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Rockinacoustic

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A Leatherman Micra with an mini LED flashlight
A $500 Visa check card to use towards next semester's tuition
And I split Guitar Hero World Tour for the Wii with my three younger brothers.
 

matas

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Aug 8, 2005
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new 600 dollar pc
3 sweatshirts
2 shirts
belt
100 dollars
snowboarding goggles
 

TraumaRN

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Jun 5, 2005
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Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Me and my fiancee collectively-

A brand new queen bed with box springs, memory foam mattress pad, and a frame plus a set of sheets + comforter for it from mine and her parents.
150 piece drill bit set, a drill, circular saw, scrollsaw, workbench with light.
Laser level
Wet/Dry Shop Vacuum
Some wall hangings for our new house
GTA IV
Bunch of DVDs
She got a set of earrings

Pretty good christmas if you ask me!
Make sure you build a sawboard for that circular saw!

Previous owner of the house had the whole garage as like a giant workship. I already know where I can use said circular saw
 

Howard

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Oct 14, 1999
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Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Me and my fiancee collectively-

A brand new queen bed with box springs, memory foam mattress pad, and a frame plus a set of sheets + comforter for it from mine and her parents.
150 piece drill bit set, a drill, circular saw, scrollsaw, workbench with light.
Laser level
Wet/Dry Shop Vacuum
Some wall hangings for our new house
GTA IV
Bunch of DVDs
She got a set of earrings

Pretty good christmas if you ask me!
Make sure you build a sawboard for that circular saw!

Previous owner of the house had the whole garage as like a giant workship. I already know where I can use said circular saw
Looks like you don't know what a sawboard is, then.
 

ranmaniac

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May 14, 2001
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Line 6 Pocket POD
Line 6 BackTrack
Line 6 T-shirt
Takamine Acoustic guitar
$200 cash
 

SZLiao214

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Sep 9, 2003
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2 shirts
audio book
wallet
sodoku handheld
25 dollar bb card

Actually quite a bit more useful stuff then last year :)
 

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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Various checks.
Cha-ching!
Hurray, now I can buy electricity, natural gas, water, and food for awhile. :)

 

AVAFREAK182

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I got my Blackberry with an 8gb card, underwear, socks, a new jacket, 2 dvd's, and $35 to gamestop.

As a family gift i got a wii with 11 games and a bunch of accessories.
 

QueBert

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Jan 6, 2002
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an iPod Touch, I already had one but now I got a 1g and a 2g. I'll use the 1g for strictly music and the 2g for video I guess lol I dunno.
 

tfinch2

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$150 in cash
$50 AMEX GC
$75 BB GC
Spiderman trilogy BD

My granny gave me some pajama bottoms and a blanket she bought from a garage sale. :confused:

 

JohnCU

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Dec 9, 2000
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Originally posted by: dNor
$470 cash
$100 Amex gift card
$50 Amex gift card
$25 Best Buy gift card
Steak dinner

:shocked:

take me out tonight? :heart:
 

mztykal

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Apr 21, 2000
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I got and gave a lot of stuff this year for some weird reason...

Gave 5 Coach bags, 1 Coach wallet, a new desktop and lcd for the FIL, 1 Coach dog collar, 4-5 Hurley t-shirts, 1 Hurley hat, misc gift cards...

I bought myself...

New quad desktop to replace my old quad, 96 bone stock Civic EX coupe to daily drive (i'm really happy about this), new iPhone and that's pretty much it, got a JOB to replace the one I lost in February when CompUSA went down and I lost my management job.

I got for Christmas...

Canon 1100 to take with me cus my dslrs are too cumbersome, Alpine deck and Infinity speakers for my new daily, Viper alarm with install from MIL, 500 cash, 3 Ezekiel t-shirts, 2 Quicksilver t-shirts, 1 Ezekiel button up long sleeve shirt, 1 Ezekiel polo shirt, 2 pairs of flip-flops (one dc and one quicksilver), 50 dollar Walmart GC...

I actually had a really great Christmas this year. Hope this is a sign of things to come and '09 is awesome, cus '08 sucked.
 

jonnyjack

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- Dark Knight DVD from white elephant gift exchange at work.
- $10 Jamba Juice giftcard.
- Seasons 2 and 3 of How I Met Your Mother and three month giftcard to Netflix from my cousin's. (Already have Season 1)
- $100 cash combined from couple of aunts and grandparents.
 

pstylesss

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Mar 21, 2007
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Military Long underwear. These things are amazing!
Dress clothes (purple shirt, tie, grey slacks, and a belt)
Shoes
SNL (The Best of Will Ferrel)
A Dr. House Cane (The "bitchin'" one ;))
An air popcorn popper (once you go air popped, everything else blows)
A scarf
A pea coat
~$200 in cash

Had a pretty good Christmas. :)
 

xSauronx

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Jul 14, 2000
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$20 gc for goodys
a pizza stone set (which i had, so im confused)
sub to national geographic (which i love)
lock de-icer (its practically never cold enough here to need it, more confusion)
money for my trip to see my kids next week (yay)
and a religious fiction work that my mother thinks will get me on track to wanting god in my life (im an atheist, kthxbye
 

Megatomic

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Nov 9, 2000
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I got:

an air compressor
Spore
clothes
a caddy for phone/mp3 player charging, and one for remotes in the living room
lots of delicious baked goods (I love my wife)
Iron Gym
gym membership (1 year)
fleece jammies (it's cold in upstate NY)

And I asked her to NOT buy for me... lol
 
Dec 26, 2007
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I'll go in chronological order and do what I got then what I gave:

I got from the GF:
WD 1 TB drive (Caviar black model)
6 bottles of some nice wine
Cologne that she likes the smell of (I do as well)
Since I got an internship at work she got me some nice clothes to wear for it
Leather duffel bag (although this came with the cologne, but was a seperate gift)
She got some lingerie/outfits that I have said I wanted to see her wear (this was also our 6 mo gift partially, since the 26th is our 6th mo)
-She made a calendar of herself in said outfits (and others she already had) for 2009 ;)
A coin bank and $25 check (she always takes coins from my cup-o-coins, and I tell her to do it if she needs it but she still feels like shes "taking money from me" lol)


At the gf's families (where I didn't expect anything and told them not to buy me anything):
Some more cologne (different then the gf got me)
A new hoodie
Wineopoly (wine monopoly, looks fun :p)
A bottle of Royal Toakji 2003 red label (my favorite desert wine) Text
A 16 bottle wine cooler (have 14 bottles of white and the tokaji in there right now :p)

At my gf's best friends house (whom I have become good friends with as well)
A bottle of Don Julio tequila that we are going to share :p

At my stepdad's moms house:
$175
Shirt+boxers
Sony Blu-Ray player (can't wait to hook this up and watch my first Blu-Ray on my Kuro)

Still left:
Dad (out of town, and will prolly be mid-jan)
Mom (lives out of state, and will be first week in Jan when gf and I go visit)

What I gave:

To my gf
Speedlite 430 EX II
Canon 50 mm f1.8 II lens
Lowepro fastpack 200 camera bag
Book on wedding photography (she was doing a friends wedding she was really worried about, but then I found out xmas night she prolly won't go to it now :(), and on her flash
A 7 inch digital photo frame (with pictures I preloaded, and photoshopped text on to :p)
101 places to have sex before you die book
some other smaller things

To others:
mom is getting nice cutlery set (Henckels Grand Prix series) and mag knife holder
Dad is getting BB gift card
Stepdad got 3 DVD's he wanted
friends who I exchanged with got dvd's mainly, but some other stuff as well

All in all, was a good xmas so far