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12-25-2007, 06:36 PM
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| U.B's LoveChild   Joined: Oct 2006
Bike: 2007 Suzuki Boulevard S50, 2007 Suzuki Bandit 1250S
Location: Eugene, OR
Posts: 1,177
|  Christmas gifts? We're big on gifts - we like to spoil our family and surprise them - we got new Dell laptops for my mother-in-law and brother-in-law and a new PC for my father-in-law. They were all pretty stoked. I got my wife a violin - I've known she's wanted to learn for a while - but she had no idea - she was so happy that she cried!! I did good! I got a Husqvarna chain saw and an Oregon Scientific helmet camera. All in all a great day. Merry Christmas everyone!
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12-25-2007, 08:02 PM
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| M-J.Com Master Poster   Joined: Jan 2006
Bike: M50
Location: 1060 West Addison, Chicago
Posts: 3,759
 | Chainsaw? Hell Yeah, Good score Mr. T  Born into a family of musians and im tone deaf. Good luck to your wife. I have my grand fathers fiddle I should have it refurbished one of these days.
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12-25-2007, 08:17 PM
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| Refrigerator Magnet Test Engineer  Joined: May 2005
Bike: Boulevard C50
Location: Afghanistan
Posts: 3,506
 | I got an all expense paid trip to Afghanistan!  Seriously, wife took me for a weekend for two at Ceasar's Pocono Resorts. That was really nice and relaxing. Swimming pool in the room as well as a jacuzzi tub. Spoiled myself with a Playstation PSP for the trip overseas. And my step-mother got me a great necklace. A medal of St. Michael with the Army National Guard Symbol on the back. Simple, but it was well thought out and it means a lot to me.
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12-25-2007, 08:40 PM
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| M-J.Com Lifetime Achievement Award   Joined: Jan 2007
Bike: 1980 Yamaha XS850
Location: Washington County, WI
Posts: 6,062
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Me, I own a Stihl MS 290. After you own a saw for awhile, you will learn a few things, but that's for later. As for you Master Sergeant, come back safe. God Bless.
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12-25-2007, 09:06 PM
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| What makes you say that?   Joined: Dec 2003
Bike: 2002 Bandit 1200 S
Location: St. Cloud, MN, USA
Posts: 888
| Our family no longer turns the event into a spending competition. Even as a secular holiday it's gotten a little ridiculous.
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12-26-2007, 12:41 AM
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| Bridal Boutique Manager   Joined: Oct 2005
Bike: 2005 HAMMER
Location: SOCAL %%%%%ES
Posts: 2,957
| I got a really cool 7.1 olympus Digital camera from Rae. plus some really cool shirts. Rae got hooked up with some serious kitchen stuff. I had it all setup for our big Christmas day dinner ...and she gets food poisioning the night before. She is better today. I managed to pull off the cooking with My first and proabaly the best prime rib I have ever had. Then today we cooked the 31.lb bird. Cajun seasoning....we just sat around and relaxed after all that.
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12-26-2007, 03:29 AM
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| Muscle Biker   Joined: Jul 2004
Bike: Blue Suzuki GSX 1400 (2003)
Location: Canton Basel-Land, Switzerland (47.4493, 7.76536)
Posts: 11,946
| We decided to scale back this year. I received some nice books (Leonardo Da Vinci's inventions, and the history of Harley Davidson motorcycles). I gave my girlfriend some perfume that she likes, and a Guess watch.
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12-26-2007, 05:07 AM
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| In The Zone  Joined: Jul 2007
Bike: 07' C90T 76' MT250
Location: 3rd house NW of the Depot
Posts: 2,572
| We scaled back a bit since we have $3K in med bills to pay in Jan. OCC sweatshirts and shirt, flash drives, new cooking pans and a couple of gift certs and oh yeah I bought a new camera for the wife and myself.
