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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!

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My favorite treat was a long drive with my dad he would drive me and my sister around the villages in devon and we would eat a picnic in the car

I have always loved reading and books were often a reward, especially for school related achievements. A good dentist appointment resulted in a comic too

Money to go to the shop, I would inevitably spend it on sweets!!

Nowadays I like to buy children (and grown ups!) magazines, it's a complete splurge but a nice change.

A new tin of paints. The tins were part of the beauty of them...they were only small and had wonderful illustrations on them...similar to this one I've added!

I usually got a new drawing book to go with them...my Grandmother lived in a small village in Wales and we'd walk to the Post Office to buy them...I can still see the swinging sign of the pub opposite which used to fascinate me "The White Bear"

That and the window of the Post Office crammed full of pocket money toys are scrambled up together in my memory and they were such happy times.

Oh and if I were a child today, my ideal treat would still be paints like the ones I uploaded! :) I'd love another set.

I used to love being able to get a bag of sweets. My favourites were cola cubes and sherbet lemons. We'd get them on Sundays as well as our pocket money.

I would often be at my nan's flat on Saturdays and she always made a special, understated fuss of me. she never forced me to eat all of my dinner (though I'd really try to make her happy) and I'd sit on a stool at the counter top chatting away. anyway, she had an old fashioned larder and in that larder was a small quality streets tin (tin! not plastic) and she's say 'can you get me what's in the tin?' and I'd skip all excitedly to the larder? retrieve tin having to stand on a special wooden box, open the tin and inside would be a Cadbury 's finger of fudge (cos it's just enough to give your kids a treat )! I knew, obviously, but the excitement never lessened. ahh happy days. seeing her on Monday and will remind her.

Sed to get the magazine bunty after ballet and tap lessons along with a cream bun from the bakers.

Monster Munch. They lasted forever when I was little.
Scented rubbers too.

I remember my brother (actually probably my mum) getting me a My Little Pony after being brave for injections - must have been about 3.

Pennies for sweeties every now and then. I don't really remember getting treats and rewards generally though.

I think books are a great treat, as pp have said.

Sweets usually - a 10p mix from the 'penny tray' or a quarter of cola cubes!
We used to go to the shop every Friday after school and hot treated if we'd been good that week.

Other treats included toffee apples and gingerbread - don't know how my teeth didn't fall out!!

Occasionally I'd get none edible treats too like stickers or a comic / magazine.

Ultimate treat - 10p mix from the sweet shop. Little paper bag and all the penny and 2 pence sweets in a big yellow tray.

We used to get 10 or 20p for penny sweets and spend ages choosing the ones we wanted from the newsagents. I liked fruit salad, black jacks and chocolate mice.

Rarely my Dad would pick me up from secondary school, I normally had to get a long bus journey home, but the rare times he did, maybe if weather was really bad or I had to get somewhere, he would always have a fuse chocolate bar sat on the dashboard for me.

I really wish they still made them!

The fortnightly video van! Mum use to rent a VHS player as a special treat and we would choose a video from the van, a wham bar and a bottle of panda pop! EPIC!!!!

chip shop chips was a great treat, pretty rare

A bit later, in my teens, pizza (there was only one pizza place 10 miles away, so quite exotic)

more often, a few pence to buy penny sweets in the local garage - but I'm sure the poor owner was driven a bit crazy by our indecision over the expenditure of 2pence - it was the late 70's by the way, not 1950!

I would get a new comics/magazine as a small treat, a trip somewhere fun or to the cinema for doing really well for a term or longer and my ultimate treat for getting good grades when I was 10 was my father quitting smoking (He had a really bad flu that winter and I was really worried he wouldn't get better, so we made a deal - and I managed it! :) )

An aunt would visit from a few hundred miles away and give her local nephews and nieces around 20p. You could get a bag of crisps, a bar of chocolate AND some sweets for 20p back in the 70s. Hugely memorable and exciting to be able to have that kind of spending power.

I dont really remember getting treats from my parents. I do remember getting pocket money and a bar of chocolate or some sweets every Sunday from my Grandparents.

I remember my Grandma having one of the first handheld Nintendos that played Donkey Kong, it was great to be allowed a turn so I guess a treat as a child would be to have a tablet - how technology has changed

Mine were stickers and Archie comic books. I would have loved chocolate but I was never allowed it.

Books here too. My brother always wanted football stickers or marbles. We used to see my gran twice a year and she would spend the intervening period saving her loose change for us. We would all be given a big bag of five and ten pence coins adding up to over a tenner (riches to a kid). We would spend hours just counting it and stacking the coins in one pound piles then deliberating over what to get. This usually involved reviewing the argos catelogue.

I used to get a day out with my mum for good school reports. It was great having one on one time with her.

Sweets, comics or colouring books - loved the magic ones that you painted with water.

I got a Topsy and Tim book for a whole week of dry pants when potty training. I still have a soft spot for T&T!

Going to the village shop on a Sunday afternoon with last week's empty bottle of corona to get 10p back off the new bottle we were about to buy. Only allowed fizzy drinks on a Sunday afternoon, watching the Sunday afternoon film if it was a good one (back in the day of 3 channels ) or reading Enid blyton. No fizzy pop today tastes the same, I can still remember the distinct flavours, cherryade, limeade, cream soda and dandelion and burdock especially! Even better on the rare occasion we had a block of ice cream in too and were allowed to make an ice cream soda!!!