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What did you get for Christmas?

Things I got:

A 32' LCD HDTV (Fallout 3 looks awesome on this son of a bitch)
Bleach Season 2
The Dark Knight
A Digital Camera
Speakers for my iPod...
A scratch-off lottery card (even though I'm only 15 lol)
A Shonen-Jump Magazine
Some Chocolate Covered Cherries (the best gift EVER)
And a bunch of candy...
 

candle

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Let's see...

I got a digital camera to replace the one with a broken flash that my dad gave me last month.
3 2GB sd cards for said camera
8 rechargable AA batteries and 8 rechargable AAA batteries
charger for said batteries.
p!nk cd
linkin park cd I already have (gonna trade it in for Pinks newest one)
a sweater and two shirts
the Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling
Warhammer: the Vampire Genevieve (a four book volume) by Jack Yeovil

(I also got myself FEAR, FFXI, and the Diablo Battle Chest last week)
 

Mirku

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Darkfire":zp1ofe0l said:
Let's see...

I got a digital camera to replace the one with a broken flash that my dad gave me last month.
3 2GB sd cards for said camera
8 rechargable AA batteries and 8 rechargable AAA batteries
charger for said batteries.
p!nk cd
linkin park cd I already have (gonna trade it in for Pinks newest one)
a sweater and two shirts
the Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling
Warhammer: the Vampire Genevieve (a four book volume) by Jack Yeovil

(I also got myself FEAR, FFXI, and the Diablo Battle Chest last week)
Those books are awesome from what I heard from a friend. I'm borrowing them as soon as he's willing to let me :}
 
You guys make me feel spoiled rotten!

I got...
  • Bag for my laptop
  • 500GB External Hardrive (MyBook)
  • 8GB USB Pendrive
  • The Office: Season 2
  • Some nice undershirts
  • And my grandmother to spend the holidays with us

Also my family got the Wii, so far it's pretty fun!

I had an amazing Christmas! I hope you guys had as good of a time as I have. This was probably my best Christmas yet!
 
PSP carrying case
Money
Cookies/candy
Ironman DVD
HEROS season 1

I made a list of gift ideas under $20. But I never sent it out to my family. Surprisingly I still got what I asked for. I had to spend over $200 on my dog for medication and stuff. He had a seizure and was vomiting all week. It sucks but a dead dog would have ruined Christmas. 
 

mawk

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some gloves (now I too can punch snowmen with the best of them!)
a barometer (actually REALLY COOL it's one of those early analogue things that I love (gimme all you water levels gears n bolts)
ds flashcard :)3)
one of them prepaid mtv credit cards (basically debit w/ mtv on it)
that stephen colbert book (with a gift card to hmv artfully hidden in the front cover)

not really a huge haul but I'm muslim so by all rights I shouldn't be getting anything.
then again I celebrated christmas w/ my agnostic mom and christian grandparents so!
I spent money on gifts for other people, though, so I shouldn't be feeling guilty.
big floral-patterned stuffed elephants are fifty dollars!
 
Um... I got a steering wheel cover, a blanket, a pair of gloves, and a scarf.  And a $100 gift card that I'm going to try and put in my bank account so I can use it to pay for bills.
 

Tindy

Sponsor

I got...

A 10.3mp camera to replace the 4.0mp camera I got for free 3 years ago
A case for said camera
An 8 gig memory card for said camera
An extra battery O_o
A photo printer (that was free! :D)
A 56-piece cake decorating set
A $25 iTunes card
Chrono Trigger DS :D:D
The Encyclopedia of Baking
A really pretty sweater that's too big
And a really ugly sweater that fits just right.

And I picked out/bought most of that. :/  Gonna be repaid later, but still.

Oh! And I got massive amounts of embarrassment when the giver of the two sweaters was on the phone with my brother and I explained to him that I needed the reciepts because "One's too big and one's ugly."  The giver was apparently worried about which was which (she only bought one of them, my sister bought the other).  Didn't realise she could hear me!
 
a shirt with a geisha on it
god only knows where it came from
or how it happened after i explicitly asked at least 7 times yesterday morning for some damn ukulele strings
 
I got a shitload of games, including Left 4 Dead, Dead Space, The Last Remanant, and Prince of Persia. I got some clothes, mainly band tees and sweaters. I also got some really good philosophy books like Pink Floyd and Philosophy.
 
