The 2005 "What you got for Christmas" thread

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 1/2/2006, 3:23 pm

Here's what I got.....

30G video iPod!!
$100 worth of iTunes gift cards
iPod accessories
DVD - 40 Year Old Virgin
Gift cards for Best Buy
New pj's
6 bottles of wine and 2 bottles of Bailey's - woohoo!
100% natural toilettries and cleaning products from my parents - they don't use anything with regular chemicals and I always get these natural products from them at Christmas and birthdays.
$50 from my husband's grandparents
3 books I wanted
Belgian chocolates... from my friends in Belgium!

Some other random little stuff

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 1/2/2006, 3:42 pm

Cds (Billy Idol - Devils Playgroun, Sarah Slean - Day One)
DVDs (Firefly: the complete series, Serenity, MacGyver: the third season)
Books (Serenity [the novelisation], Eragon)
avalon mall money/ normal money
some clothes (including socks!)
chocolate

I'm the only child in my family that didn't recieve an MP3 player, cell phone, or Skis&snowboard.

thirdhour · Post by **thirdhour** » 1/2/2006, 5:11 pm

I think I'm the only child in my family that has never received a snowboard for christmas. At some point everyone has gotten a new one, and I'm stuck with the one my oldest brother learned on in 94, and I doubt it was new then.

Kaegan · Post by **Kaegan** » 1/3/2006, 1:00 am

A 20" iMac G5 with iSight

And a trip to Maui, sweet deal!

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 1/7/2006, 10:05 am

nikki4982 wrote:I got $100 from my poppop, $75 from my aunt & uncle (!!! I can't believe they gave me that much), and $20 from my uncle & his partner. I got a $25 gift card to Tower Records from Ed at work's Secret Santa, a $15 gift card to Tower from Monkey, and a $25 gift card to Bath & Body Works from Monkey's mommy along with some cool anti-bacterial moisturizing hand soap from there.

So yeah... I have lots of money/gift cards to spend... and no time to spend them. I still have gift cards left from LAST Christmas.

I had gift cards from last Christmas too, and I was using them in Nov/Dec only to find out that some of the balances had declined due to inactivity. I heard that there are lots of cards with declining balances ... evil bastards!! :evil:

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 1/7/2006, 10:43 am

Ack, that's seriously uncool. The ones I had didn't start declining for another year or so, but I still wanted to spend them (which I did... all of them in one day :lol:

).

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 1/7/2006, 11:42 am

that must have been a fun shopping trip!

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 1/8/2006, 6:44 am

It was. I haven't bought that much stuff in...... probably 5 years. I went shopping at Kohl's, too, and spent like $100 there.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 1/8/2006, 8:13 am

do you have a good employee discount?

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 1/9/2006, 1:14 am

Pretty decent, yeah. It's 15% for softlines (clothes) and 10% for hardlines (everything else). Then there's employee shop days where it's usually like 30% softlines and 25% hardlines.

They're pretty good to us... cept for our pay. :lol: