i got evrything i ever wanted today, includin a GBA SP !!!

im so ecstatic, i got greenday and the zutons new album

whatd id you guys get?

nice!!

i got eh to be honest nothing.. but i don't mis it

y didnt u get anything?
r u to old for that stuff?? :)

What is it with the GBA SP? I got one too, and I was just at a girl's site and she said she got one for her brother, and one of her commenters said they got one too!

I got that, and a game for it, and a case. I haven't gone to my mom and dad's yet so I don't know what I got from them. Hopefully somewhere in there I'll get The Sims 2. All I really wanted for Christmas was the GBA SP, a certain game, The Sims 2, and Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory. So far I got all but The Sims 2.

What game did you want?
my sis got a GBA SP too and the i credibles game for it

I got spyro fusion and pokemon leaf green

Super Mario Advance 3, but I got 2 instead.

y didnt u get anything?
r u to old for that stuff?? :)
Sphere, like me, lives in the Netherlands. Not every country celebrates X-mas primarily with presents.

ok thanks marianne

I JUST GOT MY MP3 PLAYER WORKING YAY!! :)

Sphere, like me, lives in the Netherlands. Not every country celebrates X-mas primarily with presents.

Its a tradition here, that we give presents with Saint Nicholas, and people don't have that much money to give presents twice a month. Saint Nicholas is more for kids.

But we didn't celebrate that actually too but what i said i don't realy mis it

Maaan, what's with all the gaming things? The only major thing I got was Painter 9 and a tablet. Which is still really great=D

Presents...
Mum & Dad:
-sweater
-Chinese-style vest
-The Darwin Awards
-Fruits Basket vol. 1
-Hand lotion...so I don't have to use my mum's
-Awake Inside a Dream (The Angels of Venice)
-Dreams (A String Quartet Tribute to Enya)
-A Christmas tree pin

Friends:
-snowflake bracelet
-Lord of the Rings Sheet Music (which hasn't arrived yet, but she told me)
-I have no idea, we haven't exchanged presents yet.

Grandmothers:
-$140 combined

nothing, and i don't miss it either. I get the love of my family, and that's more important to me than any other gifts in the world :)

love,
Mirna

i kind of wish i lived in the netherlands [or anywhere where christmas is not so commercialized] because it's annoying how here it's so customary & expected to give presents. and i used to be so excited for presents but for the past few weeks it just didn't seem that important anymore. and i can't help but feel bad/spoiled when i'm opening the presents.. meh. but.. here's what i got anyway:

from my parents&sister:

-a lovelllly green cashmere sweater i've had my eye on for a while
-the green zipup hoodie that i wanted! [in the christmas list thing thread] no, not the one that was $118 ;)
-a very cute long sleeved green shirt that i also liked a lot!

^all from jcrew of course :lol:

-an awesome guitar book with a bazillion rock songs.. it's so coool!
-another guitar book with riffs and other awesomely cool things
-realllly comfortable headphones because my other ones don't work in one ear :lol:

and then my friends got me [we did secret santa so we just had one person give us good stuff- less money ;)]
-a cute green polo shirt
-siamese dream [smashing pumpkins CD]!
-candy
-an edward scissorhands journal!

yes i was very fortunate this year :) gosh the clothes from my parents were soo expensive though! i'll probably end up returning something because we don't have that much money to spend right now.

yup, us dutchables are perfectly happy without Christmas gifts, right, Mirna?

We went to my in-laws today, and my mother-in-law had gotten us some small gifts, I got oven gloves, which is handy :)

I just got clothes, which was what I wanted anyways. :P

I agree with salomeyasobko. I don't get that excited about Christmas anymore.
I got
-4 sweaters (3 of which are pink. I have so much pink stuff now. I have to return two though because they don't fit)
-A blazer (pink)
-pearl necklece (pink pearls mind you)
-stand for my oboe and english horn
-english horn swab
-3rd Harry Potter movie
-"essays for the oboist" (a book)
-$100 from Grandma
-Symphonie Fantastique CD
I didn't really ask for a lot of specific things this year. Except for the CD and a yellow sweater. I used to be so excited about Christmas but its different now. It's more fun when your younger because once you grow up you don't really want really FUN things, you want practical things and can generally buy them for yourself if need be.

