What's the best christmas present you ever got?

Mariol

As a companion to the worst thread...and plus this might be somewhat useful in scraping together a few ideas. Sega Megadrive with Fifa International and a couple of the 3 game packs (Golden Axe etc) is up there for me as we'd never had anything like that before. Although we couldn't get the thing working until about 9pm Christmas day. More recently it would have to be a globe :cool:

foxyboxer

When I was 4 years old, I really wanted a bike for christmas. I prayed night and day that Santa would bring me one on Christmas morning. Being unaware of how tight money was for a lot of people then (mid 80's), my mother tried to make excuses for why Santa couldn't bring a bike (about £50 back in the day). "It's too big for him to bring down the chimney/ He'll have to bring it all the way from the North pole" etc etc.

I now know it was a cover story but ultimately my 4 year old self accepted that rationale and reluctantly forgot about the bike still secretly hoping Santa would be able to lug it all the way.

Roll on christmas morning and lo and behold, there's the bike under the tree!
My mother probably scrimped and saved and quite possibly borrowed the money just to spare me from a crushing disappointment.

pragmatic1

Coal and oranges.

Jen Pigs Fly

A horse - she was my joint 18th, leaving cert and christmas present!

Can't fault it at all! She's deadly!

simonmln

Im a Leeds fan. Christmas morning 2009, my parents give me flights and a ticket to the Man Utd v Leeds Fa cup game for the 3rd January. Went over with my uncle and we beat em 1-0. Brilliant present. Will never forget it.

jd007

Gameboy Color

IrishZeus

Commodore 64

RachaelVO

foxyboxer wrote: »

When I was 4 years old, I really wanted a bike for christmas. I prayed night and day that Santa would bring me one on Christmas morning. Being unaware of how tight money was for a lot of people then (mid 80's), my mother tried to make excuses for why Santa couldn't bring a bike (about £50 back in the day). "It's too big for him to bring down the chimney/ He'll have to bring it all the way from the North pole" etc etc.

I now know it was a cover story but ultimately my 4 year old self accepted that rationale and reluctantly forgot about the bike still secretly hoping Santa would be able to lug it all the way.

Roll on christmas morning and lo and behold, there's the bike under the tree!
My mother probably scrimped and saved and quite possibly borrowed the money just to spare me from a crushing disappointment.

Awww, that'd almost bring a tear to your eye! Well done Mammy. Mammys on a mission, to do the seemingly impossible are the best!

flutterflye

I loved animals as a child and always wanted a pet, but my mom hated animals, so I could never get one.

One christmas when I was 12, amongst a bunch of gifts under the tree, there was a poem that was sort of like a riddle, which led me outside to my new beautiful lop eared rabbit.

My mom died a week later, so that rabbit became my comfort blanket!
Whenever I was sad, I'd go out and pet him and play with him.

I was devastated a year later when a fox got him.

lackofyou

Maybe a sexy dress from my bf

RachaelVO

flutterflye wrote: »

I loved animals as a child and always wanted a pet, but my mom hated animals, so I could never get one.

One christmas when I was 12, amongst a bunch of gifts under the tree, there was a poem that was sort of like a riddle, which led me outside to my new beautiful lop eared rabbit.

My mom died a week later, so that rabbit became my comfort blanket!
Whenever I was sad, I'd go out and pet him and play with him.

I was devastated a year later when a fox got him.

Oh god, this is going to turn into a sad thread! Second post to get to me today :(:(

chin_grin

Original GameBoy. Kept me quiet and occupied for hours years.

ladypip

A bike when i was 4 I remember being so excited I tried to bring it up the stairs to show my Mam and Dad. More recently my boyfriend named a star after me very rosmantic

stovelid

A Palitoy AT-AT and Snowspeeder the same christmas. The latter was a suprise present I diidn't know I was getting.

Ecstatic doesn't even come close to describing it.

EarlyStorms

The year I got a bike and a see through game boy was pretty special.

AnonoBoy

Chlamydia Rush.

