What were your favourite childhood treats and rewards? Tell LEGO® and you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED

[AngelieMumsnet]

We’ve been asked by the team at LEGO® to find out about our Mumsnetters’ favourite treats and rewards from their childhood.

What sort of treats and rewards did you get during your childhood? Maybe you were given a chocolate bar for good school work? Or perhaps you received small toys as a reward for good behaviour? If you were a child today, what would be your ideal treat or reward? Perhaps it didn’t even exist when you were a child?

Either way, whatever childhood treats and rewards you loved before or would love now, LEGO® would like to hear about them!

Please share your thoughts on this thread and be in with the chance to win a £300 Love2Shop Voucher. Every MNer who posts a comment will be entered into the prize draw where one MNer will win the £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!
MNHQ

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Mandy magazine and a bag of penny sweets!

My dad traveled a lot when I was little, if I was good while he was away I would get a smurf figurine when he returned

Once I got to school, if I brought home a straight A report card or got an award at school I was treated to a meal out at Wimpy just me and my mum, I loved the time together so much it really spurred me on to work really hard

From my childhood if I had been good and helped around the house
10p mix up
Sticker packs for £1 where you got a piece of bubblegum in them as well

Today if I was a child I would love to buy weekly things you collect and build from magazines but they are extortionate in price now and pretty rubbish quality.

It would teach children to wait for things weekly rather than getting things straight away and there is more excitement and build up to having to wait

I used to get rewarded by my mother reading me a bedtime story for a bit longer before bed. I absolutely adored bedtime stories so it was a really effective reward.

Fizzy drinks - panda pops bottles on holiday sometimes - were a real treat. For good end of term reports, we used to go to the local Harvester and thought it the height of luxury! where the children's meals came with ice cream and a choice of sauce!
Nowadays I see the range of children's craft activities that require relatively little parental input which would have been an amazing treat to my 5-10 year old self!

Topic Bars for treats from my nan, used to love'em :)

A fredo when they were cheap lol :)

Fairy tales books!! :-D

my favourite treats as a child was liquorice or if I was exceptionally good a small pack of Lego which didn't cost very much when I was a child

My treat was 50p to spend on a sweet mix at the local corner shop

Salt and vinegar crisps, my grandmother bought me a packet every saturday morning

A 20p mix up after school on a Friday or being allowed to stay up and watch a David Attenborough documentary and boring them silly repeating it word for word.

To be taken swimming or paddling - I just love messing about in the water

Sherbert dibdabs

a bag of penny sweets, if I was a child now I would love a pick and mix for a reward!

My mum used to do a star chart and I would collect stickers for good behaviour (although I don't remember being an unruly child!). When I got 10 stars I could choose a special pencil from my favourite art shop. They were at the time considered to be expensive, or they were to my fairly low income family. I eventually managed to establish a lovely collection of a wide array of colours....and 10 years later studied art at University.

We also used to have sweetie baskets each. Each week if we had been good my mum would take us to the sweet shop on a Friday after school if we had been good. The sweets would go in there until after dinner and I used to save mine up, Eeking out the collection for as long as possible.

My school teacher had a great reward system. Every time we got a 'tick' in our exercise book, we got a tick on the chart on the door. At the end of every week these were counted up and whoever won got to choose their reward - a trip to the bakery, sitting in the comfy chair for stories or playing 'paint' on the computer during the afternoon. This was the early 90's hugely exciting!

If I was a child now I hope that my tastes would be equally simple but times have changed and children so don't seem so easily satisfied which I think is so sad.

Days out to places like Blackpool and Rhyll were my.most memorable treats - singing all the way there was the best bit!

A book token! Glad my love of books has rubbed off on my kids

after school every friday i would have a 10p mix bag of sweets which were 1p each. lol

My mum used to treat us with "Milkyways" which were prob the size that Mars Bars are now, or if there was something that the family liked to sit down and watch on the telly then the treat would be to stay up late and watch together.

Pink shrimps, remember them! Probably full of E numbers and god knows what else. They tasted divine though and I only ever had them for a treat!

I used to earn small amounts of money for various little jobs. There wasn't any carrot and stick technique needed when I was young though, we just did what was expected of us and treats weren't connected with it. Treats would be choosing something from the sweetshop every few days. We lived in a village with no shop so it wasn't a daily thing at all! Sweets and biscuits at home were just as and when, part of just normal eating or snacking.

I loved getting a paint by water book, the kind where you just painted a page with water and the colours showed up or if I was very lucky I would get a kinder egg, sadly the toys just aren't the same anymore!

I used to be allowed to choose a small, plastic animal for my "zoo" collection. Loved them...

10p mix ups from the village shop