The Christmas Loot thread

[Ed Anger]

Brag about your shit. Or act all butthurt over the holiday.

1st wave:
A Hickory Farms Sausage package (yuk)
A couple of Best Buy gift cards
A check from my father-in-law.

[CountDeMoney]

Daddy bought himself a Xetum timepiece.  Because nobody takes care of me better than me.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Hickory Farms? What the fuck.  Just... what the fuck.

I've gotten several bottles of wine.  Boss is taking us out to lunch and I'm told the goal is to soak him for all he's worth.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Also a giant bottle of Baily's Irish Cream, a bottle of sparkling cider.  Yays.

[Ideologue]

Or act all butthurt over the holiday.

Thank you.

Nothing.  I asked not to receive Christmas gifts this year.

[11B4V]

Or act all butthurt over the holiday.

Thank you.

Nothing.  I asked not to receive Christmas gifts this year.

Shit, buy your own. I started back in October.

[garbon]

Or act all butthurt over the holiday.

Thank you.

Nothing.  I asked not to receive Christmas gifts this year.

Shit, buy your own. I started back in October.

What money would he buy them with?

[Ideologue]

You know, it sounds like I'm bitching about it, but I'm kinda not.  All I ever get from my my stepsisters is gift cards; all I ever give them is gift cards of roughly equal value.

I'd like to say that the former is because they've never bothered taking an interest in me, but in fairness I am notoriously hard to shop for.  Like, Korea only ever got me like one gift I actually enjoyed (a Gamera movie that I didn't have--ironically enough, I think it was after we'd broken up, or right before ).  And she had an uncanny knack for buying things in the general category of "things I like" but which exempted themselves because of my picky tastes (e.g., intellectual history of classical Greece, when I'm more interested in Macedonian Greece and military and economic affairs at that--just how can you get those confused? ).  So people that honestly barely know me and have nothing in common with me whatsoever are unlikely to buy me anything I'll enjoy.

For my part, I can only buy them gift cards because they appear to have no interests or hobbies other than being overweight.  So restaurant gift cards it is.

My blood sister bought me the Williams and Rucka Batwoman hardcover and the complete series of SportsNight last year though.  Good gifts!  And I chose a gift for her so well she'd already bought it herself.  So I kept it too!  That was pretty awesome.

[Ed Anger]

Hickory Farms? What the fuck.  Just... what the fuck.

Worse part was I had to eat some of that shit in front of them. Bleh.

Maybe if it was the set with all the jellies, I could stomach it.

[Darth Wagtaros]

A friend of mine said he actually loved Hickory Farms.  Which made me gag.  Seems like a thoughtless gift you buy when you don't care enough to buy Lindt chocolate or a loaf of day old bread.

[Syt]

What's wrong with Lindt?

[MadImmortalMan]

Got the annual Omaha Steaks pack from my biological dad, and a bottle of Decourtet XO from my boss. That's it so far not including all the vendor swag.


Edit: I posted too fast. The CFO just came in with a bottle of wine.

[Admiral Yi]

Got the annual Omaha Steaks pack from my biological dad, and a bottle of Decourtet XO from my boss. That's it so far not including all the vendor swag.


Edit: I posted too fast. The CFO just came in with a bottle of wine.

I'm pissed Omaha Steaks dropped those stuffed filets of sole.  I liked those.

[Razgovory]

Nothing yet.  Don't expect much.

[Lettow77]

 I got an edamame Mameshiba! I am delighted with it.