I was about eight, my Mum sewed dresses for all my dolls! I didn't even notice she was making them because I never saw a scrap of fabric anywhere! Christmas Eve (when we celebrate) they were all sitting there in new clothes.
My grandfather build me a dolls house which was beautiful. The detail was amazing. As with Moomoo I never saw him work on it. The detail was amazing... doors and windows that opened, lights!, beautiful little bits of furniture, wall paper, proper little tiles etc. I was never that fond of proper dolls but I loved my dolls house.
Immediate runner up was dad's car park and petrol station with little match box cars...
A weekend in Stockholm, everything paid for by my brother, for me and Mum was pretty good. The year before he'd bought us heli flight over the Grand Canyon but we had poo weather on the day and it got cancelled.
I also got some rather comfy fluffy slipper sock/booties type things from Fat Face (the shop and b/f) which are sooooooooooo comfy.
And not forgetting my skateboard when I was 9. I could out-skate all the lads down my road.
Saw one of those houses in a farmer's market across the road the other day - over €300!!! You did well there!
Honestly it was beautiful. It even had a front garden with a fence around it, a gate, flower boxes under the windows... A real labour of love. tried to post a similar pic but nothing comes near to what it was like. It broke when we moved house years later. Gutted... Wish I still had it. Would be a real heirloom, something to remember him by as he's dead now.
I got a loop the loop thing for cars that you clamped to the window sill I am trying to find it on line. (although it might have been evil knievel hmmmm)
When we were about 12 and 13 (me and my sis) we found a couple of chopper bikes in the sitting room. We got all excited but my dad told me that they were for a family we knew who couldn't afford presents. I felt a little disappointed but thought it was really kind of my dad and mum.
Dad said that because they didn't know they were getting the presents maybe we could learn to ride them before we handed them over. So for about a month we took the bikes out and we learnt to ride them....then just before Christmas we shone them all up and got them ready for the family.
(Can you hear a D'oh coming!!) Imagine my surprise on Christmas morning when we opened the door to see our presents and there were the bikes!! And we could ride them and everything!! Mine's was purple...
My GF's dad found a wind up Evil Knievel in the cupboard a couple of months ago. It seems to be all working but he's too protective of the skirting boards to let us try it out
Speaking of it wasn't really the same - I wanted the watch from the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only.. the ad before the film said it could be bought in the jewellers down the road from teh cinema. I begged my parents to go and buy it but when we got there it cost £200! So naturally they said no. (This was back in 198? ).. having grown up and got a job with some money and the advent of Ebay I thought I'd go check out that watch I couldn't get back then and own a nice Bond watch now. So I went and looked it up on the internet and hey presto:
It was one of those tacky sh1te watches they give you free with a tenners petrol nowdays!
Sheddy- I can't bring myself to give or throw any of them away, even though someof them are really tacky I have them stuffed, made of porcelain, metal, plastic, cardboard, etc...
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Ooh, it's like the Elves and the Shoemaker!
Best pressie I got as a kid? The Stylophone!
As an adult - a marriage proposal at midnight on Christmas Eve....
But everyone is pissed up at midnight on Xmas Eve........oh....erm.......sorry.
Tin Can Alley!
but when I was really young my granny made a full set of 1ft high Wombles that were EXACTLY like on the TV
You old cynic!
Mr LB is teetotal......
A Hot Wheels set & some great toy cars!
Probably 1971.
My little pony beauty parlour Circa 1983
I love the smell of new plastic toys on Christmas morning.
My grandfather build me a dolls house which was beautiful. The detail was amazing. As with Moomoo I never saw him work on it. The detail was amazing... doors and windows that opened, lights!, beautiful little bits of furniture, wall paper, proper little tiles etc. I was never that fond of proper dolls but I loved my dolls house.
Immediate runner up was dad's car park and petrol station with little match box cars...
A weekend in Stockholm, everything paid for by my brother, for me and Mum was pretty good. The year before he'd bought us heli flight over the Grand Canyon but we had poo weather on the day and it got cancelled.
I also got some rather comfy fluffy slipper sock/booties type things from Fat Face (the shop and b/f) which are sooooooooooo comfy.
And not forgetting my skateboard when I was 9. I could out-skate all the lads down my road.
It was all kinds of awesome
Unfortunately I managed to break it rather quickly
oh yeah - I had one of those Evel Knievel windup guys on a motorbike with a ramp he shot off into the air.. that rocked!
But Tin Can Alley was great - was wondering about the physics of how exactly thaqt worked recently. I believe it was pulled from the market...
it wasn't this though
I might buy the book as a christmas present for someone....
When we were about 12 and 13 (me and my sis) we found a couple of chopper bikes in the sitting room. We got all excited but my dad told me that they were for a family we knew who couldn't afford presents. I felt a little disappointed but thought it was really kind of my dad and mum.
Dad said that because they didn't know they were getting the presents maybe we could learn to ride them before we handed them over. So for about a month we took the bikes out and we learnt to ride them....then just before Christmas we shone them all up and got them ready for the family.
(Can you hear a D'oh coming!!) Imagine my surprise on Christmas morning when we opened the door to see our presents and there were the bikes!! And we could ride them and everything!! Mine's was purple...
(I wasn't very bright was i!!)
My cousin had one of those
I always wanted a Sindy doll dressed like a ballerina but never got one. I finally got bought one when I was about 27.
It really wasn't the same....
Speaking of it wasn't really the same - I wanted the watch from the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only.. the ad before the film said it could be bought in the jewellers down the road from teh cinema. I begged my parents to go and buy it but when we got there it cost £200! So naturally they said no. (This was back in 198? ).. having grown up and got a job with some money and the advent of Ebay I thought I'd go check out that watch I couldn't get back then and own a nice Bond watch now. So I went and looked it up on the internet and hey presto:
It was one of those tacky sh1te watches they give you free with a tenners petrol nowdays!
Chi-rstmas Runner: if you are still keen on Bond watches, Swatch does a range of them!
Other favourite pressies, until I got overpopulated with them: moo cows in all shapes and sizes
Yep - I have my eye on that OHMSS one!
Don't understand that one MAddy - you slaggin my granny?!!
Only Joking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subbuteo World Cup edition complete with floodlights.
In 1975 , when I was 8
It was the business !