# What did Santa bring you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 25, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276 "2017-12-25T17:54:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/1 "2017-12-25T17:54:04Z")
Merry Christmas! Santa was good to me. I got lots of chocolate and candy, slippers, various creams and bath stuff, a calendar, mug and a new Fitbit Charge (which I was hoping for as my budgies have chewed all over my old one). You? ---
**Author:** ![Sveltington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Sveltington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sveltington)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/2 "2017-12-25T18:38:27Z")
Lots of peppermint: candy, lotion and soaps. Chocolate, loads of art supplies, books, some lottery tickets and finger puppets. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/3 "2017-12-25T18:42:16Z")
☹ no crow. But lots of pretties, and new journal. And YAY! chocolate! New sweats. Gotta ditch the old raggedy ones. And a piece of my pottery, I collect. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/4 "2017-12-25T19:40:38Z")
Boots for my waders, a Weber Pizza Stone for my grill, shredding claws for making pulled pork and a large Star Wars coffee mug ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/5 "2017-12-25T19:51:42Z")
A Crustina ceramic pizza stone, two bamboo tongs, an L.L. Bean blue knit pullover, and a new pair of slippers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/6 "2017-12-25T22:49:32Z")
I got chocolate from several of my (chess and bridge) pupils and a poker book from my bridge partner. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/7 "2017-12-25T23:22:51Z")
> [@glee](#): > > I got chocolate… Oh, yeah. I (we) got caramel nut clusters and a bottle of 14 Hands Hot To Trot red blend from my boss. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/8 "2017-12-25T23:41:22Z")
Back up camera for my truck! ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/9 "2017-12-25T23:49:29Z")
Tubular lower control arms and an adjustable panhard bar. Car things. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/10 "2017-12-26T00:13:23Z")
A few history books, surprisingly they were all on my amazon wish list. I’m particularly interested in reading this lengthy tome [https://www.amazon.com/Transformation-World-History-Nineteenth-Century-ebook/dp/B00H5ZN2Z8/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514247170&sr=8-1&keywords=the+transformation+of+the+world](https://www.amazon.com/Transformation-World-History-Nineteenth-Century-ebook/dp/B00H5ZN2Z8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514247170&sr=8-1&keywords=the+transformation+of+the+world) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/11 "2017-12-26T00:18:23Z")
My bestest prezzies are still on a UPS truck somewhere, despite being ordered (and promised) to be delivered pre-Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/12 "2017-12-26T00:21:51Z")
Three pairs of socks and a pair of black trousers. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/13 "2017-12-26T01:46:03Z")
I got, among other things, three old issues of MAD Magazine from the late 1970s or so, which I recognized as having had when I was a kid, except a lot of the satire went over my head back then. Like this one from June 1980. I remember the jokes about “Diff’rent Strokes”, which I watched all the time on TV, but had no idea what was going on in the bit on “Apocalypse Now”, and all the Energy Crisis dark humor also didn’t mean anything to me as a kid, but I can totally appreciate better now! [![](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171225/8e6691ffbe93cd85f397b56ee514d8de.jpg) ](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171225/8e6691ffbe93cd85f397b56ee514d8de.jpg) [![](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171225/8b17f0ab9919de537b95788c10de4d49.jpg) ](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171225/8b17f0ab9919de537b95788c10de4d49.jpg) [![](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171225/6bffe472631d458048c1412156e2c3bc.jpg) ](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171225/6bffe472631d458048c1412156e2c3bc.jpg) [https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171225/4e18dba20e6463d5f17cb457a8ee6cb3.jpg](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171225/4e18dba20e6463d5f17cb457a8ee6cb3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/14 "2017-12-26T03:24:38Z")
Cash but not enough to buy my green Mini Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/15 "2017-12-26T13:11:05Z")
27 inches of snow and a plow truck that won’t start. Today is going to be rough. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/16 "2017-12-26T14:33:27Z")
A Patriots hoodie, two CDs, a pizza dinner, and a Xmas bonus check. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/17 "2017-12-26T15:45:07Z")
Sweatshirts, a full-zip and a quarter-zip. Long sleeve shirts. Two open tickets to LEGO Land in Orlando. Some party games. All are things I wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/18 "2017-12-26T15:59:21Z")
Over the ear Skull Candy Bluetooth headphones, a pair of black sneakers, a nice pullover, Volumes I and II of the “How Beer Saved The World” anthologies, membership and hotel reservations to Spocon in August, winter gloves and a nice assortment of bourbon-barrel aged porters and stouts, all rated 9.5 and above on Beer Advocate. Ended the day with a family trip to see the new “Star Wars” movie. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/19 "2017-12-26T16:10:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Over the ear Skull Candy Bluetooth headphones Which model did you get? I got a Hesh 2 last summer that are easily the best wireless headphones I’ve ever owned, and they’re not even the top-of-the-line model. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/20 "2017-12-26T16:11:39Z")
Santa brought me a load of irritation. I don’t celebrate Christmas as I’m an atheist. Some family insist on giving me gifts anyway. But one of my sisters has this passive-aggressive thing where if you don’t fall all over yourself thanking her and make a big show of using her gift immediately, you’re insulting her (which is hilarious because she regularly insults family members to their faces under the guise of “just being honest.”). So she brings a gift to my house and demands to know when I’ll use it because if I’m not going to she’ll give it to someone else. I politely tell her that if she feels that way, just don’t give me anything - “you know, like I’ve asked you to for the last five Christmases to avoid conversations like this.” So she demands to see the bathrobe she got me two years ago, which is still unused on a closet shelf and asks for that back along with this years gift. I hand it over, no problem. She storms off to her car and calls everyone else demanding they give me nothing as I’ve ruined her Christmas. She’s in her 50s, how is she still like this? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276.md?page=2)