The presents/christmas thread!
Okay, in my family it's traditional to open one Christmas present on Christmas Eve. Usually to read or play that night.
This year I received a very pretty hardback edition of Dante's Divine Comedy from my mother with lots of nice illustrations ^^. More on presents tomorrow. |
Already? I only just wrapped mine.
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In addition to gifts from my family, I also have two sizeable gifts from friends in the US that have arrived as well as a gift from my sweetheart which unfortunately didn't arrive before the weekend, so I'll be opening that one on Monday.
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Well in that case I received a pair of Steampunk goggles from an Internet friend in America a week or two ago, which could could as a Christmas gift. Nothing like mystery gifts from mystery people to raise some eyebrows in the family.
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You simply must post a picture.
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I've been trying to get one for a while. Someone will be snap-happy later today, I'm sure.
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How do you non-travellers have so many international friends close enough to bother sending presents?
It's Christmas morning and for the 28th year in a row I woke to no presents. Maybe Santa will remember me next year! |
It's about 10:00PM here now, I just finished wrapping my gifts (well, not just). Not really felling the Christmas spirit this year, but it's still a nice time.
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I got 150 bucks and a chocolate orange.
Also I bought a quality wooden jenga set for my kid cousins. They've been very hyper and rough lately so I thought it would be a good way to teach them to be more careful. |
What makes it a 'quality' Jenga set rather than the standard one?
Speaking of Jenga, my mates and I saw this at 2:30am the other night (24 hour pre-christmas shopping ftw) and drooled over its ridiculously expensive box: http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/image...kong_jenga.jpg |
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I'm giving my original xbox to some cousins as I have recently got a 360 and I'm also giving them oddworld strangers wrath aas it doesnt work on the 360 and they need something to play on the xbox. |
I remember chocolate oranges from years ago. I didn't know they still made them. I haven't seen one in years.
I was given a new shaver by my parents. I hadn't shaved for 3 days so that I could really test it out. It's like shaving with a cloud; it's amazing. Also, it looks like something out of a spaceship. http://www.thebestelectricshavers.co...-pro-curve.jpg My parents also gave me a $30 PSN card (I'll be buying Braid later tonight) and a set of small display-keyblades. I wasn't expecting either, although I may have hinted that I wanted the latter. My parents had said that if they gave me an expensive shaver (as they did) they wouldn't give me anything else. I was given around $150 in money and vouchers (also $20 in late birthday money), a new shirt (I wore that out to our family lunch), some nice chocolates, some not-so-nice chocolates, a long-flying plane-thing, a fridge magnet with a paperclip attatched, and a sudoku book. I'm rather happy with my swag. This year I enjoyed Christmas a lot more. At our family lunch I didn't run off with my cousins and use my cousin's Xbox. I talked to my family and really enjoyed it. My relatives are funny bastards. |
I haven't opened up my gifts yet, but here is what I got some people:
Dad: Dilbert calender Mom: Neat little candle thing Brother: iTunes gift card Cousin: Season 3 of Dawson's Creek Me and a friend just buy stuff for each other whenever we see each other near Christmas, I got him Mass Effect 2, and I got Dragon Age. Im trading in Dragon Age to get Just Cause 2. |
Inception on DVD + Chocolate = Win!
My dad got a chocolate orange. It's this quite cool chocolate which has to be whacked pretty hard on the floor to break the chocolate apart! :) "It's not Terry's... ITS MINE!" |
I got close to nothing this year, I was able to convince my parents to buying me a Sony Bravia 40" and a PS3 earlier in the year when there was a giant sale on, so I'm defiantly happy and thankful. :fuzsmile:
It was fun at the beach today, oh that's right you Northern Hemispherains don't have Christmas in the summer. While you guys were freezing you're arses off I got to go surfing at the Surfer's Paradise, Gold Coast (The Venice beach of Australia): http://paulkilfoil.webs.com/Images/SurfersParadise1.jpg Obviously not my photo. Merry Christmas to everyone. http://www.santatulsa.com/santa-emoticon.gif |
I just got money. about £450 :D
Happy Christmas everyone @ OWF! hope you all have a good one! |
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From my family - A huge illustrated hardback edition of Paradise Lost and The Raven, as well as a paperback edition of Coraline (Finally), Iron Man on DVD, a nice shirt, some t-shirts, a box of chocolates and some smelly stuff. Oh, and £50.
From my friends - http://i.imgur.com/ADiKY.jpg |
I got Bioshock 2 Special Edition, Alan Wake Limited Edition, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Dark Knight, 100€, Disturbed's new album and MGMT's Oracular Spectacular.
I feel really spoiled. Really really spoiled. |
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among other things, i got my mother a pair of old fashioned scales, my stepfather a bottle of Southern Comfort, my grandmother a meerkat adoption kit and my grandfather a pack of fat cigars. i got a desk chair, seeing as my other one is well over 10 years old.
i also got my stepfather an electronic cigarette that doesn't emit smoke and doesn't contain tar, but has nicotine and produces a nicotine buzz. i didn't realise it was for people that wanted to quit smoking. i was really scraping the barrel this year. |
I got a few bits and pieces, but the standout was a brand new desktop PC complete with 21.5" monitor. It's not exactly top-spec or anything, but after having nothing but a laptop to your name for 3-and-a-half years I'm certainly not complaining!
Second place gift: a magnetic spheres desk toy. I am so damn easy to please. |
I received:
$100 Best Buy Gift card 4000 Microsoft points GTA4 Complete Collection iHome New headphones New wallet and other knickknacks |
A skull.
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i got a cool t-shirt, socks, shoes, dr who anual 2011, two dr who figures, a cadburys selection box, aftershave, dr who: the begginings boxset, a dr who ds game, the remembrance of the daleks collectors set, final destination 2 &3 on psp, and little big planet on psp.
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I think this year was my best for receiving gifts, what I got was;
The new Frankie Boyle DVD and his autobiography. A new phone because my previous one was knackered, Cradle of Filth's new album (although technically I bought it but it arrived on Christmas Eve so I kept it until today.) A wash bag as per tradition in our household. Clothes. And a fucking mug I bought as a secret Santa gift but my brother wrapped it up and hid it on me. A new strap for my guitar. A watch. And a good job as well seeing how much moolah I bloody well forked out over this sharing season. I got my mother a two tone necklace, my father a cordless 3 in 1 drill, sister - Twilight novels, Brother - cologne and This is England 86 and my other brother a pile of clothes. |
Wine.
Cradle of Filth album. Shoes (Yay!) A weird thing from a fucker. T-shirt. Ring that's utter crap. Surrender + piece offering by a cunt, it was gewd. A pair of socks -_- |
In summary:
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