Let's see, I got:

13 packs fo Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and a few assorted promos. (I don't know why I still get that stuff, I stopped playing years ago)
$100 in gift cards for Borders. (Despite the fact that I have to travel forever to get to the nearest one, and there is a Barnes and Noble 10 minutes away.)
$25 in Gift cards for Barnes and Noble. (Yay! I can actually get there!)
Fulmetal Alchemist (manga) volumes 13-17. (Although the anime was kinda bad, I like the manga)
5 random books whose names I can't quite rembmer. (I'm too lazy to go look)
A guide for a game my brother just recieved. (I think it was Pokemon: Explorers of Time of something like that)
A 2-year subscripion to PC World.
Oh, and some clothes.

And my presents to myself: (I have a job, so I could afford it)
.hack//SIGN DVDs 1-6, all limited edition.
.hack//SIGN sountracks 1 and 2
.hack//EXTRA sountrack.
.hack//LIMINALITY sountrack.
$50 worth of Wii game downloads. (I bought myself a Wii for Christmas early last year) (It was a late Christmas present)

I'm planning to get myself one more present: a PS3

Geez, you guys make me feel spoiled.
 

$t3v0

Awesome Bro

I feel a little spoiled with what I'm about to say but it's bothering me for a number of reasons:

On Christmas day my mother gave me and my brother a new wallet with £100 inside each, practically the same small presents and that's perfect! I couldn't ask for more! But then my dad pulled out this huge box from under the tree and handed it to my brother, my brother immediately said "What about Ste" and my mum said "We'll sort ste out later" so i waited anxiously to see what the hell was going on.

Ater he tore the paper of there stood a brand new Sony laptop with 3 years cover and I was very happy for him. I buy all my own systems and always have (with my job entitling me to have decent specs on a regular basis) so it's nice for him to get a faster machine than his current crappy desktop (Which i bought him in 2004) for christmas.

So I help him set it up and get all the essential things before heading into the online world. And from there I've been thinking about what my mum said regarding "We'll sort ste out later". So after torturing myself about it and questioning what it could be, I ran over a few things that could be the answer:

As I'm in the final stages of setting up my own business, I thought a cheque could cover my bills for the next couple of months and give me a comfortable chance to find work. That would be so great! And help me out A LOT! I vacuum my house on a daily basis and do the dishes. On weekends I do the shopping and save my family a trip to the store.

So tonight I decided to ask my dad what my mum was talking about. When asked, he gave me a confused look and questioned what I was talking about. So i uncomfortably ran through what my mum said on christmas day and he made it clear he had no recollection of her saying that and that was pretty much the end of that.

I feel a little upset but at the same time I question my morals. Have I become a spoilt individual or am I merely questioning the fairness of the whole thing. Either way it's life and I only have to look at some places in the world and realise I'm lucky enough to just have a roof over my head. But at the same time I'm a little angry because my financial status isn't exactly booming at the moment.

Anyone know anyone who needs a website in the new year? ;)
 
Let's see...

A Laptop that I still need to break in
a case-sleeve thing
a mouse(the computer type, lol)
Gears of War
An Aerosmith CD
An Aerosmith T-shirt
Lounge Pants
Candy
Candy
Candy
A towel
Spending a day with my girlfriend
Candy
And a shirt that has a picture of a Panda on it and says "Super Care Bear" (Don't ask....)

wooo  :rock:
 
Lol I got a sticky note taped to a sock that said "IOU Santa" I couldn't stop laughing! Then the reality that I just got played by a fat man in a red suit for a piece of paper while both my sisters got a new Xbox 360. DAMN YOU OLD MAN! I'LL GET YOU NEXT YEAR!

Oh ya I'm 17 and am yet to get my damn hotwheels car I asked in 95'... The old mans out to get me.
 

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