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Your own 18th birthday present

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Baggs Sat 03-Jun-17 06:57:42

There is a thread already on what presents to give to young people reaching their eighteenth birthday nowadays. What did your parents give you as an eighteenth birthday present?

Mine gave me a silver bangle and a lovely India paper edition of Shakespeare's works. My dad asked me for ideas about something I would like to have and I said I'd like to have a silver bangle. It was a really lovely one. I've since given it to DD1. I still have the Shakespeare.

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gillybob Thu 15-Jun-17 22:54:42

Can't remember getting anything special at all. I do remember getting a toastie maker for my 21st though. Not exactly a keep sake but it was quite handy.

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Teetime Fri 16-Jun-17 08:56:45

My mother gave me six cups and saucers for my bottom drawer when I was 18 and nothing for my 21st as I was grown up and married then so you didn't get presents anymore!!!!

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Humbertbear Fri 16-Jun-17 09:43:27

The only present I remember from my 18th came from my boyfriend (husband of 49 years). It was a leather writing case so I could write to him while I was away at uni. Reader, I married him and didn't go to uni for another 12 years.

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Gagagran Fri 16-Jun-17 10:02:51

I was on a week's holiday in Bournemouth with my parents and younger brother when I had my 18th birthday. I was given a silver charm bracelet with two or three charms on and got more charms later. They were very popular at the time but mine has languished in a drawer for many years now, waiting for a resurgence in popularity! I also had my hair done at "Mr Teasy-Weasy's" in Bournemouth and felt like the bees knees!

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