The 2009 Holiday "What Did You Get Thread"

[RadioGaGa 162]

My GF and I did our Christmas tonight. Probably the only chance we'll get to be alone. She said there are a few things from her family to open Christmas Day...but the highlight tonight was the DVD Boxed set of the 10 Greatest Habs games of all time. She also surprised me with the clock I had been looking at for my living room.

Then we made Chicken Parm for dinner and watched "It's A Wonderful Life". I'm not ashamed to say the end of that movie makes me cry every time.

I'd say a damn good kickoff to the holidays.

[LivHockey84 0]

I'll let ya know on the 25/26th...x-mas is 2 days long this year. I'm 98% sure that I'm getting an Itech/Bauer RBE I & a new blue practice jersey. After that...idk, my GF has me stumped this year.

[Leafsrule16 5]

As much as I hate getting gifts from girlfriends (well at this age, when there making minimum wage and working hard to get me something), She brought me a large cheese stuffed crust pizza, a card and a couple dvd's. My parents had the windows of my car professionally tinted, i picked up 2 mufflers for it (which are already installed), picked up some hockey sticks. Christmas was actually something so special when I was little, as an only child i got all this attention and presents, now it feels so different.

[JoeyJ0506 192]

Christmas was actually something so special when I was little, as an only child i got all this attention and presents, now it feels so different.

It's because when you get older you start to realize that the Holidays are a boat load of work and stress for adults. For me there's food to cook, presents to buy, presents to wrap, places to drive to, family to entertain. When you're a kid all you do is receive the benefits of the hard work of everyone around you... The Christmas season is a burden on a vast amount of people...

But, after that little bit of depression; I'll update tomorrow evening or Saturday with whatever goodies come my way.

[EBondo 233]

Christmas was actually something so special when I was little, as an only child i got all this attention and presents, now it feels so different.

It's because when you get older you start to realize that the Holidays are a boat load of work and stress for adults. For me there's food to cook, presents to buy, presents to wrap, places to drive to, family to entertain. When you're a kid all you do is receive the benefits of the hard work of everyone around you... The Christmas season is a burden on a vast amount of people...

+1. And on top of all that, when you get older, you're not sure what to ask for anymore. You don't want to ask for a lot, and you don't want anything extremely expensive. there's a lot more thought process going into Christmas at an older age.

[adam14 182]

That's true Ebondo, Im not extremely old yet, at 18, but everytime somebody would as me what I wanted for christmas, my answer would be "I actually have no idea."

[EBondo 233]

I had a very hard time thinking of what I wanted this year. I'm 19 years old - and I'm pretty sure the most exciting thing on my list is a Bobby Ryan jersey.

[Gummer12 134]

Just ask for socks n underwear. That way you're bound to get what you asked for, and if you get something more, it's a bonus.

[nickyb13 9]

Well I know I'm getting a spring break trip to Spain paid for and I assumed that was it, but apparently not as my mom got mad at me for not giving her ideas :)

[Chadd 916]

Well I know I'm getting a spring break trip to Spain paid for and I assumed that was it, but apparently not as my mom got mad at me for not giving her ideas :)

I got tired of the constant questions from my mother and now I just tell her "hookers and blow". For some reason she doesn't ask much anymore.

[ddbowdoin 0]

tonight my gf and her family did the feast of the seven fishes (an italian thing)

she gave me a frame of us, an ipod shower thing (awesome), hockey skates ornament... her mom hooked me up with a gift cert to a hockey shop that sends your gear out to be cleaned with some special chemicals...ive tried cleaning my stuff over and over and it still smells like shit

[syko_hockey 0]

iTouch and cash

[Steve_v3 289]

Some Under Armour & a Bruins book: Black & Gold.

& some chocolate gold coins....... I've been getting them since I was 3, even though I don't like them.

[LivHockey84 0]

Christmas was actually something so special when I was little, as an only child i got all this attention and presents, now it feels so different.

