What did everyone get?

Portable DVD player
Four Brothers
The Interpreter
Seinfeld Boxset with Pirate shirt
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Cinderella Man
Paparazzi
Clothes (shirts, pants, like black jeans or sweats)
Multi-piece electric shaver
Axe Pack (3 sprays/1 shower gel)
New belt

Dude, how rich is your family?
That's like a dozen gifts, and some expensive...

Stuff like the belt wasn't that much. It does help having an Italian extended family though. :p

To be fair, Four Brothers and Paparazzi were from me to my parents. I counted them since I always post purchased movies.

An expected all-time low as regards films for me; I'd decided not to write a list, and buy them myself in the sales.

Nonetheless, a few surprises:
Films:
In the Mood for Love
Suspicion
Playtime

Music:
FabricLive 21 - Meat Katie
Ghost Dog The Way of the Samurai original soundtrack

Lots of lovely new clothes. Hoodies, combats, bomber jacket, denim jacket. And smellies.

A making of Taxi Driver book; film quiz book (upon a glance, it's rock hard); film facts book.

Mick

Music: Green day; Shenanigans, Bullet in A bible and International superhits! Eminem; Encore

Clothes: Middlesborough (Popular "Soccer" team in England) track suit and goal keepers shirt. Green day shirt.

Movies: Liar Liar, Purely Belter, The Warriors, Little Britan Series 2 (Popular sitcom in England)

Elecronics: Web cam, MP3, PSP, Head phones, Cell phone.

Games: L.A Rush (PS2) The warriors (PS2), Liberty city Stories (PSP)

Other: 2 Green day posters, remote control car from my grand mother.

As you can see, im A big Green day fan.

DVD's
- Bugsy
- American Beauty
- Fight Club
- The Truman Show
- Forrest Gump
- Boogie Nights
- 25th Hour
- Being John Malkovich
- Hard Eight
- Nixon
- Larceny (???)
- Crime Story Season 1

Other
- iPod, the one compatible with both music and movies
- this book
- a Godfather poster which I cant find a picture of online
- this Sinatra poster

Jesus tap dancing Christ kid! I get like 4 or 5 presents each year and that's it. My extended family only buys presents for my grandmother, the Matriarch of the fam. In turn, she gives everybody 50 dollars, which everybody vehemently tries to decline. Always fun to watch them argue in Arabic.

As for me, here's what I got:

1. Glengarry Glen Ross DVD (never seen it before, huge surprise when I opened it )
2. The Deer Hunter DVD
3. The Doors (Oliver Stone) DVD (Never seen that before either...my parents rule )
4. Burberry Cologne (the best smelling cologne EVER)
5. Clothes - Nice black Calvin Klein sweater, and a Perry Ellis short sleeve polo.

And of course, 50 big ones from my Situ (grandma), which I plan to spend on some CDs.

Good Christmas this year.

1) The Shield Season 4 (Tuesday)
2) 24 Season 4
3) The Beatles Anthology DVD set
4) A New York Yankees custom "St. Paddy's Day" hat
5) All 12 of the Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events books
6) Seinfeld Boxset with Pirate shirt
7) Heartbreak & Triumph : The Shawn Michaels Story book
8) Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs book
9) On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison book
10) Driven From Within by Michael Jordan book
11) New York Yankees towels
12) New York Yankees ornaments
13) New York Yankees slippers
14) New York Yankees night pants/sleep pants
15) Boxers
16) The yearly Hess truck
17) Jack Daniels glasses
18) Portable DVD Player
19) Fossil watch
20) FYE giftcard
21) Cash
22) New York Yankees mat
23) Some Kind of Wonderful
24) Judgment Night

$1000 check from my grandma
$200 gift certificate for Best Buy (gonna get an Ipod)
$100 gift certificate for Hollister
$100 from all my uncles and aunt's
$30 gift certificate for the mall
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
John Lennon - Legend
Dashboard Confessional - Swiss Army Romance
Nickelback - All the Right Reasons
Sixteen Candles
The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead II
Halloween Resurrection
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Madden 2006 (PS2)
West Chester University shirt
CD case that holds 200 + CDs
RCA boom box
Axe Pack
New wallet