EDIT:

I forgot, I also got a Beethoven action figure. Complete with a bench. I need to download the "fold up" piano for him.

My presents:
Nancy Drew computer games! (1 and 2)
Little Japanese Dolls (made of wood and you can put little kimonos and faces on them)
Walkie-talkies
A China Doll in a silk kimono that came in a beautiful box with a book written about a girl in China.
A spy gadget that hears far away sounds. No more people whispering behind my back!
A stylish navy/black purse.
A lavendar photo album. (lavendar is my favorite color) :D

Anyways, that's pretty much it! Merry Christmas everyone!

The *big* present I got this year was a stereo...it's pretty nice. I got some CDs...and some clothes... I guess the "usual" Christmas gifts. My boyfriend bought me a domain name and webspace, though. :)

My presents

-A stocking
-GBA SP and 2 games
-Mp3 player (off of my aunty)
-Notepad
-Who killed the zutons album -by the zutons
-American ideot - by greenday
-A speaker
-trainers
-Eyetoy play 1 not the new one- icludin eyetoy game
-Cd player from my nan
-Catch me if you can DVD
--3RD harry ptter DVD

Half of them were from my parents but some of em were form nans, grandads, aunties and uncles

And no im not spoilt or rich :)

I got a digital camera, playstation 2 from my brother, 3 pairs of pajamas, and a pillow. I did pretty good :P

My presents

-GBA SP and 2 games
-Mp3 player (off of my aunty)
-A speaker
-trainers
-Eyetoy
-Cd player from my nan

And no im not spoilt or rich :)

No, not spoilt at all. :rolleyes: Why do you need a CD player and an MP3 player?

Chris

haha i so agree with you chris !

I didn't get much, i got $150 from my uncle

and i'm like ^^^? that's the whole amount of money i get for my WHOLE birthday,from like 20-30 people together.

Love,
Mirna

Same with me. My main present was a new olympus Mju Mini digital camera. Other than that I only got a couple of CDs and DVDs and a couple of books.

How can you get all that stuff, and not say that you are spoilt?

Thanks,
Chris :D

and i'm like ^^^? that's the whole amount of money i get for my WHOLE birthday,from like 20-30 people together
I think our culture is just less materialistic - that would indeed be the total amount you get on a birthday.
And for Sinterklaas... well, that's really more about the poems and get-together than about the financial value of the presents. But in the States they are used to far bigger/more expensive presents - so compared to her friends, that is probably considered 'not spoilt', while we think of it as 'very spoilt' ;)
I'm quite happy we don't really do presents on that scale here - it would make me feel awful if I could not afford them really and yet it was expected of me.

I'm a spoiled little New Yorker, and I'll admit it :P I got from...

...the parents:
-Professional camera (with accessories!)
-a bunch of dress clothes
-jewely box
-suitcase (I've never had my own... odd)
-6 different DVDs (including the Matrix box set... drool)
-bunch of little things I'm forgetting

...the exended family:
-about $200 in cash/gift cards
-DVD player

..the boyfriend:
-blue topaz earrings
-heart-shaped gold necklace

I pretty much got two main things, with just a tad of stocking stuffers and misc CDs.

Creative MP3 Player
Snowboard

For Christmas I recieved:
-$45.00 (Or somewhere close to that)
-New hoodie
-Columbia belt
-Columbia wallet
-New jeans
-Chocolates
-Axe Deodorant (Touch)
-Panasonic SC-AK320 CD Stereo System (Best of all my gifts. It even plays MP3 CDs!)

I got the following...

-MP3 player
-CDs
-2-way radios
-digital watch
-books
-clothes

My older sister got an UTLIMATE gift...

A laptop computer!!!!!

