Ask HN: What's the best present you ever received on Christmas?

1. Super Nintendo 2. Creepy Crawlers 3. Nintendo 64 4. Apple Cinema Display (Old style)

A donation to a worthy cause.

really?

I bet there's a story here....what made that your best present ever?

I make good money and have a rather expensive and esoteric hobby[1]. Knowing that a family member has donated, say, $20 or $25 to a cause that matters to me, like ensuring that people have access to preventative health care, gives me a lot more than an object of equal value ever could.

[1] If you happen to have a few thousand dollars sitting around, I would absolutely love to have an Ebony 4x5" camera, or perhaps this 8x10" Deardorff field camera: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Deardorff-V8-8X10-camera-355mm-F9-S...

Spirograph.

For a teen, I'd buy a tube amplifier kit.

Sega Genisis.

Funny - Sega Genisis was on my top 5 gifts of all time (we did it for a party).

LEGO Technic box.