What was the best present you ever got?

[Cindiloohoo]

I just got my favorite gift this year. Little niece worked so hard wrapping it. It really took me while to get into the package, all neat with a little blue bow on top. Lots of tape she used to make sure I couldn't peek. Once I got it opened, it hit me just how special the gift is. You see, all of her 6 years her very faovorite thing to do with me was run errands and do grocery shopping. She knows I always go to the bank while doing this to make a deposit. Every time we go the lady at the window gives her a few suckers, and every time I tease her about "OH, Hannah, look what this nice lady gave me!!" Well this time, a very sweet little lady decided it was high time Aunt Cindi got a sucker of her very own

This is what she wrapped so carefully, and this is my very favorite gift this year. It's even my favorite flavor, and she remembered which ones I love the best! Cherry Dum Dums!

along with that I also recieved a almost sharpened pencil, a plastic flower ring, and very special $5 play money bill from her own cash register I got her for Christmas last year. I couldn't be happier! Merry Christmas everybody!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

My wife Sharon was my best present ever.

Steve

 

[darkmatter]

It's been many, many years since my childhood, (physically, mentally I've never grown up) and we always got things like socks, underwear and other articles of clothing. The stockings would have an Orange in them and little knickknacks. We did have ever growing piles of legos and tinker toys, part inherited from the older siblings. But the toy that stands out in my memory was a cheap tin robot, rather boxy in shape that ran on batteries and did nothing but run in circles while flashing lights and making a grinding noise------the batteries never lasted very long and/or removed by my parental units to shut the D**** thing up.

 

[turney31]

A blue roan mare, named Tosh, when I was 9. I had her 25 years. Not my first horse but my best friend.

Edited to add- Her picture has hung in every kitchen I've ever had!

 

[Judy]

Any of the inexpensive things my son gave me when he was a young child, bought with his small allowance. I still have most of them. There is a glass dish in my living room, clear with a pink rim, that he bought at a yard sale. Much as I hate pink, I love this dish. Then there is the cup/ash tray combo he made and kiln fired for me.... you get the idea.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

The Christmas I was six I got a dollhouse made by my grandfather. It was the most beautiful dollhouse ever. My grandmother had decorated the inside with wallpaper scraps from their home and felt for carpet. It came with basic furniture and a set of dolls. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and I played in it until I was a teenager. Even then I collected tiny little dollhouse items for it. My first sewing projects were sheets and pillows and such for the tiny beds. It was beautiful. To make it even more special was the sad event of my grandfather's death that year. He had planned on making one for each granddaughter. I got the only one.
When I went off to college I packed it all up carefully and it went into storage. Mom and Dad were selling my childhood home and it needed to be cleaned out to sell. At some point during that period the storage shed was broken into and all our stuff was stolen, including my dollhouse. I haven't seen it since.

My BIL spent the last three months making dollhouses for my nieces. They are beautiful also and the girls are so excited about them. We pulled all my dollhouse furniture out of the attic this evening and the girls oohed and aahed over all the little tiny things. It was quite the trip down memory lane. I bought myself a dollhouse kit this fall. Perhaps by next Christmas I'll have it together and can play dollhouse with my nieces.

 

[onecent]

I have 2 that come to mind, on Christmas 1976 i got a beautiful arabian filly! she had lips like a camel & i named her Clyde

,then on Christmas of 2004 my son got me a 1979 lincoln continental i still have the lincoln,

Clyde went to live out her life on a big farm with a big pasture.

 

[Livinzoo]

This Christmas might be the best gift I have ever had. I think labor is starting. I'm going to have my baby girl.

 

[GaNewChick]

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[debilorrah]

I came into the world a Disney fanatic, and when I was 6 years old, my mother made me a Snow White costume and her former husband made me a GORGEOUS vanity set with the magic mirror on it. I even had high heels!!!!! I will never forget that Christmas.

Another year, after I had become obssessed with the Wizard of Oz, I got my own ruby slippers and I will never forget when I out grew them and they were SOOO worn and she threw them away. A couple years ago she bought me another pair in the same small size. That gesture touched me deeply.