Every year there’s a new must-have Christmas gift at the top of everyone’s list – but how has this changed over time?
musicMagpie have compiled a list of the most popular Christmas presents of every year from 1970 to 2019 – from Skateboards and Space Hoppers to Fidget Spinners and Fortnite!
Check out the full dataset and see what the most popular presents were when you were born – https://musicmagpie.co.uk/
The research also looks into how the cost of presents has changed over time, with parents having to spend EIGHT TIMES as much to get 2019’s must-have presents as they were in 1970!
Out of all the 49 years analysed, 1987 came out as the cheapest, witH the top 5 presents costing just £35.48 (£97.70 in today’s money). At the other end of the scale, parents would have to spend a whopping £1,465.98 to get 2019’s most popular gifts!
You can see the full list of most popular gifts on the musicMagpie website – https://musicmagpie.co.uk/
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