Christmas loot. Post yours.

[Ed Anger]

So easy today.

[Martinus]

So, in my family we stopped buying each other's gifts since it usually turned out to be crap noone needed and buy our own gifts.

So, this Christmas I bought for myself:
- "Dexter" season 2 (DVD),
- "The Wire" season 1 (DVD),
- "Entourage" season 1 and 2 (DVD),
- "Mad Men" season 1 (DVD),
- "Best of Elton John" (CD),
- "David Bowie - Greatest Hits" (CD),
- "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (DVD),
- "Frankie Say Greatest" (CD),
- Mika's "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" (CD),
- "The Joy of Gay Sex" (book),
- "Spell" by Alan Hollinghurst (book),
- "Sid Meier's Colonization" for Mac (game),
- "Caligula" (DVD),
- "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides (book),
- Philips' Arcitec Men's Shaver

My superboo ( ) also texted me he has a gift for me.

[katmai]

How sad Marti.

[Martinus]

How sad Marti.

So what did you get?

[katmai]

How sad Marti.

So what did you get?

I don't open my presents till X-mas day unlike you selfish impatient bastards!

[Martinus]

How sad Marti.

So what did you get?

I don't open my presents till X-mas day unlike you selfish impatient bastards!

Err, in Poland it is traditional to open them on Christmas eve.

[Martinus]

Btw, here's a good question for Miss Manners: if both the gifter and the giftee have foot fetish, does a gift of socks still count as a low-profile, unimportant gift, or is this an equivalent of giving someone sexy lingerie? Asking hypothetically.

[katmai]

Btw, here's a good question for Miss Manners: if both the gifter and the giftee have foot fetish, does a gift of socks still count as a low-profile, unimportant gift, or is this an equivalent of giving someone sexy lingerie? Asking hypothetically.

[katmai]

How sad Marti.

So what did you get?

I don't open my presents till X-mas day unlike you selfish impatient bastards!

Err, in Poland it is traditional to open them on Christmas eve.

Always knew you were backwards savages.

[Slargos]

I got what is possibly the best christmas gift I've ever been given, and definitely the best this millennium. My 3 year old niece had wrapped up her favourite doll and gifted it to me.

[Martinus]

I got what is possibly the best christmas gift I've ever been given, and definitely the best this millennium. My 3 year old niece had wrapped up her favourite doll and gifted it to me.

Creepy.

[stjaba]

Opening some presents tonight because the Cuban tradition is to open presents on Christmas Eve. Expecting mostly cash and gift cards, which I'm happy with.

[Martinus]

I never understood the concept of getting/giving cash and/or gift cards, unless there is some financial imbalance (like parents to kids, for example, or richer relatives to poorer ones). Otherwise, why not just set-off the mutual gifts and be done with it?

[katmai]

I never understood the concept of getting/giving cash and/or gift cards, unless there is some financial imbalance (like parents to kids, for example, or richer relatives to poorer ones). Otherwise, why not just set-off the mutual gifts and be done with it?

My aunts and uncles (the closest lives about 1500miles away) send me gift cards for stores online vendors instead of wasting time trying to get gifts

[Slargos]

I never understood the concept of getting/giving cash and/or gift cards, unless there is some financial imbalance (like parents to kids, for example, or richer relatives to poorer ones). Otherwise, why not just set-off the mutual gifts and be done with it?

My aunts and uncles (the closest lives about 1500miles away) send me gift cards for stores online vendors instead of wasting time trying to get gifts

I suppose it's also easier to buy you gift certificates instead of attempting to send stuff across the border which will inevitably get searched and "lost" by toll officers.

You must be making good money for them to be able to buy you gifts for the money you're sending to them.