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What are you getting for Christmas??

  • 08-11-2015 01:54PM
    #1
    poeticjustice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭


    I lack imagination but really want something fun for Christmas. I'm thinking of getting a new phone which will be exciting for a few minutes until I realise its only slightly better than my old one.

    What were the best Christmas presents you got over the years (as adults) or what are you excited to be getting this year?


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  • #2
    howamidifferent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭howamidifferent


    May try a hooker...


  • #3
    Starscream25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Starscream25


    I'm still waiting on mr frosty


  • #4
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,457 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Bills!


  • #5
    LeTickler
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 46 ✭LeTickler


    Maybe a big 50" led tele, so I can clearer see the news headlines of poverty as i shake my head and ask why.


  • #6
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,635 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Twisted


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  • #7
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Probably get some clothes, maybe a couple of books (have my eye on more of the witcher series) and I was thinking about some new brewing equipment, so maybe that.

    Might grab something in the Steam Christmas sale for myself then


  • #8
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    I usually get a diary/organiser that is left in my daughter's stocking from santa so she can give it as her gift to me. She includes it on her list every year. I genuinely do get excited about starting a new diary :o but i realise that's not all that fun for most people!

    I also get a season ticket every year. A few of us support the same team so we buy each others ticket.


  • #9
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Very drunk. Followed by self doubt and feelings of paranoia.


  • #10
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Soda stream! Probably socks and Lynx shower pack from Mam. >_>
















    Nothing, I buy something when I need it.


  • #11
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    I'll get the usual. Toiletries and more toiletries


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  • #12
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Jeans and a T-shirt same as every year I'd imagine but I'm happy with that. What I'm really looking forward to is a Christmas card from the kids, their card for my birthday made my day :)


  • #13
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Jeans and a T-shirt same as every year I'd imagine but I'm happy with that. What I'm really looking forward to is a Christmas card from the kids, their card for my birthday made my day :)

    Are you Jesus?


  • #14
    The Sidewards Man
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭The Sidewards Man


    The annual ride.


  • #15
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Are you Jesus?

    Aye, risen from the dead!


  • #16
    DopeTech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,200 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    Starscream25 wrote: »
    I'm still waiting on mr frosty

    Me?


  • #17
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Oh teh noes, the MiL is no longer with us, so I won't get my annual pair of socks!

    What shall I wear next year, AHers?


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My parents usually buy my flights so I can spend Christmas with them, that's a great gift and I'm really grateful for it every year. I usually get another 'surprise' and an assortment of other gifts from various other members of the family, featuring something very sensible from Granny.

    A few years ago, one of my nephews memorably gave me a packet of Smarties, with the colour carefully sucked off every single sweet. :) Things don't have to be expensive to be memorable.


  • #19
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    The Sidewards Man wrote: »
    The annual ride.

    Santy clause is a boardsie!Who'd have thought.


  • #20
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    Candie wrote: »

    A few years ago, one of my nephews memorably gave me a packet of Smarties, with the colour carefully sucked off every single sweet. :) Things don't have to be expensive to be memorable.

    Was there a specific reason or did he just think it would be something you'd appreciate? :)


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tasden wrote: »
    Was there a specific reason or did he just think it would be something you'd appreciate? :)

    He says the colors are the best bit! I think the greedy little fecker loves me...but not as much as he loves Smarties.

    Him and his twin are six now, so I expect another self portrait of the two of them fashioned from pasta, glitter, fuzzits, and the every present ingredient of snot. :)

    I love the pair of them, they're a pair of adorable pint-size gangsters.


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  • #22
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    Candie wrote: »
    He says the colors are the best bit! I think the greedy little fecker loves me...but not as much as he loves Smarties.

    Him and his twin are six now, so I expect another self portrait of the two of them fashioned from pasta, glitter, fuzzits, and the every present ingredient of snot. :)

    I love the pair of them, they're a pair of adorable pint-size gangsters.

    Adorable!
    I do love home made gifts from children, they're always very...unique :pac:


  • #23
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    Since Christmas is time for giving, a better question to ask would be what are you getting others for Christmas?


  • #24
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    The thing I've got the most use out of is the first time I was bought a moleskin plain sheet journal to write in, cos it meant I used it a lot and stopped wasting money on crappy cheap stuff to write in.

    Most I've enjoyed is probably a video game of some sort.


  • #25
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    The thing I've got the most use out of is the first time I was bought a moleskin plain sheet journal to write in, cos it meant I used it a lot and stopped wasting money on crappy cheap stuff to write in.

    Most I've enjoyed is probably a video game of some sort.

    Moleskin notebooks and diaries are my favourite.


  • #26
    Crumpets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Crumpets


    Fat


  • #27
    DopeTech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,200 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    Crumpets wrote: »
    Fat

    I'm getting that as a new years pressie!


  • #28
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Donations towards a new laptop.

    Material things mean very little do me now, because I got a death sentence this year, but a laptop is an essential link to the world for me now and mine packed up last week.


  • #29
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    If I could have anything in the world? All my friends who've emigrated over the last few years not to leave again after they come home for Christmas. The first and second weeks of January have suddenly become the saddest weeks of the year. :(

    However, since this isn't on the cards, a decent supply of beers will help get me through it, so I'd go for that :p


  • #30
    LoonyLovegood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,068 ✭✭✭LoonyLovegood


    I'm getting a new iPod. Mine packed in after four years of bliss, so I can't wait for it!

    Trying to decide what to get for everyone else is the hard part. I think I've my parents sorted, but my boyfriend and siblings are really hard to shop for.


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  • #31
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    A lump of coal in a sock.


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