If you were to name the absolute best gift you ever received as a child, what would it be?

Answer 1

My doctor who and his tardis was wicked I loved it

Answer 2

The bike for me is the perennial best gift for it has been an enabler. It has carried me to new and strange lands from which a child such as I was may find new delights. I have embarked upon epic journeys that some would believe could only be made by car. I have confronted great terrors and by speed of pedals escaped those terrors. I have courted danger and had brushes with great injury but, thankfully, avoided wounds of the most serious nature. The bike, for me, was the gift of new worlds.

Answer 3

When I was about 7 or 8, my sister and I were recipients of the Salvation Army Angel Tree. We got so many gifts, I couldn't believe it. We had nothing and someone was generous enough to provide a tree, and gifts like pound puppies, cabbage patch babies, strawberry shortcake dolls, (the ones you squeeze and the breath smells like berries) clothes.... 22 years later I still remember that day, and I participate in the Angel Tree giving so I can give somebody what I received. A miracle.

Answer 4

I don't remember "gifts" as much as I remember "events"...when I think back I remember the excitement of Christmas, the anticipation...but the presents, once opened were quickly forgotten. I remember making homemade Christmas cards with my Mom. I remember driving in the car and looking out the window for Rudolph's nose in the sky on Christmas eve...give a memory instead of a gift.

Answer 5

Oxo.
That's the name I gave the rocking horse my dad made for me one Christmas (in the mid 60's) - not an elaborate one quite square faced, blocky and the paint job looked like the cover of a packet of oxo cubes !, but having said that my dad was a genius at mechanics so the rocking motion was perfection !. God, I miss that horse, I treasured it because my dear dad made it for me - I didn't know my parents couldn't afford a shop bought one.

Thanks for bringing back that memory, and also the memory of my dear dad.

Answer 6

A Schwinn Stingray Bicycle.

Answer 7

My big sister knew we didn't have money to get a tree...she found a small old tree someone didnt want in an alley and drug it all the way home so we could have one. She was probably 7 or 8. I was 4 or 5. My sister is really quite amazing. Even now in her late twenties. :)

Answer 8

Probably the light up microphone thing I got when I was like 8. Or Super Nintendo.

Answer 9

ultimate present i ever gained from my father and mom [ in the previous my Dad died] substitute right into a doll with long brown hair. It had one curler with it to twist the hair with and that i desperate to play hairdressers. regrettably had the hair-dryer on warm and adverse Marinda [ my dolls call ] substitute into bald for something of her existence. I nevertheless have her adverse little one, she has one eye that seems in direction of the sky and one that never opens. Then my mom married my stepfather and all we ever have been given substitute into panties and socks. terrible. Hated it. :))))

Answer 10

A little porcelain tea set that I still have a few pieces of now, I thought I was the bees knees with that tea set when I was little.

Answer 11

A rusty old bike on which I learned to ride. It had flat tyres, and I rode it up and down my yard.
I thought it was wonderful.
Years later, when I had a bike with air in the tyres, I thought I was the luckiest girl alive.
Simple pleasures - thanks for the memories.