What was your best present you got as a child?

[reecejackox]

I would say an Xbox.

 

[piccolopat]

If you are referring to Christmas, mine would be an Emerson, Lake and Palmer record. If not, my first flute.

 

[neverlandsky]

Roller Skates

 

[BlueStarryHat]

A tape recorder.

 

[antmaril]

Roy Rogers Double Holster with Pearl Handled Guns. It was the 50’s.

 

[a1tinkfans]

My bright yellow ten speed bicycle. As one of Many children, it was an Amazing Splurge of a gift from my mom ( rip) and dad. 50+ years later and I still remember the Surprise.

 

[ronandannette]

No contest - the Easy-Bake Oven I got when I was 7.

 

[Mysterian]

Transformers Omega Supreme. It was a rocket base with motorized, light-up tank that drove around on a track. And it alll became a robot. Thanks grandpa!

 

[tvguy]

I did okay at Christmas every year, but no single gift stands out. But money was tight growing up in the 1960's. I got a nice balance of things I needed like clothes with a few fun things. But nothing expensive.

 

[HopperFan]

My parents did not have much money one year, so they bought a Barbie convertible, Ken's tuxedo and then my Mom made my Barbie a beautiful wedding gown, hand sewn. She made dresses for my other dolls and instead of wrapping them she had the wedding party all standing there next to the car. I got up in the night and snuck downstairs to see what Santa brought. I saw all that set up and got so excited I threw up all over. It was one of my best Christmases and best presents. ❤

 

[DisneyHardin]

A Barbie House - I was Barbie crazy as a kid. I got that house when I was about 7 and I played with it solidly until I was about 11, so I definitely got the use out of it.

 

[BrianL]

I had a few good ones over the years, but my most memorable, my Red Ryder BB gun, was my Super Nintendo console. They were very hard to get the year they came out and very expensive too. I had wanted it so badly, but was certain that my mom just couldn't swing it. It was upsetting to a kid and I had a tough night. The next morning though I decided that it's still Christmas and will still be nice. I had a good attitude, even though I knew there was no SNES under that tree. At some point I grabbed this soft, round package, probably clothes or whatever. It was weirdly heavy though and hard to open. I tugged at the corner, tearing what turned out to be layers of bubble wrap. Then I saw it - - was that...an A/V hookup port? What...? My mother, tricky as she is, had taken everything out of the box and wrapped it seperately so I wouldn't be able to identify it - believe me, I knew exactly what it would be shaped like! So there it was - my shiny new SNES, but more importantly I learned a lesson not to worry about the "stuff" so much as just spending the special time with loved ones. Stuff will be around - If I hadn't gotten that SNES I would have eventually - but the circumstances around it make it all the more special. I still have it too - hooked up and ready to play.

 

[TippyThomas]

Adopted.

 

[DodgerGirl]

My best Christmas gift was my first ever dollhouse which was the Playskool Dollhouse from 1991 and I had always liked that dollhouse ever since I saw the TV commercial for it and I thought it was amazing with the musical nursery. And so for Christmas 1992 I asked Santa Claus for it and it just so happened that weeks before Christmas I was in the hospital having an operation and while I recovered it was Christmas and I had to open my gifts seated on the couch because I was still weak and while he was cooking Christmas breakfast he motioned my mom to carry me to the Christmas tree and I saw this big box and so I opened it with Mom's help and it was my dollhouse and I felt like Kevin Costner in Field Of Dreams when the voice told him "if you build it it will come" and it made me happy. Even today I still have that dollhouse but if you get a chance go to Youtube and search for the commercial for the Playskool Dollhouse and you'll see for yourself why that dollhouse was my favorite gift
Dodger

 

[EMom]

Easy Bake oven. I still have it.

 

[Meriweather]

a puppy

 

[Kennywood]

My GI Joe foot locker. For some reason, I really, REALLY wanted one. I got it for Christmas.

What I didn't know at the time was what my mom had to go through just to fulfill my Christmas wish. She call all over Pittsburgh looking for one of these foot lockers. She tried dozens of places but the were all sold out. Finally, she found a store that had ONE left. "Keep it there! I'm on my way!" And out the door she went.

I still have that foot locker. It always reminds me of what my mom did for me to make me happy.

 

[kimmar067]

...set of days-of-the-week undies. [not RECENTLY, of course - when I was twelve]

 

[kimmar067]

I did okay at Christmas every year, but no single gift stands out. But money was tight growing up in the 1960's. I got a nice balance of things I needed like clothes with a few fun things. But nothing expensive.

...same.

 

[mjkacmom]

A tv. In high school my dad gave my sister and I TV’s for our bedrooms. My dad never got us gifts, he worked a lot, traveled a lot, wasn’t a kid person (madmen era). I‘m sure they landed on him vs him shopping for us (which would never happen, that’s woman’s work). My sister and I lived without a/c because window units would make our house look trashy. We watched TV if we wanted to watch what he was watching, because children came after adults. It was so out of character, and very appreciated. I’m guessing he was at a social thing and someone had a couple of TV’s that fell off a truck.