Your most memorable Christmas memories
I have quite a few:
Christmas 1988:
There was only one thing I really wanted - a CD player. Yes, I was six years old. However, my dad had one and my mother got one too. They were so cool and obviously expensive to have - but I knew that I needed it! So when Christmas came, Santa was very limited in gifts that year - but he got me a CD player and my brother got a Nintendo. I remember my dad hooked this CD player up on that Christmas day and he was not feeling well at all. I recall that no one else in my class has their own CD player. I felt very special.
Christmas 1989:
In 1989, I was seven years old. At the time, I grew a fascination towards money - and all I really wanted for Christmas was a $20 dollar bill and a $50 dollar bill. In second grade, our class wrote letters to Santa. I remember I specifically asked for the money. I got a letter back from Santa and he said that he will look into it. When Christmas rolled around, I remember that I got a Sega Genesis. I know for sure Santa got the memo that I didn't ask for a Sega Genesis when I made my Christmas list! I think after a crying episode, I was forced by my mom to make good of the situation and keep the Sega Genesis (even though I only wanted $70 dollars). It came with Altered Beast. My parents also got me a few games with it - if I remember right, those games were Space Harrier 2 and Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (there probably was a few more - but I don't recall the titles). I remember I use to come home from school and play the Sega Genesis non-stop - and I did eventually beat both all of those games I have just mentioned.
Christmas 1991:
I got a Lego set and some clothes. I remember when I was setting it all up, I heard on the TV that President Gorbachev resigned as President of the USSR.
Christmas 1992:
(I just looked in my fifth grade journal to refresh my mind) I got a Ren and Stimpy doll, a box of comic cards (DC and Marvel), five Elton John CDs, a silver and gold certificate (money!), and a Encyclopedia. Now that I mentioned these things, I do remember that Christmas. It was a pretty good one. Probably one of the last truly memorable ones I had as a kid.
Christmas 2001:
I spent this Christmas in Germany on Ramstein Air Base. This was the first one without my immediate family since I joined the Air Force about 10 months previously. It felt kind of weird - but I did spoil myself to play my new digital piano (at the time) - the Roland RD-150. I bought it the day before Christmas. Funny story about that. When I went downtown to buy it, I paid for it in German Marks. Then I remember the guy at the music store offered to drive it to my place of residence - so we both went in his car and drove to the base. Unfortunately, he did not have a base pass to drive any further. So he told me that he was going to take me over to the entrance and drop me off. As a result, I found myself standing outside with an 88 key digital piano, in a box, that weighed about 50 pounds. I actually attempted to take this all the way to my dorm room alone. LOL - fortunately, a nice couple saw me and offered me a ride with the keyboard in their truck. They saved my Christmas because I didn't freeze to death doing something so incredibly stupid :-) I remember taking that thing up four flights of stairs to my room alone! I thank my friend Zach for inspiring me to buy one, since he had a keyboard of his very own in his dorm room too! He was also nice enough to allow me to play his before I bought mine.
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Permalink Reply by Avery Doll on
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Dude! You got a CD player in 88??? i didn't get one until the nineties....
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Permalink Reply by Margaret's Horsey [Jupiter 80] on -
oh yes ! that thing lasted for about 13 years before it started to wear down. It was a great one too.
Avery Doll said:Dude! You got a CD player in 88??? i didn't get one until the nineties....
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I Still have my first CD player. It has glitter puff paint on it...but it still works!
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Permalink Reply by Margaret's Horsey [Jupiter 80] on
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eventually what happened to mine was the loading on certain cds was becoming too temperamental. It would try to load several times before giving up - and once that happened, you would have to re-insert the CD continuously.
Avery Doll said:I Still have my first CD player. It has glitter puff paint on it...but it still works!
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When I was in high school I wanted a discman and I would hoard my lunch money away to try and pay for one. And that thing cost $100. And now you can by them for about fifty cents.
Okay, I think that's all the random announcements I have for the night!Christmas....I got a CD player in about 93 I think. That was pretty awesome.
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Permalink Reply by Margaret's Horsey [Jupiter 80] on
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Just talked to dad about this - he said that the choice was either getting me a CD Player or a copy machine. My parents both agreed that a copy machine was a no go. lol
Avery Doll said:When I was in high school I wanted a discman and I would hoard my lunch money away to try and pay for one. And that thing cost $100. And now you can by them for about fifty cents.
Okay, I think that's all the random announcements I have for the night!Christmas....I got a CD player in about 93 I think. That was pretty awesome.
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Permalink Reply by JessaANerd [jKlein] on -
Christmas "Kochi" !!
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Permalink Reply by Hugh Lovric on
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Christmas 2000 age 4:
I remember looking at a really big present that was for me and it was wrapped with penguin wrapping paper.
Christmas 2005 age 9:
I remember being really excited on Christmas Eve and I watched Van Helsing, on Christmas day I was the one who passed all of the presents around.
Christmas 2009 age 13:
I remember playing the game Little Big Planet all night till it was the end of Christmas and I remember looking at the clock when it had gone past midnight then I was annoyed that it wasn't Christmas anymore.
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Permalink Reply by Margaret's Horsey [Jupiter 80] on
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good memories Hugh. Thanks for sharing
Hugh Lovric said:Christmas 2000 age 4:
I remember looking at a really big present that was for me and it was wrapped with penguin wrapping paper.
Christmas 2005 age 9:
I remember being really excited on Christmas Eve and I watched Van Helsing, on Christmas day I was the one who passed all of the presents around.
Christmas 2009 age 13:
I remember playing the game Little Big Planet all night till it was the end of Christmas and I remember looking at the clock when it had gone past midnight then I was annoyed that it wasn't Christmas anymore.
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Permalink Reply by Kilmister [spaz] on -
I remember the year my grandmother fell down in church and busted her head open. We spent most of christmas morning in the hospital.
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Which brings to mind the year i went to hear a church choir sing Handel's Messiah with my grandmother, and she got sick and threw up in her purse.
RUSeriousBro? [spaz] said:I remember the year my grandmother fell down in church and busted her head open. We spent most of christmas morning in the hospital.
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