I was reminiscing a few days ago about my childhood Christmas presents trying to see how many pre 16 years old I could remember. As retro look back threads have done well here in the past thought it might make a good thoughful topic with a bit of nostalgia thrown in. Feel free to add pics etc if you want. Monopoly (age 10 ish)
One of them cars that cant be stopped (allegedly) drives up the wall and falls over turns around. Was so excited about getting that Think Ive done well getting 13 presents from 0-16 :shock: Some may have been on the same year though but dont think Ive forgotten much. How goods your memory then?
I've still got my Big-Trak and have hidden it from my son, will get some batteries in it 1 day. Had a BMX as all kids do. Think most of my Xmas pressies from the age of 10 were either fishing rods or pressies that my older sis got bored of and gave me when they were broken. Only the BMX and Big-Trak springs to mind but I am scrooge and tend to forget these things. OOoOooo remember an old Great Aunt that always used to get me sugared almonds, what ever kid wants :lol2:
I am wracking my brains, I got presents every year but the only two that have stuck in my mind was a dolls house my Dad and his friend made when I was 4 the lights worked and even had little oil painting his friend painted on the walls, my Mum had made curtains and laid carpet in the rooms. I have would love to of had it still when I had my daughter but haven't a clue what happened to it. My dad made her one when she was 4 because I asked him to, I wish I had my original one. At 12 I got a chemistry set left on the bottom of my bed for christmas morning and my brother and I woke at around 3ish and started mixing things together and shock the test tube and it exploded over the bedroom and we woke our parents and got told off. These are the only two that live in my memory. :shock:
Without doubt the very best gift I received as a child was a "65 in 1" electronics kit. It was just mind blowing. My parents and older siblings pooled their gifts to secure it for me. I would have been about 9 or 10 I think. I still have it of course. Here's a picture.
There were too many exciting aspects to mention them all but a major thrill was that being an american kit, it included instructions for a radio transmitter and huge warnings about the illegality of building and using it in the UK. So I built it and it worked. The major issue was batteries of course, so I used to wire in bloody great big blue ever ready 6v units.
When i was 9 years old my best present was a blue Royal Enfield push-bike 26" racer. ordered from next doors catalogue.(my parents didn't have much money). It arrived Christmas day and it was the best thing I'd ever seen. i rode it all week and loved it to bits. Some arsehole thief broke into my shed and stole it. I never got it back and never got another bike. my worst present was an Airfix kit of a battleship that was so complicated i ended up gluing all the bits together to make extra weapons for my action man. my dad gave me a row. lol Great memories though! Steve
All my childhood I wanted Meccano and Action Man. I got - dolls. Every bloody year another damned doll. I am now an engineer - so clearly the not-so-subtle gender reinforcement didn't take. I finally got a meccano set at 15 - very funny Ma, thanks. My best memories of Christmas gifts would be waking up to all 3 of us kids having a new bike each. I lnew we were hard up so was well impressed. That and the stocking - always teh same things - satsuma, chocolate coins, nuts, a small book of some kind, a puzzle - metal or wooden - and maybe a pair of mittens or silly socks. We do the same now. (Well, I do obviously).
Ooooh, I can't do it in chronological order, but my significant presents were: my baby doll (toy, not lingerie! :twisted my Sindy doll townhouse, the Kids from Fame album, a keyboard, a bike, a ghetto blaster, a walkman (as big as a brick!) a riding hat & boots, a camera, a portable CD player. Happy memories! All of those presents help recall happy family times. Nice thread Tweeky! :thumbup:
Quote by Jewlnmart Is this the same Tweeky who implies he suffered so much at the hands of Thatcher's government? :twisted:
My Dad worked he worked from 14 to over 70 years of age working long hours regardless of the government of the day. At times he went to work on Christmas day and at times went without holidays. He was a fireman, ambulance man, agricultural engineer or whatever was needed to get the money. He worked from the slum to a respectable position and at the end of it all he got an MBE. He didnt do bad my Dad aided by my Mum I dont think Libs Torys or Labour came into the equasion though he was Labour to the core. Thanks for the replies all. Ben I had an electronics set too from my Grandparents I think . It was a Salter science one could make a lie detector and all kinds of stuff. Good fun that was :thumbup:
Quote by foxylady2209 All my childhood I wanted Meccano and Action Man. I got - dolls. Every bloody year another damned doll. I am now an engineer - so clearly the not-so-subtle gender reinforcement didn't take.
I was actively discouraged from anything "girly" and I am now a housewife type, so the not-so-subtle gender role suppression didn't entirely work either! One year I got the most amazing wireless remote control car! I had to fight my dad off it though
When I was about 9 I told my Mum and Dad that I didnt believe in Santa. They told me that if I didnt believe in him, my present would turn to stone. On Christmas morning I unwrapped a brick!! They werent quite that cruel though, they had bought me a bike and left it out in the garden with a big bow on it.
Big-Trak, computers, and video-games were a bit after my time. They came in my teenage years. Best present EVER was an action-man hang-glider. Not the rubbish you get these days for action man. I mean a proper, big, fuck-off hang-glider. It was bigger than me FFS. It didn't fly for shit, but seeing a fully assembled hang-glider with action man sitting in it dangling from the ceiling hanging over me when I woke up in the top-bunk sold me on Santa for aaaaages. I mean, how else could it possibly have got there without me noticing? It couldn't, could it, without magical beings and red-nosed reindeers being involved somewhere along the lines? Always wanted Lego Technics. Had boxes and boxes of the usual Lego but Technics was still a bit too new and chuffin' expensive back then. Made do with Meccano and Airfix kits instead. Can't complain. Nowt wrong with Meccano and Airfix. N x x x ;) p.s. FoxyLady? Reading back I'm sorry 'bout the gross insensitivity of my Meccano reference. :therethere:
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but dont think Ive forgotten much.
my Sindy doll townhouse, the Kids from Fame album, a keyboard, a bike, a ghetto blaster, a walkman (as big as a brick!) a riding hat & boots, a camera, a portable CD player.
