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Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 12:15 PM
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My favorite Christmas present was a puppy whom I named Jingles. The puppy coincided with my only white Christmas - a surprise 2 inch over-night snow in Spartanburg. Jingles was my childhood dog and like the saying goes "man's/boy's best friend." That day was awesome; playing with my puppy, sledding, and snow ball fights with my neighborhood friends. The only negative was my Dad's decision to place Jingles in my Christmas stocking. Sooooo when I came into the den on Christmas morning I saw the puppy looking out from my stocking. I screamed with delight and quickly grabbed him. In all the joy and excitement Jingles peed in my stocking. Later that day I noticed all the hard candy in the bottom of my stocking was gooey and stuck together. It still tasted good to me and my cousins who came over that night.
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Mine was probably my first stereo. A Sears catalogue special, AM/FM
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Oct 25, 2023, 12:21 PM
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radio and a fancy FOLD OUT turntable, with two separate speakers that must have been all of 6" woofers with some paper tweeters. But, it was MINE. I used to fall asleep to the old fading in and out WLS FM from Chicago, Illinois, that would come in all the way down here in South Carolina on clear nights.
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A dirt bike and a rifle. I'm pretty sure my Dad was
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Oct 25, 2023, 12:38 PM
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trying to kill me off.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 12:42 PM
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#1 My first real bike at age 5.
#2 My first basketball goal at age 6.
It's been downhill ever since.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 12:55 PM
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A red fire truck with a battery operated siren and rotating ladder from an uncle I had never met before. I was 15. 🤣
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One year when we were doing well I got
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Oct 25, 2023, 12:59 PM
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a stick and an apple with a rotten spot in it.
Nothing with dog pee on it though, thank goodness, it would have ruined the stick.
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A 10-speed bicycle one Christmas.
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Oct 25, 2023, 12:59 PM
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And a Commodore 64 for another Christmas.
I did get a collector Clemson Barbie one Christmas, and I wasn't sure how to react to it. I still have it in case I need to sell it.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 1:01 PM
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1971 Sears and Roebuck Funderbird go-kart. I had dreamed about getting one of those from the first time I saw it in the catalog. I would beg my parents to go to the old Sears building across the street from The Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium, just so I could gaze upon it thru the window of the tire department window.
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my fondest memory i have of christmas
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Oct 25, 2023, 1:05 PM
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is during the carter administration when all i got was my mom and dad because the economy
was tanked there were gas shortages and work was scarce for my dad who was a plumber my mom had to take
on a job for us to barely get by and we did have a good christmas diner and thankful for Christ's birth.
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Check out some pics of gas shortages from
Oct 25, 2023, 9:16 PM
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Nixon years. Wow, those gas lines were epic.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 1:07 PM
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A Daisy Red Ryder BB rifle. We were poor and we only got one Santa gift and it was the only thing we got all year. So, we learned to take care of our "toys".
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 1:18 PM
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I still have my old Red Ryder BB gun. I'll never part with that.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 1:35 PM
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Been waiting for that pony for 60 years. I'm running out of time.
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A set of mags for my Z-28.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 1:49 PM
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Every year I'd get a football game. The electric football games came and went, but one year, there was a game that folded out to a 4' by 8' field. The players were probably about 5" tall. The offense had a running back on wheels that you wound up and pointed toward the goal, and the defense had two defenders on wheels that you'd push toward the wind up running back and try to knock it over.
Had a freaking blast with that game. Hadn't seen one like before or since.
That game tops the list because I was probably 8 years old.
1981 Orange Bowl tickets were pretty sweet as a college sophomore though.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 1:58 PM
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1978 or 1979 - Star Wars Millennium Falcon, the large one about 2' diameter
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
Oct 25, 2023, 4:33 PM
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A pork chop bone on a fake silver chain to wear around my neck so the dog would play with me. He followed me everywhere.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 6:06 PM
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Evel Knievel stunt cycle. Nothing came close. I'd play with it right now if I still had it.
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Mattell electronic football
Oct 25, 2023, 6:29 PM
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1st version had no passing and rb only went up down and forward. But still it was glorious.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 6:45 PM
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I cheap Timex watch from my Great Auntie
at about age 7. Made me feel like an "adult" !
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 6:56 PM
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AK 47
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Favorites over the years young to old
Oct 25, 2023, 9:31 PM
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any kind of Matchbox or Hot Wheel cars and cities, loved them all. little kid
Any kind of setup with barn and farm animals as a little kid
BB gun young boy
Honda XR75 age 12
Guitar pre teen
Basketball goal pre teen
Bikes were always awesome when time for a new one. Little kid an ET movie type bike in late 60s early 70s to older kid ten speed in mid 70s
Orange Bowl tickets age 18
Pontiac Firebird age 20
Clemson class ring age 22, graduated in December.
If my parents only knew, they could have gotten me nothing and I'd have been happy just to be their son. They are amazing parents. They worked their ##### off to provide and celebrate. They did not have high paying jobs.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Oct 25, 2023, 10:14 PM
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The original Nintendo the year it came out.
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Re: Christmas is coming ... "What was your fondest Christmas present as a kid? "
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Christmas 1971. Santa gave me a 1972 Yamaha JT-2 motorcycle. Been hooked since that day. Worked in the motorcycle industry from 1974 until 2021. Still love it, and still ride now. Made a lot of great friends over the years that enjoyed my same passion. Biggest thrill has been riding with both of my kids, and watching my grandkids enjoy the same experience.
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