Hey Pandas, What Is The Best Christmas Gift You Ever Received?

When I was around 7-8, my parents decided to trust me with a 1986 Ski-Doo Tundra. Still have it, works great, the only issue is that none of the lights work and it has no reverse.

A pony and a horse (tack and all)

A Pink panther!

My birthday is November 30th. Every year, my parents would tell me to "remember to ask around your birthday and Christmas" for things. If something was name brand or expensive, we either recieved it for a special occasion or saved our money and bought it ourselves.

I was raised in a very small rural town. One year somehow we got to go shopping between my birthday and Christmas. I had birthday money I needed to spend. There were 2 Barbies I wanted. Barbie's little Stacie had just been introduced, and 90210 dolls came out. I NEEDED a Stacie and Brenda Walsh. I was in the store with my mom trying to decide since I could only afford one.

I don't remember how she did it, but she talked me into buying Brenda. I was so happy. Then Christmas came and my parents gave me Stacie!!!! My mom had it the whole time so she really had to get me to buy Brenda. Best. Christmas. Ever.

A store the size of the doll's house so that the dolls could go shopping (food and toothpaste and Maggi and such things). With a cash register, scales and tiny little paper bags for packing loose lentils, pasta and dried beans. Together with the doll's house, the Christkind picked it up again a few days after Christmas, only to bring it back the following Christmas.

An ivory pendant made from my late Grandmonther's piano keys.

I think it's my Mjølner-necklace. It's one of the first Christmas presents my bf got me. And he saw that I'm a Norse Heathen but that I didn't have a necklace that showed it. I had other "alternative" necklaces (Ankh, pentagram... you know) but bot anything that showed my faith.

Have worn it almost every day since he gave it to me.

Peace. My first Christmas being out of foster care, and away from an abusive house. It was raining; there was no tree or presents. Just the bliss of knowing that I was finally free from what I considered hell on earth.

I was a divioced single mom with an18 month old baby & I was 26 yrs old.
I asked my mother to get me a nice set of pots & pans because the set I got 7 yrs earlier was getting worn out.
When Christamas arrived she came to visit for the day bringing a big box. Oh boy my new pans. I was so happy till I opened my box. No PANS.
To my shock & disappointment it was filled with every form of Taboo cologne, lotion, and powder she could find.
I was upset & said mom I really needed & wanted the pots & pans. I dont need all this perfume stuff.
She took my hand & said I could save my money & get a set in a few months but I would never save enough to buy even one bottle of perfume for myself. She was right in a few months I was showing off my new pans I saved up for.
I enjoyed many many an evening in a bubbles bath relaxing after a long day. I always had nice perfume to put on for a dinner out or special event. She taught me to take care of myself & enjoy little things to be happy. I am now 65 & have a very fond memory of that Christmas so long ago.
(BTW We lost mom 2 years later making my gift all the more endearing. It took years to use the lasts of the perfume.)

Vintage Christmas linens and place settings, crystal serving trays, and a pearl necklace from my late Grandmother. She passed from covid last year and those were the things she wanted me to have. They arrived in the mail just after Christmas, so they weren't actually gift wrapped presents, but I felt like they were my last presents from her that I'll cherish forever.