The official "What did you get for Christmas?" thread

[Blu Mongoose]

People see Mark, a tattoo artist, as a tough-guy persona and sometimes take him for a starving-artist type. Like, we went to a jewelers recently (to look for watches!) And no one would even help us. Then this hoity-toity couple walks in and the sales people fawned over them like little worshippers. Same thing when we looked at computers at Circuit City. I don't even get it, because I dress reasonably well (10-year-old leather jacket that looks new because I care for it.. and I am usually even wearing office-type clothing from my office job..)
It was moreso when Mark owned his construction business (which he still dabbles in.) We would walk into a store and Mark would look like Joe Everyman in his paint-spattered boots, caulk-stained shirt and ripped jeans. But he is a worker through and through, and anyway..
So he wanted this watch to "stick it" to people who see him as a metalhead punk. And he got it

I remember shopping in my work clothes at a sears and roebuck , welding in a dirty shop for 10 hrs. . I was pulling about 900.00 a week after taxes, not too bad. I wanted to see a binder for collectable stamps, about one hundred. the clerk told me he wasn't wanting to show it to me since I probaby couldn't AFFORD it.
What does a clerk at a sears make??

[Ginevive]

I remember shopping in my work clothes at a sears and roebuck , welding in a dirty shop for 10 hrs. . I was pulling about 900.00 a week after taxes, not too bad. I wanted to see a binder for collectable stamps, about one hundred. the clerk told me he wasn't wanting to show it to me since I probaby couldn't AFFORD it.
What does a clerk at a sears make??

I know; it is ridiculous. At the time that we were computer shopping, Mark owned the business and was bringing in about what you just described in a week. Now he is an independent tattoo artist. It is actually hard for even me, to determine his monthly income. Some days are $50 days, some can be $1k days!
Life is different nowadays. They can't pigeonhole us into low class and high class. Then again, the biggest thing I have learned about the world: Class in itself is not buyable. Someone either has it, or they are obnoxious.. many, both rich and poor, fit that bill!

[pythontricker]

Clothes
Wok - for making stir fry (yum)
new vacuum, since mine sucks, or rather it doesn't. lol
3lb bag of Twizzlers
Night Vision, motion sensitive web cam (for spying on our animals while we sleep)
Gift cards

how much is it for that night vision camera?

[PigsnPythons]

I got a lot of clothes, dishes for my apartment, perfume from my hunny (Lamb by Gwen Stefani...it smells soooo good), and a freezer for my rats!! (from my parents...hehe they thought it was so weird, but I said it is what I really needed). Glad everyone had a good Christmas!

[BallPythonsRule]

I got little things, I got Flash Focus for my DS, HIM cd, and going to Hamburg was kind of a present, I got my Beauty snake there... Also, I'm getting a Lavender Motley Corn from SerpenCo, so that's kind of a present since my mom is giving me $30 from her PayPal for me to buy it... I didn't like Christmas this year.. just didn't feel it as much.

[Ginevive]

I really didn't feel into the spirit, either. It was the weather I think; it is all green/brown grass, rain, and wind here. I am not complaining; you don't have to snowplow rain. But we did have nice family gatherings, which is what matters most I guess.

[MeMe]

Yep, I can turn you on Like a switch!

maybe so .. ...but I wasn't talking about that kinda switch.

I am gonna spank you with these switches!

[Snakeman]

i got clothes,money, a $30 gift card to gamestop,cologne, and guitar hero 3 for my PS2!!

what sucked about christmas this year is that about 2-3 hours before midnight, i got sick with stuffy nose!!