# I didn't get \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, so I bought it for myself **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331 "2007-12-26T23:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/1 "2007-12-26T23:48:29Z")
I didn’t get _The Simpsons Movie,_ so I bought it for myself. And you? ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/2 "2007-12-26T23:49:44Z")
_Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles_ for PSP. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/3 "2007-12-26T23:59:04Z")
The collector’s edition of \*Serenity \* if my dad doesn’t order it soon like he said he would. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/4 "2007-12-27T00:04:20Z")
A new amp for my guitar (Fender Blues Deluxe reissue), A Dunlop wah (DB-01) and an Electro-Harmonix English Muff’n overdrive pedal. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/5 "2007-12-27T00:22:44Z")
sex ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/6 "2007-12-27T01:36:10Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] sex [/QUOTE] A professional job, or more of a DIY? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/7 "2007-12-27T01:40:41Z")
…a brown leather trench coat… (because the people close to me disapprove of my leather thing, even though it is not one whit sexual) ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/8 "2007-12-27T01:51:39Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] A professional job, or more of a DIY? [/QUOTE] Hey, why pay for a lube job when you can get as much or more satisfaction by using high quality oil, a wrench and your own two hands? Sure you have to be careful to wipe up any spills and handle the recycling yourself, but think of all the times “the professionals” end up stripping the nuts by using too much torque. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/9 "2007-12-27T01:52:30Z")
Well, I never actually expected anyone to get me a Voco talking alarm clock (the Good Morning Madam version): [http://www.voco.uk.com/](http://www.voco.uk.com/) …because it ain’t cheap. So I got it for myself. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/10 "2007-12-27T01:54:31Z")
I didn’t get an iPhone, although I didn’t ask for one. The bf did get me an iPod Touch (much to my dismay! Why did he spend so much?), so I’m going to return it and get an iPhone tomorrow. The iPod is lots of fun, but I’ve had the same phone for a year and a half, and it’s reaaally worn. I drop it all the time. But I’ll get a skin for the iPhone. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/11 "2007-12-27T02:26:01Z")
I didn’t get anything from my husband or kids, so I bought myself lots of pretty, just-for-me girly stuff! Chocolate body wash! ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/12 "2007-12-27T03:32:02Z")
A Samsung [YP-T10](http://www.samsung.com/my/products/audio/mp3player/yp_t10ab.asp). They were on sale at Best Buy for $120 a few days before xmas, so I ensured it’s presence by purchasing and wrapping it myself. Why thank you Santa! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/13 "2007-12-27T03:39:14Z")
I got the book I wanted and one of the movies; so I’ll go out and get the other movie I wanted, _The Lookout_, for myself. All in all, a good Christmas, gift-wise. I got very little (which is good), but just about everything I got I wanted, even if I didn’t know I wanted it until I got it, if that makes sense! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/14 "2007-12-27T03:44:36Z")
_Can he swing From a web? No, he can’t; He’s a pig…_ ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/15 "2007-12-27T03:48:53Z")
My Mom gives us money each year to buy what we want. I had to put a little of mine with [this](http://www.movado.com/Details.aspx?Id=watchesmens&watchType=Mens&watchCode=&watchId=605803&page=7). I also got myself the Dexter Season One DVD set. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/16 "2007-12-27T04:53:42Z")
The 5th Harry Potter movie and an iPod Nano, as soon as I get paid. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/17 "2007-12-27T08:50:40Z")
[QUOTE=Aesiron] The collector’s edition of \*Serenity \* if my dad doesn’t order it soon like he said he would. [/QUOTE] That one is mine too. I specifically didn’t buy it when it came out so I’d have something to ask for this year, which normally is a huge problem my family complains about with me, and no dice. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/18 "2007-12-27T09:25:44Z")
I won’t see my boyfriend til tomorrow, and he did mention that he noticed that “She Spies” was out on DVD. So he might be getting it for me, but somehow I doubt it, so if not, I might use one of my gift cards to go out and get it. If I manage to solve this 4x4x4 Rubik’s cube I got within a week or so, I might go get the 5x5x5 one, but that doesn’t look likely. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/19 "2007-12-27T11:15:22Z")
Me, I’m going girly and geeky. I bought myself a bottle of rose-scented perfume from Crabtree & Evelyn’s, and I’m going to buy myself a keyboard for the laptop, since it’s a pain to type anything long on it. A wireless one could be fun! I could also use another calendar or two. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331/20 "2007-12-27T11:51:47Z")
I didn’t see it on sale anywhere in this country, so I went to Amazon US and ordered myself an Illuminite cycling windbreaker. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-get-___________-so-i-bought-it-for-myself/431331.md?page=2)