I wanted a laptop computer for Xmas, but I want it for my birthday, since my birthday is on January 15!

Same with me. My main present was a new olympus Mju Mini digital camera. Other than that I only got a couple of CDs and DVDs and a couple of books.

How can you get all that stuff, and not say that you are spoilt?

Thanks,
Chris :D
ehh people can't control who gives them what, and in my opinion, i think it's unfair [and abit unkind] of you to say that someone you don't even know [to my knowledge] is spoiled.. especially since you're quite well off yourself :rolleyes:


it just seems like there's been a lot of random unnecessary harshness lately..

For Christmas, I got:
- SONY VAIO T150P laptop
- Two C.D.s (Something Corporate & Blink-182)
- Two white stuffed bear animals
- Silent Hill 2 game for PlayStation 2
- A silver necklace
- A fur-necked jacket
- A $10 Dave & Buster's gift card
- GapScent body mist

Heh... yeah.

Relatives - Model Car, Sports Watch, $15 Best Buy Gift Card, and $50 Cash
Family - Clothes, 4 Dvds(Shrek 1-2, Shanghai Noon-Knights), Ornament, Electric Toothbrush-Thingy, Electric Razor(But I already have one my sister didnt know about so we have to return it), $25 Meijer Gift Card, and $50 Cash

I didn't give my mom any ideas, plus i just got a $1600 saxophone last month, so that could have been my Christmas present, but that would make for a crappy day today, but I got some things, like I said, I wasn't expecting much, but it's been a good day, besides having a cold, ugh.

The two big things were a cell phone and a portable DVD player. The cell phone was technically free, my mum just added me to her plan so we wouldn't have to do the whole switching around "Oh, I'll have the cell phone today and you'll take it tomorrow" thing anymore. My brother got a cell phone too, since he's going off to college and will probably actually need it.

And the DVD players are because my parents are like wee little children. Well, my mum is at least. Apparently she got them back in October and couldn't wait to tell us about them.

I guess I'm a bit spoiled. :P

Parents:
Dooney & Burke purse+wallet
Fable for XBox
2 gorgeous Arden B coats!
Salt and pepper shakers (http://wishingfish.com/hugsp.html) I've been wanting for a long time
Some other stuff like makeup, accessories, fun stuff!

Sister:
Febreze Scent Stories :lol:

Boyfriend:
Fendi purse
Digital Cam 5.0 megapixel
A buncha x-box & gamecube games :)
Alarm clock (the current one sucks)
He said he hasn't given me the best present yet, so I'm waiting to see how he can top all of this!

I ended up spending a lot, though :| Got my parents a DVD/RW+VCR combo, my boyfriend an airhockey table and the seinfeld dvd set seasons 1-3 and other stuff.. I love shopping for the holidays! Haven't exchanged presents with friends yet, everyone's outta town. I got one of my friends a Fom though, best invention on earth! FOM! (http://www.brookstone.com/shop/ensemble.asp?ensemble_code=FOM_FUREE&world_code=100&category_code=59&subcategory_code=622&search_type=subcategory&prodtemp=E#) Haven't done all of this with other relatives either, I'm supposed to go to my grandmother's for New Years for all of that, but I might have work :( I miss my relatives a lot!!

I love the whole Christmas present exchange deal.. :P :buckt:

i got a kurt cobain shirt...which rocks

and a digital camera, 5.1 mp. but i really like my kurt cobain shirt

and a new pair of chucks

nirvana interviews (audio only =/)

and some cash ;)

and a bunch of o ther useless stuff =/

I was so not into the holidays this year and I've been in a generally bad mood for a while now, please forgive the sarcastic, "that doesn't sound very grateful" comments :P

-Laptop case (which doesn't fit my laptop)
-Suitcase-ish/duffel bag thing (which is about the same size as the one I have, thus pointless)
-A couple clothing items (that I know I won't wear but my mom insists on buying anyway)
-More candy than I know what to do with (especially after my dentist appointment the other day, apparently I have cavities like you wouldn't believe)
-$25 Rite-Aid (of all places- it's a drug store for those that don't know, I don't know how widespread the company is) gift card
-2 books: To Engineer Is Human and The Existensial Pleasures of Engineering
-Cash

and my birthday is in 3 days, so I'll probably just get more cash, considering I didn't even ask for anything at all other than a laptop case for Christmas.

but the family got together as usual, some members of which I haven't seen in quite a while, so that was alright (and hey, that's supposed to be what matters, right?)

