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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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LizzieVereker · 27/07/2015 18:26

I used to be allowed to choose a bottle of pop (with the refundable deposit on the bottle) and crisps from the "offy" (Off Licence) on a Friday, to eat and drink whilst I was watching It's a Knockout. Also 10p pick and mix from the sweet shop on Sundays, on the way home from Church Parade or a walk. Yes I do have terrible teeth now
I used to love choosing Enid Blyton books, and if I was offered a treat I would choose one of those string bags of marbles. I had no idea how to play, but just loved to look at them, the different sizes and colours.

I know DS would still love all of the above Grin

StickChildNumberTwo · 27/07/2015 19:04

Books! Although if I had the option to get one (e.g. had been given a book token) I often came out of the shop empty handed because I just couldn't decide which one to buy.

ToysRLuv · 27/07/2015 20:45

I loved anything edible, I also asked for my little ponies or stickers. Being taken to McDonald's was a major treat..

sharond101 · 27/07/2015 21:03

Stationary until I was around 10 then body shop miniatures which I arranged on my dresser table but never used.

del2929 · 27/07/2015 22:14

as a treat we got to choose one extra item from the fish and chip shop when we got our weekly chippy tea.

Helentad · 27/07/2015 23:17

We had a supermarket wagon that used to come every Tuesday and if we had been good the previous weekend we would get to choose 10pence worth of sweets. That was pure delight trying to choose which got you most and make them last. I used to save my birthday money from June until we went for our new school uniform in August and go to Toy and Hobby or Zodiac Toys and see what I had enough for, once I remember having enough for a Lego vehicle base which was yellow and had a red key and came with some bricks. I loved it and still have it and now my boys play with it although they can't get over how square it is.

teddygirlonce · 28/07/2015 09:23

YEs we used to be allowed to buy 4oz of our favourite sweets from an oldfashioned sweet shop - my choice was always chocolate covered raisins!

Or we would be allowed to buy a paperback book every so often (in the days when they cost 15p each!!).

Other than that, treats were few and far between, even coming from a professional middle class background.

They really meant something because they were rare.

Cambam2010 · 28/07/2015 09:56

Melon! This may sound strange but seeing a melon in the fridge was always a great treat. We always had to wait for dad to come home before we could slice it. Then we would all stand in the kitchen with a slice each with the juices running down our chin! Melons were expensive and exotic back then and it was always well appreciated.

MrsT1973 · 28/07/2015 10:12

Rubbers - both scented and fun shaped! Me and my sister had quite a collection. We never used them at school just kept them in a pencil case and treasured them.

FTRsGotAShinyNewNN · 28/07/2015 11:36

Books! My favourite treat was going to the library then I could read loads of books! Grin
Also bbq beef monster munch to eat on the bus on the way home from food shopping at morrissons on saturdays with my grandparents Smile

Snog · 28/07/2015 14:09

A new doll after painful visits to the dentist for extractions!

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AGnu · 28/07/2015 15:27

My parents didn't really do rewards. I do remember getting a Barbie after an operation once but I think that was more misplaced guilt on their part! I've got a summer birthday & we were almost invariably on holiday for my birthday so I got to choose the activity for that day. I always felt a little smug that I got a special day trip on my birthday every year but my siblings were usually in school for theirs. Looking back though, they had friends & parties... I don't really remember having a birthday party because we were always away - I shall have to ask DMum if it was a deliberate ploy so I didn't get upset that no-one wanted to come to my party! Confused

Lulabellx1 · 28/07/2015 15:34

My parents never rewarded me with anything physical. Just lots of praise... which made me feel proud about what I had done :)

Maybe I should go back to them and start demanding that Barbie I really wanted?

Anononooo · 28/07/2015 16:54

very rare to have a treat - but I remember Old Jamaica chocolate, some Lebkuchen in violet cellophane and half a can of Cresta pop!

MomeRath · 28/07/2015 16:55

A visit to the sweet shop to buy penny chews and that sugar stuff that exploded on your tongue! Also used to get Bunty magazine as treat and loved activity books.

claireallsopp · 28/07/2015 18:35

Friday treats after school. Penny sweets. And on a Saturday afternoon. Pick and mix sweets a black and white.film and a comic!

PavlovtheCat · 28/07/2015 18:41

Penny mix sweets, magazine, film.

PavlovtheCat · 28/07/2015 18:45

Oh someone mentioned morrisons shopping! Reminded me of choosing the topping for our pizza that was made in store for dinner that night and me and mum eating almost an entire block of halva most Fridays on the way home from shopping.

purplepandas · 28/07/2015 21:04

Magazines and sweets. Small things but coveted! My Dad brought My Little Ponies home from work trips, that was fab :)

clopper · 28/07/2015 21:26

Pick And mix in Woolworths was always our treat of choice and a comic

SirBoobAlot · 28/07/2015 21:29

Mr Men & Little Miss books! Later on, I collected the Roald Dahl set each time my brace got checked (first brace at 9).

Either that or a trip to the 50p shop. Those were the days....

sealight123 · 28/07/2015 21:31

The biggest treat was going to the local Italian restaurant for a family meal!! (This happened maybe once or twice a year and it had to be for something BIG)

The little treats I used to love was being allowed to stay at my gran and grandads and then baking cakes :)

Not quite the conventional sort of treat but I don't think I've ever been conventional.

DirtyWeeRascal · 29/07/2015 07:42

Box of malteasers for a good school report!

MamaBerg · 29/07/2015 09:28

We would always get 20p to spend on sweeties from Grandma if we had been good all week. Had to eat all of our tea before we could eat them though.
Don't think 20p would go very far today!