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Memorable Christmas Presents of our Youth
6th Christmas: Dawn doll. Kind of like Barbie but smaller.
When I was 7: A Breyer model of Misty Of Chicoteague and the book.
12th Christmas: An 8 Track tape player that looked like a dynamite detonator and 3 Bay City Rollers tapes. Be still my prepubescent heart!
I'm sure there were better but these are the ones that really stood out.
What do you remember?
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12/13/07, 09:13 PM
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S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT! Go Bay City Rollers! My most memorable would be when I was probably 6 or 7 and I got a Holly Hobby and Heather Doll, I really wanted Heather, but my mom thought I should have Holly Hobby so she bought both!
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12/13/07, 09:15 PM
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I wanted a baseball glove. I think I was 7 or 8. I walked into the living room and sitting by the tree was a bicycle with a baseball glove hanging on the handle bar! I remember being soooooo excited when I noticed the glove!
My favorite Christmas would have been all the ones when my kids were little.
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12/13/07, 09:15 PM
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I had a Holly Hobbie lunchbox. She was so cute.
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12/13/07, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by LisaInN.Idaho
I had a Holly Hobbie lunchbox. She was so cute.
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I had the Holly Hobby oven! It was so much fun
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12/13/07, 09:21 PM
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My most memorable present was the Dr, Seuss book "1 Fish 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish", when I was 5 or 6.. My parents didn't buy any books or many toys at all. So, I thought I was a really good girl because Santa brought a Book for me..
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12/13/07, 09:23 PM
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I still have my Holly Hobby Doll, my sister got Heather, (still have Crissy too.)
loved The Bay City Rollers. My most memorable, was my first grown up coat, it went down past my knees and had tied shut in the middle. I remember walking around Germany, thinking I was something special. i can still picture myself in it.
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12/13/07, 09:24 PM
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Weeble Wobles!!!! 
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I was seven. My aunt gave me a barbie doll. But something else was included in the package she hadn't counted on and I think it scarred me for life.
When I opened the package. It was filled with ants. Seriously. I already had a fear of ants and this did NOT help. THey came pouring out. Apparently they had crawled into the package while under her tree. I still have nightmares.
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12/13/07, 09:30 PM
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well you've seen the pictures of my Xwing and the Tie fighter box in the back ground... and my underoos...
sheesh, I was spoiled that Christmas. I believe that was 77 or 78.
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12/13/07, 09:32 PM
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I was 8. I wanted a Pebbles Doll. I got a plastic heart container full of pebbles, little rocks...... My heart was broken. My Mom thought Pebbles was ugly. I got a Laurie Doll instead. I never once played with the Laurie doll. My Mom laughed, thought it was a big joke. Looking back from an adult perspective, I can see where she thought it was so funny. Knowing it from a child's perspective, it was very hurtful. But it is the Christmas of my childhood I remember the most.
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12/13/07, 09:42 PM
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Was in the 1940's, I wanted a rubber dolly. I got one for Christmas along with a Dr. kit. I did surgery on her, cut her tummy to remove her appendix , and put her back together with safety pins. I also got a good spanking.
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12/13/07, 09:51 PM
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My most memorable one was in the first grade, I asked for a record player.
And I got one. Still have it.
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12/13/07, 09:57 PM
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I can remember being about 7 and getting a small folding type barbi house and a barbi van!
I was obsessed with barbie's!
I am 37 and i find myself sneaking into my 7 year olds room playing with hers when she is at school!  :banana02:
(just kidding : i usually just play with her, its much more fun....lol)
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Was in the 1940's, I wanted a rubber dolly. I got one for Christmas along with a Dr. kit. I did surgery on her, cut her tummy to remove her appendix , and put her back together with safety pins. I also got a good spanking.
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You remind me of why i had no dolls..one of my brothers always stole my dolls shaved there heads and cut them up. He would tell me he had to do surgery on them or they would die and ide have no baby dolls, he saved them!
my brother the hero! lol
I jokingly tell him now that God has punished him by making him lose his hair for what he had always done to my dollies!
we laugh now about this...uhhh the memories, ohhhh my poor ole bald brother lol
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12/13/07, 10:25 PM
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I do not remember how old I was but I got my Mrs.Beasliy doll, I still have it.
It is packed away in the box it came in, I only took it out out the box a few times did not want to get her dirty. Then I outgrew her,Paula
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12/13/07, 10:31 PM
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1957, first Xmas in the US, 5 years old. Got a Tonka road grader. Moved lots of dirt with that thing.
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I was about 8 years old and my Grandmother had hand made three foot tall Raggy-Ann dolls for my sister and me. We came out Christmas morning and there they were, not wrapped, but sitting under the tree. We still have them and their cloths. She hand stitched on a heart on each girls body with I Love You and then our initials.
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12/13/07, 11:15 PM
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I was seven years old and I got a spirograph set. I remember being so excited and thinking I was the luckiest kid in the world!
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12/13/07, 11:37 PM
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I remember I wanted a Crissy doll, you could pull her hair and make it longer, all the other girls had one , well I got it, i loved her, and then my step dads aunt was dying, we went to visit, and you know how sometimes the very eldery favor dolls, well she saw it and brushed its hair and talked to it, dressed it over and over, well you know it, i let her keep it. It made her happier than it made me.
one year I worked hard to get my mom the polaroid camera, the one where the picture comes out, well we exchanged gifts at the same time, opened at the same time, and guess what she had bought me the exact same camera!!!LOL
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Originally Posted by Ashtina98
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT! Go Bay City Rollers! My most memorable would be when I was probably 6 or 7 and I got a Holly Hobby and Heather Doll, I really wanted Heather, but my mom thought I should have Holly Hobby so she bought both!
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LOL!! I got that album too! I was just young enough to enjoy it. The next year found me in my southern rock stage then the hard rock stage the year after that. Those stages never ended. I still listen to The Bay City Rollers though. Got a CD a couple years ago with them on it.
My most memorable christmas present was a TYCO HO train set. I recieved three of them three years in a row. I had our basement seriously filled with trains at one point. It's a passion that's still with me. Now they are N scale though and for the time being they are packed away for safe keeping.
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