Lego trainset, shared between three
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So what did YOU get for Christmas as a child?
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Over the years , and not in chronological order .-
airfix kits
Battleground toy soldier thing
Sledge
Action man + Tank ( wicked )
Action man + Parachute kit ( crashed and burned every time)
Scalextric 400 set
Hornby model railway OO guage plus miles of track
Monoply: Twice ( mum left it on car roof and drove off . . )
Cricket bat , Outgrew it before cricket season started.
Penknife at 14 ,Swiss Army copy in bright orangePosted 5 months ago # -
I never used to get christmas or birthday presents.
But i did get a new MX bike every year.
Who want's lego/actionman/computers when you've got an MX bike and get taken racing every weekend.
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mostly lego.. or clothes.. or LPs and art materials..
I also got action man stuff one year after mum had a lucky day at the jumble sale.. and some surfwear arrived in a binliner one year from my godfather but I wasn't allowed to tell anyone where it came from..
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Raleigh Burner
Texas console cant remember proper name (shared)
Yamaha YZ80H when I was 8
next 2 years anything MX related
Then went onto BMX racing so mongooses etc
then road cycling so handbuilt Poyner 531c Shimano Ultegra groupset
Then left school so went downhill from there literallyNot bad for a lad whose mom n dad didnt have a lot but great memories away in caravan every weekend scrambling,campfires & bbq's
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I'm struggling to remember my prezzies - it was a little while ago.
I do remember getting roller skates and a watch one year - I was surprised to get two "big" prezzies! I still have the watch, and being a proper wind up watch, it still works. I have a feeling the roller skates may still be in my parent's garage - my kids used them when they were younger.
I also remember having a Sindy doll and being disappointed 'cos I wanted a Tressy - y'know, the one who's hair grew when you turned a button in her back.Posted 5 months ago # -
Looking back i had a few of the items mentioned above.
The smash up derby set
that battling tops game
Action Man Scorpion Tank
" " Artillery Piece
" " Airplane/boat/car thing
" " Zodiac boat
" " submarine
" " training tower
" " six-wheeled battlefield recovery vehicle
" " some sort of jeep thing, not the land rover
(I think i had enough to stage a coup in Equatorial Guinea!)Had a Raliegh Tomohawk one yr, but i was way too big for me and my dad sold it (broke his heart that, must have cost a small fortune)
All the usual games like Buccaroo etc.
The thing i remember most about Christmas though is how long it went on for (or seemed to).
Me and my sister would have a pillowcase (later a plastic sack) that would be filled with the smaller presents by 'Father Christmas' around midnight, usually giggling and smelling of beer
Then there were the main presents under the tree Later that day we'd go round to my Grandparents on my Mum's side where i had 4 sets of Aunts and Uncles and lots more pressies.
THEN, on Boxing day we'd be at my Dad's parents with even more pressies - it was ace!!I look back now and realise we were spoilt rotten, i don't know if many of the pressies were grossly expensive but the sums must have added up. I was a bit of a strange kid i think, always felt guilty about asking for a big (to my mind) pressie and i the only thing i can remember asking for was a tape recorder around 1979/80.
Ah, nostalgia...
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+1 to bikebuoy
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A Farrah Fawcett Majors head for styling and fashioning hair. It's the reason why I knew I just wasn't cut out to be a hairdresser.
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£359 27 years ago but I was 11 not 10.
Edit: As I was a muppet and gave my DOB away.
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Early years, not a lot (of value) but plenty.
Later when my folks had both good jobs, plenty enough. Always remember a reel-to-reel my dad got as they hid it and switched it on to record my brother and I's excitement
But tbh xmas was not so special and we got stuff all year around.
Aged 46 and 5/6th's
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apart from a karlhoff pseudo bmx,this was my bestest xmas present as a child
gods i miss it. (good job there are emulators 
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going by the amount of Lego stashed at my mums, i am going to say lego, more lego and for a bit of a change lego.
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Not very much at all, if anything worthy of a mention. My mum would make a small effort. More out of guilt than anything.
This year, my daughter is getting a laptop, a TV, new electric bass guitar and amp and some little extra items that she likes.
She's not getting the up dragging that I was subject to and hell, she LOVES me.Would she still love you if you stopped buying her loads of spensive stuffs?
Did you love your mum less cos she din't spend loads of money on you?
My mum had to proper scrimp and save and go without stuff just so's she could get me something nice for Xmas. Never owt more than about twenty quid mind, and less than that when I was younger.
Might be why I'm not all that materialistic and don't crave new things in the way others do. In fact with most things, not having them really does not in any way matter.
It's obvious from this thread why so many folk on here really think they 'need' stuffs though...
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To be honest I just googled 80's toys (I'm 29) and I got most of the girls stuff at some point, I was a massively spoilt brat but just didn't realise it at the time. This was all time fave:
The barbie apartment
Obviously I had all the furniture and barbie/ken/cars etc to go with it :D. The lift on the side was a proper working lift to I think, amazing.
Other than that it was my little pony, care bears etc
Edit: well said Elfin btw, my other half had a Christmas without presents full stop after his dad chuffed off and left them penny less, he's not fussed about Christmas at all
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