Holiday Haul 2016 Thread

[Mystic]

As with the last few years, we're just going to make this thread ahead of time to avoid any issues with having like four threads. Post your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/winter solstice holiday gift bragging here. These threads tend to work better with pictures, so I highly encourage you post a photo of your haul as well as a description. Yes, I DID just totally copy-paste this text from last year. It's easier that way =P

 

[Zwip-Zwap Zapony]

Considering my birthday was the 10th December (just 2 weeks before X-mas), I hope it may be okay if I combine birthday gifts with X-mas gifts.

Spoiler

Excuse the poor quality, I took the picture with a phone that's pretty old. I bought the Wii U and PlayStation 4 myself years ago, they weren't gifts.
The 8-bit 30th Anniversary Mario amiibo came with Super Mario Maker, which I got last year as birthday (or X-mas?) gift, and the Sonic amiibo was a random gift during this year for no special occasion.
Those two amiibo are only pictured to show how many and which amiibo I have now.

For my birthday this year, I got the four amiibos on the lower left, being Blue Yarn Yoshi, Dark Pit, Wario, and Luigi. That's way more amiibo than I expected. I only expected one, maybe two at most.
Not pictured are a bottle of nutella, and a gift card for a round of fish 'n' chips.

For X-mas this year, I got Paper Mario: Colour Color Splash, a Princess Peach amiibo, a high-speed 5-meter HDMI (with ethernet) cable, a 20-Euro gift card for Steam, and a wireless mouse with batteries that are said to last 36 months (I wished for a wireless mouse that could be charged through a USB cable, but one that doesn't have to be charged is good enough too).
Yes, I now have 7 amiibo. And also yes, I'm slightly upset "Colour Splash" is spelt without a U despite being the European version.

 

[MellowJacket]

JINGLE JANGLE YOU FOOLS, IT'S CHRISTMAS

Pictured presents

• A new coat
• Cupcake in a mug
• Samurai Champloo boxset
• Tin of Christmas teas
• New desk lamp
• New microphone
• and a pop stopper for said microphone!
• Book about the art of Hayao Miyazaki
• And a pair of DC comic notebooks

Not-pictured glorious Steam presents

• Amnesia: Memories
• Astebreed
• Mega Man Legacy Collection
• Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
• Saints Row IV
• War for the Overworld

Spoiler

 

[fickleheart]

Listing from approx. front to back:

• An Arceus keychain, for my car keys
• Pokemon cards!
• Superman 64. Don't worry; I got him back.
• Chocobo Racing! I never even remembered to ask for it but I've been wanting it for a while
• Various DS games that I kind of just suggested to give my family enough ideas (but I still like them anyway!)
• Mega Mawile card sleeves because all other card sleeves are inferior
• The Alola Collection. Did you know the Litten isn't even a promo? Get rekt, shit cat.
• A little arcade ball-shooting toy, since I seem to get one of those every year from someone.

I also got a jacket and a suitcase that I forgot to take pictures of

And although they weren't a gift to me, I bought some stickers that arrived in the mail today too

 

[Steelie]

I got a coffee mug and a lottery ticket.

 

[Lliteqiel ꙮ]

A neat shirt, a neat book, Pokémon Sun, and glowcat.

 

[Mystic]

As the family budget is less this year, no crazy shit this time. Just a few things I wanted but couldn't afford at the time.

• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
• Puyo Puyo 15th Anniversary
• Assorted Manga
• $25 of United States currency.

Puyo Puyo will likely be fun with my group of friends, though. Download play on those games is amazing.

 

[Fres]

Spoiler: Image

I got some games to add to my ever-growing collection of (3)DS games.

Not pictured is a $10 Nintendo Eshop card, an amiibo, and a *New* 3DS currently in shipping.

 

[TripleT]

Yeah I got nothing until a week later when my mom mails me my presents. Also I might buy myself a Christmas present.

 

[Ultimate]

...I got nothing this year.

 

[SANICBOOM644]

My parents said I would get presents if I got all A's on my finals and still I got nothing again this year. I wanted a New Galaxy 3DS but now it seems useless as the Switch is launching in March

 

[Hyperknux]

I didn't really want too much this year because most of what I wished for was money to go towards my South Africa trip in April 2017. I did get a few little things though:

• A Cold - Thanks to my workmates for that. Luckily it hasn't lasted too long, so I was able to get rid of most of it very quickly. Only the 3rd time this year I got proper ill too and 3rd Christmas in a row too.
• Fishing Rod for freshwater coarse fishing.
• Lots of sweet foods; the equivilant of a 1st course meal full of Diabetes.
• Toiletries giftpack which came with a music speaker, which is quite handy actually.
• New rucksack for my South Africa trip, along with a Flora and Fauna field guide to go with it.
• Crazy magnetic putty which stretches, bounces, clings onto magnets, and with multiple magnets; move on it's own.
• £100 towards anything else.

The £100 was a side thing I could do anything I wish with it, so I decided to use some of that on:

• Dawn of the bunny suicides comedy book by Andy Riley - because his warped humor is the reason why I love his books.
• Metal locker bank, which I really needed something secure in order to find somewhere to place my wallet, keys, and money in without stuffing it in my pockets and forgetting; something which I have a bad habit of doing.
• Several booster packs of Pokemon XY Evolutions and Pokemon Generations.
• The rest of it will most likely go towards Ecology surveying equipment for the trip next year.

I'm very happy and quite content with this year and I wasn't expecing half of this either. I just wanted to see my friends and family mainly. Now it's time to wait till the 31st where I can get slaughtered on my favourite drink mix, Fat Frog. Hope everyone's having a good Christmas/Hanukkah/Holiday too.

 

[clairebun]

I'd post a picture of what I got, but I already ate most of it.

 

[ManimiFire]

My family and I are celebrating this week Hanukkah... That means, no school this week!

 

[Lat']

This year, I got a New3DS XL from my parents (although I just asked for a normal New3DS to play Pokemon Moon without framedrops, lol), some money from my grandparents, and a nice scarf with a pair of gloves from my aunt, and some chocolate as well <3

Spoiler: ...I also happen to have stumbled accross a shiny Latias in Omega Ruby on Christmas day.

...Adamant nature though

 

[Tokyo]

I got a Skillet...

 

[Jellybones]

Not much. The reality of being a working almost-adult has set in:

A $25 Visa gift card This was great, bought FFXV's season pass.
A $20 Starbucks card. Wasn't too excited at first but it was really useful for a week of buying lunch at work or otherwise.
A $10 Amazon gift card. Haven't used yet.

And shirts and candy basically. I mean, I never buy shirts with my own money so it's nice.

 

[Steelie]

Well aside from the Star Wars mug and a lottery ticket, I used the powers of a teenager with parents and got this:

Took me good 4 hours, one cup of hot chocolate and 10 hurting fingers to build, but it was very satisfying.

(cat for scale)

 

[TripleT]

I never did get anything for Christmas. Oh well I am sure most people not get anything unless they bought themself something which I need to do actually.

 

[Boo]

I never did get anything for Christmas. Oh well I am sure most people not get anything unless they bought themself something which I need to do actually.

Even me, i Don't get anything for Christmas also, i just buy, so your not alone buddy.