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Are you going to treat yourself this xmas

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  • #32
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    A blow up doll and a 12 pack of strawberry ribbed condoms and I might splash out on a box of kleenex or some other fancy tissues.


  • #33
    Vito Corleone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    I'm probably getting a tablet and maybe some clothes. The time off is the biggest treat of all though.


  • #34
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭deise08


    Yep. as a Christmas present to me I got myself a batman mug and sock set. :) gonna wrap it and rut it under tree. socks going to be massive on me cos they're men's but I don't care so lookin forward to using em :)


  • #35
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Specialun wrote: »
    I think i will

    New ipad docking station..xbox and going to move the current tv to other room with xbox and get new 42inch tv

    Ive worked hard all yr so fook you taxman.going to spend a few bob on myself besides bills and bailing out those bankers

    Will you AH

    The Chinese will be delighted with you buying all this stuff off them. So will the Chinese taxman and heads of the Communist Party


  • #36
    FreshKnickers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭FreshKnickers


    Ye know what? You've inspired me! I feckin think I will splash out on meself after all.

    So, that's it. Brand-name milk for the Knickers household come Christmas day!


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  • #37
    StewartGriffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭StewartGriffin


    Well, I'm a Garda and my partner is a teacher.

    We're Getting TWO boxes of Aldi cornflakes for a special Xmas surprise for the kids. Double the cardboard for them as desert as we shan't waste the box.

    We've turned a corner.


  • #38
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    hmmm....planning to treat myself to an especially nice bottle of whiskey (yet to be decided) and probably new tires for the weekend car.
    Hopefully we'll need them round Christmas time.

    Everything else will be treats for the lilluns.....little faces full of excitement and wonder on Christmas morning are a treat in themselves.


  • #39
    The Dom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭The Dom


    God I pity people with young kids these days. November 24th, a month until Christmas and it town today there were bands playing Santa Claus Is Coming To Town and he did, appeared on stage asking kids what they wanted and stuff. Christ, good luck listening to those kids now for the next week saying: 'But Santa said he was coming.."

    tl:dr: bah humbug.


  • #40
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee


  • #41
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Probably going to wait until the sales and treat myself to some bike stuff and a new dress. Myself and my OH's anniversary is December 30, so well timed for getting something pretty for it!


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  • #42
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Probably going to wait until the sales and treat myself to some bike stuff and a new dress. Myself and my OH's anniversary is December 30, so well timed for getting something pretty for it!


    I hope your a woman


  • #43
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Specialun wrote: »
    I hope your a woman

    I am indeed :pac:


  • #44
    GobBass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭GobBass


    Stheno wrote: »
    I'm due a health insurance refund of a fair enough amount, so I'm going to spend it on the Oh ( he has a missing tooth that he hates) and a few bits for me, sunglassess, a knife (leatherman/swiss army) and a balaclava to keep warm when sailing.

    Plan is to spend half and save half :) We are looking at a radical change in our lives next year (our own plan) so nothing massively extravagant.

    A knife? A balaclava? Sunglasses? A missing tooth?

    Sounds like a MacGyver list than a shopping list. :D


  • #45
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Specialun wrote: »
    I think i will

    New ipad docking station..xbox and going to move the current tv to other room with xbox and get new 42inch tv

    Ive worked hard all yr so fook you taxman.going to spend a few bob on myself besides bills and bailing out those bankers

    Will you AH
    I don't understand how you buying something for yourself is going to stick it to the taxman?


  • #46
    April O Neill II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 536 ✭✭✭April O Neill II


    Nope, completely broke this Xmas as is all the fam. :) A lean one this year for us, but we will be making sure there's plenty of food, which is the important bit anyway! :p:cool:


  • #47
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    New large screen smartphone in January sales.

    Nothing to do with decent sized mobile pornography.

    Promise.


  • #48
    [-0-]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    I treat myself every year. I try to anyway. Last year I bought a few bottles of expensive scotch. This year I'm sending myself home to Ireland for the holidays. I haven't been home in two years so I'm very excited about the whole affair.

