Best Christmas pressi

[zobo]

:santa: :santa: :santa: So come on then only 3days to Christmas..so tell us what your best Christmas pressi ever was....

mine a Sindy house when I was 8yrs.... :lol:

:rendeer: :rendeer: :rendeer:

[cuffy]

You know that Liz will be along in a minute and beat every bugger hands down :(

[Viney]

Too many. The biggest surprise was buy my mate. Id helped them move house and do a fe things in thier house, and i also worked for his DJ agency. Anyway, i recieved a Pioneer DJM500 mixer from him! I was well surprised. Still have it to this day.

Im sure that there have been many a present over the years, but i have a mind like a sive and cant remember.

I got a personalised reg a few years ago. I transfered it onto the bike, but when i was thinking of selling the bike, i transfered it off. I have found out since that i cant put it back on the bike, so sitting on retention.

[zobo]

"DJM500 mixer" nice...... :D

[tricky]

Probably when I was about 15, my Mum and Dad bought me a TV for my room which was a complete suprise.

[mysteryjimbo]

All my best pressies were ones i've bought myself.

Although this year i've got my Wii. :lol:

[rictus01]

It's all about memories.

For me it's got to be when I was about 10, can down with all my brothers Christmas morning, expecting the bursting pillowcase full of prizzies as had been the norm ( big family but mum and dad worked hard to give us big cheap stuff and stuff dad would make (hobby horses with ballrace wheels/ guns cut from planks of wood and painted) but always filling the pillowcases to overflowing) only to find them half full :(

disappointment lasted only until we started opening the gifts as it is with kids, anyway after that the day went much to plan and later we all sat down to Christmas dinner, between the fights for the last stuffing ball and bacon wrapped baby sausage (this was posh food, this was) little thought was given to the tree prezzies (these were normally colouring pencils or crayons or if you were lucky a matchbox car), for some reason dad had a massive grin all the way through the meal, after dinner we all gathered around the tree and dad handed out each named gift, once we all had our gift we were allowed to open them.

WOW :shock: WE ALL HAD OUR VERY OWN TIMEX WATCH. (for the oldies the ones in the book thingy) you've never seen so many kids wandering around with their arm extended showing off their new watches (all different) and of course each kid thought theirs was the best.

I've spoken to mum since and they brought one a month throughout the year and prayed no financal crisis came along to stop them getting eveyone one.

I had that watch on everyday for the next 7 years, and only changed it when I went to work.

In one of the wife's jewelry boxes under many items of gold and diamonds sits a straplessold boys Timex watch worth more to me than the rest of the contents.

Memories are priceless :wink:

Cheers Mark.

[glsuk1970]

Easy one this, it was a toy car called Adventure 2000. It had guns on the front, 6 wheels, gull-wing style doors a button on the top that when you pressed it, wings popped out of the side.


http://www.vortx-productions.co.uk/adventure2000.html

Cool, or what!! 8)

[zobo]

rictus01(Mark) that's so nice :D :D

Mines the Sindy house coz my poor Mum and Dad stayed up all xmas eve trying to put the bl**dy thing together...they got to bed finally about 5am, only to be woken up again by us kids at 6am..! Times like these I'll never forget.... :D :D

[Dysparunia]

I had this truck:

http://www.world-of-cartoons.de/mask/toyline+photo.lid+1.htm

(No, I can't do short links)


Distinctly remember playing with it under my grannies chair. Don't think it was long before I'd lost the rocket.

Also fondly remember this one:

http://www.world-of-cartoons.de/mask/toyline+photo.lid+744.htm

In fact I think it'll make me a new avatar.

[Bear]

Fave christmas pressie so far has been one I've bought rather than got: my girlfriends scooter which I bought her this year as a joint Chrimbo and Birthday pressie. The look on her face will keep me happy for many a year to come!

[600+]

You know what guys? The first time I got a X'mas present was by my current gf 2 years ago

I won't go into it anymore.......you get the picture:(

[furrybean]

Probably this when I was 12, really great fun on the farm!

http://upload4.postimage.org/1978038/Trial201_1986.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/1978038/photo_hosting.html)

[Alpinestarhero]

Gotta be my first guitar, but closley follwed by my mountain bike :D

Matt

[Alpinestarhero]

You know what guys? The first time I got a X'mas present was by my current gf 2 years ago

I won't go into it anymore.......you get the picture:(

seriously? I wont ask any questions, but thats pretty harsh. Guess your g/f is real special to you :)

Matt

BTW Merry Christmas everyone!

[Demonz]

Age 11 was a family Cricket set - I just remember a hot sunny day (summer in NZ) playing cricket on the front lawn with my brothers. Same year I got a guitar which I was stoked about. Best Christmas ever.

