# Whatcha gettin' for Christmas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 1999, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241 "1999-12-22T23:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241/21 "1999-12-23T16:12:00Z")
From Mrs. Rastahomie: Haven’t a clue. From Rasta-In-Laws: $$, which Mrs. Rastahomie and I will use to buy a new microwave oven. From Papparasta: A scanner. From Mommarasta & Stepdaddyrasta: Hopefully _crossing fingers_ the “Redneck Rampage” CD-ROM game, and a few others. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241/22 "1999-12-23T16:22:00Z")
An old shotgun that has been in our family for just over one hundred years. Remington Model 1887 lever-action chambered for 10 gauge black powder shells. A true piece of family history and quite valuable. Thanks, Dad. * * * Easy one-step assembly instructions. Pour **Beer A** in **Uncle B**. ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241/23 "1999-12-23T17:09:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I wish I could get you a clue for Christmas. Well, how much fun would it be to open a freakin’ _clue_ Saturday morning, Cant? I want socks, dammit! _Socks!_ And anyway, I don’t think you’d like me if I had a clue. I lose all of my charm when I’ve got one of those hangin’ around. Clutters up the ol’ brain case. * * * “And he, he himself, the _Grinch_, carved the roast beast.” ---
**Author:** ![Minty\_Rae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Minty\_Rae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minty_Rae)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241/24 "1999-12-23T17:57:00Z")
A little money. A couple books. And a plane ticket to go visit my boyfriend on the 30th. 🙂 Other than that, probably nothing. Boyfriend threatened to buy me a vibrator – betcha he chickens out, though. Alas and alack. A girl can dream… * * * The Minty One ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241/25 "1999-12-24T06:13:00Z")
From husband, I don’t know. Not much, because we’re broke, and I told him not to get me anything, but he wants to. So I might be getting a box of the milk chocolate buttercreams from Fannie Mae that I love so much. 😃 As a Christmas gift to both of us, my dad is selling me his van. This really is a gift, because he could get about $2000 for it, but he’s selling it to me for $500. He did some repair work on it recently, to get it ready for a trip to California, then up & bought himself a brand new van. So I’m buying it from my dad for the cost of the work he just did. My dad offered to take payments from me of $50 a month. I could not say no. We need a second vehicle, and a van is great. We’ve got two kids, and my husband is a musician. We’re wrapping up the keys & giving them to my husband on Christmas Day. He doesn’t know I’m getting this van for him. 🙂 I can’t wait to see his face. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241/26 "1999-12-24T06:37:00Z")
I don’t know anything for sure, but I have some high hopes. I told my husband I want Mulan on videotape and the current Leonard Maltin movie guide. Shortly afterwards, boxes arrived from [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). I’m keeping my fingers crossed 🙂 I guess you could say there’s a couple items that I know for sure I’m getting, a scanner and a digital camera, but that’s because I bought them. However, they’re both under the tree with my husband’s name on them. That’s definitely a perk of being married: You can buy things you really want for yourself and give them to your spouse, instead, but still expect to get to play with them, too 😉 * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**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 23, 1999, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241/27 "1999-12-23T21:23:00Z")
I’ve already received mine, the trip to England. Of course, really for Xmas, we received in the visa bill for the trip (which wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, as I paid cash for all my purchases (except a pair of socks.) and hubby charged the rest. Everything else from family will be stuff I really don’t need, unless they purchased stuff for the baby. I can only hope ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241/28 "1999-12-23T21:38:00Z")
A new house!! Yeee Haaaa! We moved in yesterday. Okay so that’s not really a Christmas gift but that’s where the money for everyone else’s Christmas gift went this year. We also bought a DVD player and the movie _The Matrix_. From the hub: A cashmere sweater, nice slacks, and leather shoes (he bought them basically to prove me wrong that women’s shoes are cheaper than men’s) From the in-laws: I don’t really know but I’m guessing towels, comforter, candles, and other home items. (MIL asked me for a list and she usually sticks to it) From co-workers: doormat, candles, 6" lighthouse, lighthouse chime, towels, and lots of cookies. * * * “Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241/29 "1999-12-23T22:12:00Z")
Oh, among other things, five shares of Home Depot stock. So all you dopes out there please go buy something at HD, wouldja, and help support me in my retirement years… * * * **StoryTyler** “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” [I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-gettin-for-christmas/12241.md?page=1)