Your Holiday Haul!

k · **Posted:** Mon Dec 31, 2012 2:12 pm

Husky toolchest and workbench
Dremel 4000
30 or so boxes of Grapeheads (my addiction since giving up cigarettes earlier this year)
A few shirts and ties and sweaters for work
Hicksville (on of my favorite books of all time that I lost my copy of probably 6 or 7 years ago and wife remembered me mentioning it at some point...very impressed with this one)

wenchlette · **Posted:** Mon Dec 31, 2012 4:39 pm

Finch Platte Wrote:

wenchlette Wrote:

A bigger bonus from work than in the past

Ditto, what an effing surprise that was! :banana:

Right toward a downpayment to the car I thought I was going to get this year. I think.

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:48 pm

Rick Derris Wrote:

shiv Wrote:

kitchenaid 5 qt mixer and food grinding attachment

Damn son. That's a serious piece. Merry Christmas to you.

I got:

Clothes and gift cards for more clothes
Clark's shoes
Springsteen Bio
Smartwool socks (several pairs)
Regal Cinemas gift cards

Best things I got were total surprises:

Bose Soundlink II bluetooth speaker - Unfortunately I don't keep any music on my phone so the bluetooth feature does me no good but I'm thinking I'll now keep my old Iphone 3 and put music on it to be able to use this. Still, I can plug my Ipod into this. Awesome sound, portable, rechargeable, and has around 4 hours of battery life when charged.

NCAA football. Totally random but I love it. I haven't had a football since I was probably 12 years old. Apparently I had talked about wanting one at a tailgate at some point this year.

yeah we used it once already to make some dough but there was a seal that was kind of iffy so we exchanged it. haven't used it again yet. i almost bought some steak to grind up for burgers the other night but then realized i wanted to read how to do it right so i put that off.

smartwool is awesome.

FT · **Posted:** Tue Jan 01, 2013 1:22 am

PopTodd Wrote:

A gift card toward a new clothes dryer.

my father-in-law delivered and installed a dryer he and his wife bought me and mrs. ft 2.0 for christmas - he even hauled off the old one

Ramenamen · **Posted:** Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:02 pm

Kelty Redwing backpack, which is currently next to me and packed full of shit for my Europe trip
Smartwool socks, lots of em
Smartwool shirt
A deep fryer from my sister
Hiking boots
New cowboy boots
A horse mask

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:23 pm

I feel like I should know what smartwool is because apparently EVERYONE got something smartwool for christmas and yet I've never fucking heard of it.

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:50 pm

I honestly only became aware of them a few years ago and this fall as I plowed through another pair of dress socks for the countless time I realized that I'd been wearing a pair of them for almost 5 years and they still held up.

Just one of those "buy for quality" products. They aren't cheap for socks but last forever and are super comfortable.

Never thought I'd come to the point where I'd be a fan of socks but here we are.

They're mostly marketed to the outdoor sportsman. Hiking, skiing, mountain biking, etc.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:54 pm

[quote="Rick Derris"
They're mostly marketed to the outdoor sportsman. Hiking, skiing, mountain biking, etc.[/quote]

This explains it.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:16 am

Rick Derris Wrote:

Never thought I'd come to the point where I'd be a fan of socks but here we are.

I take my socks pretty seriously, RD. No shame in that game.

e-stone · **Posted:** Wed Jan 02, 2013 2:36 pm

SmartWool ski socks kick ass.

their other socks - i get holes in the heals within a year it seems. the quality seems to have gone down since the small Steamboat company was bought out by Timberland a few years back. (read: their first EP was better when i was the only one who heard of them)

Ramenamen · **Posted:** Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:11 pm

Yeah, basically what everyone said. Now I'm in Europe though and it's a hell of a lot warmer here so far than it was in Colorado.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:54 pm

e-stone Wrote:

SmartWool ski socks kick ass.

their other socks - i get holes in the heals within a year it seems. the quality seems to have gone down since the small Steamboat company was bought out by Timberland a few years back. (read: their first EP was better when i was the only one who heard of them)

We treated ourselves to like 10 pair about a year and a half ago, and half have worn down to almost nothing on the bottom.

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