What have you bought for yourself for christmas present?

[Hyperactive]

So what have you bought (or are going to) for yourself for christmas present?

Simple (and stupid) question, here's my answer:

I bought the GTA: San Andreas and a Mokoma music CD for myself. All I need now is some good mood and... hmm... money...:shy:

[Qurpiz]

I bought myself Xbox 360... The thing is that I preordered it last summer, and I'm still waiting it. The store I ordered it from said they'll send me one as soon as they get more from importer. Hoping to get it during this week.
Also few games for it.

[thisnameistaken]

Me and the girlfriend bought ourselves a new couch. We also got it a couple of hundred quid cheaper than we should've done because we confused the crap out of the guy in the store :D

I bought myself a DFP a couple of weeks ago so that counts a present to myself.

[the_angry_angel]

First off embaressment by phoning into Lugradio (http://lugradio.org/) (see season 3, episode 5), second some SOiL/AHC tickets for Feb and I'm considering an iPAQ hx4700. Nothing really LFS orientated I;m afraid!

[JTbo]

If I can afford to pay bills and get food almost everyday, that is quite enough of Christmas Present for me :shy:

I do have a job, but it is almost same income if I would have no job :(

[herki]

i got myself a muffler for my car, that i can get through the next main inspection, the old one is too rusty (the german people here will know about the "TÜV" ;) )

[hrtburnout]

Illegal Fireworks :)

[X-Ter]

Bought a new MOMO wheel

[Racer Y]

If I can afford to pay bills and get food almost everyday, that is quite enough of Christmas Present for me :shy:

I do have a job, but it is almost same income if I would have no job :(

Wow, we're in the same boat. except I haven't been able to pay the phone/dsl bill yet. Yeah, Christmas pretty much sucks this year for us.
The "job" i thought I had apparently fell through. What a shame. They put me up in a fancy hotel for a week and gave me some expensive software and
I have access to their internal network.... yet no work. it seems the project I was going to be working on fell through. I'm down to my last 100 dollars and intend on gambling off some of it (what have I got to lose?) Yeah, it's gotten bad, but hey it can always be worse and in a few weeks,
it will be :)

[tristancliffe]

I'll be buying myself some ECCI pedals to ease the frustrations of Logitechs half-arsed efforts.

[detail]

I'll make a trip to Krasnoyarsk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnoyarsk), a city not far away from my. There will be a Festa di Natale of Italian-speaking community, and also some sightseeing for me: the national park, the hydroelectric powerstation dam, also the city is old, so it must be a specific ambient of much good old architecture.

[Tinytacohead]

I bought myself my S1 license, and hopefully will be able to afford to upgrade to an S2 after I finish the last minute Christmas shopping this week. :tilt: That, home made fried chicken, and one of the Ratchet & Clank games I think my girlfriend bought me, ought to cover my whole Christmas, lol.

[Tweaker]

I haven't bought any gift for myself, just food I am eating at the moment ;)

It is funny to hear people talk about the gifts they bought themselves for xmas. One woman told a group and I that she had bought herself some really nice coat and had her friend wrap it and sign the card... so right now it is under this woman's tree all tucked away as if it is really an unknown gift... blah! I think I'll go get this woman some McDonald's gift cards or something so she couldn't fit in that damn coat later on :D

[Tinytacohead]

I haven't bought any gift for myself, just food I am eating at the moment ;)

It is funny to hear people talk about the gifts they bought themselves for xmas..

Haha, well, I wanted to have somthing more than a PS2 game and some fried chicken, so after playing the demo for a day I decided LFS was worth getting myself, and calling it "for Xmas". :) When I was younger my Mom used to have me order my own stuff, with a price limit, then she'd wrap it and put it under the tree. Guess there was no surprise, but she knew I really wanted the stuff and she wouldn't have a clue how to order the right parts, lol. (I'm heavy into the good remote control car/plane etc. scene)

[tailing]

I've got a 20" Dell Widescreen LCD (2005FPW) on the way which if I'm lucky will arrive tomorrow or the next day :D
I won't be able to spend this chrissie with the family because of a new job so I won't be spending much on pressies but the new job means I've actually got some money to spend atm.

[Tweaker]

@Tinytacohead

Well buying LFS for yourself is not bad, that is gooood!!! :) Probably even makes Santa jealous that he couldn't get you such a great gift.

