Best present you ever got when you were a kid

[aprilludgate]

I got a video camera for my 13th birthday. I'm assuming I'm supposed to give a Christmas gift, but this is the top of the list.

I spent the next year or so interviewing family members about Thanksgiving, or Christmas, or whatever holiday it was. And then I would gather everyone in the living room for our family newscast. Journalism started early for me.

[sewpinkgal]

Barbie Dream House. My mom was able to get one second-hand from someone at church since a brand new one was too $$. She put carpet in each room left over from samples she had from the year before putting new carpet in our house. I played with that thing for years and still have such great memories of it.

[Marle]

I enjoyed this one a lot. I was 4. It was a Colombian made baby doll.

[cc]

When I was in 6th grade my sister and I got tickets to see NKOTB. We were so excited. Our poor dad had to take us though. Lol

[Deleted]

When I was about 8 and my sister was 5, we both had a toy we wanted SO BAD but our parents couldn't afford. She wanted a My Size Barbie and I wanted a Ricochet remote control car. Both were $100+ toys. My grandparents do not EVER EVER EVER buy toys. It is money or clothes for Xmas from them, but that year "santa" forgot to leave them out at our house and mixed them up with my cousin Joe's presents. Best. Xmas. Ever. I found out later that my grandfather told my gram to not come home until she had those toys.

[winnied]

My brother and I got a trampoline when I was 9 or 10, I think. We LOVED it for years.

[psychmom]

Spice Girls concert tickets for my 13th birthday.

[Deleted]

1976. I was six and he build me a doll house. Carpet and curtains in every room!

[verycontrary247]

Trampoline! I don't remember what year it was, but my brother and I played on that thing constantly!

[amberlyrose]

When I was 5 or 6, I got a Barbie jeep. My sister got a little mermaid car and my cousin on the same block had a black powerwheels jeep. We cruised those sidewalks like we owned them!

[Deleted]

A barn for my Breyer horses.

[RoxMonster]

I got a video camera for christmas when I was 10 and I loved that thing. I filmed everyone and everything when family got together and then would make everyone sit and watch the tapes I made.

[Deleted]

Cabbage patch doll. Of course. My first foray into having what everyone else wanted.

My hot pink Polaroid camera was also awesome.

[sosaystara]

I was SO excited the year I got my My Size Barbie!!! I was probably 5 or 6.

[frauschmindy]

My sixth birthday I got a kitten, who is still chilling on my couch, being my little fur factory.

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Dec 25, 2012 10:20:28 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

You had a polaroid!? omg. I am so jealous, retrospectively. No one I knew had one.

This one. And it's still cool as hell. Though my parents never wanted to buy film for it.

[nsl]

It's a toss-up between the set of My Little Ponies I got when I was 7 (it was one of those multipacks, and there must have been a dozen ponies included. I was OBSESSED and played with those things for years) or the CD player I got when I was 16. Listening to my own music in my own room? BLEW MY MIND. I was not the most sophisticated teen.

[Deleted]

OMG, it is $300 on Amaon now. I am getting my mom to dig it out. Today.

www.amazon.com/Polaroid-Cool-Instant-Film-Camera/dp/B001FAH0V6

[gretchenindisguise]

One Easter I got a bike. That was awesome.

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[Deleted]

I think, at an elevated price because a finite amount is left. Which will be just like childhood!

[Jermys]

Gammy and Poppy bought me a bike...it was awesome. It was white with red decals and a blue banana seat and red, white and blue metallic streamers. God, I loved that bike.

[limey]

A chemistry set.