    Christmas isn't straight forward for everyone. For anyone who has lost a loved one, either recently or otherwise, it can very painful. Something like 76 people have died in my home town this year, some of them friends of mine. Lots of people in the country out of work and can't get the things their kids would like. It's just a horrible time of year the older you get. Spare a thought for the not so fortunate.


  • #49
    April O Neill II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 536 ✭✭✭April O Neill II


    [-0-] wrote: »
    Christmas isn't straight forward for everyone. For anyone who has lost a loved one, either recently or otherwise, it can very painful. Something like 76 people have died in my home town this year, some of them friends of mine. Lots of people in the country out of work and can't get the things their kids would like. It's just a horrible time of year the older you get. Spare a thought for the not so fortunate.

    Well said.


  • #50
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    I'm getting a new phone, a new graphics card and a PS4. I'm going to be doing some volunteering too to help those less fortunate. Christmas is my favourite time of year and it is great to give back.


  • #51
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    As an athiest and secularist, I don't get involved in this Christian/ former pagan festival as I don't want to be a massive hypocrite.


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  • #52
    Coopaloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Coopaloop


    mossy95 wrote: »
    Don't be surprised when the tell you have to buy a game too or they won't allow you purchase the xbox.

    Yeah got stung by that trick,but at the end of the day i was gonna by a game with it too,i just didn't like being forced to do it.


  • #53
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Stheno wrote: »
    I'm due a health insurance refund of a fair enough amount, so I'm going to spend it on the Oh ( he has a missing tooth that he hates) and a few bits for me, sunglassess, a knife (leatherman/swiss army) and a balaclava to keep warm when sailing.

    Plan is to spend half and save half :) We are looking at a radical change in our lives next year (our own plan) so nothing massively extravagant.

    Wait a minute.......I think I know your OH.....

    http://cdn1.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/article29657221.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/NWS_20131014_ENT_002_29265971_I1.JPG


  • #54
    camel jockey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭camel jockey


    Specialun wrote: »
    I think i will

    New ipad docking station..xbox and going to move the current tv to other room with xbox and get new 42inch tv

    Ive worked hard all yr so fook you taxman.going to spend a few bob on myself besides bills and bailing out those bankers

    Will you AH

    Nice.

    Might get myself a new toothbrush.


  • #55
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,273 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    For once we have a bit of spare cash, most of which went into a short term deposit account to pay for house extension next year. Kept a bit back for frivolity so I have already treated myself a bit.

    I think Santa might bring me either a PS4 or an electronic drum kit, and the kids'll do well. Herself may get a littel somethign from tiffany's. Might as well have a decent one while we can, back to porridge and mince next year.


  • #56
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Hoop66 wrote: »
    back to porridge and mince next year.

    A proper man's breakfast!!!

    :D


  • #57
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    No item I really need so not getting much for myself except a season ticket for next year but it's enough of a treat for me to see the kids so excited and happy, meet friends for a festive pints and just enjoy the holiday.


  • #58
    Johnny Drama_11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭Johnny Drama_11


    Looking forward to getting a couple of vests and t-shirts I have had my eye on.


  • #59
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Bought the kids a little pup last week. It's in a lovely little box and is wrapped and ready to open. Can't wait to see their faces on Christmas morning when they open it.


  • #60
    Gannicus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭Gannicus


    krudler wrote: »
    Not really tbh, tight budget.

    But I do look forward to my annual crack open the sweets, sit down with a bottle of whiskey and watch Die Hard xmas eve tradition :D

    Hero.

    I shall be doing that aswel.

    However I shall watch "A Christmassy Ted" beforehand.


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  • #61
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Nope, another lean Christmas here again this year. Myself and my OH won't be getting each other anything, but the kids will get a nice present each.

    Also my OH's family gifted us plane tickets to the UK to spend Christmas with them this year, so I won't have to cook. Score! :D


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