# What did you give YOURSELF for xmas? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 25, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609 "2004-12-25T21:09:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/41 "2004-12-26T17:52:44Z")
I ordered [this little beauty](http://products.gateway.com/products/GConfig/proddetails.asp?system_id=m320xpl&seg=hm&cmpid=con*M320series*stepupX*M320XPlus*products/hm_ptb_m320~~shtml) a few days before Christmas, knowing it wouldn’t be here in time for the holiday…but that was OK. I was actually going to wait until January to order and then use my tax refund to pay for it, but then I saw the shiny little six-months-same-as-cash-financing button on the webpage and decided to hell with waiting. 😃 The only drawback is that they said their build teams were behind and it wouldn’t be here until 1/14/05…but I checked my order status today (can you say Instant Gratification Queen? I knew you could!), and just found out that it was shipped out on xmas eve and will be here on Tuesday. Squee!! ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/42 "2004-12-26T19:12:05Z")
I got myself about $75 of sale items from the Victoria’s Secret sale catalog, and a pretty black cashmere cardigan that was also on sale for $30. Not too overboard, but hey, you’ve gotta treat yourself sometimes. And I really \*needed \* that stuff. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/43 "2004-12-26T19:41:43Z")
Panasonic D4734S DVD/VHS unit. Now I get to watch “Firefly” It was on sale and had a rebate. ---
**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 26, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/44 "2004-12-26T19:54:31Z")
a waterford crystal claret glass just a little touch of decadence… ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/45 "2004-12-26T20:47:00Z")
> [@jimpatro](#): > > Rickenbacker 620(a six string electric,turquoise) and Vox amp. Sweet! > I’m so thoughtful. Sweet! Very Brit-pop of you! I got a new small, grab n’ go amp for practice - a Bruno; boutique, hand made a ridicuously expensive, but only stupidly so if bought used. Also got a new guitar - a Japanese-made Lawsuit replica of a Les Paul from the early 80’s. Plays, sounds and looks better than 99% of the $4,000 Gibson Historics you see at Guitar Center for a fraction of the money…kinda makes up for the amp. ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/46 "2004-12-26T21:33:51Z")
Nice **Wordman**! I’ve heard great things about the Brunos. Rock on! ---
**Author:** ![Spongemom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Spongemom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spongemom)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/47 "2004-12-26T21:54:11Z")
Does it count that my gramma bought me all the things I handed her as suggestions for what I wanted? ---
**Author:** ![Spongemom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Spongemom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spongemom)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/48 "2004-12-26T21:55:16Z")
> [@Spongemom](#): > > Does it count that my gramma bought me all the things I handed her as suggestions for what I wanted? Handed them to her in the store, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/49 "2004-12-26T22:38:56Z")
Isn’t that the whole point of a Christmas list? ---
**Author:** ![Spongemom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Spongemom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spongemom)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/50 "2004-12-26T22:44:22Z")
I can never think of a list. I don’t know what I want until I see something I like. It gets put in her shopping cart, and she decides whether to get it or not. For instance, I could not have put “shiny purple hot chocolate mug” on a list, because I didn’t know they made them. If I had went just by a list, I would not have my shiny purple hot chocolate mug. And I wouldn’t have thought of a purple phone unless I had seen one, which I did. So there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Maxxxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Maxxxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxxxie)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/51 "2004-12-26T23:38:28Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > If you don’t mind me askin’, how much did you spend? > > I got myself computer upgrades that I can’t help but thinking I paid too much for.even though I used [Pricewatch.com](http://Pricewatch.com).) > > I got a Athlon XP 3200 (with a Soyo Dragon KT-600 mobo), 768 MB of PC3200 RAM, and an nVidia FX 5800. I spent close to $500. Bear in mind this is in Australian dollars. I paid just over $1700 for the following: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU Retail Socket 939 ASUS A8V Deluxe V2 S939 Motherboard 2 x 512MB Geil DDR PC3200 RAM 1.44M Floppy Disk Drive 80GB Seagate 7200rpm HDD 8M Serial ATA GeXCube 256M Radeon 9800 R360 Video Card Antec 1080AMG Metallic Gray Case Pioneer DVR-108 16xDVD DL Burner OEM BLACK It comes with a three year warranty. The case itself is pretty expensive on its own (a couple hundred dollars). But it is very expandable and easy to get into, well-ventilated and has a dust filter. Nice. For what it’s worth, I bought it at Computer Alliance here in Brisbane: www.computeralliance.com.au. The guys there were pretty cluey and did not make the mistake of thinking that me being female means I’m computer-ignorant. This is the first time I’ve bought a computer system rather than building it myself from individual components. I’m very pleased with this machine! Cheers, Max. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/52 "2004-12-27T00:05:58Z")