[Tinytacohead]

now I just need to steal a DFP wheel. driving anything with a joystick is a handful!!! :razz: (but I'll remedy that when possible)

[deggis]

I bought nothing. 2 months ago I bought a new hard-drive but I don't see that as a Christmas present. :D

[Blackout]

I bought myself Age of Empires 3. Im gona wrap it to a paper and hit myself with a hammer so I dont remember what is it and then Im going to put it under the tree :D

[franky500]

I brought my own PC components and decided to build it myself.... 1st time... easy :D

AMD X2 4800+ Dual Core processor (still in the post.. but should arrive soon...)
Gigabyte Mobo
1 Gig corsair (Twinned 512) CL2, pc3200 ram
Geforce 6600GT PCIE G/card (untill i can afford the 7800GTX)
Seagate Baracuda 80GB Sata (got a spare 200GB IDE so thats all i needed..)
a nice looking case of course..

all in total only cost me £300 as the processor is being sent to me for FREE.. .from a friend...

Anice prezzy i think... the only prezzy i need now is for the post to work

[Unclefloug]

since ive been working my ass of the last few weeks at work, i bought myself a sondblaster Audigy 4 :) and a nice set of creative headphones.

i was going to get my S1 and S2 license but my girlfriend took up all the extra funds!

[ORION]

Got some new hop up parts for my RS4 pro2, so I can run it in thw winter *looking forward to killing the snow mwahah* ;)
Nothing special though, about 50 euros.

[hijacker(GR)]

I bought myself a mobile phone Nokia N90.Pretty cool

[SladiVadi]

Nothing but a late present should be a Morati MTB. Then for my birthday it will be a 7.1 sound setup complete with a projector. :cookiemon

[keiran]

Got some new hop up parts for my RS4 pro2, so I can run it in thw winter *looking forward to killing the snow mwahah* ;)
Nothing special though, about 50 euros.
The HPI RS4 Pro2 was an awesome car :smileypulI have had two of them and won lots of races with them :nod:. Now their gone and I've moved on to other chassis' :tilt:

For Christmas I haven't really bought myself anything :( Although now I'm not going to Uni next year I'm looking into upgrading my computer so that will hopefully happen in the new year :D

Keiran

[mrbogeyman]

all in total only cost me £300 as the processor is being sent to me for FREE.. .from a friend...


anymore of them going? oh i would need a MB to go with it, im a 754slot :shrug: :D
unless of course you have a A64 3700 754slot going handy :)

[bo-kristiansen]

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=3697

:razz:

[Richard Torp]

I will buy the new BRD wheel.. http://www.teambrd.co.uk/ :thumb:

[franky500]

anymore of them going? oh i would need a MB to go with it, im a 754slot :shrug: :D
unless of course you have a A64 3700 754slot going handy :)

you have no idea how many people asked me that (apparently there are loads but. he cant send to every1 :D) and the only spare processor i got that still works in an old XP 1800.

[dUmAsS]

seeing as no one likes me and wont buy me a present i showered myself in gifts! :D

new sound card, 2 games and a couple of dvds :)

[mrbogeyman]

he cant send to every1 :D

so who is this secret source???............:scratchch:scratchch:D

[Matrixi]

I bought myself a 1/24 Nissan Silvia scale model. http://nismo.1g.fi/temp/silvia.jpg

[Don Merino]

Two sets of cheap boxing gear...so my friends and I can beat the crap out of each other after an evening of uneven Tekken5 matches.

And I laid out my main wish clearly to my parents (a compressor and an air-wrench,and a ratchet set with universal sockets for '' and mm), so that's almost like getting the stuff myself.

[franky500]

[quote=mrbogeyman]so who is this secret source???............:scratchch:scratchch:D

you wont know him.. besides.. its a secret remember :smileypul

[Vendetta]

I'll be buying myself some ECCI pedals to ease the frustrations of Logitechs half-arsed efforts.

And you shall be forever happy.

[W1LLSD4D]

Nothing, spent all my money on my 4-yo son :)

[JTbo]

Correction to my earlier post, I don't have job no more, they call it redesigning the concept of company or something like that, hard to translate.

Well, now I get 300€ less per month as before, great. Also got common cold so I think that these Christmas presents are indeed enough, I don't like to get anything more right now :(

[Jakg]

after christmas ill probably be buying an S2 license

[Don Merino]

I don't have job no more


Aw, shoot. What a great christmas present...reminds me of that Scrooge movie I saw yesterday..

I'm really sorry for you.
Hope you'll find something new soon.

