What was the best toy you can remember getting for christmas as a kid. Mine is boring because it was a desk. I was little miss organized so thats why I loved it so much. Boring ha.

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I would have to say a Spirograph.It was the only toy that I actually ever asked for.My brother use to get all the fun things which were usually my favorites,like tinker toys,and the Erector set.I played with his hot wheels more than he ever did,lol.

My parents didn't believe in toys.......

My best present though was an oak daybed.....I loved that bed, and still actually have it!

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Santa brought my sister and I baby dolls one year...I was supposed to get the one my sister liked and she was supposed to get the one I liked...I guess santa was a little off that year LOL!! Anyway, we named them Megan and Courtney and we used to LOVE those little babies...the next year, we got my child dolls...they looked just like us! They were awesome! Other than that, I guess it would be the king size blanket my grandmother hand-croched and then decided it was too heavy so she broke it up into three lap blankets, one for each of her granddaughters...I cherish that everyday!

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my cabbage patch doll

I remember wanting one these so badly......all my friends got them, but not me.....

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Wayne Woodrow “Woody” Hayes

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I'm like you mabear... my favorite toy that I ever received was the ONLY toy that I ever received... Let the pity party begin, LOL. Nah, in retrospect I feel like my parents gave me a lot. I really think that I had a unique but rewarding childhood and tell my parents that all the time. They have since become apologetic about the way that we were raised. No biggie!

Anyway, back on topic! My favorite toy that I ever got for Christmas was one of those Barbie dolls that you could style the hair. Unfortunately, her hair was a matted wreck within a week.

Mine was a Barbie condo................my brother and I got up at like 3AM and played with that until we got caught!!!!

Kathie

I had at least a couple. One was a big box of craft items (stickers, coloring books, crayons, and stuff like that). The other was a electrical do-it-yourself kit that had all these little pieces you could put together to build different electrical things. It was the same idea as a chemistry set. Oh yeah, I got a chemistry set too, but I liked the electrical thing more.

I would say a new bike that my oldest brother got me and two Silver Dollar coins that my next oldest brother gave to me. I looked at them one day and they have the year I was born and the year DH was born on them. I have one to pass on for my DD and one for my DS.

Hey my little brother hasn't given me a present! I want something sentinmental from that little twit!! Oh and my oldest brother gave me a music jewelry box one year and I still have it. Come to think of it my other brother gave me a butterfly necklace I still have that too.

That's it I am going to go beat up my little brother. lol

Mine was Chatty Baby - little sister to Chatty Kathy

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Mary

Mine was a digital clock radio. I wanted it so badly. My mom & dad got it for me, then wrapped up 2 kleenex boxes in the same paper just to see how disappointed I was when I opened it. Then they gave me the clock radio! I was just getting into listeneing to music on the radio and I loved that radio!

Lisa

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My favorite gift as a child was a used Mrs. Beasley doll that my aunt passed on to me one Christmas. I carried that doll around until her arms literally fell off. When my parents went through a nasty divorce my dad threw the doll away because my mother told him not to...Jerk MY mother tried to replace her with an adoption doll she had specially made for me. I loved my adoption doll but nothing was as good as Mrs. Beasley As an adult there have been too many to name. Anything the kids have made for me and the things dh has picked for me have all been special

Wow...I have alot of favorites! My Easy Bake Oven, the green banana seat bicycle, or the Crissy doll in the orange dress! ~Lisa

I still have the Crissy doll - complete with the shiny peach/orange dress!!

My favorite item ever was a gumball machine and a carton of refills! Ah - the good 'ol days

can't remember the best but I remember the worst LOL I wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll something fierce and I got....


a Fruit Patch Kid LOL One o the generics. I was so upset...I cried for days. All the other girls on my street got a Cabbage Patch Doll and I had to bring my generic one and I got made fun of. I never asked for a popular toy again for xmas

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Toy kitchen set. It was made of metal (think sharp edges....gasp!). The beauty of that little set was the sink. You could actually draw water up throught the faucet and serve somebody a real drink. It must have been a nightmare for my parents, but I still remember it very well.

I got a Liddle Kiddle on a skateboard. They were tiny dolls bigger than polly pockets but smaller than kelly dolls. I had a whole mess of them and I wanted the skateboard one so much. I got her and a Suzy Homemaker oven the same year and I was thrilled.

I wouldn't say it was my best gift, but, it's a memorable one for some reason; a calculator. I also remember getting a new camera.

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Mine was a tin (cookie tin) full of handmade clothes for my barbie doll from my Aunt. I cherished those clothes. She hand sewn each one for me out of clothes from my Grandparents that I had lost that year. I have looked everywhere in our old house and still can't find them Another was a baby doll that you put a pencil in her hand and it was attached to your pencil with some kind of mechinal piece of plastic and she drew, wrote what you did. I loved that doll. Couldn't tell you what happen to her either

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One of my favorite things was a knitting kit the year that I was in 4th grade. I worked all Christmas day with the directions and the needles and I taught my self how to knit.

Kids do need some toys ( I think most kids have too many now days). Kids learn from the right toys. For example, a doll of some kind allows a child to role model and practice parenting and caring. Blocks teach a child about balance, building, space and math concepts. Color books helps a budding artist. And so on.....

Coasti, ask your children to get you a Mrs. Beasley doll now. Even though it's not your original, it will still bring you memories and it will come full circle to you as your children gave it to you. Do a google search. You can buy them from places that collect old dolls, or they make current reproductions.

You can also get Cabbage Patch dolls. :-)
Or buy the dolls for your children or grandchildren. It will be a full circle too.

I wish I still had my Chatty Kathy doll.

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Donna

OMG I forgot about Kiddle dolls! LOL What a memory!

My favorite Christmas present was a Panosonic Ball and Chain AM Radio. That thing was sooo coool! The only bad thing was it wouldn't fit under your pillow, so you could listen to it going to sleep, without disturbing my sisters who were in the same room. You had to use the ear plug, and that thing hurt! Then you'd leave it on all night and the battery would wear out.

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Mary

Oh hands down, was the year I got The Sunshine Family, figures, popup house, and van. I loved these figures soo much. I've actually entertained buying the figures on ebay for nostalgic reasons. Brings back sweet memories.

My other favorite toy was Baby Chrissy, the lifesize baby, who had the hair coming out of her head, and you could adjust the length by a button on her back. My sister had just been born, and I got this doll for my Communion. My mother used to do a double take, cause she thought I was carrying my sister around by her arm. LOL.

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Eileen

**Some people are like Slinky's, not really good for anything, but you can't help laugh when you see one tumble down the stairs**

What were the little dolls inside a perfume bottle sort of thing? I seem to remember something like that...

cj/

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Those were a special type of liddle kiddle. You can see an especially creepy-looking one on ebay:
Little Kiddles Cologne Bottle with doll 1967 new condit - (eBay item 220171958268 end time Nov-20-07 13:19:40 PST)


(Not my ebay post, btw. I'm not trying to sell the creepy smelly kiddle.)


Oh, just found out their real name: Kiddle Kologne.

Yup, those be the one!!! I had a bunch of those little cuties. But Lily of the Valley was my favorite because it was my birth month flower. Thanks.....

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It would have to be the Donny and Marie Stage complete with the Donny and Marie Dolls and tons of clothes to go with them and believe it or not I still have it along with my barbies. Had hoped to pass it all on to a little girl but I had 4 boys maybe I will split it up for the grandbabies later.

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