Friday Fun: What's the most memorable gift from Santa in your life? 🎅

Kate Pawlak _Appsvio_

Since December has just started, share the gifts you still remember today. They don't have to be the best - they have to be remembered!

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Of all the gifts in my life, I remember the animal nightgown the most 😂 I was about 5-6 years old. I always looked for the wardrobe in which my parents hid the gifts before St. Nicholas' Day. Usually, it was on the shelves with towels, which I couldn't reach because I was too short. That year, my mother called me into the living room to ask if I had been a good kid because there was a gentleman with a present 😉 Of course, I was good! I don't know how it happened, but I went back to my room and there was a present under my pillow. How did my mom do it? I was there all the time! I don't know. But mom was always a sorceress ❤️ Then I got the aforementioned animal pajamas. It was my first nightgown. And my mother always slept in a nightgown. Thanks to this gift, I felt like I was almost an adult because I no longer had to sleep in children's pajamas. That's how I explained it back then to my childish mind 😂

I always asked for sweets and a Barbie doll in my letters to Santa. Never for new pajamas 🙈 And it was her that I remember the most.

 

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How do you remember your gifts from your parents?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

"A thorium bomb?  Of my very own?  Y'know a kiss on the hand might be quite continental, man.  But tactical thermonuclear weaponry is a guy's best friend" - D.R.

But no, I'm not a "Sheldon Cooper", I never tried to build a nuclear reactor as a kid (tempting as it sounds)

I asked for all sorts of stuff, but oddly, never Lego.  Lego always arrived, because my parents understood me better than I did, but I never asked for it.

There are two that stood out though.

First: I asked for a micro-computer once, and my parents delivered.  In the UK, we suffered the curse of Sinclair, which inflicted the ZX80 and ZX81, and later the "Spectrum" upon us (Not sure if that's a bad thing - it certainly inspired some coding and games that worked brilliantly on utterly dreadful hardware), rather than the massively superior Commodore options that the USA picked up on at the time.

But, my father, a man who is still utterly computer-illiterate (he retired early to avoid having to learn to use email), did a huge amount of research and got me a VIC-20.  Over the next few years, Christmas got me upgrades - a C64, a Miggy, and an Amstrad thingy, but the other gift was a modem, so I could use the internet... many years before "the web" was a thing.

Second: was when "Santa" thought I was old enough, I got a Meccano set.  Santa was my grandfather that Christmas - the box he gave me was one of his first toys, and it was, and still is, superb.

I can't leave it at that.  That's the old stuff.  I could easily rattle off a (boring for everyone else) list of the Lego sets, experiences, life improvements, and just... good... stuff, that my wife has found for me at Christmas.  We've been together for a long time, but she's still not had to go to "well, there is room for a third cat" or "you know you always wanted a puppy"...