[Zewerr]

As seen in another post, I bought myself this thing!

http://216.240.155.171/dfireweb/smeg/vmax01.jpg

http://216.240.155.171/dfireweb/smeg/vmax03.jpg

http://216.240.155.171/dfireweb/smeg/vmax04.jpg

[mrodgers]

As seen in another post, I bought myself this thing!

http://216.240.155.171/dfireweb/smeg/vmax01.jpg

http://216.240.155.171/dfireweb/smeg/vmax03.jpg

http://216.240.155.171/dfireweb/smeg/vmax04.jpg
From one bike guy to another, very very VERY nice. Excellent Christmas present. Just be careful on that beast, hehehe.

www.geocities.com/mrodg88 (http://www.geocities.com/mrodg88) just incase you want to see my little bike :thumb: .

[TagForce]

I decided to become one of the few ricer that has some respect on these forums... So I bought myself a neon kit for my car :D

[AndroidXP]

I decided to become one of the few ricer that had some respect on these forums... So I bought myself a neon kit for my car :DFixed ;)

Nah, personally I haven't bought myself, or anyone else anything. I'm not too fond of these traditions where you get all stressed to find a present for someone just because it's that time of the year again. I rather show my family that I like them every day... :hug:

Anyway, happy holidays guys!

[JTbo]

Aw, shoot. What a great christmas present...reminds me of that Scrooge movie I saw yesterday..

I'm really sorry for you.
Hope you'll find something new soon.

Thanks, I think that I will find something, there is one strong plan going on, but just not 100% sure yet.

Well, everyone in company are very stressed because of boss, it is everyday something little, so I think that soon I will feel much better when there is no one pushing needles under my nails every day ;)

Still, not much money available and that makes it bad thing.

[Don Merino]

@Zewerr>

Niiice...I once thought about getting a VMax, too. But while I was waiting for the day I could afford it, I stumbled over a '74 Sporty, chopped all retro-like...well, and that was it.

Hey, I know, it's basically just a lot of scrap iron from Milwaukee bolted and welded together, and not even well at that.
But -in my ears- absolutely nothing in the world beats the sound.

[L(Oo)ney]

As seen in another post, I bought myself this thing!

Not really a fan of those style bikes, but the Vmax is the best of the lot.

Only because it can do this. http://www.ufocycles.com/Ingo/images/redmax.mpg

Lots of nice streetfightered Vmax's out there, with turbos! :D http://www.vmax.co.uk/Streetfighter/Issue115/issue115.htm

[Don Merino]

Hm. Drag racing imho misses the point in riding motorcycles.

On the other hand, choppers do that, too. Duh.

[L(Oo)ney]

Hm. Drag racing imho misses the point in riding motorcycles.

Never said i liked drag racing, i just posted a video of what the vmax can do.

[franky500]

Correction to my earlier post, I don't have job no more, they call it redesigning the concept of company or something like that, hard to translate.

Well, now I get 300€ less per month as before, great. Also got common cold so I think that these Christmas presents are indeed enough, I don't like to get anything more right now :(

I know why it is that large companies lay people off at this time of year.

They do it this time of year because then it gives them a few months to save some dough and it actually ends up balancing out the books come time to do all the tax and what ever else it is for the start of the new business year (april??) i would say that this is the "Cheap Shot" by those companies that do this.

*NOTE: after being made redundant after many years DO NOT accept to sign a new contract with the same company Normally it will be a 3 month contract and if its signed for those 3 months at the end of that they will most likely get rid of you and on the books it shows that you only worked for them for 3 months. Therfore no redundancy pay , No holidays owed, no nothing!!.

Anyway. Back on subject.(dunno what else to say now though :D)

[mrodgers]

Well, I wasn't going to post in this thread, but now I'm able too. I have Dish Network and have had it for 8 years or something. It is incredibly slow on the info screens and the on screen guides. It tells me "info not available" for everything and they changed the dish a few years back and I don't even get all the programing that I pay for. I have no pay-per-view movie options even though they advertise 19 channels of them. I called them this morning to bitch and they said I could have new recievers sent to me for $50 a piece (2 of them) and a new dish for $59. I said, ah, no, you guys give the stuff away to new customers daily and I've been a customer for 8 years now. You need to take care of your current customers, I'm not recieving the programming I pay monthly for. I could switch and get everything and more for free. They repeated that I could have the stuff sent out for $159 total and I said no thanks. Hung up the phone, called Direct TV and ordered a receiver, DVR receiver and dish all for free. I'll now actually get all the programming I pay for, free movie or concert once a month, the DVR is a big plus, and a remote that doesn't cost $69 every 6 months when it breaks because Dish Network has the stupid RF remotes that you can't replace with cheapo universals. I'll also get my local network channels that I didn't have the option of with Dish Network.

