# Your favorite childhood gift **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-childhood-gift/677238 "2013-12-26T23:05:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-childhood-gift/677238/1 "2013-12-26T23:05:12Z")
We seem to be focusing on adult gifts and current gifts to kids. How about your favorite gift you got as a kid . . . for Christmas or Hanukkah or a birthday, or whatever? When I was a kid, all I wanted to be was an architect. So around the age of 8 or 9 I told my parents that I wanted a doll house. Not for the furnishings or little people, but for the house itself. Well, my parents understood and got me a doll house. It was not what I wanted after all, because you couldn’t move the rooms around in another configuration. You could just put it together the way it was planned. So I hit on the idea of making cardboard walls to add to the original ones, and painted them to match . . . and I came up with some really original designs. Eventually I just made everything from cardboard, and left out the original doll house. So what memorable gift did you get? ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-childhood-gift/677238/2 "2013-12-27T13:31:42Z")
Mine was a dollhouse as well, though not with the architectural part of it. I _think_ it was a birthday present, but it may have been Christmas (only a week apart). My dad built it for me out of plywood. They let me open it at midnight, which points even more to it being a birthday present (New Year’s baby: I got to stay up until midnight on NYE since it was NYE AND my birthday). I think I was 8 years old. I loved it. Still have it, in the basement somewhere. Spent hours with it, and had a great time buying/making furniture and curtains and rugs for it. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-childhood-gift/677238/3 "2013-12-27T18:27:43Z")
We kinda recently did this: [Ghost of Christmas Toys Past - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=708736) I only thought of that thread because my post there would be the same as here - my teddy bear who just turned 30 on Christmas day! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-childhood-gift/677238/4 "2013-12-27T18:34:00Z")
8th birthday-chemistry set(with dangerous chemicals!) and a microscope set.