Christmas!

[superaielman]

What'd you all get this year?

I got the usual family time, cooked food, etc fun times that go with the holidays, which is the coolest part. There's also shinies; I got:

Socks
Shoes
AC DC Highway to hell T-shirt
A Packers jacket
50 dollar Amazon card
25 dollar BP gas card
15 dollar subway card
Candy
Jeans (returning, didn't like)
Alloy of law
25 dollars in lotto tickets (Struck out miserably)

I'm happy.

[Xeroma]

A printer.
Giant stack of paper for said printer.
A new office chair that kicks the shit out of my old one.
Several pants.
Sweat-jacket.
A copy of Fate/Extra that I bought and ended up under the tree :F
New shoes.
A new shirt.
New underwear.
LCD Screen Wipes.
A slinky[it's practically a tradition at this point...]
A flashlight.
New toothbrush.
A calculator.
Lots of candy.

Family got a 360 w/ Kinect and like 7 games that came with both the console and the kinect. Games include Halo Reach, Fable III, Forza Motorsport 3, The Gunstringer, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Kinect Sports, and Kinect Adventures. :F

[Shale]

I actually did Christmas this year, for the first time since I was a preteen. Haul includes:

ESPN: Those Guys Have All The Fun (a history of the network)
Pajamas and bathrobe
"Come to the dark side; we have cookies" apron
A set of fireplace tools
Doctor Who stuff: TARDIS cookie jar and "desktop Dalek"
Zombie trifecta: The Walking Dead Compendium 1 (giant book, 48 issues), zombie-themed magnetic poetry, and "Pat the Zombie" (this, but with...well, you can figure it out)
The Dark Knight Returns TPB
The complete Rocky & Bullwinkle
A Muppet mega-set: The first three seasons of the Muppet Show, The Muppet Movie and Muppet Treasure Island

And a stocking full of chocolate and chocolate-related products.

[Lady Door]

Kindle Fire
Calendar (it has ponies!)
Smashbox lip gloss set
Journal (it has ponies!)
Hat
Harry Potter pins (<3)

I am sure Andrew's family got me things, too, but I'll try not to think about that.

This makes year number... uh... 6 or 7? since I stopped "celebrating" Christmas with all the trimmings of a tree and wrapped presents, etc. People around me refuse to stop doing that, though, so the gifts still come, and I still send them out...

[Veryslightlymad]

Lessee....

Before Christmas, my other Internet Group got me:
Cthulu Saves the World
Breath of Death VII: The Beginning
Portal 2
Sanctum
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

My folks got me an early gift of a package of 40 delicious meat-snack-products

Today, my ever-growing family gave me:
Maple Candy
Coffee Crisp
A Lindt Candy sampler
Stracciatella Lindor Balls
A Fushigi Ball
The Skylander "Wrecking Ball"
New Socks (Hooray! Bonnie's Cats peed all over most of my socks so I've been without)
A new Scarf
A couple new undershirts for layering
A new over-shirt for layering. Pretty fly.
How to Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
A badger-bristle shaving brush.
The Sims: Medieval
Dollars from several relatives totaling $300. This is the first time in so long my wallet has had money in it (in part BECAUSE of Christmas) that it refuses to close right, and it's not even that many bills.

I bought myself Galactic Civilizations 2, and the NBA gave me a basketball season.

[Magic Fanatic]

If I remember everything...  I got...

Socks
Undershirts
Boxers
New sheets and a comforter
Cave Story+
and I bought myself Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

This time, I got about 40% of the Christmas haul by myself. I'm quickly learning that I absolutely -can't- allow myself to walk into stores if I have money to burn. The clothes just keep finding me. ANYHOW:

- A couple plaid shirts from earlier in December.
- A wonderful pair of coffee-brown tennis shoes with a coal grey underlayer.
- A stitchin' black belt for my darker colored suits.
- A gorgeous brown leather executive suitcase.
- Two striped ties - one colored dark purple and a silver one.
- Two long-sleeve casual shirts, no patterns, but absolutely stunning fabric. Great for the double-shirt two-in-one.
- Four t-shirts with varying patterns and colors. This is crucial because I'm shockingly low on t-shirts and only now this became a problem.
- Jeans from earlier in December. Amazing color and fabric, but it desperately needs a cut to fit into my tiny legs. Should get that fixed this week.
- A box of Kopenhagen chocolates and a belgian chocolate brownie. This went down alarmingly fast.
- A pack of cashew nuts. What do you mean, they aren't Christmas gifts?

Yet to come: a bottle of whiskey or two (depending on whether my liaison gets Glenfiddich or Jack Daniels), and then I have no idea.

I've never gotten so much clothing for Christmas, and it feels so. Damn. FABULOUS.

[Tide]

Nothing. My holidays rule btw.

[metroid composite]

Some absolutely fantastic stylin clothing.

And I gave my father a list of games (as he didn't want to shop for clothes) and ended up with...Batman: Arkham City.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

-Bitchin Suit
-Bottle of Glenlivet 12-year-old
-Bottle of Glenfidditch with matching glass and (wait for it) "whisky diary."
-Return, the book about the 2010 Packers. Lotta great photos in there.
-Four tickets to the Blazers home opener
-Cooking With Beer, a cookbook (laminated because you know you'll spill on it eventually).
-Trip to visit my brother in Hawaii over Spring Break

Pretty boss.

[Cotigo]

-Various flavors of tobasco sauce.
-Tortillas! And they weren't moldy when I got them! Yay!
-One of those sausage and cheese sets you get someone when you don't know what to get them.  Considering how you can't find good sausage or cheese up here, this was pretty sweet.
-A number of trinkets to give to my students as prizes.  Which are all christmas themed, so, uh.  This would have worked better if the box didn't arrive literally last week.

Yeah, pretty sweet.

[Nitori]

- The Parks & Rec book "The Greatest Town in America"
- "100 words To Make You Sound Great"
- Wii Motion Plus remote
- Headphones I'll be exchanging for a good headset
- That tablet I won
- $100
- a plane ticket to florida

p. cool

[Grefter]

Part in ordering a boxing stand.
Tales of the Abyss.

stuff.


Ash as a consumate socialist and atheist, I see nothing wrong with celebrating Saturnalia.  People can call it what they want.  Something that lets you give things to people that you love in a socially accepted scenario that doesn't make everyone feel uncomfortable is fine in my books.  It could be a bit less commercialised, but if we don't give them excuses for rampant consumerism they will just construct one for us.

Don't need the tinsel and a tree and shit.  Don't even need the wrapping paper.  All you need is an excuse and people worth high fiving.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

The gang and I call it Alvistide. We have a tree but only so a Commander Riker action figure can ride it.

[Cmdr_King]

Lessee

- A side table (I could really use a bookself or five and space to PUT those, but for a blind gift this is still pretty cool)
- various stocking stuff (candy, homemade jam)
- A soap+cologne set

Family does white elephant, but tends not to actually trade each other much.  Yielded...

- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq.  I'm sure it's what you'd expect.
- $10 BP Gas card

And of course $$$

- $550.  That's uh $50 from my dad and the rest from my grandparents.  Uh *boggle* I guess I can maybe actually buy myself something besides bills and school books.  Or at least have a nice dinner.

I should totally take over dinner duties though.  Not because my family is bad at it (far from it) but because it's kinda what I'm going for and all.

[Fudozukushi]

80$
50$ GameSTOP gift card.
??$ McDonald's gift card X2
Shirt X4 including one from my old High School being sold at a K-MART
Pants X3
Portable Lantern
Michael Jackson
Bed cover/wall hanger
Axe
Fate/Extra

[VySaika]

Jenna's family, as always, goes nuts this holiday and spends WAY more then is remotely reasonable.

My share of the lot came out to...

