What was the best Christmas gift you ever got?

[kobeunderbite]

Gotta be the N64 for me. Seminal moment.

[_Vcsgrizzfan_]

A pair of Junior Tackaberry hockey skates.

My dad was born in 1912 and lived through the depression. It scarred him forever. He was extremely frugal, always afraid of the next economic disaster.

Christmas presents were mostly essentials like socks, underwear, other clothes....

But every once in a while, my dad would be kidnapped by aliens, lose his mind and got me something special and expensive. I LOVED hockey as a little boy. But I only ever had second or third hand skates from used skate shops.

One year, when I was around ten or so, he bought me brand new Tackaberries for Christmas. They were awesome skates, but cost $30 (a fair bit of money in the late 60s). I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. The skates were perfect and so easy to stride with, amazing ankle support and great new blades.

I still think about that occasionally, and it still brings a smile to my face every single time.

[PhutureDynasty]

Great question.

I'd say the original Xbox or my first bike.

I remember both of those moments very well.

[PhutureDynasty]

A pair of Junior Tackaberry hockey skates.

My dad was born in 1912 and lived through the depression. It scarred him forever. He was extremely frugal, always afraid of the next economic disaster.

Christmas presents were mostly essentials like socks, underwear, other clothes....

But every once in a while, my dad would be kidnapped by aliens, lose his mind and got me something special and expensive. I LOVED hockey as a little boy. But I only ever had second or third hand skates from used skate shops.

One year, when I was around ten or so, he bought me brand new Tackaberries for Christmas. They were awesome skates, but cost $30 (a fair bit of money in the late 60s). I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. The skates were perfect and so easy to stride with, amazing ankle support and great new blades.

I still think about that occasionally, and it still brings a smile to my face every single time.

*like*

Shout-out to Papa Grizz. It's a shame what the depression did to his mental state.

[elartman1973]

Gotta be the N64 for me. Seminal moment.

T
You're a jew. No Christmas for you

[_Vcsgrizzfan_]

A pair of Junior Tackaberry hockey skates.

My dad was born in 1912 and lived through the depression. It scarred him forever. He was extremely frugal, always afraid of the next economic disaster.

Christmas presents were mostly essentials like socks, underwear, other clothes....

But every once in a while, my dad would be kidnapped by aliens, lose his mind and got me something special and expensive. I LOVED hockey as a little boy. But I only ever had second or third hand skates from used skate shops.

One year, when I was around ten or so, he bought me brand new Tackaberries for Christmas. They were awesome skates, but cost $30 (a fair bit of money in the late 60s). I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. The skates were perfect and so easy to stride with, amazing ankle support and great new blades.

I still think about that occasionally, and it still brings a smile to my face every single time.

*like*

Shout-out to Papa Grizz. It's a shame what the depression did to his mental state.

Thank you Phuture.

I was lucky. He was a very good man. Definitely scarred by the depression and cursed with arthritis that had him in pain the last twenty years of his life but he rarely complained. I lost him when I was twenty years old and I think of him always. I wonder what he would make of the current world.

[Titan18]

Tickets to my first Bulls game during the 90s dynasty.

N64

[_Vcsgrizzfan_]

Tickets to my first Bulls game during the 90s dynasty.

N64

That would have been really sweet. Special times for Chicagoans. Makes sense some of you have a hard time letting it go.

[Bush4Ever.]

It's at the outer edge of my living memory, but my dad got tickets to a Celtics game at the old Boston Garden during the 1991 season.

I happened to develop a very real sickness that let me miss school the day of the game (by pure coincidence you see), and we drove there in late March to watch the Celtics and Cavs.

Robert Parish hit a game winner. Ed Pickney went nuts. Bird was very mortal, sadly.

So probably that, with a delay effect since the game was in March of that year.

[zombiesonics]

PlayStation 1.

Nothing hit more than the OG PlayStation. It came with NBA Shootout with Sam Cassell on the cover.

What’s funny is that there were a bunch of superstars that weren’t in the game like MJ, Shaq, Barkley, etc…. All of them were replaced by a random white guy. They had the same abilities, except you’re playing as a white guy.

[lettherebehouse]

Silk boxers

[PhutureDynasty]

A pair of Junior Tackaberry hockey skates.

My dad was born in 1912 and lived through the depression. It scarred him forever. He was extremely frugal, always afraid of the next economic disaster.

Christmas presents were mostly essentials like socks, underwear, other clothes....

But every once in a while, my dad would be kidnapped by aliens, lose his mind and got me something special and expensive. I LOVED hockey as a little boy. But I only ever had second or third hand skates from used skate shops.

One year, when I was around ten or so, he bought me brand new Tackaberries for Christmas. They were awesome skates, but cost $30 (a fair bit of money in the late 60s). I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. The skates were perfect and so easy to stride with, amazing ankle support and great new blades.

I still think about that occasionally, and it still brings a smile to my face every single time.

*like*

Shout-out to Papa Grizz. It's a shame what the depression did to his mental state.

Thank you Phuture.

I was lucky. He was a very good man. Definitely scarred by the depression and cursed with arthritis that had him in pain the last twenty years of his life but he rarely complained. I lost him when I was twenty years old and I think of him always. I wonder what he would make of the current world.

Don't mention it.

Life can be a bitch sometimes but I respect him making the best of it by not complaining.

[LNS]

Yea prob the first NES lol… my parents didn’t buy it for me and I remember being kinda bummed thinking I wasn’t gonna get it. Hours later at my Grandma’s house I opened it up and my jaw hit the floor. Best damn Xmas gift ever.

R.I.P. Grandma

[Da Stars.]

A pair of Junior Tackaberry hockey skates.

My dad was born in 1912 and lived through the depression. It scarred him forever. He was extremely frugal, always afraid of the next economic disaster.

Christmas presents were mostly essentials like socks, underwear, other clothes....

But every once in a while, my dad would be kidnapped by aliens, lose his mind and got me something special and expensive. I LOVED hockey as a little boy. But I only ever had second or third hand skates from used skate shops.

One year, when I was around ten or so, he bought me brand new Tackaberries for Christmas. They were awesome skates, but cost $30 (a fair bit of money in the late 60s). I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. The skates were perfect and so easy to stride with, amazing ankle support and great new blades.

I still think about that occasionally, and it still brings a smile to my face every single time.

Hell we could not afford a used pair of tacks. Best present my hockey game. Ya know the one you pushed and pulled the metal rods.

Decades later my Mscie.