Post your Christmas Hauls!

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:50 am

What others gave me:

shoes, a hoodie, and a long sleeve shirt.

what I gave myself:

a 20" toshiba flat screen TV and Half-Life 2.

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:54 am

* Pink Floyd The Wall CD
* Queen's Greatest Hits
* Long sleeve t-shirt
* The joy of watching my 19 month old daughter really enjoy Christmas for the first time

* Mrs Dedman and I are going to buy ourselves a new TV this week. That is our real gift to each other.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:18 pm

Hi def, big screen, or both?

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:21 pm

I got:

400-watt speaker pair with subwoofer and 3-cd/2 cassette changer
5 books by G.A. Henty (my favorite author), ~400 pages apiece
2 pairs of high-quality, super hiking... *SOCKS!!!!!!!*

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:47 pm

Avder wrote:Hi def, big screen, or both?

We are probably just going to get a 32" flatscreen HD CRT. Nothing fancy. We are saving the $$ for the home theater we are going to put into the basement.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:18 pm

32 inch HD is nothing to sneeze at.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:32 pm

Lexar 1GB USB Thumbdrive (which will replace the aging old FDD for good now)
Several sweatshirts and assorted pants
$150 Best Buy gift card
$750 from my grandparents (which shocked the crap out of me since this was alot larger than what they usually send..)

I've got my eye on a 1000W 6.1 home theater + DVD system on sale at Best Buy that I might use that gift card for. I'm gonna give it a good look-over first though.

T-Devil · Post by **T-Devil** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:56 pm

LotR RotK EE DVD
Star Wars Trilogy DVD
GMRS/FRS Radio set
Mos Eisley Cantina LEGO set
Millenium Falcon LEGO set (that I have to share with my 5 year old)
48 inch collapsable camping table
50 bucks cash
some cool eagle doo-dad stuff
some shirts and other crap that none of us care about....
an additional 75 bucks in gift certificates/store credit by the time I get done takin gback the crap I dont need and didn't ask for.

and most importantly my father-in-law got out of the hospital on Christmas Eve after a two bout of accute pancreatitis.

Sickone · Post by **Sickone** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:43 am

★■◆● - you guys....

what did you give to those who need it more than us ???

OK, my haul

- 19" Sony LCD monitor
- HP 4070 Scanner
- Cannon Networked Color Laser Printer
- New bathrobe (not sure why my old one was only 15 years old)
- dilbert calander (tradition)
- a few gizmos for my home office desk
- Some gift certs for the detailing place for my car
- a few gizmos for my car
- I guess I can inlcude my car (heheheh) hey it was a month ago, but still feels like Christmas

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:29 am

Sickone wrote:**** - you guys....

what did you give to those who need it more than us ???

about $500.00 worth of shiat out of my bank account. Thats what

Inari · Post by **Inari** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:19 am

- A $75 check
- A 130mm aperture / 1,000mm focal length telescope
It has an optical power of 38x, and 103x From Meade

Stupid · Post by **Stupid** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 11:34 pm

I got $95 in Wal-Mart gift-cards and $40 in cash, but better than that I bought a 2005 Honda Civic EX a couple weeks earlier (more for my birthday, as I got it on the 9th, the day before my b-day). So I'm pretty happy. I gave a lot more than I received, as long as I don't count what I received from myself, even beyond the car.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 11:51 pm

I got:

- a couple weeks of hang-out time with my in-laws and several old friends
- lots of alone time with my wife (her parents moved, but the house hasn't sold yet, so it's completely empty. Kinda eerie... but lots of good reminiscing and stuff.)
- A Tazmanian Devil necktie
- a welcome mat
- a funny little remote control hover-thingy
- a couple of CD's (Mercy Me, Third Day)
- money
- Munchkin plus the expansion packs: Unnatural Axe and Clerical Errors

I also should have a box of presents waiting for me at the office, but they haven't been open since I got back.

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:07 am

Every single person that bought me a present gave me clothes.

I guess no one likes how I dress.

Darkside Heartless · Post by **Darkside Heartless** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:09 am

To get what I wanted I had to steal my brothers CD's for a few minutes for "digital backups"

another couple dozen Apologetix songs

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:06 pm

Some late additions to my haul:

Invader Zim volumes 2 and 3
Some really comfy slippers
A New Bathrobe
And an Electric Razor.

DarkShadow · Post by **DarkShadow** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:15 pm

Gift card Sears $65
Gift card for Eat and Park (resturant) $25
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Special Extended DVD edition
Silly little game from the Half Price Book Store called
Treasure Planet Battle at Procyon

Before Xmas but still counts af far as I'm concernd.
AMD Athlon Xp 2400+
2 WD80 8meg drives now in raid 0
MGE Vigor 450 blue lighted power supply to replace the 2 year old Fortron 400 that the 3.3 volt died on.

The kids got more stuff than I think we have room for in the house.

Perediablo · Post by **Perediablo** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:45 am

I got a rock.

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:13 am

I'll post the highlights.

Water cooled Koolance case.

Fender "Fat Strat" HSS with Marshall practice amp.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:32 pm

One question: do the Guinness/hair dryer serve any purpose in the cooling process?

roid · Post by **roid** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:39 pm

guinness has a place in every activity.

hairdryer? no idea, maybe testing the cooling rig.

sheepdog · Post by **sheepdog** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:07 am

And what is/was in the shot glass?!! Wow what a great Christmas present Pun (ya bassage). I am sooo jealous.

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:12 pm

hairdryer was for heating up the glued on heatsink on the vidcard. Not pictured is the screwdriver I used to pry it off, thus gouging the card and facking up some of the traces (but that's a whole other story).

Oh, and that's Don Julio Anejo in the shotglass.

SirWinner · Post by **SirWinner** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:46 am

Spent the day alone.

Not because that's what I wanted.

Got absolutely NOTHING for Christmas again.

Perhaps that will change next year. (As in seeing my only child for Christmas 2005!)

DOH!

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:03 pm

SirWinner wrote:Spent the day alone.

Not because that's what I wanted.

Got absolutely NOTHING for Christmas again.

Perhaps that will change next year. (As in seeing my only child for Christmas 2005!)

DOH!

Sorry to hear that bro. If it makes you feel better, I didn't get squat outside of my immediate family and my grandparents (father's side).

SolidAir · Post by **SolidAir** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:42 am

i bought myself a 40gb ipod photo a few days ago . been meaning to.

DarkHorse · Post by **DarkHorse** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:36 am

Why do people spend that much on gifts? It makes no sense to me.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:09 pm

DarkHorse wrote:Why do people spend that much on gifts? It makes no sense to me.

Hey, its their money....

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:35 pm

DarkHorse wrote:Why do people spend that much on gifts? It makes no sense to me.

Possible reasons:
1) love
2) economics (is it worth $20 for a warm fuzzy feeling?)
3) nothing better to do
4) bribery