It was a short-lived board game for the sexually promiscuous.

cocokay

i loved my barbie bus it was amazeballs. was about 7 when i got it. also loved my rollerskates & jem doll, who had flashing earrings! i remember being very young and getting markers or crayons in the little "extras" but i didn't have a colouring book. obv my parents had one upstairs n had forgotten to put it under the tree cause an hour later my dad said maybe have a look under the tree again, maybe santy came back with it, and there was the book and i was so mad at myself because santa had come back and i'd missed him lol

Lego pirate ship. I ****ing loved Lego.

petes

A Nintendo 64 with Goldeneye many moons ago from my parents when i was 16/17. Happy fcking days!

ErinGoBrath

Raleigh Wildcat bike

*peeeeowwww* *peeeowwww*

Was so happy, by far my best present ever.

stovelid

cocokay wrote: »

it was amazeballs.

Wha?

mfceiling

My 1st daughter.
She arrived a week early...Christmas is always special now because of that.

homerjay2005

i got the SNES (super nintendo) back around 1992 when it first came out. it had the gun and all that and at that time, it was the best thing ever.

razorblunt

Sega Mega Drive with 2 3-1 cartridges and Sonic.

I still miss GoldenAxe!!

vicwatson

A shoebox with a string attached and an orange in it. Deadly craic

astonaidan

Got my dog for christmas, Best present ever, The day she was hit by a car was the worst day of my life

some random drunk

foxyboxer wrote: »

When I was 4 years old, I really wanted a bike for christmas. I prayed night and day that Santa would bring me one on Christmas morning. Being unaware of how tight money was for a lot of people then (mid 80's), my mother tried to make excuses for why Santa couldn't bring a bike (about £50 back in the day). "It's too big for him to bring down the chimney/ He'll have to bring it all the way from the North pole" etc etc.

I now know it was a cover story but ultimately my 4 year old self accepted that rationale and reluctantly forgot about the bike still secretly hoping Santa would be able to lug it all the way.

Roll on christmas morning and lo and behold, there's the bike under the tree!
My mother probably scrimped and saved and quite possibly borrowed the money just to spare me from a crushing disappointment.

My Mam had a great way of encouraging us not to ask for expensive gifts. She told us Santy had to be paid for them or he wouldn't deliver. My brother added that the elves would come around to break our legs in January if he still hadn't got the money. I believed him.

Back on topic, the best present I got was FIFA96 for playstation from my older sister. I was 13 or so and had saved money all year to buy a playstation as they had just been released. My Mam was contributing a third of the money as my Christmas present, so I'd have it Christmas morning.
The only problem was I wouln't have a game for it as I'd already spent every last penny on the system, and it those days the games were only sold separately. My sister knew this and took pity on me and so bought me a game.
It would have cost the equivalent of 60 odd euro back then and she was still in school at the time, so it wasn't like she had much money.
I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I opened it Christmas morning. Really appreciated it.

kfallon

My M.A.S.K. toys when I was a little lad, God I loved them. Here's a flavour of them:

http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/box/jackhammerboxfrontus.jpg

http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/rhino1.jpg

http://www.jeebstoys.co.uk/mask_thunderhawk.jpg

I wish I was young again

emeraldstar

A piano!

foxyboxer

kfallon wrote: »

My M.A.S.K. toys when I was a little lad, God I loved them. Here's a flavour of them:

http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/box/jackhammerboxfrontus.jpg

http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/rhino1.jpg

http://www.jeebstoys.co.uk/mask_thunderhawk.jpg

I wish I was young again

Thanks Now this will be in my head all day!

Masked Crusaders, Working Overtime,
Fighting Crime, Fighting Crime!
Secret Raiders Who Will Neutralize,
As Soon As They Arrive, At The Site
Trakker's Gonna Lead The Mission,
And Spectrum's Got Such Super Vision!
M-M-M-M.A.S.K.!!
Is The Mighty Power That Can Save The Day!
M-M-M-M.A.S.K.!!
No One Knows What Lies Behind The Masquerades!
M-M-M-M.A.S.K.!!
Always Riding Hot On V.E.N.O.M.'s Trail!
Come See The Laser Rays!
Fire Away!
:cool:

Handy11

Castle Grayskull. 7 years of age. It was the b0ll0cks!!!

That same year I was told that Santy didn't exist. In the car on the way home from my granny's. Jaysus. The horror

ForgottenCandy

This is might seem like a small thing, but back when I was 5 years old, my father went away from home for a couple of months due to work, but he came back on the night of Christmas Eve, and that was the happiest Christmas that I have ever had in my entire life.

