Christmas gift from Santa that you asked for but never received

[loubielou31]

Sorry for the taat but the little boy who wants a jet pack from Santa (brilliant!) made me think of those things I cut out of the Argos catalogue year after year and never got.
A Mr Frosty. The advert made it look so good.
An electric keyboard. We had a perfectly playable piano but some this crap keyboard with it's dodgy sound effects seemed better.
Hungry Hippos. I bought this for my DC, the banging on the floor trying to catch the marbles was so noisy it was horrible.
We had lovely childhood Christmases and I got plenty of other lovely gifts that I remember much more fondly than I would these things if I had received them but it makes me chuckle.

I asked the actual Father Christmas in Lewis's department store in Leeds for a Bride Doll (I was obsessed with weddings aged 6). Christmas morning there was a baby doll!
What was he thinking? Definitely shook my faith in his reliability but I got over it, I suppose.

I later wanted the Cadbury's choc machine. My mum declared it a waste of money.

A keykeepers toy and a rainbow brite doll

I wanted Kerplunk and my Mum ordered it from the Freemans catalogue, looked at it and decided there wasn't much play value in it and sent it back. Also not allowed Mouse Trap as there were too many bits.

Baby Born. I got another doll instead, but I really, really wanted a Baby Born!

I also wanted a flute another year. I got… a guitar 🤔

I gave up asking. The only thing I asked for and received, was Tiny Tears , apart from that, everything I ever asked for - typewriter, Tressy, transistor radio and so on, not only did I not get them, but my sister would always get them for her next birthday!

Mr frosty

Boooooo! Did it come with the ski suited Barbie doll?

A Fashion Wheel, a Barbie Bathtub and a My Little Pony Show Stable.

This thread has had me laughing out loud.

I sooo wanted a Mr Frosty and also never got it. A friend bought hers round to my house once and omg I went through “please never take this home” - despite the fact it was ultimately crap and I even remember thinking that.

My parents were, to be fair, were very good with getting me (almost) what I wanted.

So, when I asked for a Sony Walkman, I got a portable tape player made by some random brand with orange foam covered headphones. But! It did the same thing as the “Sony” one but didn’t look as cool as the blue foam headstones Sony had.

When I asked for a double tape player, I got a single player but with a record player. That was actually pretty good but… I’d asked for a double tape player.

it always seemed like, ‘an almost, but not quite’…. But essentially I did love Christmas and had an amazing childhood 😊

let’s not mention the fact I had to carefully peel the sellotape off the paper so ‘it could be used next year’ - which my parents still do to this day. Weirdly warm memories now though 😊

Mr Frosty

I’m a 70’s and 80’s kid - I had at various points a Hollie Hobby one and a Muppets one. I loved them.

I had these too. I got so much use out of them, even after breaking my wrist by skating backwards down a hill…

Computer Battleship game, of course it was just an electronic version as there were no home computers or game consoles back then. I had a basic travel version with little pegs that were fiddly and got lost, but never got the one I really wanted. My sister wanted Mr Frosty, she didn't get it either because my Mum heard that it was rubbish.

Mr. Frosty! My friend got one and it was crap! 🤣🤣🤣Also the a la carte kitchen where the girl made her Dad breakfast of swiss roll and beans and woke him up saying 'Wake up Daddy - breakfast is ready!' If any one remembers that advert! Who would want that for breakfast! 🤣🤣🤣

P.s. need to add had a Kermit the Frog thermos and dinner box set. Loved it. True 80s. My DC had an Angry Birds one 2010's childhood.

Ohhhh I had one of these! It was amazing, I loved it 😍 Just showed DH this picture and he's so impressed and jealous 😂

Mr frosty. Got one for my kids (me) it was shit!

Yeah Mr Frosy and this #genX

A mr frosty but my husband around 4 years ago bought me one as I'd mentioned never getting one as a child. Never even made it out the box 🙈🤣

I had the Paddington with the red wellies. My mum took them off one day and put them on my 2 year old brother as it was raining. I never got the wellies back!

I had a Kermit the frog flask, but weirdly didn’t have the lunchbox

Same!!! 🤣

A post office set that folded up into a little case. I genuinely would have played with it all the time. I did get a little typewriter one year though which was almost as good.
Also a Lights Alive, which was a bit like etch a sketch but with multicoloured lights that showed through when you drew with the special tool. It probably would have been a 5 minute wonder to be honest.

Child of the 70s here. I hated Barbie but was desperate to get the Sindy shower. It was mustard yellow and had a brown towel, lush. I used to stare wistfully at it every time we went to Tesco.
Equally desirable yet totally unobtainable was a Sodastream. We weren't allowed fizzy drinks and that would have been the answer to all my prayers and dreams.
My parents however, were not monsters and I did have a tricycle, complete with tip up trailer that I would put my friends in then unceremoniously dump them on the grass.
This was followed by what, to this day, remains the best thing I've ever owned - a bright orange Raleigh Chopper.

Oh my gosh, I had the Sindy shower haha! I also remeber getting the Sindy swimming pool with lights for Christmas one year too. I remember insisting all the living room lights were turned off when it got dark so I could experience the full effects of the pool lights which I think were bright pink! 🤣