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

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AngelieMumsnet · 24/07/2015 12:16

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!
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toodles60 · 03/08/2015 22:38

My mum always had a huge pot of pink shrimps, blackjacks and aniseed balls. They were given as treats for chores and always on a sunday afternoon after lunch. :) those sweets are always associated with fun and happiness to me.

stefalfie11 · 03/08/2015 23:20

My mum used to "pay" me in haribo strawbs e.g. i'd get 2 strawbs to tidy my room etc.

pusinky · 04/08/2015 07:36

My mum used to bake apple cake that was always the big reward. I also used to get chocolate and books to keep me busy.

samcornfield · 04/08/2015 09:38

We were not really given rewards for anything other than being told 'well done'.

itsonlysubterfuge · 04/08/2015 10:06

My sister and I also got rewarded with money for good report cards which is good.

The special thing we use to do was go out for a meal together if we did something particularly good and that was something I enjoyed.

If I was a good now a special treat I would enjoy. Blind bags are pretty awesome, I like my DD's playmobil ones. I would also love a book!

Marty673 · 04/08/2015 10:16

I used to get a toy car or Star Wars magazine as a treat from my mum for helping weed the garden or tidy the house (especially my bedroom!)

JoCar72 · 04/08/2015 10:28

When I was in Primary school, me and my friends were all happy enough trying to win those little gold stars you'd lick and stick up on the wall next to your name. I remember if you got more than 5 a week, Mrs. Humphreys would let you choose the next story she was going to read...oh the innocence of it all Wink x

sofieellis · 04/08/2015 11:02

Good behaviour resulted in one pack of sweets per week from my Mum and another pack fom my auntie! Sounds mean by today's standards, but treats were more appreciated when times were hard.

I always got a treat for good school reports and exam results. I remember getting a ghetto blaster for my O'level results and I was thrilled!

My kids get pocket money each week, but the amount they receive depends on behaviour, school work and chores. DS3 invariably spends all his pocket money on Lego.

alabaster002 · 04/08/2015 11:12

Small salted peanuts from a heated hopper in Woolworths, put into a paper bag which became semi-opaque. Positively unhealthy but lovely!

robbo86otm · 04/08/2015 11:36

Dandelion & Burdoch and Sherbet

spanglisher · 04/08/2015 12:45

I don't remember getting rewards as a kid but I do remember going to the local newsagents every Saturday morning for a quarter of pear drops or pineapple chunks and a comic

insanityscatching · 04/08/2015 13:04

A big treat was being allowed to get an ice cream from the ice cream van. My Grandad worked for WH Smiths and used to bring a pile of comics every week that were returns and would have been destroyed. DP would never have bought us comics as they weren't good value for money so we were delighted by them. Each Sunday df would bake a cake, and sometimes bread and we'd get egg and cress sandwiches, cake and ice cream and smarties for a special Sunday tea. We weren't well off as children and Sunday tea was really special. We didn't really get rewards tbh we were expected to behave and do our best regardless, we knew we'd be in trouble if we didn't tbh so that was the incentive I suppose.
My dc have much more than I ever did, I think they miss out though on the occasion of a treat being particularly special. They definitely don't appreciate comics and magazines or an ice cream anywhere near as much as I used to.

danpal1 · 04/08/2015 13:05

I'd usually get comics. I secretly found them pretty boring, but I'd only get them for being especially good so it always made me ecstatic to receive them.

bridge16 · 04/08/2015 13:22

Growing up i loved my farm set and my dad used to get me a new piece for it if i had been good whether it be some new animals or a tarctor or some more fences! I just loved it! Now i have children, their treat is Lego. The little packs that you can get for £5 are perfect for a little treat if they have been really good or have finished a chart for something.

MovingStress · 04/08/2015 13:57

Don't remember being rewarded with anything other than praise
Treats - getting to try a bit of my dad's iced coffee (made in the blender with ice and camp coffee - I thought it was so sofisticated!!)
or getting bits and pieces for my dolls house

retromummy · 04/08/2015 14:34

My Mum was good a sewing and when I first started school she had a job with me every morning as I didn't want to go. So she used to promise to make a new outfit for my doll ready for when I came home and it usually worked! I remember some lovely little things she would rustle up for me during the day.

kayley6688 · 04/08/2015 14:41

1p Gold ball bubblegum lol xx

Tay1975 · 04/08/2015 14:46

Every other Thursday mums payday I used to get a collectors rubber I still have them now 30 yrs on. I loved them, I got rock rubbers to record rubbers. Then every Sunday I got 50p for sweets from dads wages. I never used to ask for any other treats as we knew this was what we were getting.
The biggest treat was family time on a Saturday night having cake and watching game for a laugh.
Sundays would be milky coffee sitting on my mum or dads lap in front of the parkray fire... Christmas we would get a glass bottle of coke, limeade and cherryade from the milkman. Loved the simple treats in life :)

Kathderoet · 04/08/2015 14:49

I used to be bought a book a week from Woollies, always an Enid Blyton one, I always loved and still do love books.

sammylea80 · 04/08/2015 14:51

My dad used to make us a cream soda ice cream bomb in the soda stream, it was amazing :)

geezerbird44 · 04/08/2015 16:22

My Nan would give us 2p to go to the corner shop and get penny sweets

jennie1984j · 04/08/2015 16:38

My Mum always used to let us have a 10p mix after school

jandoc · 04/08/2015 16:47

my favourite was getting money to go and buy what i wanted

nhopkins90 · 04/08/2015 17:23

A magazine and chocolate were my treats on a Friday. I loved the magazines especially!

MissChrisOfficial · 04/08/2015 17:29

A roast Dinner! It was a regular bride "reward" actually after a big day or painful experience but I also remember being allowed to go in the local shop and buying sweets - I love the strange ones.. Push Pops, Ring Pops, Atomic Bombs and Sours.