No, not spoilt at all. :rolleyes: Why do you need a CD player and an MP3 player?

Chris


Well my nan didnt know i was getting an mp3 player and my aunty didnt know my nan was getting me a cd player so it was confusing :)

i had the coolest christmas. all the family came round.
i got an i-pod :) -still working it out, lol
new coat
hat/coat/scarf to go with my new coat
boots to finish off the outfit
more body products than i will use
lots and lot of chocolate
some nice jewellary
eminem cd

and lots of other things - i just seem to be infatuated with the i-pod rite now, lol

lol wow an i-pod those are so cool!!

but i couldnt get one as there like £300

lol wow an i-pod those are so cool!!

but i couldnt get one as there like £300

i no i was lucky - all my main family chipped in together so i could get one. i am very grateful :)

well im glad we both had a great christmas

I didnt get too much, but then you get less as you get older :P
I never ever ever got half the stuff you lot have though when i was a kid...dont think my parents ever spent more than £100 on me for xmas (normally itd be about £50)...i see people say they got a laptop and think 'Waaaaa? wow they must be rich' and they they continue to roll off other stuff they got AS WELL and i nearly faint :lol:
Times have certainly changed, if i ever have kids they will have like a £50 limit for xmas and brithdays (that about $100, so its not mean, its just not ridiculous!!)

Anyhoo, on to what i got...i got lots of little bits and bobs really, like choccy, bits of makeup, candles and bath stuffs. Got a lovely pink glove/scarf set, some perfume some pink fluffy slippers and a light shade :lol:
My 'main' gifts were a poncho (le gasp, i finally got a poncho) and a pink fluffy throw :D

My brother + his girlfriend got me a hot water bottle cover, some makeup, some nail varnish and a mirror.

Thats the only people who buy for me, parents and brother....no other family members do.

I'll be getting my boyfriends pressy later today...although i dont think it came yet actually!

For the holidays I got things like chocolate and little items like pencils, a Hello Kitty calendar and such, but I also got a new mobile phone (a flip phone!) and a silver jewel box.

i got an ice scratcher (for the car, when it has frozen you can scratch off the ice of the windows) and a tiny stuffed animal for below my carmirror in front of the frontwindow.

I got this from my uncle, as a joke because i'm taking my driving lessons now and he kinda gave me this saying "this is the start for your new car" lol

Love,
Mirna

I was going to say: "You have a car???!!! :eek:"

Maybe you can get that for your next 20 Christmas's and Birthdays :D

Chris

hahaha

nope i wish i would have a car !! i want a mini cooper so bad :P

They are really cool. I want a white one with a union jack on the roof (although I'm only 15!!! :lol: )

Thanks,
Chris :D

me too !!
i'm not sure if anybody knows this show, but it's called "as if" an english show about a couple of teenagers in England. Well that girl "sooz" has an mini cooper with an union jack on the roof. It's so cool !

I thought I was kind of spoiled, but then I see what other people got, and I'm thinking I'm not quite that spoiled (though still a bit :P)

I got the stuff that I wanted this Christmas so I'm very happy :D :D Besides the typical clothes etc I got a few books, sheets for my bed, a Rubix cube, hand lotion, $20 gift card for Chapters (YAY), and some headphones. My dad ordered me a blue iPod mini on Christmas Day (he was waiting to see if there'd be a deal :P) from the Future Shop, so that should arrive some time within the next few weeks :D I can't wait for it to come!

I did "forget" a few presents, mostly from my mum's close friends...(why have they been sending me stuff anyway?)

