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.

A typewriter- from about age 8.

When it didn't come for Christmas I was told "Maybe for your birthday" and vice versa.

So it went on year after year until I finally got one aged 16 because I was doing secretarial studies at school.

Another for mr frosty!

Bike
Dolls house- made my own by emptying my bookshelf and making my own furniture out of random stuff round the house
Mr Bloody Frosty
Various pets (tbf I have always told my kids that Santa never brings livestock of any kind and I wouldn’t ever give them a pet for Christmas so that’s fair enough really)

White ice skates

I really wanted a Raleigh Chopper!!

The only one that stands out (I knew I’d never get the thing I’d always wanted - a puppy!) when I was 13 or 14, was a particular record (EP, not an LP ) that then cost 6/8d, so hardly breaking even my folks’ bank. It was called Telstar. I’d dropped a lot of hints, all in vain. 🙁

A record player. I got a second hand dansette and was thrilled with it. My bike for Christmas when I was ten was also second hand but I didn't care. I don't remember asking for something and not getting it. I think I knew that there wasn't a lot of money about.

Me too but wasn't allowed one because they were for boys according to my mother.

Buy then yourself, then you'll get exactly what you want 👍

Guess who and Mr Frosty. Asked every year for both never got them..

I had the A-team lunch box lol

I asked for a lava lamp 3 years in a row but was told I couldn’t be trusted not to have an accident and set the house on fire.
I got it as a leaving present when I moved out 😂

100% turned up to say Mr Frosty