Comments on: Win a cute preschooler bike from YBIKE

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:44:28 +0000

My favorite big box gift was a computer. And you know it was big because this was before the days of skinny computers and flat screens. My siblings and I spent hours playing games and not so much on homework.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:25:12 +0000

The gift I wanted most was an Easy Bake Oven and I of course was disappointed that I did not get one under the tree, but my birthday is four days after christmas. So I later found out that my parents had had a talk with Santa so that he would know that they got me the oven for my birthday and instead he gave me a doll of Christmas.

By: Cassie Hay

Cassie Hay — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:03:15 +0000

My favorite Christmas gift was a ping pong table that was for both my brother and I. We would play ping pong for hours on end, and had such a blast doing so!

By: michelle

michelle — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:08:32 +0000

we don’t celebrate christmas, but i always wanted a dog or a cat and my parents wouldn’t get one for us. so in order to prove that i could handle the responsibility, i had my younger brother get on his hands and knees and walk around like my pet and we showed my parents we could do it. as you can imagine, they weren’t convinced!!!

By: Lael

Lael — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:53:58 +0000

Sometimes the box is the gift! I have exceptionally fond memories of my
mom sewing lots of pillows for a huge cardboard box I love to si and read in. Sometimes the best presents are the oddest!

By: Caryn

Caryn — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:44:37 +0000

I was about 8 years old and I had the biggest present under the tree – bigger than my 3 siblings had received and I was SO excited to open it. It was the one present I had my eye on and I could care less about the ‘smaller’ gifts. I had huge visions of what it could be! Imagine my disapointment when it turned out to be a sleeping bag!! At 8, who wants something practical!? LOL. Especially when the doll house or play kitchen day dreams went up in smoke (as an adult a sleeping bags a great gift, as a kid – not so great. haha). This Ybike would be a much more suitable ‘kid’ gift than a sleeping bag!

By: Amy Klein

Amy Klein — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:51:21 +0000

I remembering LOVE cabbage patch dolls and I wanted one so badly. But that was the year that there were no more in the stores, women lined up at 5 am to get one, mother were stampeded for them. Let just say, my mom was NOT one of those moms. I got the fake doll with the bad nose. Hated that present.

By: Wendy Power

Wendy Power — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:29:29 +0000

My dad gave me a card at Christmas when I was nine, with a note saying I was to visit him where he lived, in London, the following summer. Wowzers.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:04:31 +0000

When I was five I asked for a bike. My mom and dad kept telling me not to be disappointed if I didn’t get it, they were expensive, yada, yada, yada. anyway, fast forward to Christmas morning, no bike, but then we went outside for my brother to try out his new skates and my bike was right outside the door. I was SO excited!

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 04:26:59 +0000

I remember my mom had vacuumed into a wrapped box in the closet. My brother and I found it and got so exited it was an Atari that we made her open it early.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:09:31 +0000

I always always always wanted an American Girl doll– specifically Samantha. Now that I have a daughter, I’d thought about getting one “for her”…but I think Samantha is discontinued! Nooooo!

By: Kate LaMere

Kate LaMere — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 02:53:04 +0000

Most memorable big item – the Barbie Dream House… Most memorable because I didn’t want it. I somehow knew it was expensive and didn’t think it was that cool. I think I faked it and my parents never knew that it wasn’t my dream come true. I always had more fun crafting Barbie ‘houses’ out of shoe boxes!