The free equipment isn't a big deal to most people because they do it all the time now, but 8 years ago I paid $389 freakin dollars for my system and they don't even have the decency to upgrade my dish so I can get the channels I pay for. That pissed me off! They'll be here in the morning on the 24th, just in time for watching some 3 month free movie channels Christmas Eve while waiting to put "Santa's" stuff under the tree for the kids :thumb: . So, that's the Merry Christmas present to the wife and I from the wife and I :D .

[v4forlife]

vmax...meh, im not too keen on em, but i am a sports bike rider...to which i purchased a HCR big bore top radiator for my bike...yay, and im looking at a guy who is selling a set of forks, yolks, clipons and grips for 180 pounds. the forks have been re valved and sprung to suit a 12.5 stone person, and im 13 at the mo. all done by maxton too.
also got myself a performance bikes 2006 calender. apart fromt hat, nothing, im trying to save money for some custom fit leathers from crowtree, but ill need about 800 pound for those.

[inCogNito]

a VPP pedal set :)

http://www.virtualperformanceparts.com/english/produkte.php

[Don Merino]

Ah, I totally forgot...

2 Albums by Jay Hooks, who is in my eyes slowly turning out to be one of the greatest Blues-Rockers alive, second only to Joe Bonamassa, if at all.

(Mind you, Gov't Mule still beats everyone and everything, but I'm talking about straight Blues Rock here)

Ok...
I'll put the second CD in now...
See you later...
:headbang:

[JJ72]

Tickets to Autosport international in Birmingham. :)

Well ain't that a new year present actually. :p

[Don Merino]

...reminds me that I've never been to a racing event. (!)

[detail]

Today morning I was back from the trip to Krasnoyarsk. That was excelent. We had the Festa, quite family holiday, but with a large group of people, and then I staid at a bar with 3 girls from this group. Made new friends, did sightseeing in the city and it's outskirts.

It is also a big industrial city with >1 million population, but the wonderful feature is it's historical centre. It wasn't influenced much by Stalin's period architecture, neither by Khruschev's ugly boxes. It's pure 18-19th centuries' nice buildings. In my city there is only a few of such houses, but in Krasnoyarsk they are almost everywhere in the centre.

I thought about buying a PC device, but these things will stay with me forever.

Here are some pics. Distorted by lens, yep. Filenames contain the descriptions.

The weather was about -19°C without wind but very humid, it's not a problem to move indoor-to-indoor or in a bus, but definitely not for walking outside. The natives said I'm a nutter. :D

[Richard Torp]

Nice pictures..:thumb:
I feared that the aircraft picture was Mathias Rust...:D but i think he landed safe at the Red Square Moscow..:smileypul :D

http://www.weht.net/WEHT/Mathias_Rust.html

[Jakg]

S2...

[Rotary]

Bought myself Falcon 4.0 AF and GT Legends :D

[Doorman]

A Frex steering wheel adapter, wheelbox+ and a Sparco LN270 wheel.

[mrodgers]

.....Hung up the phone, called Direct TV and ordered a receiver, DVR receiver and dish all for free. I'll now actually get all the programming I pay for.....
And now I am REALLY P***ED OFF!!!!! 3 month old pup woke us up because she needed to go outside and I walk out to the living room to find she chewed up the f'ing remote to the new system. AAAARRRGGGGG!!!!!!

Sorry, the wife is in bed still so I can't scream that out loud right now. I'm so ticked off I can't get back to sleep!

[Tweaker]

Poor puppy, I am sure any young dog could've mistaken a remote for a toy :o At least it isn't as bad as it pooping and making a mess everywhere inside the house right? (I hated that when house training my dogs)

You can get a replacement at least right? (The remote, not the puppy :p)

[Stellios]

Battlefield 2

A new keyboard

Nothind exciting.

[Vain]

A FFB-joystick. FFB-Shifter, here I come!!!

Vain

[huxorator]

Bought myself a snowboard + accessories for christmas. A good driver needs good physical fitness! ;)

[marsden1002]

I bought myself a set of Logitech z5500 5.1 speakers (505 watt)

They are quite impressive, but need software for the Audigy 2 ZS, as i dont want to pay £8 from Creative, and cant get the best out of these speakers

ANyone know where i can get a copy??

Cheers

[Bob Smith]

The software didn't ship with the card? And how will it improve the sound of the speakers, surely that's totally down to the chipset?

Anyway, my prezzie was the one in the middle (see attached image):