What's the best Christmas present you've ever had?

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

We called them caseys when I was young.

I think we just called them 'bladders' - in the dry we preferred them to Mouldies (Mitre Mouldmasters)

At a tangent to Christmas pressies - but on footballs - enjoyed this about playground footie using a Mouldie

http://sundayclocksarestriking.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/mouldmaster-or-torture.html

 

[Deleted member 18588]

The first "plassie" footballs I remember were Frido (?).

About as durable as tissue paper but, in theory at least, repairable using a heated "branding iron". Absolutely useless but you could still have a kickabout with them.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

The first "plassie" footballs I remember were Frido (?).

About as durable as tissue paper but, in theory at least, repairable using a heated "branding iron". Absolutely useless but you could still have a kickabout with them.

Some lighter ones were balloons and more often than not were not round and so wobbled all over the place after you kicked them.

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Some lighter ones were balloons and more often than not were not round and so wobbled all over the place after you kicked them.

Aye! Great fun on a windy day!

 

[chrisd]

Strangely the answer is a tumble drier!

It was over 40 years ago, I was getting married in February and had bought a house a few months earlier, and was paying a hefty mortgage at the time. My mum who bought up 5 of us up, largely alone and always skint, bought us a tumble drier for Christmas.

 

[AmandaJR]

The one that always stands out for me is Katy Copycat. I hated dolls as a rule but this one was "interactive" (in those days) and I really wanted one. We weren't well off, 5 of us and Dad was single parent, so I woke early on Christmas morning not expecting my wish to come true but there she was all set up in the corner of my bedroom - my Dad was such a special man!

http://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/i...ycat_360_86ec532dbb85a3a2716216e1ad33bee8.jpg

 

[Liverbirdie]

An atari, along with 3 games. Also got astro wars the year later.

Computer games should stay in your childhood.:thup:

 

[Bazz]

The one that always stands out for me is Katy Copycat. I hated dolls as a rule but this one was "interactive" (in those days) and I really wanted one. We weren't well off, 5 of us and Dad was single parent, so I woke early on Christmas morning not expecting my wish to come true but there she was all set up in the corner of my bedroom - my Dad was such a special man!

http://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/i...ycat_360_86ec532dbb85a3a2716216e1ad33bee8.jpg

Always more special when you really aren't expecting it.