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Treating yourself for Christmas

  • 02-12-2022 10:43pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,292 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    I know everyone hates Christmas and it's too early and whatever but I couldn't resist.

    Might buy a bottle of Rinse Aid for the dishwasher in Lidl next time I'm there.

    Shiny glasses for the whole 12 days of Christmas, shur I won't know myself with the sheer luxury off it.

    Anyone else treating themselves?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Mince pies and a bottle of Redbreast.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭BK5


    Might wash meself.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,983 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    I've a small candy cane on the tree, reserved for the occasion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,209 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭ablelocks


    because it's highly likely i'll get shite presents from my kriskindles, i will pick something up for myself - just not sure what yet.

    bottle of redbreast does sound nice.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,718 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    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?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,718 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    The missus and I have a few nice meals out in December, last night was a certain famous Dublin steak house. We also get some nice wine and spirits to have in the house over Christmas.

    For that reason we don't get a whole lot of 'stuff' for the sake of it. If something is needed during the year we don't wait until Christmas to get it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena


    190 each plus shipping and 304euro customs charge



  • Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    96 cans of stout. Starting to prefer Beamish to Guinness in cans these days, but don’t know if they sell slabs of it up North.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 Barcley


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



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Debating on upgrading one guitar or buying another



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,394 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭phonypony


    Nothing says treating yourself for Christmas better than deciding whether or not to go to Christmas eve mass.

    Yes, I'll be midnight mass-debating.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭phonypony


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    You'll not get a slab of Beamish in a normal off license



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,586 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    A keg of the black stuff



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭cuttingtimber22


    A trip to Amsterdam.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Neames


    Will pick up a smart watch in the January Sales



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,310 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Kerosene.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭Username here


    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...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭Max H


    2 pairs of Muck boots. 1 for me and 1 for my good lady



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭chrissb8


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    A real home cooked turkey dinner. Roast potatoes, parsnips. carrots all roasted..sprouts, stuffing etc . Mince pies and as much chocolate as possible ... mmmmmmm!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 652 ✭✭✭BaywatchHQ


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    Wintertime nectar. Ice cold from the ‘outdoor fridge’, reclining in front of log fire, with some mellow seasonal jazz. Enjoyed without any moderation how-so-ever.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭Archeron


    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.



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  • Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I find cans of Beamish to have a much better head when poured into the glass. The Guinness cans these days seem very “flat”. Taste wise they are fairly similar, but find Beamish just a little bit more “stouty”.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭orourkeda1


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

    https://www.orourkeda.blog



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭nigeldaniel


    A box of Coronas [cigars] I am off the drink for about 10 years now and I will keep it that way. I have also put aside €100 for a pair of jeans. a pair that fit and not those elasticity ones that seem to be everywhere these days.

    Dan.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,454 ✭✭✭NSAman


    New tractor, wrapped from Santa ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Now THAT is style!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,940 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    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 ,



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Just bought myself a nice matching wool hat and scarf. Should come in useful for the cold weather here and upcoming trip to Finland. I’ll save any other purchases until the sales.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Lovely online coverage of Lessons and Carols from Kings College, Cambridge that for me means Christmas is here. By a hearth with fuel unstinted.. Candles galore..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,282 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    It doesn't matter how much you spend on yourself for Christmas once you write "from santa" on it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    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?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Might get a decent air rifle.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭ablelocks


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭mailforkev


    Going away for a couple of weeks over Christmas so treated myself to a nice new cabin suitcase. Simple pleasures.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,718 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,297 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Plus I’ve been browsing on amazon and prices have soared for the Christmas season



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭fits


    ^ pigeons also.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,855 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    I went ahead and bought a very high-end PC for gaming (RTX 4090, i9-13900KF) with a 4k 32" monitor to replace my old PC from 2013 to last me the next decade. :P



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