shameless consumerism or what you got from baby jesus

[The Comrade]

so what did you all get for christmas?

[uebermann]

A nice new water filter for backpacking. It'll treat something stupid like 30,000 gallons of water.

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

All expense paid trip to Santa Fe.

[Spider]

A vacation. Spider is going to the islands.

[uebermann]

[exploited]

Clothes, lots of clothes. People grew sick of me looking like a bum.

[John Galt]

a framed painting
a bottle of hendricks
a fishing rod and reel
a cashmere scarf
a book of comics
a car detailing (the surprise after christmas gift)

i gave people gifts ranging from ornaments (i got my mother a "trust me i'm a doctor" that has a medical doctor's outfit on it because she just finished her defense of her dissertation for her doctorate... in education) to the nexus 7. surprisingly, i gave my father no booze this year. he did get a few books and albums from me though (tame impala and cat power, if you must know)

my littlest sister made out like a bandit. she got a kitchen aid mixer, a kitchen aid food processor, and my mother's 6 year old car. my mother said there hasn't been a woman since the 50s so happy to get a mixer. still, she is poor compared to the rest of us. my other sister is the one who gave her a kitchen aid. i don't know why she was being so nice, but she does have an excess of money

[NAB]

My Christmas was mostly focused on my kid and his cousin's gifts, but my wife did give me a Nook™ that I'm messing around with.

More a domino type gift I got was from my mother-in-law. Every year she gives me a $100 bill for Christmas and my birthday. Since they are four days apart I get $200 from her every year. It's been a running joke for a few years how I still have those previous bills in my wallet every Christmans and this year she told me to spend them already or give them back dammit...

So I got my shoe whore on and scored a few kicks a few days ago to make me feel all warm and girly.

[The Comrade]

swag:

nexus 7
some vidya games
some tshirts
a rice cooker
a vegetarian cookbook
booze
a bunch of organic food and a gift certificate to the store that sells it
and a minecraft mug which, somehow, was the most difficult thing on the planet to find.

oh and i broke my xbox. a great end to my christmas. so my present to me is a new one.