The Christmas Haul thread

MuGen · 12-25-2005, 01:56 PM

New microsoft bluetooth wireless desktop from my brother
A nice new leather jacket from my parents
gift cards from my cousins
amex gift card from my aunt and uncle

Now on to what I gave.. hehee I think this will be a lil overlooked in this thread... Me and my siblings chipped in for gifts for my parents that I thought of really thoroughly. Since my brother lives in CA and my sister is at school in PSU all the time, I thought that we should get my mom a White Gold locket with all our pictures in it, including a photo of our dog that my mom spends most of her time with when she's alone.

Then me and my brother both went in to get my Dad a $800 Acoustic Electric Guitar by Gibson. Up until this point my dad has been playing a Classical Acoustic from back home (Filipines) and it's already about 20 years old... I thought we'd modernize his sound a bit.

Both gifts went over magnificently... they were both pleased and surprised.

So... aside from what you've got for Christmas... can anyone elaborate on what you've gotten for your family or significant other?

The Germanator · 12-25-2005, 02:07 PM

I got....

A sleeping bag (good for touring, I never know where I'm going to sleep...)
In Cold Blood (book)
The Baxter (DVD)
South Park Season Six
Family Guy Volume 3
Cage - Hell's Wintet (CD)
Blackilicous - The Craft (CD
Digital Camera

Gift cards and other assorted goodies...

Dyne · 12-25-2005, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by MuGen

So... aside from what you've got for Christmas... can anyone elaborate on what you've gotten for your family or significant other?

Well I special-ordered my girlfriend the Hitchhikers Guide BBC Television show.

Swan · 12-25-2005, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyne

Well I special-ordered my girlfriend the Hitchhikers Guide BBC Television show.

Nice, that was great.

I got some things.

-Corner Gas Season 2
-Titus Seasons 1 & 2
-Primus Live DVD
-Digital Camera
-Toiletries
-Er....I can't remember what else.

Dylflon · 12-25-2005, 05:15 PM

More things:

From my parents:

-socks
-Arrested Development Seasons 1 & 2
-City of God (which my girlfriend already got for me so I'll be trading in this copy for Shadow of the Collosus)
-Pajamas
-Underwear
-Socks
-A ninja turtles action figure (as a joke)
-a cell phone (which I get later this week)

From my brother:

-Collateral (DVD)

From my grandparents:

-Food
-Panasonic Discman
-Money (which I will use to buy Black & White 2)

-Futureshop gift card from my uncle
-40 year old Virgin from a family friend
-and various foodstuffs from other people

Bought War of the Worlds for my mom, a book on WWII for my dad, and Nightmare Before Christmas for my brother.

For my girlfriend I got this really cool book on Bob Dylan and the CD that goes with it.

Fox 6 · 12-25-2005, 05:19 PM

- 20" colour television
- DVD Player/VCR
-$300 ( which i cant wait to spend tomorrow)
-Sniper Elite (xbox)
-LOTR: The third age (GBA)
-Assorted records
-Hockey tickets
-Socks
-"Jarhead" the novel
-Dickes pants
-Team Canada Oylimpic sweater
- assorted candy

Yup thats about it.

RagedHybrid · 12-25-2005, 07:01 PM

Parents:

Xbox 360 Core System
Xbox 360 HDD
Xbox 360 Wireless Remote
Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adaptor
12 Month Xbox Live Subscription Kit
Call of duty 2 (for 360)
PGR 3
Condemed
Madden 2006

2 Pairs of Jeans
A Couple of Polo's and Shirts
Perry Elis: 360 cologne (ironic isn't it...)

Grandparents:

50 Bucks

Aunt and Uncle:

30 Dollar Best Buy Giftcard

Rest of Family:

Lots and lots of clothes
Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister colognes (yay?)

I must say. Very good haul this year. I can't complain.

Jonbo298 · 12-25-2005, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by RagedHybrid

Parents:

Xbox 360 Core System
Xbox 360 HDD
Xbox 360 Wireless Remote
Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adaptor

I guess your parents either A) Didnt realize they could've saved money by getting the Premium Bundle or B) Thats all they had left and didnt care about money.

and in most of these peoples cases posting here, money is no object to their parents

Happydude · 12-25-2005, 07:45 PM

from Happydudette so far

:

Radeon X700 256mb PCI-e Video card
200Gb S-ATA Seagate HDD
1.Gb Corsair DDR400 RAM

about 14 Ps2 Games...

from parents:

paying my tuition fees

RagedHybrid · 12-27-2005, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Jonbo298

I guess your parents either A) Didnt realize they could've saved money by getting the Premium Bundle or B) Thats all they had left and didnt care about money.

and in most of these peoples cases posting here, money is no object to their parents

yeah i told my parents to go for the premium but they found this one by luck a d decided to get me it for if not there wouldn't be any real surprise gift so w/e.

Fox 6 · 12-26-2005, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyne

Well I special-ordered my girlfriend the Hitchhikers Guide BBC Television show.

I picked this up today as well as two games. The thing is that i took all my stuff up to the register and then payed, the employee checked my reciept and stuff and let me out of the store. Later i glanced at the reciept and to my suprise she only charged me for the DVD's and ONE game.

AWESOME!

Krypton · 12-26-2005, 11:15 PM

Family Friends:
Cologne
Money
Cookies
$25 Gift Card to Circuit City
$50 Gift Card to Pac-Sun.

Dyne · 12-26-2005, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Fox 6

I picked this up today as well as two games. The thing is that i took all my stuff up to the register and then payed, the employee checked my reciept and stuff and let me out of the store. Later i glanced at the reciept and to my suprise she only charged me for the DVD's and ONE game.

AWESOME!

Mostly Music? If so, that's the version I originally ordered online through them - but then the owner had sold his own copy back to the store, so I got killer savings on it, being used.

And the two-for-one is a boxing day thing you goof. Either 20% off on one purchase or 2-for-1. And yes, it's been on for a while.

Fox 6 · 12-26-2005, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyne

Mostly Music? If so, that's the version I originally ordered online through them - but then the owner had sold his own copy back to the store, so I got killer savings on it, being used.

And the two-for-one is a boxing day thing you goof. Either 20% off on one purchase or 2-for-1. And yes, it's been on for a while.

I got it from Future shop. The version i got is the 1981 version.

PS. thanks for making me feel not special