[Jools'SV Now]

The one I got yesterday when I found out the lump on my gonad was just a cyst.
:smt026
The relief was amazing. :smt023

:smt067 :reaper:

[zobo]

:grouphug: group hug comin your way...man thats good news....now go have a few beers to celebrate :drink:

[Jools'SV Now]

Cheers,
we went out last night to celebrate. The wait for appts at th'ospital was 10days....of nail biting.
Doc said it made a change from looking at babies through the ultrasound :lol:

To raise the mood again:
Actual xmas pressy: individual= scalextric
family one ; a snooker table. (6ft -were not made of money)

[philipMac]

A huge assed climbing frame of Santa.
I was well impressed... with Santa.

Not so impressed with the folks that year though. A couple of chocky bars and a mandarin was their contribution that year.
Anyway... climbing frame it was. It ruled. The brother and I would take dare each other to jump off increasingly higher bits of it.
I can feel the brain jarring impacts even now. Sigh.

[Stig]

It was a push bike when I was about 10 or 11.

Christmas day came and we all opened our prezzies as normal. We were not very well off but knowing no different, the prezzies that we received were as far as we were concerned fantastic. Normally each one of us had something "big". It was almost definitely 2nd hand and a bit worse for wear, but for us it was the best. This particular year everyone opened their big prezzie but I didn't seem to have one. I shrugged it off and enjoyed the rest of the day. It was later in the afternoon that my mother asked me to look out the back to see if was snowing. I opened the curtains and there was my "new" bike. I was beyond myself with joy.

I took it straight outside and went for a ride. I had only got half way down the road when my pedal suddenly hit the floor. The frame had broken with metal fatigue. I was mortified. Not because the bike was broken but the fact that I would have to go home and tell my parents that I had just broken the best gift that they had ever given me.

I blubbed like a baby, but my mum shrugged it off and consoled me. I knew that there was no way that I would be getting a replacement.

School started again, and on my return from my first day back there in the front room was a BRAND NEW RALLY GRIFTER. I just could not believe my eyes. I was exactly the same as the one that all of my friends had. With the gear shift lever in in front of the seat and everything.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/05/300px-Raleigh_chopper_01.jpg

THAT was the best present I have ever had. Not because it was the "in thing" and cool. But because I knew that my mother must have sacrificed something very serious to have got it for me.

[netsurfer]

That was the chopper, the Grifter had a twistgrip gearchange on the handlebars :P :P

I don't know if I could narrow it down to one "best" pressie as my parents really busted themselves to make sure I had a great christmas every year. All taken for granted at the time too :(

Pete

[northwind]

Lego... Every year since I was old enough we'd get some sort of lego, and then spend ages building it, then take it to bits and build something else, then build it again and probably blow it up, then get out all the old lego and so on... Every new bit added to all the rest. The all time best was the castle I got one year. Lego Knights were the best lego, no doubt about it. Pirates were good, but knights were better.

Ah, hang on, I always wondered why it is I'm always tweaking things, taking them to bits and putting them back together, and upgrading and modifying... Bloody lego!

[philipMac]

Did you ever get Tecnic Lego?
Savage stuff altogether.

[northwind]

Technic was good, but not as easy to mess with. My brother had the pneumatic kit, would have been great if we'd had any idea what to do with it :lol:

[Razor]

I got a frisbee one crimbo, brand new it was to. Apart from that it was always second hand stuff from the market. My brother got a 10 speed racer one year, but that was only because my step dad got it in the back of the transit while the owner stepped into the woods for a leak.

[philipMac]

Razor, was your Old man called Del Boy, and your uncle called Rodney, and did you motor about the place in a Robin Reliant by any chance?

http://www.limohire.com/images/brianandvicky%5CTrotters%20Robin%20Reliant.jpg

[Razor]

Razor, was your Old man called Del Boy, and your uncle called Rodney, and did you motor about the place in a Robin Reliant by any chance?

No it was a hand painted oxide red transit.

[Warren]

i recon it was this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Nintendo_entertainment_system.jpeg

[Ceri JC]

Mark's story is lovely. As you say, it's the memories rather than the presents themselves that are so precious.

My favourite is getting a bucket of smarties and a sit on digger with a crane you could move. The memory of tipping the bucket of smarties over the floor and scooping them up and dropping them using the digger is one of the best of my life. :)

[Tomcat]

Obviously as santa I have shopped. We don't do a letter asking for stuff, I believe in surprises....... But my eldest son who is now 10 has last minute mentioned a helicopter that he really likes. After days of battling with myself I have finally decided that stuff it, I will go get it this afternoon .... hopefully this will be his best present, it may be his last santa pressie so it HAS to be done :)

[Tomcat]

stuffed that up .... they sold out ! tough sh*t. merry f*$£ing Christmas :x