Your best kept Christmas Gift
 

... or 'holiday' gift, if you assholes need to be all Politically Correct about this stuff! <3

Anyways, I was thinking the other day, as I put my laptop into its light blue, stretchy-material case, that I've had said laptop case for a while. It was given to me by my good friend Sprout as a Christmas gift shortly after I had bought my new laptop about five years ago. In fact, its probably the oldest Christmas gift that I still have and still use.

So what's the oldest 'holiday' gift you guys still have? A stuffed animal from a grandparent when you were 5? A gameboy from 'santa' when you were 11? Or that lovely sweater you were just given a few weeks ago?

I realized shortly after thinking about my laptop case that, while its probably the oldest gift I still use, its not the oldest I still have. I DO still have my Furby from a Christmas oh-so-many years ago. As far as I know it no longer works, but I'll be damned if I actually try and wake it up again.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5dBmT9E9O...s400/furby.jpg

...Creeper.

When I read the thread title, I thought you meant the gift that was hardest to keep secret. In that case, I'd have nominated the chinchilla my parents successfully concealed in their room for three months but the poor thing only lived three years.

The oldest Xmas gift that's still floating around is definitely the Lego pirate ships from 1990 or 1991. The boat hulls are currently in use by my nephew and are sturdy enough to last unto seven generations, even if the sails and rigging were pretty much lost within an hour and a half of S-hour.

A brown teddy bear for my 8th birthday from my mom when she was in the hospital. I didn't go or get it from her, but I know now that it was my grandma that bought it and let me think it was from mom.

I know it doesn't qualify a xmas gift but hey, my birthday was just a few days ago. :shrug:

Hm, this is hard considering that I didn't get that many Christmas presents past the age of eleven.

I think the oldest one I still have is a child's rocking chair my parents got me when I was a toddler. It's now in my sister's room with a new sitter, their stuffed teddy bears.

Oldest that I still have: some manner of Transformers. I was big on them as a kid, and now that I finally have room to display them, I got my entire set from my dad and put them in several glass case in my bedroom (and have been adding to the collection). The thing is, there are only a few that I can tell you when I got them, and none specific to Christmas.

Oldest that I remember specifically: My NES. I got that when I was twelve or thirteen, and it took me completely by surprise that year. Probably one of my favorite Christmas presents ever.

I specifically remember getting several big Lego sets and Hot Wheels tracks for Christmas, and the Legos are still in the family, just not here at my apartment.

Either my NES which is packed away in a box, or the Gizmo (Gremlins) toy I got when I was a kid. I don't actually have Gizmo anymore, he's been handed down to my nephew, but he's in good shape and still makes noise.

I still have a wooden sword my dad made for me when I was six, which was twenty six years ago now.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2. My dad even set it up like in A Christmas Story :3:

Also a little battery-op radio from my grandma. It still gets pulled out whenever the power goes out.

Oddly they're both from the same Christmas (1998).

My dad gave me a used-but-in-almost-new-condition Kodak Brownie Fiesta when I was 8 and we were living in Mexico. It's still there since I never brought it back when we left in 1988. The last time I went to the motherland, I found it in the same box I left it in, still in pristine condition.

I only ever shot maybe 3 or 4 rolls of film on it since my dad was always real anal about me taking it out of the house or I would ruin it. Some of our only remaining childhood pictures we have from when I was a kid were shot with that camera. In retrospect, it's probably the best advice he ever gave me about my toys, since I wrecked pretty much everything else I had when I was a kid.