there's only really one #christmas that i can think of where i got a gift. May have been 85/86.. i was 3/4 at that time. I remember my mom ( versie ) letting us stay up til 12am xmas eve and us counting down the seconds like new years eve. When 12 oclock hit we went running, screaming and hollering into the living room where the xmas tree was placed and one nice sized, gift wrapped box lay along a few smaller ones.
I remember my oldest brother george seated unraveling this box , i guess he had some clue or feeling of what it was as he jumped for joy as he got a peek. Soon to discover we had got a #Nintendo for xmas. Only the lucky few could even afford this " TOY " while living in #CabriniGreenProjects back in 1986. This was a splurge and we got one. I didnt even know what a nintendo was, but because my 3 older brothers were jumping , hollering and celebrating, i did too!!
This was all of our gift. The nintendo back then came with both video games #mariobros. and #DUCKHUNT 1 standard remote controller, 1 nintendo gun controller and the cords to hook it up to the t.v. I just so happened to be the youngest most naive at a whopping 4 years old , so i almost never got to play this dam nintendo game.I couldnt tell you what the other few gifts surrounding the tree were, maybe socks or something.
Funny story about a nintendo is that my mom's best friend at the time ms Yvonne Abraham who was a muslim and didnt even celebrate xmas, had also got hers kids (5 or 6 kids) a gaming system this #xmas of 86 for some reason or another. But That was short lived. One day they didnt clean or do their homework by the time she got home from work or whatever and she went ballistic.. The Nintendo may have costed $100 and that was alot back then, and we didnt have a lot of extra money so this was a splurge. BUt anyways she grabbed the gaming console and threw it down the incinerator or trash heep in the #projects. That was unheard of, but Yvonne wasnt to be played with lol.
I cant remember another christmas where i got another gift from my parents. Our xmas's werent like the ones on tv. My mom did whatever my dad thought and said being a wife and my dad just didnt think making kids happy was important. Definetly not by spending money!!
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