Christmas shopping for the kids

[Slipstream]

Last years christmas was cool. My 2 girls got a quad bike for christmas, a BIG dollhouse and lotsa other stuff too.

This year they're getting add on floors to the already BIG dollhouse, plus furniture for each room, a cabbage patch doll each, more barbies and maybe a jigsaw or two. And that's just from their parents.

I like christmas for all the family gathering and good will among people and all that...But the presents...I remember the presents. I wanna be a kid again.

My favourite present getting xmas was when I was 13. I got:
- A barbie corvette
- $500
- A GI Joe Helicopter with pilot
- A McGyver kit bag containing a soldering kit, screwdriver set a beer mug and $10 worth of mixed lollies
- A trip to Rainbows End with an all ride, all day pass.
and then I also got to go sailing round the Marlborogh Sounds for a week with 3 of my family.

I know christmas isn't supposed to about presents, but what 3 things would you ask Santa for .... within reason.

Me I'd like:
- my bike to be working and road legal (1 year outta rego )
- a new car stereo
- leather bike pants

although I really do miss that GI Joe Helicopter...it was cool

[Cajun]

Last years christmas was cool. My 2 girls got a quad bike for christmas, a BIG dollhouse and lotsa other stuff too.

This year they're getting add on floors to the already BIG dollhouse, plus furniture for each room, a cabbage patch doll each, more barbies and maybe a jigsaw or two. And that's just from their parents.

I like christmas for all the family gathering and good will among people and all that...But the presents...I remember the presents. I wanna be a kid again.

My favourite present getting xmas was when I was 13. I got:
- A barbie corvette
- $500
- A GI Joe Helicopter with pilot
- A McGyver kit bag containing a soldering kit, screwdriver set a beer mug and $10 worth of mixed lollies
- A trip to Rainbows End with an all ride, all day pass.
and then I also got to go sailing round the Marlborogh Sounds for a week with 3 of my family.

I know christmas isn't supposed to about presents, but what 3 things would you ask Santa for .... within reason.

Me I'd like:
- my bike to be working and road legal (1 year outta rego )
- a new car stereo
- leather bike pants

although I really do miss that GI Joe Helicopter...it was cool

reply is in other thread of same thing
but yeah that Gi Joe helicopter was good, older brother had that, i had the a10 thunderbolt as my plane, still my fav plane in rl

[Devil]

Christ, all I got on my 13th birthday was a potato sack and lump of coal.

[Cajun]

Christ, all I got on my 13th birthday was a potato sack and lump of coal.

and you had to walk to school in the snow and in bare feet

[vifferman]

Christ, all I got on my 13th birthday was a potato sack and lump of coal.

Potato sack?!?
Coal?!?!!
Luxury.
Pure luxury!
All I got was a clip 'round t' ear'ole, and a wash in a muddy puddle.

[dhunt]

Christ, all I got on my 13th birthday was a potato sack and lump of coal.

I used to get a computer book (Textbook) or two, which would keep me in reading material for the next week or two.

[Storm]

To each his own, Mr Hunt, to each his own

[Racey Rider]

Potato sack?!?
Coal?!?!!
Luxury.
Pure luxury!
All I got was a clip 'round t' ear'ole, and a wash in a muddy puddle.

clip 'round t' ear'ole?!

Used to Dream about having clips around the ear'ole!
At least then there's two of them to allow half the clips on each side! :disapint:

I remember gettin a boot in an entirely different 'ole.

and O,,, a muddy puddle to sit in afterwards would have been BLISS!!

[Jamezo]

man, you bastards had it lucky, for my big 13th I had to beat myself around the head with my malformed stumps, and try cleanse myself with a discarded toner cartridge.

[ajturbo]

you think you had it good?
i didn't live pass my 12th birthday!

[Artifice]

right,
when i was young... we had to get up at 2:30 in the morning half an hour before we'd gone to sleep, in order to go to our jobs at t'mill (and pay for the honour of working there). and when we got home from our labours our dad would clip us round the ear( if we were lucky) before shooting us in the head for what a rotten lot of lazy ungratefull good fornothings we were, but not before we'd dug our own graves, with toothpicks(couldn't afford real picks in those days). and we would count our lucky stars if we could watch the neghbours "beating themselves around the head with thier malformed stumps, and try cleanse themselves with a discarded toner cartridge.". ahh those were the days...

[sels1]

Dosent getting goodies for kids put the fun back in to Xmas?

Wish I could remember what I got when when I was 13...

[jrandom]

... and when we got home from our labours our dad would clip us round the ear( if we were lucky) before shooting us in the head for what a rotten lot of lazy ungratefull good fornothings we were, but not before we'd dug our own graves, with toothpicks

And you tell that to the young people today, and they won't believe yer!

[jrandom]

I know christmas isn't supposed to about presents...

WTF's it supposed to be about, then?

[Slipstream]

WTF's it supposed to be about, then?

I was just trying to PC is all.

So what are you all buying me for xmas....

Seriously tho, does anyone here put lotsa thought into there gift giving, or is it more like the whitcolls add, with guy looking at the notes on the shelves for hints?