Scarface t-shirt & dogtag
South Park season 1 dvd
Project Gotham Racing 3
game-worn Scott Clemmenson Devils jersey
Martin Brodeur team Canada jersey
Rich Gannon jersey
ipod
trip to daytona
glass seats for the Bruins-Devils game feb 9th
a new computer
$200 in gift cards to gamestop
Martin Brodeur- Mark Messier mcfarlane 2 pack
12'' Brodeur mcfarlane figure
97 Detroit Red Wings cup ring
Devils blanket
Devils jacket
one of those 6 inch scarface figures

I got 2 shirts and a pair of pants.

Jeez dude! What are you gonna do with it, if I may ask?

Got a picture of that online? I'm just curious what it looks like

Got a picture of that online? I'm just curious what it looks like [/b][/quote]give me about a minute and a half and i will. cmaera phone pics suck though

I think Patrick wins, with just that first item!

1) Table-top poker table thingy
2) Metal case of poker chips and cards
3) One of those CD-Cassette-LP-Radio "retro" units, which is gonna be awesome cuz my old record player doesn't work
4) Tiger Woods' book on how to play golf
5) Some clothes I personally picked out a few weeks ago - cuz I have to pick them out, otherwise, I'd have to go back and return them anyway.... lol
6) 2 Scarface posters, the ones designed with the words from the film creating the images
7) Some spending money (unfortunately going straight to bills! )

But all in all, I had a great Christmas with friends and family I love, so there you go. That's what it's really about.

C3-PO? Red Wings? Pistons? Skull??

Next year put a camera on your list maybe... lol

i do have a camera, buuuut i just cant find the cable to attach it to the computer right now, 3am, im exhausted, but i'm trying to re-hook the wireless net to my xbox 360.

I got some new Shoes and Clothes

I got a T-shirt.

Of course, for some people it might be more fun to mention what they gave as opposed to what they got.

To my mother: a new clock radio (which she needs) and some nice hand/body lotion (which she asked for).

To my sister: New pajamas (which she asked for).

To my nieces: Gift cards (which they prefer to gifts so they can pick their own stuff) and slipper socks (which they always like to get).

To my nephew: Game for his new PSP which he got from Santa.

To my brother: DVD of a movie which it turns out he's already seen so I'll be supplying him with the receipt so he can go & exchange it.

To my daughter: Princess & The Pauper castle, which I ordered from ebay at about $30 over original cost since it's no longer available in stores. Plus various other things some from Santa which she asked for and some from mommy!

Yes, I got some nice things too...but I find that the sharing of gifts, ESPECIALLY when you know someone really likes what you picked for them - priceless.

Apple

scarfacetm, thanks for the pics man. That's a replica ring, right?

Apple, great idea! And you are so right. I won't deny that I enjoy getting gifts, but it is so fun to give people things. I can't afford to buy very fancy presents, but I always try to find something that I think people will like.

I used to go nuts trying to find the "perfect" gift for everyone in my family, in addition to the gifts that my close family gave to our relatives, and my mom would always tell me to just go along with the joint gift and let that be enough. I've started to bake cookies for my family and friends, now, and I still give gifts to those closest to me, which works out well.

Here's what I gave this year...

