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

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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!

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!
MNHQ

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ice -cream from the ice cream van - was a rare reward but a good one! Going to the park after school as a treat. And one of my friends got the best reward on fridays - her dad would bring home a 'treat bag' of goodies with chocs, sweets, toys and treats in!

My favourite treat was a 10p mix from the village shop. I'm old enough to remember when you got more than 10 sweets in one....

A quarter of gummy bears. The newsagents we got them from had a very distinctive smell, i still remember the exact smell.

I loved getting a new toy car - just the little ones, great fun! If we were out, there was a place not far from us with a parrot thing in a cage, you put in a penny and it spoke then 'laid' an egg - out came a little plastic egg with a rubbish plastic toy inside! Was fab being allowed that! (although now as a parent, I understand how awful that plastic tat is and hate it when my DC ask for the same thing!)

Ahh nerysw, we used to get 10p pocket money on a Saturday and used to stand at the counter of the shop asking aunty vi for one of those, two of those, no no the red one please ... Yes the days of the half pence ???? little black jacks and fruit salad two for a penny!!

A penny to go to the corner shop when visiting grandparents. You used to get 5 sweets from the penny tray. Although this would be the early 70's I still remember the excitement and ooing and ahing of my your final choice.

Penny sweets. This was my favourite thing, and to be honest the only type of reward I got.. I used to take ages spending my 10 or 20p worth in the local shop.
I often do the same with my own children, they love it too although would probably much rather have Lego! (Too expensive for a treat, they would have had to have done something amazing!!!!)

We didn't really get rewarded! I'm sure we were praised and verbally rewarded but we never had presents or money for being good or doing well at school. One of my favourite 'treats' was being picked up from school and getting changed into play clothes in school car park and then heading to arundel for lovely long walk and play until past bedtime. Another treat was mini cereals ha!

Crumpets! A rare thing to be cherished in my childhood home!

trip to the sweetshop with those jars of sweets. loved the bonbons

We were given a new book of our choosing - oh how times change! However a new book was a treat and something to look forward to. Strangely we did not make use of the library as we do today. A treat was something that we did not get often and had we had to earn.

I loved getting chocolate buttons when they still had the nursery rhyme on the back.
A treat I would have liked would be to be able to have more access to tv shows. I remember missing the last episode of the lost city of gold and I was gutted.

Pocket money for doing chores and smash hits magazine (where I used to collect the lyrics to songs section).

20p and a trip to the corner shop to get 20 penny sweets!

I remember my mum giving me 10p to go to the corner shop as a treat - back in the distant past when penny sweets were sometimes half a pence each - must have driven the shop assistant potty whilst I deliberated what to choose! Loved Mojos! (2 for a penny!)

Ice Cream, Pop sweets and crsips

Lemon bon bons and chocolate limes!
If I was reaaally good it was extra bits for my train set

A 10p tuck bag or a pack of Garbage Pail Kids stickers were small but appreciated rewards for me as a young child. Then, as I got older, I was rewarded with my favourite magazines, such as Smash Hits, Jackie and Seventeen (even though I wasn't 17 yet!)

Pick'n'Mix were a favorite treat for me as a kid, it's a shame the prices have been hiked up so exponentially since then! My kids love fruit pastilles and freddo frogs, and for a non-sweet reward they like to add a new Beanie Boo to their ever-growing collection.

I had a reward chart and got to to have a choc ice when i had twenty stars

An ice lolly, Mum worked in a cafe and every Friday we went down and she bought us an ice lolly. we loved Friday's.

Flying saucers or pama violets! Love them still!,

I used to "earn" half a crown pocket money by helping my mum with chores around the house.

Also, Friday night was "sweetie night" when me and mum would raid the local newsagents and spend the evening watching Randall & Hopkirk and other favourite programmes on TV. She loved to eat Old Jamaica Rum chocolate bars and I used to like Lucky Bags ...

Those were the days - I miss her so much.

I was given the choice of a day out if I was good all week, so I'd choose the cinema or going to the zoo or bowling.

a Packet of Midget Gems (dollops of icing sugar on tiny biscuits) when my mum picked me up from school on a Friday