Woo-eee. I woulda killed for a PC this Christmas. Three things did I - a very wise man - buy myself this Christmas, with other people’s money: A [bear](http://www.buildabear.com/shop/productdetail.aspx?ProductSKU=2458&Category=All+Furry+Friends&CallingPage=ProductSummary) built at the [Build A Bear Workshop](http://www.buildabear.com/default.aspx?). I have named him Gottfried. More heterosexual, relatively masculine men should have teddy bears to sleep with. They’re soft and girls find it irreristable. Well, they’re soft, at least, and fuck you if you don’t like it. Gottfried and I don’t care. The Wind Waker for my gamecube, as it finally seems to have gone down in price. Purty. A book on mathematics for economics. This was disappointing, since most of it is material already learned and not difficulty grasped. I was hoping for something meatier. After I return a couple gifts duplicating stuff I already have, I think I’ll get some memory for my new digital camera. Stuff’s cheap nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/53 "2004-12-27T02:09:04Z")
I just bought myself something _really cool and totally impulsive_ from the **Asian Market** by my mom’s. Some kind of Reflexology Foot thingie that you stand on and it has knobby do-thingies that make your feet hurt because your body weight fat puts pressure on it. I way over paid for it and I have no idea what it is called as the entire box is in either chinese or heiroglyphics or possibly Fongoo. But, I loves it! It is the first massager thingie that gets at my torn arch muscles to make them stop hurting. Wooooooo hoooooo! Yeah, it’s all adrenaline, I don’t farking care. You live with my feet. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/54 "2004-12-27T02:23:54Z")
> [@Cheese Monster](#): > > … > A [bear](http://www.buildabear.com/shop/productdetail.aspx?ProductSKU=2458&Category=All+Furry+Friends&CallingPage=ProductSummary) built at the [Build A Bear Workshop](http://www.buildabear.com/default.aspx?). I have named him Gottfried. More heterosexual, relatively masculine men should have teddy bears to sleep with. They’re soft and girls find it irreristable. \*\*Well, they’re soft, at least, and fuck you if you don’t like it. \*\* Gottfried and I don’t care. > > … They “fuck you if you don’t like it”? :eek: I don’t think I’d want one of those teddy bears. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/55 "2004-12-27T05:01:12Z")
I was at Costco with my mom, looking for presents for my adorable nieces, and I saw that they had some really nice Fila coats on sale. So I picked up a nice new coat to replace the dingy old Air Force parka I had been wearing for years (I got the parka from my dad, who got it from my uncle, who didn’t need it because the AF had him in Tucson…) My new coat is black and red, has a removable liner, a hidden hood in the collar, lots of cool pockets - one for my smokes, one for my gat, a hidden pocket for my wallet, and huge shoplifting pockets on the inside. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/56 "2004-12-27T05:18:35Z")
I will be finally getting myself a Lava Lamp, because for the third year running nobody took me seriously when I said I wanted one. ---
**Author:** ![Low\_Key\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@Low\_Key\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Low_Key_1)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/57 "2004-12-27T07:04:57Z")
Seeing as I’m half way across the world from anyone I know and don’t even have an address the only present I got this year is the one I bought for myself - a car. For the tidy sum of $250 (NZ). It needs a new windshield though. So after all’s said and done I’ll have spent about $450 on the car. I’ve never had a car before so I’m quite excited about this. Best present I ever bought myself. And as soon as I take an afternoon off of work this week, I’m off to find some fuzzy dice… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/58 "2004-12-27T07:25:37Z")
I bought myself a spindle of 25 blank DVDs at the back-breaking price of CAD 9.95 plus tax. 🙂 However… …in January I will start taking film-making and video courses (as well as volunteering) at the [Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto](http://www.lift.on.ca/mt/index.html). Forward my devious plan to cover the world in Esperanto-language video segments! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/59 "2004-12-27T07:42:19Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Forward my devious plan to cover the world in Esperanto-language video segments! 😃 Wicked, can I play the moose lathe operator? I’m going to buy myself a ticket to Guelph, to chase after a girl, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609/60 "2004-12-27T08:29:30Z")
I spent a few months lurking on eBay and [half.com](http://half.com), and scored all seven of Gordon Korman’s MacDonald Hall books in their original paperback covers. Childhood nostalgia, ahoy! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-give-yourself-for-xmas/281609.md?page=2)