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how much did you spend for presents this year?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: May 1999
Location: New York City
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how much did you spend for presents this year?
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The rich are cheap. That's how they got rich.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In the South
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: In a world of Infinite Keys
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$70.
I could only budget ~$10 per family member, but everyone seemed to love their gift so far.
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You remind me my wife… why you laugh? She dead. | sasper at gmail dot com
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Join Date: May 2002
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$1150, I just plan on spending my entire christmas bonus every year for gifts.
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: College
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$50
$35 for parents, $15 for sister... I'm broke.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: USA
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$3632.88 -- stayed under my $4000 budget this year.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Portland, OR
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750 or so. I rarely keep track of my spending, but I do try to "even out" the gifts. "Ok, just got Dad a really nice coat, so I'll get Mom 2 sweaters and some gloves..."
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When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Enough to make my friends and family smile.
(Last edited by MindFad; Dec 25, 2005 at 08:09 AM.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2005
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Originally Posted by RAILhead
$3632.88 -- stayed under my $4000 budget this year.
:-) y'know, that means you could still buy a water buffalo and a goat for someone through heifer international and only be $2.88 over budget... ;-)
be well.
laeth
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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and stuff like that for my GF 
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
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$25 ... Canadian.
I'm a dastard . . . a very, very poor dastard.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Neither Here Nor There
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Moderator  Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Night's Plutonian shore...
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Under a grand. I have a big family, but I stuck to the budget this year.
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Nemo me impune lacesset
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Oakland, CA
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Baninated
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Dead whale
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$0.00 - Fire of Zim, that little picture looks awesome!
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
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No idea.
A lot more than I agreed to, that is sure. 
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Working. What about you?
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A lot and I'm embarrassed to admit it, I think.
I bought my husband and son new Tag Heuer watches (at cost from our friend who is a jeweler in the local mall), my little son an iBook (used), my husband a reverse osmosis water filtration system for filtering water for his aquariums, I bought my older son a new notebook/laptop (new not used) but I had a really nice coupon for $200 off and used it, and of course a lot of toys for the two little boys. Books from Amazon for friends. Got some DVDs, etc. Also bought a lot of gift certificates this year.
I have been working very hard this year and I used my earnings to make a nice Christmas after hurricanes and ill health this year. I wanted to make sure everyone has a wonderful Christmas and holiday.
I also bought a new (used) waverunner (jet ski) set (pair) for taking down to the Keys. Our friend bought them a year ago, used them once, and unloaded them for exactly 50% less than what he paid for them last March. Since they're used and everyone knows about them (they are not a secret) I'm not sure if they're considered a Christmas present, though that's what I've called them: A Christmas gift to the family from the family.
So, although I spent a lot of money, I was very careful about what I bought and yes, I also had a budget. I planned everything out in advance.
Now, what I want to know is this: Volks, what did YOU buy? 
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
Location: Hilbert space
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Not so much this year. I have to save a little for my father's 60th birthday (beginning of February) and I start a new job. I expect my first salary at the end of February/March 
The last couple of years, I've spent something like 500 €, give and take a few squids (that's roughly $600, I guess). This year it was only about 100 €.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Westside Island
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Addicted to MacNN  Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Cooperstown '09
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: I don't know anymore!
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$100, which goes into a college fund for my grandson. The rest of my family gets no gifts and they understand what the season is really about.
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Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: detroit,mi,usa
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nothing.
noone got me anything either. i think my mom got me a stocking with some random stuff (her insistance).
i prefer it like that, really.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Brantford, ON. Canada
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About $150 CAD. I just had to buy for my parents and I was on a small budget.
They gave me a wack of stuff + $100 in a card Unfortunatly I have to use that $100 to pay an 'intoxicated in public' fine from the other night. 
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Washington, DC
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~$100. Pretty good for being unemployed.
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Across the river from Trump Chicago
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~$9,000
Most of it was for a cruise though.
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Barack Obama: Four more years of the Carter Presidency
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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I think around $100.00 total. My wife doesn't have a job now so have to be careful.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Calculating...
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Please keep in mind the ambiguously selective general understandings we've all agreed upon...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Dar al-Harb
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Cape Cod, MA
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100 bucks, plus whatever I spend taking my g/f out to dinner tommorrow.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Parker, Colorado
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$600ish on wife for gym memebership and sundries (her idea)
$500ish on myself for a makita compound double bevel sliding miter saw
$21k (after trade in) on a 2006 Honda Ridgeline (Woot! Butt warmers!)
$500 on assorted friends and relatives
and I have no idea how much on my daughter. Probably another several hundred.
Now that I've sat down and done the math, I think it is time to go get roaring drunk!
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Cape Cod, MA
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Originally Posted by Rev-O
$500ish on myself for a makita compound double bevel sliding miter saw
Nice machine 
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Working. What about you?
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Men and their machines. 
Just kidding.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jun 2003
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I didn't keep track, but probably ~ $500 or $600. And this was us trying to keep things on the DL this year. Oh well, I'm super happy about how the gifts turned out and so far everyone loves them
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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I think between my wife and I (gifts for each other) and everything we bought for everytone else, about $3500....
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Who reads this???
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Canada
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I spent about $300 Cdn overall on Christmas presents and such this year.
Noah
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Macbook 2.0 Ghz - Black
iPhone 4GB - Fido
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Great White North
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since im buying my mom a car in Mid Jan for Christmas, I will be somewhere in the 1500 range for this year.
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Brian says (9:16 AM): I was looking at houses in Ottawa... I actually have a temptation in me to move
Jeff ******* says (9:19 AM): Eww, Ottawa is gross. It's infested with politicians, and presently, 1 Harper as well.
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