# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/41 "2017-12-27T04:36:31Z")
I got socks too, but I’m not complaining, because I always need them. Santa also brought a bottle of single-malt Scotch, some fine English pipe tobacco, and a nice warm sweater. And chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/42 "2017-12-27T04:45:51Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? Okay, that’ really bizarre. Sorry you have to put up with that. I got an instant pot. 🙂 Also, for the first time ever, one of my kids got me a nicer present than I got him. We gave him a netti pot. He gave me a gorgeous wooden menorah. It’s sort of a large jigsaw puzzle, with each flame a piece, and cuts suggesting the 8 branches and the shamash holder. And it’s solid enough to stand. Because each flame is its own piece, you can mostly assemble the menorah, and then add an additional flame each night. I guess that’s not a great description – it’s not easy to describe. But I like it a lot. I tucked it into the ritual objects cupboard for now, but next year I will put it in my window for hannukah. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/43 "2017-12-27T04:56:49Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > Good recollection! > > [https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171226/da208267b9b46c6c420aae2efd103208.jpg](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171226/da208267b9b46c6c420aae2efd103208.jpg) Dude…we so need to hang out. Hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/44 "2017-12-27T05:15:16Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > I got 2 Echo Dots, an ankle length flannel nightgown with little Scottie dogs all over it, the box set of Bloom County, a Tanzanite necklace, and merino boot socks! > > I also made a few dozen rum balls that my family insists I share with them. What do you do with more than one Echo Dot? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/45 "2017-12-27T06:27:14Z")
A deck box for all my smoker and grilling gear. A hot air fryer. A nice 21yo single malt Irish whiskey. And best of all, a surprise visit from eldest son who lives on the east coast. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/46 "2017-12-27T06:35:05Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > What do you do with more than one Echo Dot? You put them in different rooms of the house. I suspect that a large fraction of people who have Echo (dots or otherwise) have more than one. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/47 "2017-12-27T13:23:39Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > 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) That is awesome. Few things make me more nostalgic than old Mad magazines. mmm ---
**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 27, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/48 "2017-12-27T14:36:39Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > A nice 21yo single… For a second there, I thought… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/49 "2017-12-27T14:43:40Z")
A new shower head, wine, eye shadow, leggings, and pillowcases. And the dogs gave me replacements for all the books they destroyed since they came. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/50 "2017-12-27T14:44:52Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Bifocals. I could barely contain my excitement. 😛 I think I’ll be getting those this weekend. I’m looking forward to being able to see again! ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/51 "2017-12-27T15:01:28Z")
Trip to Firenze, Italia Buona Natale ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/52 "2017-12-27T15:20:42Z")
Let’s see: Tickets to go see Riverdance in a couple of months A rather larger quantity of cash than I was expecting A brand-new 2000-piece jigsaw puzzle (the largest puzzles I’ve done to date have been 1999 pieces, which is understandably frustrating) A bike pump that mounts to the frame, and a pouch for carrying a spare tube A powered USB hub A padded, partitioned box for storing my fancier dice ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/53 "2017-12-28T01:41:32Z")
A baby cockatiel. (Actually Adi and Kaiser were responsible for that, but what the hell.) ---
**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 28, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/54 "2017-12-28T03:03:30Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > A baby cockatiel. (Actually Adi and Kaiser were responsible for that, but what the hell.) Yay! But I’m so glad it’s you and not me! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/55 "2017-12-28T03:15:40Z")
Chocolate and various other sweets, snowshoes, a gift certificate for a fancy seafood dinner, a gift certificate en route for the local Korean spa and sauna, an Instant Pot Indian cookbook, a novel, a check…I am feeling pretty spoiled right now, but that’s OK! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/56 "2017-12-28T03:32:48Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > I got 2 Echo Dots > [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > What do you do with more than one Echo Dot? Duh? [connect them & color](https://www.google.com/search?q=connect+the+dot+color+pages&source=lnms&tbm=isch#imgrc=fAKXGp5ApBLQSM:). 😉 > [@Chronos](#): > > A bike pump that mounts to the frame, and a pouch for carrying a spare tube Don’t forget tire levers, a patch kit &/or a spare tube. > [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > snowshoes What kind? I got grief & agita. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/57 "2017-12-28T05:13:12Z")
Santa brought my wife and me to the dock for our cruise to Mexico, from which we just got back. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/58 "2017-12-28T12:12:52Z")
I commend all of you on your very grown up presents ;). I got: 2 Lego buildable Star Wars figures (Jyn Erso and a Scarif Stormtrooper.) A Lego Yellow Submarine [https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Yellow-Submarine-21306](https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Yellow-Submarine-21306). A Hotwheels truck for storing cars. A DIY [theremin.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin) Lots of chocolate (for some reason–I could do without it.) A Pink Floyd T-shirt Some plain black cycling bib-shorts. A calendar with the dates for the 2018 MotoGP and World Superbike championship races. A bluetooth heart rate monitor. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/59 "2017-12-28T12:17:30Z")
A new tablet. He said my hints were making him crazy. By hints he means me sitting on the couch pounding on the almost non-responsive touch screen of the tablet he got me 10 years ago and cursing. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276/60 "2017-12-28T16:27:08Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > What do you do with more than one Echo Dot? You can use them as intercoms instead of yelling through the house. The one in our bedroom is used mostly as an alarm clock. I also get the weather and news briefs on it and it has a nightlight function. The dining room dot is our all-around go-to for timers, reminders, adding stuff to the shopping list, etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276.md?page=4)