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| Author: | Kirra [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:49 pm ] |
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Hmmm mine was a warm fuzzy blanket that my grandmother knitted just for me. I keep it with me where ever I go. |
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| Author: | Lenas [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:53 pm ] |
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Entertainment value - Mass Effect 2 Productivity - Wacom Intuos4 Sentiment - Not sure I can pick one |
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| Author: | Raltar [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:53 pm ] |
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Before my grandmother died, she got me a statue of a wolf chasing a rabbit around a tree into a hole. Certainly the one that stands out in my mind. |
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| Author: | Müs [ Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:39 am ] |
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A friend
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| Author: | darksiege [ Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:26 am ] |
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This year I got a really early Christmas present. I have had the chance to renew a relationship with my biological father. Everything else is secondary. |
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| Author: | Tolyn [ Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:59 pm ] |
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Last year for Christmas my wife gave me a Millennium Falcon, the big one. Always had wanted one when I was a kid but my parents couldn't afford it.
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| Author: | Elessar [ Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:15 pm ] |
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My parents paid for my airfare to Tokyo last year
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| Author: | Sam [ Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:37 pm ] |
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11 years old, just shy of 12.......I received my only sibling and brother AND a dirt bike (suzuki 50cc) for Christmas. It was a grand time. 1 week later, I gifted my parents who were already under stress due to the newborn, a great case of pneumonia from riding my dirt bike every waking moment. I felt really bad for my dad as he had run me to the hospital every morning at 7am for 2 weeks for breathing treatments, and also had to stay with mom post child birth in the hospital because she had complications due to having a child later in life. The poor guy had a tough time during that Xmas season. He is a great dad. |
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| Author: | Rynar [ Wed Dec 22, 2010 1:19 am ] |
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What seems like a million years ago, when I was in my very early 20's, I moved cross country to Arizona from the east coast. After setting up shop, and having been there for a few months I was complete broke as the Christmas season rolled around. I had resigned myself to spending the holiday alone, 3000 miles away from everyone I loved. That's when I got a call from my brothers and sister. They had saved up the money to fly me home for Christmas, and informed me that my flight was leaving in about 5 hours so I needed to get packed and get my *** to the airport. It was easily one of the happiest moments of my life, and hands down my best Christmas presents ever. |
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| Author: | Rorinthas [ Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:16 am ] |
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My mother gets me the new Drizzt book every year since "The Silent Blade" It is a very important tradition, especially when I lived farther from home. And I have a homemade "sock monkey" from my Grandmother when I was little. My mother had the foresight to keep him after I outgrew the phase of his constant companionship. Gram restitched him a couple years before she passed on, and he sits on the shelf in my parents' basement. |
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| Author: | Colphax [ Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:15 am ] |
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Here's my own little taleof Ralphie-like neurotic holiday crisis: The one I got the most excited about was an electronic spaceship called the Starbird. It made electronic pewpew noises at the push of a button, but it also made engine noises that changed pitch depending on if it was tilted up or down. I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I first saw the commercial on Saturday morning during cartoons. I pestered my parents about it for the longest time. I grabbed the box at the store and drooled on multiple occasions. I was as annoying as a fixated 8 year old could possibly be. When Christmastime came around, presents soon began appearing under the tree, and I carefully scrutinized each new arrival. But nothing for me was the right size box. But then again, there was always Santa, I told myself... But then one day there were 2 new presents for me under the tree...and BOTH were the right size! I shook them...they both rattled like the boxes I'd fondled at the store so many times! They couldn't both be my precious Starbird! I didn't need 2! I HAD to know! There was no other option...I was gonna peek. But I knew that I would suffer The Wrath of Mom if I was obvious about it. So I ever so carefully lifted up the edge of the paper on the side of one of the boxes... Wrong color. It was something else entirely. So I carefully put back the corner and smoothed down the tape. Looked perfect, as if I'd never touched it. So I grabbed the second box, looked around to make sure the coast was clear, and slowly, carefully lifted up on the seam...and it was the right color! I saw the edge of the logo! YES!!! Riiiiiiiiiiiiip went the paper as I twitched in victory! It wasn't a huge rip, but it was obviously not whole...and there was no way in hell I could hide the imperfection. My mom was a professional-grade gift wrapper, and I was nowhere near her league. So I tried to hide the gift in the pile, and I might have gotten away with it if my mom hadn't needed to rearrange the presents after she made another wrapping run. But nothing happened. I didn't get in trouble. But I knew what it was, and although I was still excited to get it, and fooled no one with my less than Oscar worthy performance when I opened it. My mom even called me on it then. I still loved the toy, but opening it just wasn't the same as when I got something I really wanted but didn't know for sure I was getting. I learned that anticipation was part of the magic of the whole experience, especially when I did the inevitable switch from Getting to Giving at Christmastime. |
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| Author: | Hokanu [ Wed Dec 22, 2010 6:58 pm ] | ||
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Blast from the past Colphax..
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| Author: | Colphax [ Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:05 pm ] |
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Awesome, Hokanu! |
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| Author: | Vindicarre [ Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:23 am ] |
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Oh man! Memories... |
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| Author: | Shelgeyr [ Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:26 pm ] |
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When I was 12 or 13, my parents let a couple of new puppies into my bedroom to wake me up on Christmas morning. I've gotten a lot of great Christmas gifts (both tangible and intangible) over the years, but I think that's the one that drew the greatest immediate emotional response. |
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| Author: | Hokanu [ Mon Dec 27, 2010 1:16 pm ] |
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After thinking about it, I don't think I've ever had a gift generate a significant emotional response. As a geek I unfortunately fall into the "get him a gift card to Best Buy" category more often than not. Of course I shop at Newegg.. but rarely does anyone bother to find that out. My mother keeps buying me can cozies. o.O |
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| Author: | TheRiov [ Mon Dec 27, 2010 1:37 pm ] |
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Best gift I ever gave: This year I made arrangements (renting equipment, etc) for my parents/grandparents to interview each other for the StoryCorps project and have their interviews archived in the Library of Congress. Love giving gifts that bring people to (happy) tears
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