The Official 2009 Christmas Gift Thread!

[lupo pazzesco]

Are you flying home? You could always ship it to yourself...don't know if a wok would fit in the post office's flat rate shipping boxes...

Some of the stuff will, but my biggest concern is the wok. And the picture frames. They're kind of...big. I need to measure them to determine just how big and then hit a shipping supply store or something.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Some of the stuff will, but my biggest concern is the wok. And the picture frames. They're kind of...big. I need to measure them to determine just how big and then hit a shipping supply store or something.

Don't know what they charge, but I do believe the UPS store will pack them for you.

[Cat]

saw the bf

He got me:
White Mountain Guide
Oracle of Ages Manga
lovely white jade cat pendant
lovely celtic knot pendant with blue topaz.

Boy done did good


Now I owe him many legos for his bday

[Rapscallion]

Incoming, a chocolate orange, a toblerone, and some underwear.

Outoing, quite an order of magnitude more.

Rapscallion

[Bella_Vixen]

I think I'll be getting the latest at birthday time.

Yes. Yes, you will.

Becks, does the new shirt you got for me count as a Christmas present?

[Jack T. Chance]

This year I got a couple things I needed, and a couple things I wasn't expecting.

My old beard trimmer was losing its ability to hold a charge in its battery, so my mom got me a nice new Norelco beard trimmer that's MUCH nicer! It works a lot better than the old one!

I was also given the Complete 5th Season of LOST on DVD.

For the last few weeks, I've been borrowing the Xbox 360 game Borderlands from my best friend, because he only played it a few times before getting interested in a different game. On Christmas day, he called me and told me to go ahead and keep it. That was his Christmas present to me!

BTW, those of you that have an Xbox 360 or a gaming PC, don't play Borderlands. I'm warning you now. Most addictive game in YEARS! For the sake of your friends, family, and loved ones, DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! Not unless you're prepared for the consequences of disappearing for several weeks, and having them hate you for being so anti-social!

[Becks]

Becks, does the new shirt you got for me count as a Christmas present?

If you want it to.

[AnqeiicDemise]

I now has:

* a lovely Chinese Calligraphy Set (all capitals to show how much I've been yearning for one). It isn't of greatest quality but great for beginners.

* Martha Stewart's Cupcake book

* Plush-o-rama: Curious Creatures For Immature Adults -- a how-to-book for quirky and fun plushies.

* Kitchen-aide, 4.5 quart mixer

* flat iron.

* Two silk scarves

* Angels and Demons. I'm sad to find out the story was changed a bit from the original printing.

[Cat]

One of my friends got me anoth set of travel bamboo utensils Now I have no excuse to not carry 'em (I can leave one set on each bag....hmmm thenI might need one more set) and a vegan soup cookbook ( I have so many cookbooks now, I should get cooking!)

Treated myself to a new pocket knife, book on the AT, and a Tuckerman's patch ( I totallt do not need the knife, I just love 'em and can keep once big knife in each of my packs)

the BF treated himself to a PS3 and misc goodies for it, and he told me he picked up a few more things for me (totally uneeded, but he was having fun shopping)


Good thing I have the cookbooks, we probably won't be going out to eat for a while, lol

[Becks]

My Christmas present from Lizziebeff finally got delivered yesterday.

I am now the proud owner of a snazztastic bodice dagger.

[AdminAssistant]

Got the last bit of my Christmas today - a netbook! A Dell Inspiron Mini from Best Buy. It's purple!!

[42_42_42]

Or they are like my family.

My parents use the stockings to give basic things that someone might need, but aren't necessarily "WOOT!" type presents. Stuff like batteries, socks, Tic Tacs, hand soap, etc. Your basic necessities, depending on who you are (for me maybe beer coozies, etc.), but stuff that is not all that impressive. Little stuff.

Like hand soap.

Unfortunately, these were not in my stocking, but in gift bags (DH and I exchange stockings by ourselves, not w/ the whole family around). I'm actually more puzzled by my MIL giving out hand soap. DH's cousin gives Bath and Body Works hand soap pretty much every year, so it's expected. My MIL, however, almost never gives actual physical gifts. She much prefers to just hand you a bank envelope w/ a 50 or 100 in it. She says it's because she doesn't know what to get anyone, but really it's because she's too lazy to find out what anyone might want or need. Why she decided to also hand out grocery store brand hand soap this year in addition to the money is just

[42_42_42]

$25 B&N gift card...no stores within a reasonable distance though

I'm pretty sure you can use those at their online store.