What's the best christmas present you ever got?

Coal and oranges.

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.

Commodore 64

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.

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 :(:(

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

A piano!

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