OT: Best Xmas present you ever gave/received
December 24th, 2017 at 11:15 AM ^
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December 24th, 2017 at 10:47 AM ^
Still have it, with original box—and last I checked, it still works!
December 24th, 2017 at 10:50 AM ^
Best Given: Having an engine built and installed in my fathers Monte Carlo. Something he always wanted.
December 24th, 2017 at 10:55 AM ^
Received: We got a Commodore 64 for Christmas when I was a kid, got endless hours of enjoyment out of that thing.
Not sure on the Given end of things. I tend to play it pretty safe on the gifting front for better or worse.
December 24th, 2017 at 10:58 AM ^
December 24th, 2017 at 11:00 AM ^
It's a cliche, but a Daisy BB gun when I was 8 in 73'
Best given: A surpeise Chrstmas party for some college friends who couldn't see their family.
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Received: it was shared with my brothers but our Nintendo when we were 7(I'm a triplet). We played that thing for 10 straight hrs
December 24th, 2017 at 11:17 AM ^
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December 24th, 2017 at 1:32 PM ^
Sounds great and all, but was it a Z job? I heard those are really special.
December 24th, 2017 at 11:17 AM ^
December 24th, 2017 at 11:20 AM ^
The best Christmas gift that I ever received was two years ago when they actually released me from the hospital so I could spend Christmas at home after all after my fight with a rather nasty virus. Granted, I immediately went home and fell asleep, but it was nice to be able to pass out on the sofa at home rather than in a bed that was murdering my back.
I think the best gift I ever gave is still living in the house - one of our three cats was a Christmas gift. Imagine keeping THAT secret for a few days. He still seems to think that spending time in the basement is just what you do.
December 24th, 2017 at 11:21 AM ^
Acceptance letter from University of Michigan arrived Dec. 23. House filled with joy. Gift that has kept on giving
December 24th, 2017 at 11:23 AM ^
Got it when I was 12. This was back when they were made in the USA. The quality of that glove was amazing.
December 24th, 2017 at 12:14 PM ^
December 24th, 2017 at 1:16 PM ^
gathering dust. has to be close to 40 yrs old.
December 24th, 2017 at 1:27 PM ^
My Dad gave me a Wilson A2600 Willie Davis model for Christmas of '75, just before I started playing high school ball.
If that wasn't the best gift, it was definitely in the top five.
Damn, I wish I still had that thing.
December 24th, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^
i was an okay baseball player but knew hockey was my ticket to college. pretty sure i bought it my junior year ('78). not used much after high school, a few pick up hard ball games and a couple of seasons of softball decades ago.
December 24th, 2017 at 3:06 PM ^
Funny - that was another good Christmas present: hockey gear. My little brother and I used to play hockey on the basement linoleum with a dust mop and the plastic cap off a can of spray starch. Mom got so tired of finding pieces of broken cap everywhere that one Christmas, we got the real hockey stuff: a couple of sticks, a goalie stick, a street puck, and a foldable net. We'd play for hours.
I swear, if they played that game on my driveway instead of on ice, I coulda been somebody.
December 24th, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^
That's awesome. I bet it has some value if it's only collecting dust.
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December 24th, 2017 at 1:17 PM ^
Zechariah?
Zechariah asked the angel, “How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”
19 The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.20 And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”
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December 24th, 2017 at 12:26 PM ^
Before I departed from my year there I was given an 82nd Coin from the Colonel in charge of my team. It just happens my Grandpa was a pathfinder in the 82nd on D-Day. We only found that out because he passed away while I was over in Afghanistan. (We knew he served, but stated he was injured in training)
The next Christmas rolled around without him, and my tradition was to give my grandparents U-M stuff. Well, I thought what better gift to give my Grandma now, than my 82nd coin in honor of my grandpa. I gave a little speech and handed her the coin, with very few dry eyes in the house.
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December 24th, 2017 at 12:39 PM ^
Ok - I am old(er)
:-)