum had made from my attempt 😭😭
It was magical and so very lovely of her.

I desperately wanted a tambourine.

I was 5 years old.

I couldn't pronounce tambourine - whenever I said it, I said tangerine!

EVERYONE knew I really REALLY wanted a TAMBOURINE - but Santa's bought me a TANGERINE 🍊 (as a joke!)

I had this Holly Hobbie bag. I loved it.

A Sindy wardrobe. My dad had made it in the evenings when we'd gone to bed. I remember thinking 'oh it's not a plastic tat one' but looking back it must have taken him ages.

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads my sister had the Homepride baking man. He was awesome.

I had a lovely farm. My parents spent hours making and colouring a huge wooden base to put it inside and creating extra fields etc.
The animals were mainly my mum's as a child that she'd hand painted.

When I outgrew it my mum put it in the shed and it got mouldy and started to disintegrate so had to go to the tip 😣. She also took all the farm bits back and doesn't want to pass them on to my kids which I think is quite mean really as they're just sat unused in her loft.

I also had a folding shop/counter that my grandad handmade for me. I used to sit outside my house selling things to random people passing on the street 😓. When I ran out of things to sell I sold the shop to my friend. Gutted I was stupid enough to sell it for what was probably a few pence when it should have stayed tucked away for my own kids.

My dad made me a dolls wardrobe. They were very popular in the 60s for Barbies, but mine had a fold down bed, drawers and a mirror and a wardrobe. He used toothpaste tube lids for door knobs, sticky back plastic to make it look like wood. Mum made bedding and coat hangers from pipe cleaners.The only thing was he made it from chipboard, so it weighed a ton, but I played with it forever and then I gave it to my niece.

That sounds wonderful, OhWhat. I bet they had a blast making it.