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With all the delightful DYD layouts in the gallery at the moment and the Nostalgia prompt for the Photography challenge this month, it has me reminiscing a bit.
What do you remember really wanting for christmas as a child/teen? Were you lucky enough to receive it?

I remember as an older child really wanting these Derwent Watercolour pencils that others had at school and were way more expensive than the basic take to school pencil case ones we were given. I still have my dented metal box of 12 as well and I've used them with my kids (they were not as impressed by the fact that you can colour in and then add a sweep of water over them on a brush and ta-da it's like paint but it still blows my mind).
 
Ah sweet memories! I remember wanting a "Barbie Styling Head" - with the push of a button she could have long hair that could brushed and braided - and it came with makeup for her as well. I think it was in 1969 ... probably worth money if I still had it! LOL!
 
As a kid I think my best gift was a pink bike I was drooling about as it had a banana seat and pink streamers too. I loved that bike. As an adult, one memorable gift I remember getting was a kitchenaid mixer that I just couldn't justify spending money on, especially since I knew I wouldn't use it often as I'm not a bakery that didn't stop me from wanting one. So my hubs got it for me.
 
One Christmas when I was a little girl, I wanted a Bubble Yum baby so badly but I hadn't written it in my letter to Santa or really even told anyone about it until Christmas Eve. So I wrote a note to Santa asking for one and left it with his milk and cookies. When I woke up Christmas morning, Bubble Yum baby was there with my note rolled up under her arm. That was the most magical Christmas ever!
 
My dad always got my mom jewelry. I don't just mean for a holiday/birthday. I mean "just because" he'd get her emerald earrings and a matching necklace. When I was about 10, I whined "why don't I get any jewelry?!" (I'm sure I thought I was being matter-of-fact but it was probably a whine rotfl). That Christmas my dad gave me a beautiful pearl necklace in a pretty woven pattern. :)
@carrie1977 I remember those shoes!!! How cool you got them!
 
I really wanted a Cabbage Patch doll when I was 8 or 9. I got her (and my little sister got the boy twin) as well as handmade clothes from my grandma and a baby rocking horse. It was amazing...

until I went down in the basement the next day & saw the baby rocking horse box. When I asked my mom why it was down there, she didn't have a good explanation and seemed kind of embarrassed. Ruh-roh. That was the last time I asked 'Santa' for something for Christmas. :giggle
 
One year I put in a request for a Barbie camper van or a pool.
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I got the pool which I loved but always looked wistfully on my neighbours Barbie camper van, by the time next year rolled around, I had outgrown Barbie (but I secretly would have still loved the camper van).

PS I never had a Ken, so the pool parties were never the same..
 
carrie1977 said:
I remember wanting a pair of these one year...

My parents had six children and did the best they could to get what we asked for. I was ecstatic when I opened up my pair of shoes on Christmas morning. I put many miles on those sneakers.
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I'm #4 of 6 kids. We never realized just how poor we were until we were grown and out of the house. While we didn't have much, we always had 2 new pairs of shoes for school and gifts under the tree. I honestly don't know how they did it.
 
I wanted a Cabbage Patch doll the first year they came out. My uncle was able to get one for me because one of his co-workers won a lottery and had the chance to buy one. She had 5 granddaughters, so she couldn't just buy "one" so she gave my uncle her chance. I was beyond excited.

I remember when I was probably 4, I asked for the Barbie townhouse (never mind the fact I didn't own any Barbies). My parents were total hippies and would never buy something like that. Instead, they made me a wooden 2-story box with four rooms that had carpet squares and curtains and log furniture (they made everything themselves). Of course I was heartbroken.

But that beats later on, when my parents were divorced. One year, my dad scrambled around and gave me one of the dish towels from his kitchen and a dusty jar of popcorn kernels. LOL.
 
djp332 said:
I'm #4 of 6 kids. We never realized just how poor we were until we were grown and out of the house. While we didn't have much, we always had 2 new pairs of shoes for school and gifts under the tree. I honestly don't know how they did it.
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Yes! As kids we never knew just how much they had to work their butts off to provide for all of us. My mom ran her own daycare out of our home (even with six children!) and they owned a janitorial business. Us kids never knew how hard they had it sometimes. Only now as parents do we know. I don't know how they did it. It's hard enough for us with two. lol
 
The only gift I remember really, really wanting was this game that was kind of like a mini-obstacle course. You had a little hand-held blower thing that you would use to hover a pingpong ball through the obstacle course. It was really kinda cool and I did get it for Christmas.
 
Well I am totally showing my age here but my best Christmas present as a kid was a transistor! LOL! I was around 13 years old (circa 1965) and thought it was soooooo cool to snuggle into bed and listen to the radio with my little headphones on!!!!!!!! The radio station back then used to close at 12.00pm! :giggle But I could listen to the Beach Boys and the Beatles and.... and.............. :giggle
 
I remember really wanting a snoopy snowcone machine. I must have been very vocal about that wish because BOTH of my Grandma's bought me one. Lol! I loved that thing!

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