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I got nothing for Christmas

  • 30-12-2014 2:04am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭


    I litterly didn't get any presents for Christmas I'm in my early 20s! It's been like this most years ! We just don't really care much for presents I'm totally fine with it ! My parents never see me stuck for cash during the year ! I have a pritty good lifestyle , they get me bits and peaces during the year ! They always push out the boat on Christmas Day , the best of food and drink ! I don't care one bit! They provide enough during the year! I just get so surprised when I see all these pics of people's Christmas presents iPhones , watches , jewellery it all looks so bloody expensive !


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    You seem excited! !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭bluemartin


    I am sure you would still have liked to have received something ;), maybe your parents didn't get a chance to buy any. Besides presents aren't the be all and end all of everything, you get plenty of love and support and you have a good lifestyle so no I wouldnt worry too much about it. I knew a person once that went out and bought his own present wrapped it and put it under the tree :P

    To be honest it is far more distressing when you see a little kid who didn't receive anything for Christmas, that is just the pits:(


  • Registered Users Posts: 750 ✭✭✭onlyrocknroll


    I litterly didn't get any presents for Christmas I'm in my early 20s! It's been like this most years ! We just don't really care much for presents I'm totally fine with it ! My parents never see me stuck for cash during the year ! I have a pritty good lifestyle , they get me bits and peaces during the year ! They always push out the boat on Christmas Day , the best of food and drink ! I don't care one bit! They provide enough during the year! I just get so surprised when I see all these pics of people's Christmas presents iPhones , watches , jewellery it all looks so bloody expensive !

    If it works for you guys than good for you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    They say we're young and we don't know
    Won't find out until we grow


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭clownface95


    They provide me with enough cash when it comes to collage fees , my car , and other things ! I'd hate to go asking them for an iphone or something !


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Go out tomorrow and buy yourself something nice. Wrap it in Christmas paper an put it away. By next Christmas you'll have forgotten what you brought. Make sure what you buy will last a year without being opened.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 387 ✭✭berger89


    I litterly didn't get any presents for Christmas I'm in my early 20s! It's been like this most years ! We just don't really care much for presents I'm totally fine with it ! My parents never see me stuck for cash during the year ! I have a pritty good lifestyle , they get me bits and peaces during the year ! They always push out the boat on Christmas Day , the best of food and drink ! I don't care one bit! They provide enough during the year! I just get so surprised when I see all these pics of people's Christmas presents iPhones , watches , jewellery it all looks so bloody expensive !

    my kind of person! particularly in the last few years, I've really hated the whole present thing around christmas. I wouldn't be the biggest holy joe but the meaning of Christmas is completely lost.

    I asked my brother the other day, what does Christmas mean to you.
    His answer: "food and presents sure."

    *sigh*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭clownface95


    I think some people are picking me up the wrong way , I'm not ranting on that I want them to buy me things for Christmas . I'm just saying you don't need to have expensive iPhones and what not to have a good Christmas !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭FISMA


    I litterly didn't get any presents for Christmas I'm in my early 20s! ...

    How many did you give?
    They provide me with enough cash when it comes to collage fees

    Tell them they're not getting their money's worth.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭roadsmart


    Maybe next year! They'll get you! Spelling lessons!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭clownface95


    Go f*ck yourself


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭FISMA


    Go f*ck yourself

    Back on the naughty list!

    Not looking good for next year either!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    I bought the wife a babyliss hair curler for €190
    She treated me to a €15 iTunes card

    Load of bollocks!! ... But its the thought that counts. I suppose.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭clownface95


    Oh well


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 387 ✭✭berger89


    I bought the wife a babyliss hair curler for €190
    She treated me to a €15 iTunes card

    Load of bollocks!! ... But its the thought that counts. I suppose.

    Haha I'm sorry that made me laugh! :)
    TBH, I'd get more enjoyment out of the iTunes card..and I'm a girl! :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭roadsmart


    Go f*ck yourself

    Well it's! No wonder! You don't get! Presents!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 279 ✭✭thomur


    Don't worry about it. Im 45, have had 5-6 presents in the last 20 years. Parents are very old. No siblings. Relations 30+ years older. Get a Kris Kindle going in work. Got a Christmas Jumper this year. Will be wearing it in 2015


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,186 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Do your friends' parents fund them throughout the year to the same extent that yours do though?
    I remember during my time in college one of my housemates was scandalised that my mum had bought me in the region of €150 worth of stuff for Christmas - I think it was a coat and a handbag - when her own parents had 'only' spent about €50 on her gifts.
    The main difference in circumstances was that I was paying my own way through college, while her parents were paying for her rent/fees/petrol/tax/insurance/groceries/pocket money (she was 22).
    If I was financially supporting another adult to that extent I'd be less inclined to shower them with Christmas presents, but I sure as hell would hope for a nice gift or other gesture from them as a token of appreciation!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭estudent


    A lot of people ....even with everything they ever wanted still ask why they are on this planet.

    I think it's important to acknowledge most of these people would be happier if they had nothing at all.

    I'm suggesting that those people transfer their happiness and wealth to to those who don't know it yet.

    In the event some participants are dissatisfied, we can acknowledge those individuals don't want to be happy.

    Naturally, we have some pharmaceutical drugs for their disorganized thought.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    They provide me with enough cash when it comes to collage fees
    Safety scissors, coloured paper, glue, old magazines to cut up? I'd say you're fairly hard done by.

    Hit them up for papier mâché next year. In fairness now.

