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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:
BabyMum1 · 26/07/2015 20:10

Barbie dolls for good behaviours and lots of sugar on bread!!

CopperPan · 26/07/2015 20:17

My mum used to take me to Woolworth's for a pic and mix when I'd done well at school or at a doctor's appointment. I loved the fizzy cola bottles and strawberry lips!

TheJWoman · 26/07/2015 20:58

A book, or going out and having a slice of cake and a bottle of Coca Cola at a local restaurant. Smile

Fletch049 · 26/07/2015 21:15

dd was a flower girl she really didn't want to do it, so we said if she was really good all day we would get her the frozen bike she has been after for a year

Fizzyplonk · 26/07/2015 21:38

Ribbons for my hair from the corner shop- had ladybirds etc on
Toffee lipsalve- think it was from the Avon catalogue
Spending coppers on tiny ornaments at antiques fairs
Buying things in gift shops after a day out-things like a hologram pencil, lavender perfume in a tiny bottle, or a china thimble!!

Fizzyplonk · 26/07/2015 21:39

Oh and those whistling lollies from the counter at the chemist.

SkyWasMadeOfAmethyst · 26/07/2015 22:28

Cap'n crunch cereal. Being able to choose the video to rent at the weekend. Ice skating, my bffs grandparents swimming pool in the summer.

starlight36 · 26/07/2015 22:28

New outfits for my Barbie doll. Either allowed to choose from shop or knitted by my Nan. I had a knitted version of Princess Diana's wedding dress which she knitted from a pattern in 'Women's Weekly'. Nothing like the original other than it was cream and big!

itsnothingoriginal · 26/07/2015 22:41

A pack of Refreshers sweets on a Friday if we'd been good all week!! Just shows how things have changed as I'd never make my kids last out all week Hmm Grin

If I was especially good or passed a music exam I'd get a Playmobile set slaps wrist for saying that on a thread about Lego Blush

thatstoast · 26/07/2015 23:02

Penny sweets. Fruit salads were the best.

HappySunflower · 27/07/2015 00:23

A Bounty comic- absolutely loved them.
Sherbet dip daps and flying saucer sweets were a treat on Sunday's :)

WoahBodyforrrrm · 27/07/2015 08:37

Every now and again when I was younger, just as I was going to bed, my mum and brother would come into my room and I would be given a new outfit for my barbie doll. It was so exciting as it would be out of the blue and didn't happen very often! I'll never forget that feeling Grin

FlopIsMyParentingGuru · 27/07/2015 08:46

My parents weren't big "treat"s type people. I don't think there was a lot of spare cash hanging around but I do remember getting a toasted tea cake as a treat when I came to the supermarket with Mum. It's still what i would choose if I didn't have DC to snaffle it for themselves!

MermaidinJeans · 27/07/2015 08:54

Once a week 2oz of sweets from the newsagents. It used to take me ages choosing from all the jars full of them!

Sparklingbrook · 27/07/2015 08:59

Thursday evenings meant chocolate. dad would bring us home a bar each, that was the only time we had chocolate. i liked a Mint Cracknell (sp) or a Frys Chocolate Cream. Dad would have a plain chocolate Bounty. Smile

GetTheFudgeOutOfRodge · 27/07/2015 10:04

If it was a big treat, then it would be a new book. Goosebumps were my absolute favourite.
A small treat would be whatever my latest fad was. Pogs, stickers for an album, Puppy In My Pocket, Spice Girls photos and Animals of Farthing Wood magazine to name but a few Grin

Lotstodo · 27/07/2015 14:09

Every Wednesday I would come home from school and my Beano and Dandy were on the kitchen table. I can still remember laying on the front room floor in front of the fire with both comics in front of me with a Kit Kat and I would eat two fingers per comic when I read my favourite stories. I would then spend every evening reading them from cover to cover until the following Wednesday.

I also used to keep all my comics in mint condition and regularly play newsagents with them!

Freshoutofideas83 · 27/07/2015 14:09

An iced bun from the bakery - an absolute treat, for good work or good behaviour. I adore anything bread based and swear that this is where it all started!

FirstOfficerDouglasRichardson · 27/07/2015 14:12

We used to go to the Naafi and get money to buy a magazine... I would buy Twinkle or Mandy and my brother would get the Dandy or the Beano. Sometimes we would be given 5 Deutschmark coin to spend in whatever we liked, I remeber this coin feeling massive, I don't know if it genuinely was a big coin or we just had small hands.

IWorshipSatin · 27/07/2015 14:19

My mum would take me to a café for a buttered toasted current tea cake and a cup of tea. It sounds a lot more twee than it was in reality! Still lovely though Smile

Loulabellet78 · 27/07/2015 14:47

Stickers for good school work.
Penny sweets if I was good at home - we used to go to the sweet shop and choose them ourselves and get given them in a little paper bag.

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LauraChant · 27/07/2015 15:53

I didn't really get treats or rewards for good behaviour - it was just expected. My Dad would buy me Famous Five books when he went away for work, I thought at the time it was because he enjoyed reading them to me but I don't think now that was the case!

I do remember getting a My Little Pony (Cherries Jubilee, if you are interested) for passing my 11 plus - I bet kids get cold hard cash or a trip to Disneyland nowadays. And I also remember being on holiday with my aunt and uncle and they let me choose a treat from the camp shop - I chose a blue glass dolphin which had pride of place on my shelf for years. I think they had been thinking more along the lines of stick of rock.

Byrdie · 27/07/2015 17:01

My dad used to travel for work a lot. I remember every time he'd arrive home from some flight or other that he'd have a kinder egg for us each. I didn't love the chocoate (don't get me wrong - never one to turn it down) but the main attraction was the surprise toy and building it in particular. If it was something ready built i always remember being a bit gutted. I still have a large box full of all the toys from the decade or so my dad travelled around.

Tina1910 · 27/07/2015 18:16

Chips... Books.... Stickers and a new watch for actually getting 10/10 on a spelling test... My spelling has always been dreadful so it was a momentous occasion!