To my mom:
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory DVD
She also got this for me, but she found out from my dad ahead of time, so she returned it...we thought it was so cute we had identical ideas!
- Purple soft socks
She always buys me socks and never gets any for herself. Also, purple is her favorite color.
- Pens and a rain gauge
She asked for them.
- A bag of chocolates

To my dad:
- National Lampoon DVD
I actually got "caught" in Wal-Mart trying to buy it at the self check-out but being under 17...luckily, the lady let me "slip by" since my dad was there with me!
- Trapped in Paradise DVD
Not sure how good it'll be, but we like Jon Lovitz's voice and Dana Carvey as Garth.
- Ray Charles performance DVD
We both love Ray!
- A bag of chocolates

To my brother:
- An official Red Ryder...I mean, a quesadilla maker!
He loves quesadillas, and this cooker is easier than making a frozen pizza, so I think he can handle it.
- A Napoleon Dynamite keychain with sound clips from the movie
- A light that can clamp on to something, for use in his truck

To my cousins:
- Kip and Pedro talking dolls, from the Napoleon Dynamite movie

To the rest of my family (aunts, uncles, grandparents):
- Cookies that I baked!

Gina, I think it's great that you're baking. Homemade gifts are the best!! My daughters know I go nuts over anything shown in an informercial, so they bought me that stupid Betty Crocker cake pan that has several different pans so that you can create all different layers and colors to your cake. The only problem is, they now want me to bake them something!!

We had Christmas Eve at my brother's and Christmas day with my in-laws. For the first time in 10 years, I was not cooking on Christmas. That in itself was gift enough!!

SB, I love baking sweets. I haven't gotten into general cooking much, but I've acquired my interest in baking cookies and such from my mom, and I suppose her mom, as well. I made chocolate chip and butterscotch cookies this year, along with molasses for my brother, but my specialty is making tea cake cookies, which are cut-out cookies with icing. The recipes for the cookies and icing were both passed down, and my grandpa apparently was able to remember the icing recipe from when his mom made it, so we still use it! I've made them for friends at school for a few years now, so they're pretty popular there, and I was able to make quite a bit for family, too, this year. I gave my family members each an individual plate of 10 chocolate chip/butterscotch and 8 of the tea cakes. I think this year was the most I've ever baked. Between school friends, my dad's friends in his Italian organization, some just for my brother, and for my family, I made about fifteen batches total. I know what you mean about using new gifts to cook more stuff - my cousins' family gave my mom these really nice cookie sheets, cutters, and cooling racks, so we were already thinking about cooking more! That must've been great not having to cook, right? My mom had surgery on her hand, so she couldn't, and my grandma did the meal this year. I know it's not fun to have her hand messed up, but I think my mom appreciated not having to worry as much. I've seen how much work goes into preparing a meal, but I can only imagine having to do it all myself!

Along with that I've got assorted other goodies including three Miles Davis albums which although I had bootleged earlier in the year, I've decided to purchase in hopes that the sound qualaty is beter on a real issue by Columbia records. The albums in question: "Bitches Brew", "Sketches of Spain" and "Round About Midnight: Legacy Edition". Along with it I was able to get "TIme Out", the Dave Brubeck Quartets finest hour.

I also got an iPod docking system which permits me to listen to my music off of it's speakres without needing those godamned headphones. Also charges it as well.

I've still got some cash coming to me which should come to $100.00 and a $50.00 gift card to Barnes & Noble. The cash will go into a bank account, the card shall be put to good use purchasing me a couple Sinatra albums along with, "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote and "The Big Red ONe" by Samuel Fuller.

I've also got to finish up my contract to BMG Music Service, a Columbia House-like system. That means I purchase one CD and get four other CD's for free.

Well, the worst part for me is not the cooking itself, but figuring out the menu. That's why I like to have Thanksgiving - no worries about what to serve! I also hate setting the table, dragging out the crytsal and the china and silverware. And then having to put it all away again!

I think it's great that you have such an interest, especially in recipes that have been in your family. My daughter made her famous banana cream pie this year to bring for Christmas, so I didn't even have to do that!!

I did forget to post one of the most important gifts I got! Mr. Babe bought me the Harlan Lebo book, and I was impressed to see a shout-out to JG and this board on the acknowledgements page.

Jeez dude! What are you gonna do with it, if I may ask? [/b][/quote]Going into the bank. I might take $200 out to go shopping at King of Prussia on Friday though.

SB, I always tell my mom we should just serve on paper plates, but she never likes the idea.