Disgaea 4
Florence + the Machine's new CD, Ceremonials
The new 500 Kingdoms book by Mercedes Lackey, Beauty and the Werewolf
Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2(from Kier, actually. Which is hilarious because I almost got this for him.)
Samurai Warriors 3 and Bowser's Inside Story(don't really count, I bought these for myself and stuck them under the tree with "from Jenna" on them).
8 gb flashdrive(in the stocking, but counts since that's damn useful).

First time in years I got no gift cards.

[OblivionKnight]

Capitalist pig-dogs, focused on your gifts and comparing "hauls" and "loot".  You make me SICK. 

[Fudozukushi]

Capitalist pig-dogs, focused on your gifts and comparing "hauls" and "loot".  You make me SICK.

I'd list what I gave but it'd just be an empty post.

I am scrooge.

[Bobbin Cranbud]

turntechGodhead long-sleeved tee
Hero of Void tee
Skyrim
Homestuck 2012 Calendar
Pizza Hut gift card
Flavored Coffee

Kind of a light year both giving and receiving for me, because suddenly everyone is poor and has no time to do anything even if they weren't. But I'm very happy with what I got and people were happy with what I was able to give them, so it's all good.

[Lady Door]

I don't mind celebrating Christmas, but I refuse to participate in the shopping frenzy. Presents tend to be what presents are: things I find that make me think of people. Same thing goes for birthdays, and just because.

Anyway. Like I said, Andrew's family disagrees. So they buy me things. The crazy gifts they gave me this year:

An Aperture Science mug
A crank-powered keychain flashlight
A ridiculous aluminum LED flashlight
A pair of costume-style necklaces
ANOTHER FREAKING KINDLE (the touch e-ink screen one, with special offers)

... *shakes her head*

[Hunter Sopko]

DVDs
Rookie of the Year
Young Frankenstein
Psych seasons 1-4
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia seasons 5-6
Due Date
Batman: Return of the Joker

Blu-Rays
How to Train Your Dragon
Stargate
Sherlock Holmes
The Green Hornet
Inglorious Basterds

Nier
Trinity Universe
El Shaddai

Snuff by Terry Pratchett
A Christmas Story bobblehead of the Dad clutching the leg lamp
A Make Your Own Root Beer kit
A shaker/strainer for my bar
Underwear and socks
A Devils shirt
Shirt, khakis, tie combo
A new pillow
Candy
$20 in scratchoff lotto tickets (Won 26 bucks this year)

$40 in PSN credit
$110 in cash

You know, I keep saying I'm gonna reduce the amount of stuff I ask for... and I actually did this year! But DVDs/BRs just get cheaper and cheaper, and despite telling them to get me less stuff, they got me MORE and somehow spent a lot less...

[Hunter Sopko]

Doctor Who stuff: TARDIS cookie jar and "desktop Dalek"

GODDAMNIT. Now I have to think of a different idea for a wedding present...

[AndrewRogue]

Ranging all across the family in my spoiled spectrum...

$100 iTunes
$50 Gamestop
$25 Amazon
$25 Barnes and Noble
$300 Cash
Clothes! Clothes! A mixture of nice things and awesome gamer things.
Season 1 and 2 of the Big Bang Theory
Ico/Shadow of the Colossus Collection
A Hex Bug
Two keychain flashlights (one crank, one LED/battery)
Climate of Change (Book)
Bitter Angles (Book)
And a few single issue comics and magazines for the flight home

[Lance]

Loot!
    * Professor Layton and the Last Specter (DS)
    * Bioshock (XBox 360)
    * Inception on DVD
    * Two small 8" frying pans
    * Two packages of Brita water filters
    * Two nice-looking shirts
    * A ridiculously soft blanket
    * Two pairs of ear buds from two separate people
    * An assortment of air fresheners
    * $100 gift card to Publix
    * $20 gift card to Best Buy
    * A 2012 calendar full of neat weather pictures (lightning and cloud formations and whatnot)
    * A Wii points card with 2,000 points (Having never purchased any WiiWare or Virtual Console games, I have no idea how much this will get me)
    * A couple miscellaneous food items (Candy, nuts, the usual)