    :mad:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Dirty Steve


    I think we'd all feel better if you just sat in the corner and didn't annoy everyone while they enjoy their presents.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭clownface95


    No.. I'm not Fairly done by , just I don't need expensive presents to keep me happy for Christmas .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    No.. I'm not Farley done by

    Like a rusk?

    :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 279 ✭✭thomur


    I got 1 present for Christmas. It was a Christmas jumper. Will be wearing in in Feb


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    thomur wrote: »
    I got 1 present for Christmas. It was a Christmas jumper. Will be wearing in in Feb

    Did you not mention that just a few posts ago?

    This thread is getting weird...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    No.. I'm not Fairly done by
    Ah. Ninja edit produces interesting parapraxis! Capitalised and everything.

    Now we're getting somewhere. Tell us. Did you get presents as a child? Were you breastfed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 707 ✭✭✭jeepers101


    Ha! I've never seen AH at 3 in the morning before.

    It's brilliant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    jeepers101 wrote: »
    Ha! I've never seen AH at 3 in the morning before.

    It's brilliant.

    The nightshift finds the truth of things...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    endacl wrote: »
    The nightshift finds the truth of things...

    *Clocks in*


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  • Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    babyliss hair curler for €190
    €15 iTunes card

    But its the thought that counts. I suppose.

    Hmmmm...not so sure, but I love your positive attitude


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Chucken wrote: »
    *Clocks in*

    We should all chip in. Maybe buy the chap a torch? Where would we get one?

    :pac:

    *clocks out*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    endacl wrote: »
    We should all chip in. Maybe buy the chap a torch? Where would we get one?

    :pac:

    *clocks out*


    Why..I've no idea??? :eek:

    Where oh where would one buy a torch.......


  • Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    I got a fruitcake from a monastery in Kentucky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Asarlai wrote: »
    I got a fruitcake from a monastery in Kentucky.

    Is there a ferry?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    You should get together with the girl that got €39 off her bf, but she wasn't upset


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  • Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    endacl wrote: »
    Is there a ferry?

    No, there's no ferry, and no fairy either as far as I know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Asarlai wrote: »
    No, there's no ferry, and no fairy either as far as I know.

    Thats a pity :(

    But you know where you can buy fairies??

    The one and only.....http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/2414704/Trail/searchtext%3EFAIRY.htm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    endacl wrote: »
    We should all chip in. Maybe buy the chap a torch? Where would we get one?

    :pac:

    *clocks out*
    Chucken wrote: »
    Why..I've no idea??? :eek:

    Where oh where would one buy a torch.......

    As far as I can recall....wasn't there a place in dun laoghaire?? :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    As far as I can recall....wasn't there a place in dun laoghaire?? :P


    There was!!!

    Can't for the life of me remember what it was called?!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    I think it was
    PETERSONS IN DUNLAOGHAIRE
    Petersons in DunLaoghaire
    petersons in dunlaoghaire.......

    :pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    Chucken wrote: »
    Thats a pity :(

    But you know where you can buy fairies??

    The one and only.....

    Interesting. Anyway, the fruitcake didn't last long. I just kept eating the fruitcake until it disappeared.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 8,578 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wilberto


    roadsmart wrote: »
    Maybe next year! They'll get you! Spelling lessons!
    roadsmart wrote: »
    Well it's! No wonder! You don't get! Presents!


    What is up with the randomly placed exclamation marks? If you want to pull someone up on their grammar you could at least ensure your own is up to scratch first.

    Stop giving the good grammar Nazis, like myself, a bad name. :D:D :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I think it was
    PETERSONS IN DUNLAOGHAIRE
    Petersons in DunLaoghaire
    petersons in dunlaoghaire.......

    :pac:

    :D

    Dun laoighaire? Near trinity college (collage?)?!?

    See y'all after the ban expires!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    I think it was
    PETERSONS IN DUNLAOGHAIRE
    Petersons in DunLaoghaire
    petersons in dunlaoghaire.......

    :pac:


    You're right! Why could I not think of it?
    Asarlai wrote: »
    Interesting. Anyway, the fruitcake didn't last long. I just kept eating the fruitcake until it disappeared.

    That's no way to treat a monk. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Chucken wrote: »

    That's no way to treat a monk. :mad:

    Maybe it was a magic fruitcake?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    endacl wrote: »
    Maybe it was a magic fruitcake?


    Maybe we're all magic fruitcakes?



    *Nods sagely*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    ken wrote: »
    Make sure what you buy will last a year without being opened.

    So, that'd be a no for a kitten then?


  • Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    Chucken wrote: »
    Maybe we're all magic fruitcakes?



    *Nods sagely*

    Well, that's the thing, isn't it? We're all magic fruitcakes, and when we eat another magic fruitcake, it is as if we're eating ourselves. It's a good thing that I like both eating and being eaten, and so it all works out for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Asarlai wrote: »
    Well, that's the thing, isn't it? We're all magic fruitcakes, and when we eat another magic fruitcake, it is as if we're eating ourselves. It's a good thing that I like both eating and being eaten, and so it all works out for me.

    I see you're a relatively new user, and can't yet post images, but that post is one that will require extensive diagrams to be fully understood. I look forward to following up on the topic when you hit the magic five-oh.

    Welcome to After Hours. You'll fit right in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    endacl wrote: »
    I see you're a relatively new user, and can't yet post images, but that post is one that will require extensive diagrams to be fully understood. I look forward to following up on the topic when you hit the magic five-oh.

    Welcome to After Hours. You'll fit right in.

    I actually did try to post an 'explanatory flowchart', but yes, I got the message that I was still too inexperienced, so to speak, to be allowed to post an image.

    Only 4 more posts to go!


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