My parents moved home just before Christmas, and we had to spend a lot of money on short notice replacing windows, etc.
As a result of low cash for the first time ever my parents bought my sisters and I a shared present - A Sinclair ZX Spectrum, 48k.
The computer came with 10-12 casette-tapes, a tape recorder, bundle of manuals and a joystick. Unfortunately the tape-recorder didn't work so we couldn't load any of the games.
I spent Christmas reading the BASIC manual, and my sisters spent it being disappointed.
I wrote about this here, in the past in a little more detail: