Treating yourself for Christmas

Mince pies and a bottle of Redbreast.

Yup, I got myself 4 new jerseys that cost me around 1000 euros in total

Not that kind of jerseys

Went fragrance shopping and picked myself up a couple of my fave aftershaves.. one quite an expensive one, but I’d not had this one in about 3 or 4 years so said why not, you be a long time dead.

I can't think of what other kind of jerseys might cost any sane man a grand for 4.

Are you certain you didn't buy cattle?

190 each plus shipping and 304euro customs charge

A bottle of Cristal... and see what all the fuss is about.

I might treat myself this Christmas to the Sure deodorant for €2.59 instead of the Active Aldi brand for 89 cent.

Nicer and more consistent than Guinness in a can. Do you find the occasional can has no gas in the widget??

A keg of the black stuff

Will pick up a smart watch in the January Sales

Something I've been meaning to do for years is to sort out surround sound at home - 10% off a network AVR and 5.1 speakers was too much to ignore on Black Friday 🙂

Looking forward to delivery now...

A big bag of green and an acceptance I will put on a couple of pounds and not care.

The past 2 years I bought myself stuff from Amazon and opened it on Christmas day. A few blu rays and also headphones, the reason I did this was to try and recreate at least a small bit of the feelings of a childhood Christmas. I think my brain is too ravaged by years of depression to enjoy something like Christmas.

Last year was disappointing as I thought I had ordered the collectors edition of the movie Cujo with a slipcover and collectors booklet but it turned out i had ordered the plastic case edition.

A box of those Lindt petit dessert chocolates, the big box. I'd say each of those is just gout ball waiting to happen but they are bloody nice.

I'll have my traditional early christmas morning celebration roll in the hay with her.

New tractor, wrapped from Santa ?

A nice expensive bottle of whiskey yet to be decided & a few nights out for food with herself,

Christmas day is about the kids & eating ,

I had a good few Guinness out recently. I should point out it's not my regular drink and felt bad the day after. Didn't help when a fella reminded me of the old story about 'Guinness rats" I presume it's an old wives tale?

exactly the justification i needed - a new secondhand camera lens from Santa for me then

Yes it is, funnily enough.

I'm not saying their aren't rats in St James' Gate somewhere, but the brewing process is managed to the very highest levels of sterility.

^ pigeons also.

I don't get it

I laughed. That's a dad joke that's not suitable for work. It might offend someone whose continuously "really excited" about something and has to tell the world on LinkedIn daily.