-fleece vest
-wallet with my initial on it (lest I forget...)
-sweater

I got a car off gavin!! he got me a red vw beetle!!!!!

I want a car :P

I've been looking for one and haven't found anything decent that I can afford, but my brother may be selling his car to me fairly cheap, once he gets a new one (which should be fairly soon). I may soon be the proud owner of a 1988 Honda Accord LX complete with sort of bad paint and plenty of old-car sqeaks and such. whatever, it runs, is in decent mechanical shape (the transmission is less than a couple years old- I don't remember exactly when he got it), and it has relatively low miles, apparently :P

Starlet, you're silly.
My brother just bought a brand new car and I get to use it whenever I want in the summer because he's in the navy and will be on a boat somewhere :P He doesn't know about this arrangement yet, but since it will be in my driveway I've decided it's mine.

Yay... I feel very spoiled this year. I got so much. And I feel rather bad about it. My family is not rich at all and they gave me lots of expensive gifts.

Parents:
-$50 dollar debit card
-PJs
-Lava Lamp Night Light (yeah... it is the most random thing ever)
-Mini Backpack
-iPod Mini
-$105 worth of iTunes songs
-Hats
-Weird CD

Other Family:
-$50 to best buy
-$70
-$50
-Expensive profesional colored pencil set
-Sun glasses
-$20 to target
-$30 to bath and body works

That is the most money I have ever gotten.

The iPod is insane. I like it so much. At first I was really freaked out because I have herd bad things about it. But, I love mine.

Presents are nice. And I was blessed this year. But I would be fine without them. I honestly think I would almost feel more happy without them because I wouldn't feel bad about expensive presents.

I got a car off gavin!! he got me a red vw beetle!!!!!
That's such a cool present :D

And Sophie, don't heat the lava lamp over a stove or anything else - it can be lethal ;)

I got a car off gavin!! he got me a red vw beetle!!!!!

Really? That's so cool. What did you get him :hehe: socks?


Thanks,
Chris :D

Hmmm.......I don't think I was *too* spoilt this year....Or maybe I was.

- extended versions of Lord of the Rings (all three!!!! YES! haha...this was my favourite present :P I am such a geek)
- one Piers Anthony book
- two tops- one I like one I don't :P
- a painting I did framed
- cordless phone for my room
- cheap webcam :D
- 50$ for a snowboarding/skiing store- except, the boarding pants I want are like $150 :(
- LED little flashlight/reading light thing for reading in the dark (bwahahahahaha)
- one of those more expensive charm bracelet thingies from my guy friend that I've known since I was two or three...aww, he's so sweet :lol:
- chocolate
- underwear ( :hehe: )
- pencil crayons (stocking gift O.O)

Ummmm, I think that's about it. What I really wanted was Sims 2, but I guess I'll have to buy that myself in Boxing Day sales :D

They are really cool. I want a white one with a union jack on the roof (although I'm only 15!!! :lol: )

Thanks,
Chris :D


I love minis i want a RED one with a union jack on the roof

i dont mind wether its the old version or new version, but i suppose i do like the newer version better

All i want is some kinda mini

Look at me wanting a car and im only 13 :)

My second choice would be a beetle

I got a car off gavin!! he got me a red vw beetle!!!!!

you gotta be kiddin' ? then you are defenitally the most spoiled one of this entire forum :P j/k

that's sooo cool !

Oh, did i forget to mention its a model one? :P

hahaha
:lol:
then i got a mini cooper aswell :P i got one from my friend :P

Oh, did i forget to mention its a model one? :P

:rofl: You kill me, Starlet!

Oh, did i forget to mention its a model one? :P
Awww, for all this time you left us believing you got a car :rofl:

I figured it was something like that.. You don't have your license, do you? :P

Nope, cant drive to save me life :lol:
It has custom plates though, they say 'TOR 1A' hehe

And Sophie, don't heat the lava lamp over a stove or anything else - it can be lethal ;)

Haha... awww... but that is the best part of having a lava lamp :P