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12-26-2007, 05:39 AM
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| M-J.Com Master Poster Joined: Jul 2007
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| Yeah, this year we tried to keep it simple but it still turned out "ok". I got my mom a nice convection oven from Wal Mart and when she opened it we discovered it was missing a few trays and the manual.. so guess who is getting to take that back to Wal Mart today?? And, guess who can not find the receipt? They should exchange it in any case... but beyond that little deal it was a good Christmas. I got a really nice long stem pipe that I have been wanting so now to turn my hair white and grow a beard I will look just like Gandalf... saweeet!! If the chicks didn't dig me before they are SURE to ignore me even more now.. woot!! |
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12-26-2007, 07:51 AM
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| It's A Conspiracy   Joined: May 2005
Bike: '06 XB12X
Location: 30 41'47.99" N 83 11'26.54" W Hold My Beer
Posts: 9,795
| Wife got me a new riding jacket. Marinated in cigarette smoke.  I opened the box and whew!! I wore it this morning hoping the wind would air it out. I smell like I'm smoking again.
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12-26-2007, 07:53 AM
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| It's A Conspiracy Joined: May 2005
Bike: '06 XB12X
Location: 30 41'47.99" N 83 11'26.54" W Hold My Beer
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Which reminds me. Someone gave us one of those. I suppose I should go through it and make sure it's all there and it works!
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12-26-2007, 08:46 AM
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| U.B's LoveChild  Joined: Jul 2007
Bike: 2007 Black S50
Location: SE Wisconsin
Posts: 1,007
| This year being the "year of the motorcycle" at my house, I had asked for more motorcycle stuff. I got a compass, saddlebag brackets, and saddlebags (Boulevard branded) from my wife. Really cool. The funny thing is my wife not being mechanically inclined to the point of being clueless wrapped the compass with the saddle bag brackets thinking those two big chunks of steel were needed to mount the compass. At first I was a little confused but when my son and I figured out what she did laughed way more than we should have, but couldn't help ourselves, it was funny. She was ticked that she had ruined the the saddlebag surprise. It was a good Christmas. In fact 2007 has been a good year and we are grateful at our house.
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12-26-2007, 08:57 AM
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| Refrigerator Magnet Test Engineer  Joined: Oct 2006
Bike: Kawasaki Zephyr750RS, Suzuki GSX-R600, Ducati 999S
Location: Crappy Little Island!!!
Posts: 3,650
| We're not too big on gifts too but I got the latest iPod. It's so much smaller than the one I had with so much more memory!!! Yippee!! Scott, you have to back to get that oven exchanged? That sucks, especially with things you bought as a gift. Maybe they packed it in a rush to deliver them in time for the Christmas shopping. I hope you don't have to go through a lot of hassle.
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12-26-2007, 09:13 AM
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| M-J.Com Master Poster Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 3,922
| Well Wal Mart is a good sport I guess.. They did not ask for the reciept and instead just gave me a 60 dollar gift card. So I told mom I can either go get another oven or she can have the gift card to do whatever she wants with it. She chose the gift card.. so what did I learn from all this?? Next year everyone is getting gift cards .. lol.. Christmas turned plastic..yeaaahhhh
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12-26-2007, 09:35 AM
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| Refrigerator Magnet Test Engineer Joined: Oct 2006
Bike: Kawasaki Zephyr750RS, Suzuki GSX-R600, Ducati 999S
Location: Crappy Little Island!!!
Posts: 3,650
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 Gift cards are big here too not only as gifts but people send those as a token of appreciation, for example. So next year, Christmas shopping will be easy!!!
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12-26-2007, 09:47 AM
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| Third gear and cruising   Joined: Jun 2007
Bike: 94 Yamaha YZ 250, 2000 Suzuki Bandit 600s
Location: Fort Collins, Co
Posts: 467
 | Since I'm travelling this Christmas I got a lot of gift cards. But my parents also got me a Dremel accessory kit, and my girlfriends parents got me a digital picture frame. My biggest gift though was my girlfriend saying 'yes' to the big question |
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12-26-2007, 10:03 AM
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| Top Gear ! Full Throttle!  Joined: May 2007
Bike: 2004 kawasaki zzr 600
Location: rochester, minnesota
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12-26-2007, 11:20 AM
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| U.B's LoveChild Joined: Oct 2006
Bike: 2007 Suzuki Boulevard S50, 2007 Suzuki Bandit 1250S
Location: Eugene, OR
Posts: 1,177
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 My first chain saw so I'll be taking it easy but I have about 7 acres of forest to manage (on our 10 acre lot we're going to be building on)
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