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.

well this brought back memories, I had this! I loved it and now I’m off to google if I can buy it anywhere again 😂

One of those Cadbury miniature pieces vending machines

One of these

I was lucky enough to get that kitchen! And yes, I remember the ad 😂😂

I wanted the post office set too!

my brother had Lightsalive - it was ok but he got bored pretty quickly

There was fashion wheel thing I wanted too(not sure if anyone else remembers it.

I had this! I loved it and played with it for years. Much better than Mr Frostie.

Mr Frosty
a lolo ball. (Ball with a plastic ring that you jumped on)

Oh wow - you can still get the lolo balls! Might get one for ds (me)

I always wanted a soda stream because my friend had one!
Child of 70s and 80s here too, and my lunchbox and flask set was a Snoopy one. I was obsessed with Snoopy.

I did get the little Cadbury chocolate vending machine from my lovely Nan and Grandad who knew I wanted it because I’d ticked it in the catalogue . I always sought the miniature chocolate bars from the tin of Roses chocolates, so the vending machine was a dream come true. I think I believed that it would just refill itself magically, like full sized vending machines did…. Of course it didn’t and I remember begging and crying to my mum to make it fill up again after I’d eaten all the chocolates.

I got a Girls World at age 7. I used the booklet it came with to copy the various looks, painstakingly. There were coloured pens to streak her hair pink and orange. I was scared of using them! My older brother (14) had no such qualms and I sat in awe while he coloured the entire head of hair and then the rest of the face in stripes of eye shadow, huge amounts of blusher and lipstick and said “That's how my girlfriend does it.”

I'm not sure if it was an official Paddington but I had something similar. I remember putting on the blue felt duffle coat instead of my dressing gown one morning when I was about two or three!

Mr Frosty and the Cadbury vending machine here too - never happened because my parents didn’t have the money to spend on things that were a bit shit and they rightly predicted Mr Frosty would be both shit and messy. I did get the post office in a case and played with it for ages. I also got ballerina Sindy which was the best present ever.

I had the post office too, and loved it.

I always wanted a racing bike, but got given a Raleigh Shopper. We actually went to the bike shop, and I chose my racing bike, but my parents later decided it wasn’t sensible for a girl to have, and went back and cancelled the order. You can imagine the disappointment on Xmas day. My mum thought the Shopper was nicer. “Look, it has this stylish detachable shopping bag.” I’m still upset about that even now. She ended up using the bike, and I saved up and bought my own fucking racing bike.

I did receive Mr Frosty one year! But, predictably, he was indeed useless. His handle snapped off on Boxing Day so he got returned to Argos and swapped for those Fisher-Price roller skates that attached over your trainers. Much better.

I still wistfully dream of the Barbie Horse Trailer.

Wanted Scrabble and received Scrabble branded game turntable 😖mum was always thinking three things ahead and probably just grabbed the box with the name (and probably the lowest price item on the Scrabble shelf lol)-didnt get the real thing until I had a paper round and bought my own, still play it now.
Also asked for a watch one year after learning to tell the time.. I was and still am a very very plain, no frills, simple tasted person, and chose a square , white faced, simple bars for numbers watch on a black leather strap,Christmas morning I opened a shiny gold-tone expandable bracelet watch with a red face and roman numerals- very much an adult's dress watch and too big, and far too blowsy for me. Hated the thing! but of course couldnt show that.

Mr Frosty! Something similar came on the market when my children were young. No chance I was buy that, looked like a mess machine.

Jealous

I got one of these! I bloody loved it. I did not love the cost of the refills though, so I think it got thrown out after 2 lots of refilling.

I am glad I had it though after the Mr Frosty disappointment lol (as in asked for but never received)!

I got the Mr Frosty. It was shit. Far too difficult for little hands to turn the handle to crush the ice and only included a few flavour sachets, so then you were just left with crushed ice. I wonder if they are only still for sale now as so many adults are buying them to make up for their childhood trauma.

A horse, I really really wanted a horse! Luckily I never did get one as I’m severely allergic to them 😬

Also soda stream… my friend had one and I thought it was brilliant. We never got one.

A real live monkey!

Bizarrely, they had some in the pet shop and I loved them, always had to go and see them. (Sounds weird now, and cruel, but this was in the 1960s)
Every year I asked, but apparently, “they ran away” according to my long-suffering Ddad. 🐒

A life-sized baby doll and a puppy.

At least they are things that actually exist. DS (aged 4) keeps making up weirdly specific stuff and when I say 'I don't think that exists' he says 'Santa can make anything.'