Handy11

kfallon wrote: »

My M.A.S.K. toys when I was a little lad, God I loved them. Here's a flavour of them:

http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/box/jackhammerboxfrontus.jpg

http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/rhino1.jpg

http://www.jeebstoys.co.uk/mask_thunderhawk.jpg

I wish I was young again

Good Christ they were class

emeraldstar

ForgottenCandy wrote: »

This is might seem like a small thing, but back when I was 5 years old, my father went away from home for a couple of months due to work, but he came back on the night of Christmas Eve, and that was the happiest Christmas that I have ever had in my entire life.

Aw

giant_midget

scaletric (the old mini cooper cars) with le mans track. God id love a go of that even today an im 30!

foxyboxer

Handy11 wrote: »

Good Christ they were class

AFAIK the cartoon was created with the explicit intention to sell toys

tribalwings

Haha I still have that green car at the top of the MASK page. Class...
my daughters actually playing with it now, doesn't look the same with Mickey Mouse or Peppa Pig in it

Handy11

foxyboxer wrote: »

Handy11 wrote: »

Good Christ they were class

AFAIK the cartoon was created with the explicit intention to sell toys

Never had a single M.A.S.K. toy. Wanted them so bad!!!! Friend of mine had Matt Trackers car and a couple of other bits.

A tinker kid called Liam was in our class for a couple of weeks and he said he had 5 Rhino Rigs. 3 red and 2 black (I know, I know, they didn't come in black) and he was going to bring me in one of the red ones for free on Monday. I doubt i slept the whole weekend. My mam was trying to break it gently to me that this kid was not ... em... reliable, or "permanent". I told her she was wrong and was literally shaking going in to school on the Monday. He wasn't in. Nor was he in the next day. Needless to say I never saw him again.

razorblunt

kfallon wrote: »

My M.A.S.K. toys when I was a little lad, God I loved them. Here's a flavour of them:

http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/box/jackhammerboxfrontus.jpg

http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/rhino1.jpg

http://www.jeebstoys.co.uk/mask_thunderhawk.jpg

I wish I was young again

Sniff sniff they were awesome!

ladypip

Handy11 wrote: »

Castle Grayskull. 7 years of age. It was the b0ll0cks!!!

That same year I was told that Santy didn't exist. In the car on the way home from my granny's. Jaysus. The horror

My brother got that when i was about 5 or six we played with that thing so much!! It must have been the most played with toy in our house, I was always skeletor he thought he was being mean i secretly loved being evil Muh ha ha ha ha!!!

sgb

Last year I got a Roberts Internet radio

Love it absolutely brilliant

orourkeda

a blow job

DEFTLEFTHAND

The Gift of life. I was born on Christmas Day.:D

wiger toods

foxyboxer wrote: »

When I was 4 years old, I really wanted a bike for christmas. I prayed night and day that Santa would bring me one on Christmas morning. Being unaware of how tight money was for a lot of people then (mid 80's), my mother tried to make excuses for why Santa couldn't bring a bike (about £50 back in the day). "It's too big for him to bring down the chimney/ He'll have to bring it all the way from the North pole" etc etc.

I now know it was a cover story but ultimately my 4 year old self accepted that rationale and reluctantly forgot about the bike still secretly hoping Santa would be able to lug it all the way.

Roll on christmas morning and lo and behold, there's the bike under the tree!
My mother probably scrimped and saved and quite possibly borrowed the money just to spare me from a crushing disappointment.

This post be a cool post!:)

Chuck Stone

One year Santa brought me the best Xmas present ever.. a little baby brother..


Na, that's bollocks

A fucken 6 ft pool table! Aw yeah!

sgb

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The Gift of life. I was born on Christmas Day.:D

Are you Jesus?

Latchy

I have had many wonderful christmas presents but two tickets to go see Paul McCartney on december 20th next , just before christmas, is the best 'early ' christmas present ever

Larianne

A keyboard, probably.

lastlaugh

What was the best present you got for Christmas as a kid?

Mine was a 6x3 Snooker table (that barely fit in the living room), but my brothers and I got years of entertainment out of it...

John Doe1

Bag o spuds

earpiece

To this day.... my Yamaha FG330 acoustic guitar back in 1985...... Thanks folks.