Christmas Lists
Who think children shouldn't give out Christmas lists until mid-November at the latest?
I already have Emma bugging me with her Christmas list and at the top of it is a PS3! As if the Wii she put on last years list wasn't bad enough (I didn't mind because I wanted one and we must make consessions since she got it five months late).
Can't see Amy agreeing to pay ?300 for a PS3 when we have enough consoles as it is. She thinks we've paid enough for the things as it is with what I brought second hand (she can't complain at ?13 for two Dreamcasts and a Saturn).
I already have Emma bugging me with her Christmas list and at the top of it is a PS3! As if the Wii she put on last years list wasn't bad enough (I didn't mind because I wanted one and we must make consessions since she got it five months late).
Can't see Amy agreeing to pay ?300 for a PS3 when we have enough consoles as it is. She thinks we've paid enough for the things as it is with what I brought second hand (she can't complain at ?13 for two Dreamcasts and a Saturn).
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Chrimbo is a nice time of year but it's ruined by greedy bastards trying to make as much money as possible, so that by the time it actually comes you're dying for it to be over.
As for Christmas lists I think I only ever wrote one when I was about 5, don't think I got a single thing on it to be honest. I think I'd forgotten what I'd put on there though by the time christmas came around (but that's probably cos' there wasn't an ad on TV every 5 mins to remind me).
I know when I have kids the wife is gonna spoil em', wheras I'll be mr authoritarian (my wife and her sister are spoiled rotten to the point where it gets on my nerves sometimes). I've already told her our kids are not going to have the life where they stamp their foot and get whatever they want.
I suppose it's all well and good saying that now, of course when the time comes I'll probably end up being the one doing the spoiling :D
...or I'm just a cheap bastard.
Sob sob :cry:
Crappy badly cooked Turkey from our canteen anyone?
Isn't that a "Personal Spectrum +3" ? :-D
You pretty much summed up what I was trying to say, but with a 3rd of the effort :D
ha!!! you think you have it bad, there are people out there who don't get to celebrate christmas at all. jews and muslims mostly, poor bastards.
Don't forget the Jehovahs those stingy basts don't even celebrate their Birthdays never mind feckin' chrimbo :D
Hmmm ! You can guess my reaction ! I know handmade items etc should be the best present but if i was given a blanket or a frickin poem i would go mad ! Taking ages and ages to make that blanket was impressive but if you were that other girl and in return you just got a poem, hmmm !
an actual blanket would be a nice present, it would be more use than the 'ewok' film i got last year. i bet you've had worse presents than blanket, ie a cd you already own.
a poem could become very sought after if the writter becomes famous and then dies, but then again you never stop enjoying socks.
And judging by the crusty ones down the side of your bed you enjoy them more than most!
But how do you know she wrote it and just didnt think 'oh my god i forgot to get her something, i'll surf the net, find a poem i like and make out i wrote it' !
My wifes brother must have forgot last year and gave her a homemade CD full of music making out they were special songs for her, the fact that he made this crappy cd and it was full of trancey crap didnt help.
don't see why she would lie to me. i did tease her about finding it on the net, and yes if she gave me a poem for chrimbo, i would do a google search to see if she has nicked it.
ah yes the old mix tape, made that bit more convienient by digital music. its a good way of saving money. maybe for christmas you should give your wife a video of shows you taped off the tv. you can always sleep in your car if she doesn't like it. :oops:
Did anyone EVER listen to a mix tape made for them, I know I didn't. Its always a bad moment though when they then question you about the tape.
'did you listen to that tape I made for you'
'yeah was great'
'what did you think of xxx song?'
'err it was great'
What was your favorite song on the tape'
'ummmm the one that goes doo da da doo dum'
...
i remember a bird finding out i had taped megadeth over a mix tape she made. i don't know what made her more angry the fact i'd taped over it or the fact that it was with some megadeth.
2 copies of Leviathan in the same year, one for my birthday, and one for christmas (36 days between the 2 I think) and neither worked. The annoying thing is the person who got me the second copy of Leviathan got me it again the next year and it still didn't work (I bet the lazy cow never took it back in the first place and just gave me it again the year after).
Had to act 'surprised' when i got them for Xmas and obviously it was a boring day as i had already been playing these games for a month or so. Back then i just couldnt wait though !
We're not buying a PS3. I think she put it on there as a joke. It's bad enough she put a DVD of Bratz The Movie on it!
ha ha. it'd been funny if the games hadn't of worked. would you have told your parents to exchange them before the big day?
i dont think i ever got speccy games for chrimbo, i got my speccy, but dont remember getting games the following year.
A friend of mine at school did a similar thing with his copy of Streetfighter II: Turbo. He knew he was getting it, so he waited til' both his parents were at work and swapped the insides of the cartridge, with just plain old Streetfighter II. When Chrimbo came he acted all happy and swapped them back over again, when the coast was clear.
I said to him "could you not have just waited" :lol:
One year I had been bugging my parents for a train set all year and when me and my brother did 'operation takedown' that year I was extremely pissed to find they had got me one of those Mamod Steam tractor things.
It's probably best that I had a preview as if I had opened it on xmas morning expecting a train set and found that I would have been visibly pissed and probably upset my mum.
Turned out I liked the Mamod steam tractor after setting fire to half the shed with it.
I had been brought an Atari STE, I got it out and played it whilst my parents were out and found out it was faulty. So I told my mum the truth, and managed to have it exchanged before chistmas.
Scottie_UK.
that was risky.
I'll be spending Christmas day, boxing day and new years day in a stuffy call centre being swore at by drunk people!! (and i won't even be getting double time!)
On another note, this christmas will be the 20th anniversary of me recieving my spectrum +2 (which i still have).
We just tell her not to go over the top with her requests. Last three years (I Think), it's mostly been Bratz stuff (I send Amy out to buy that stuff). Sadly, I was the one who had to suffer it in the cinema with her.