your 2021 Christmas haul

[bob]

here's what I got this year

$100 check
1 bottle of tequila & green chile hot sauce
1 bottle of vodka & Italian ketchup
a 6 pack of Nashville Brewing Company Lager beer
a bag of legacy coffee company  hot air roasted strength grounds
1 Christmas ornament
$75 check
$20 gift card for Jersey Mikes Subs
amazon gift card for $100
a 12 pack of fruit cups 
1 Green Bay Packers hoodie
1 share of Green Bay Packers stock
Top 100 Movies scratch off poster
a Roddy Piper book
Edgar Allen Poe Collected Works
$30 American Express gift card
a 2-month subscription to Criterion Channel

[RCMerchant]

I got some cool old monster magazines from a dear friend.
Plus I spent the day at my son's house with his wife Tonya and my grandkids. 

[LilCerberus]

A coffee cup, some sort of high end cocoa, a hundred bucks & some lotto scratchers.........

[Newt]

Trivial Pursuit Horror Ultimate Edition.
Poetry for Neanderthals.
Classic Sci-Fi TV 150 Episodes 12-disc set.
Coffees of the World sampler.

A two-hour video call with one of my offspring and their partner.

And chocolate.

[Alex]

Resident Evil 2 board game.
Villanous board game.
Ray Harryhausen: A Life In Pictures.
Could you win WW2? (A sort of choose your own adventure book, where you make decisions at vital points of the second world war).
Various gift cards and cash.
Cthulhu calendar.
Assorted alcohol (mostly whiskeys).
Tickets to go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Tiger Day at Bovington Tank Museum.

There are a couple of presents Kristi ordered for me that haven't arrived yet. I guess I'll get them the next time I am home.

[sprite75]

Some of the goodies I got this year;

- Gift card for Tarzshay (aka Target). 
- Mug with a picture of my feline nephews.
- Couple Hawkeyes sweaters.
- Chia pet.
- Gift card for a local brewery.
- Phone mount.
- $$$
- Car was gift certificates

Funny thing with the mug was that I had gotten my sister a water bottle with a picture I took of the feline nephews on it.  This was not something that was coordinated.  I couldn't think of anything else to get her so I got her that.  She then told me she got a second copy of the mug for herself since she liked the picture so much.

I might sell the car wash gift certificates back to my mom or someone else since I'm moving in a few weeks and those will be of limited use to me. 

[Rev. Powell]

A couple CDs
"The Idiots" by von Trier DVD
"Northern Exposure" box set
Money
Caramel apple
Bottle of rye whiskey
Iphone upgrade
Band-aids that look like bacon strips

[sprite75]

And I got my birthday list started for next summer because there's a few things I need to take off the list so I don't get more of them. 

[Allhallowsday]

I remain amazed by how many friends I have, bringing us gift bags cookies and packages.  I got a battery operated black widow spider that looks real and is creepy...  and candy candy candy...!  I got toys! 

[ER]

I asked people to send any money they would have spent on my presents to aid Kentucky tornado victims, but they laughed and no one as far as I know did. So they gave me several really nice books on history, a few delightful coloring books, some shoes, an external drive for my PS4, a promise to tune-up my car by my cousin-in-law who owns a garage, and a bunch of Chap-Stick, which should keep my addiction fix'd til the vernal equinox. I also got this coupon book redeemable for nice stuff to be done for me around the house. I always like those.

On the strange side I received these...nice but odd offers on text, like an extra egg roll if I buy two combo dinners at our local Chinese restaurant before January 1st., a free x-ray at a chiropractor I'd never heard of (and how he got my number I do not know), and I was wished "Happy Holiday" (they did not specify which one so I'll just pick Groundhog Day) from "your friends at Krogers." Sweet of them but free groceries would've made the sentiment sweeter still.

T'was a grand Christmas this year though. I was even home, unlike two years ago when I was stuck in a foreign hellhole cursing life, and there are few finer words than home for Christmas.

May you all always be home for Christmas, wherever you may go, and may you love and be loved.

[RCMerchant]

"The Idiots" by von Trier DVD

I had that on vhs many years ago. What a strange film.

[Rev. Powell]

"The Idiots" by von Trier DVD

I had that on vhs many years ago. What a strange film.

Well, I certainly hope so!

[RCMerchant]

"The Idiots" by von Trier DVD

I had that on vhs many years ago. What a strange film.

Well, I certainly hope so!

I bought it from some company I found in a Fangoria magazine. Video Search of Miami.
The hardcore sex was unexpected!

[Rev. Powell]

"The Idiots" by von Trier DVD

I had that on vhs many years ago. What a strange film.

Well, I certainly hope so!

I bought it from some company I found in a Fangoria magazine. Video Search of Miami.
The hardcore sex was unexpected!

Yeah, when I opened it someone claimed they got me porn for Christmas. I said, "kind of..."