It's because when you get older you start to realize that the Holidays are a boat load of work and stress for adults. For me there's food to cook, presents to buy, presents to wrap, places to drive to, family to entertain. When you're a kid all you do is receive the benefits of the hard work of everyone around you... The Christmas season is a burden on a vast amount of people...

+1. And on top of all that, when you get older, you're not sure what to ask for anymore. You don't want to ask for a lot, and you don't want anything extremely expensive. there's a lot more thought process going into Christmas at an older age.

Yeah thats how i feel

[EBondo 233]

Well, just got done with my family. Got everything I asked for, and then a huge surprise at the end.

What I reeled in:

Bobby Ryan jersey, boxers, pajama pants, flannel shirt, Monster Energy shirt, a Lil Wayne shirt, a Drake shirt, some posters (Lil Wayne, Bob Marley quote, Alexander Ovechkin), screen protectors and case for my Droid, my radar scanner so now I can speed without being paranoid ^_^ .

The surprise:

February 7, 2010, my family is taking a cruise out of Baltimore, down to Florida, and over to the Bahamas for a week. I missed the Bahamas so much and I can't wait to go back. All-in-all, a great Christmas indeed.

[LivHockey84 0]

That sounds wonderful, sounds like you cleaned up this year!

[adam14 182]

i got some tshirts, some pyjamas, some boxers and socks, the regular.

then i got a wallet, and in it money for a ps3 which I was extremely surprised and happy for at the same time.

[RadioGaGa 162]

...then i got a wallet, and in it money for a ps3 which I was extremely surprised and happy for at the same time.

It's bad luck to give a wallet as a gift without money in it...now the amount varies...depending on the giver *L*

[adam14 182]

in this case it was the right amount for a ps3 haha. i had no idea it was bad luck

[RadioGaGa 162]

in this case it was the right amount for a ps3 haha. i had no idea it was bad luck

I was given a wallet by friends of the family...I think it was a HS graduation gift...it had 10 dollar bill in it and a "loonie" in the coin pocket. She said "It's bad luck not to put money in a wallet" so I checked the credit card slots. Everyone laughed. I had never heard it before...but I always remembered that.

[noodle3872 40]

I've only had Christmas with my girlfriend's family but I got some damn good gifts considering I wasn't expecting anything. I got a red 2010 Olympic hockey jersey, Starbucks gift card, golf magazines and hockey themed asswipe.

Nikki (my girlfriend) and I have dinner at my family's house with presents to follow so my list should grow a little (I hope!).

[ndlancer95 0]

Let's see. I hauled in a nyy snuggle an 8gb iPod touch a Bose sound dock and a bunch of choocolayes. Disregard spelling and grammar cause typing on an itouch is a bitch. :)

[dsjunior1388 81]

I've only had Christmas with my girlfriend's family but I got some damn good gifts considering I wasn't expecting anything. I got a red 2010 Olympic hockey jersey, Starbucks gift card, golf magazines and hockey themed asswipe.

Nikki (my girlfriend) and I have dinner at my family's house with presents to follow so my list should grow a little (I hope!).

Um...what?

Anyway, I gave myself a gift for christmas, an AK27 shaft and blade combo, and then my dad surprised me with a bag of about ten rolls of hockey tape, which I was surprised and pleased with. Plus my mom got me a good set of pots and pans, which is a godsend. Kind of disapointed though, as this is the first time in my 21 years that my mom didn't buy me Boxers or socks. :P

[sickwilly 37]

The best gift that I got was my mom agreeing to take care of our two kids (both still in diapers) while my wife and I go to Montreal to see Alice in Chains.

[SouthpawTRK 1]

Definitely got some really cool things for Christmas; Slapshot DVD, Sharks hoodie, Sharks logo puck display case, Borders gift card, art pens and some greenbacks! However, I was really stoked to be with family and to see the looks on their faces when they opened up their gifts.