Hee hee, did your mom's present consist of "silver and gold...silver and gold"? LOL
;-D not back then, that came later when they had enough money to start buy more extravagant presents, like jewelery for Mom.
I remember we had this little black and white TV that Dad was always banging on with his fist to get it to stop barrel rolling. (That horizontal hold never did seem to work)
My mother (In conversation with my Grandmother) wondered aloud
"I wonder what Donald is getting me for Christmas"
Well I may have only been five years old but even I could answer that question.
A mirror!
It was one of those funny convex jobs with fancy carvings in the surrounding wood.
Dad's take on all of this was:
I knew that kid could never keep a secret.