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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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OP posts:
Pmliu · 07/08/2015 10:27

I used to get Maltesers chocolate as a treat

embabes7 · 07/08/2015 10:37

I was Barbie and Sindy mad! I would have done anything for one of those dolls! :)

myboycraig · 07/08/2015 10:41

When it was parents night in school there was always a book club there. My mum would give me money for book club as a reward for good report from the teacher.

Book club still go to the school on parents night to this day & I reward my son the same.

Lio · 07/08/2015 12:03

Neither of my parents was very good at cooking, not helped by working to a very limited budget, and the fact that my sisters and I all had things we didn't like to eat; it was a pretty limited menu.

Very occasionally, when funds allowed, we had a Chinese take away as a treat, and it was bliss. Everybody had something they liked, and we were left alone in the house for half an hour or so while they went to fetch it. We would set the table and warm the plates ready for them. It felt very exciting, and it was great because my parents were excited too, like little kids.

Ryancrawshaw · 07/08/2015 13:27

1p sweets from the local shop

vienetta · 07/08/2015 13:42

I used to own a second hand barbie house it even had its own lift on the side of the house I used to play with it for hours it was one of my most memorable toys. Also Sylvanian families I played with for ages they are a very imaginative play for kids all ages

mrshuggybear · 07/08/2015 13:56

Definitely books here too and penny sweets(Which may not have even actually been a penny even then). I loved the chocolate cups. I also loved going back to school shopping for stationary.

mrshuggybear · 07/08/2015 13:58

Definitely books here too and penny sweets(Which may not have even actually been a penny even then). I loved the chocolate cups. I also loved going back to school shopping for stationery.

maureen3733 · 07/08/2015 14:43

when the ice cream man used to come around on a Sunday and i could buy a 99 with a flake!

UnicornsPooFairyLights · 07/08/2015 14:49

A big treat was sausage and chips from the chippy van!

and a 30p mix :)

Nothing quite like today eh?

meggysar · 07/08/2015 14:54

If I was promised a trip to the local swimming pool as a reward/treat that always did it for me nothing more I could want x

jamielmdjs · 07/08/2015 15:23

I loved Thomas the tank engine. A reward was to receive the next book (with audio book). I think my parents knew it would keep me quiet for ages so it was more a treat for them than me.

tishist · 07/08/2015 15:36

Chocolate from the corner shop

lexie2piper · 07/08/2015 15:39

Another one that loved books, especially Enid Blyton's!

Soosieboo · 07/08/2015 15:55

Saturday was treat day for us (there were 4 of us). As long as we had done our chores all week we were treated to some sweets, 2 biscuits and a small bottle of pop.
Which ever of us helped with the shopping were treated to some hot peanuts from woolies.
Doesn't sound like very much but it was a lot to us at the time.

Natasha7 · 07/08/2015 16:51

My Mum use to give me some spending money to spend at town fair, I still remember the taste of ice cream.

piggypoo · 07/08/2015 17:09

My Grandad used to own a demolition company, and if I'd been good, I'd be allowed, accompanied by Grandad of course, to sit in the crane and pull the lever, so that the big wrecking ball would smash down a bit of a wall! If there was nothing for me to do on site, I'd be allowed to pick the blackcurrants from the garden and help make the crumble for dinner!

mwatmough · 07/08/2015 17:30

Woolworths in town for their pick n mix

cathyov · 07/08/2015 17:55

Very rare to get treats when I was a youngster but it made birthdays and Christmas extra special and I do remember when my grandmother visited she always brought some Maltesers.

If I was a youngster today I think a treat would be a magazine, there are some lovely ones around and they often come with a 'free gift' too!

12LuDo · 07/08/2015 18:07

When I was quite small we used to get a takeaway for tea, if we were good at the supermarket. It was a very specific local takeaway, that did epic southern fried chicken. I actually went there just the other day and was amazed to find the shop was still there!

StregaNona · 07/08/2015 20:36

My dad always said he had children so he could still roll down sand dunes and no-one would think him odd. An excellent reason, I say, we all loved it.

cagsd · 07/08/2015 20:45

I used to always get either sweets or a comic as a big treat. The comic would probably have been Look In or later Jackie or Patches ;)
Sweets would have been a bag of what my mum fondly called "rubbish" - the type of pick and mix sweets that you used to choose according to whether they were 1p, 2p or sometimes two a penny (Mojos, anyone?!)
I was never happier than with the Look In and a bag of rubbish! Sigh...

cocochips · 07/08/2015 21:06

I used to love books and gingerbread men

lindsey3uk · 07/08/2015 21:31

Penny sweets, 30p worth on a Saturday morning if we were good.

handbar · 07/08/2015 21:31

I always wanted gold stars as rewards.