Christmas Haul 2015 (70+ gifts)

[WWEJedi]

Wow, that is incredible King. It deserves your own thread. You make a lot of kids happy on Christmas. Incredibly gracious.

 

[KingGrayskull]

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That's fantastic. Really kind of you KingGrayskull.

Thanks! It has turned out to be one of my favorite actions in my freetime over the year. Some of us (on this board most likely all of us) were very lucky in life. I dont consider myself "rich" in terms of money by any means. But I have a save home and work and a healthy family I can take care of. Thats why I consider myself a true lucky person. The idea "to give something back" has started about 5 or 6 years ago and grew from there. Guess it went a little out of proportion, but you dont want to have less packages than the year before because it would mean a child that got one last year would lose out this year. So the project grew over the years a little faster than expected. That however can indeed be very tuff: I came in short this year with 40 packages in comparison to last year which did really hurt me. Looks like I have reached the peak.

Wow, that is incredible King. It deserves your own thread. You make a lot of kids happy on Christmas. Incredibly gracious.

Thanks my friend. Didnt want to hijack your thread. Its usually nothing I talk about. Its just a hobby.

Also thanks for the reps guys. However it wasnt really my intention to show off. I just felt like showing how I celebrate Christmas and add something to the conversation.

 

[WWEJedi]

Thanks! It has turned out to be one of my favorite actions in my freetime over the year. Some of us (on this board most likely all of us) were very lucky in life. I dont consider myself "rich" in terms of money by any means. But I have a save home and work and a healthy family I can take care of. Thats why I consider myself a true lucky person. The idea "to give something back" has started about 5 or 6 years ago and grew from there. Guess it went a little out of proportion, but you dont want to have less packages than the year before because it would mean a child that got one last year would lose out this year. So the project grew over the years a little faster than expected. That however can indeed be very tuff: I came in short this year with 40 packages in comparison to last year which did really hurt me. Looks like I have reached the peak.



Thanks my friend. Didnt want to hijack your thread. Its usually nothing I talk about. Its just a hobby.

Also thanks for the reps guys. However it wasnt really my intention to show off. I just felt like showing how I celebrate Christmas and add something to the conversation.

You deserve to hijack my thread Really awesome man. You deserve the praise for making hundreds of kids Christmas.

 

[potato]

No gifts as every year. I am a gifted man as I can buy the stuff I want myself (at least as long as the money lasts ). A few years back I have started collecting gifts for children that have been forgotten by Santa. As every year this is my most satisfying gift. This year I was able to present a gift to almost 900 children.

Here you can see them all packed up ready for delivery. Ho ho ho!!!

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must have took alot of time to pack 900 gift boxes. or did you get the cashier to do it for you? what are the stuffs inside?

 

[jkno]

Really cool KingGrayskull!!

 

[Jokes & Bats]

This might be the most Western world thread ever.

 

[KingGrayskull]

You deserve to hijack my thread Really awesome man. You deserve the praise for making hundreds of kids Christmas.

Thank you for being so kind.

must have took alot of time to pack 900 gift boxes. or did you get the cashier to do it for you? what are the stuffs inside?

Not all have been packed by me. I try to focus on presenting my project to schools, kindergarten amd companies. The packages are usually packed by children for other children. Companies usually provide me with boxes, chocolate, toys, pens, even toothbrushes and soap and all the other stuff that is needed. You can calculate with half a day per week from January to August. From September until the first week of December it is 2-3 days per week depending on my schedule. Plus hunting toys on Sundays at the occasional flear markets.
You can calculate with a value from 5 to 20 per package (depends on age, luck and availablility). If the toy is cool (Lego for example) you will most likely have not that many other things such as sweeties. If the toy has less value I am trying to pimp the package a little bit. Also I do always have some extra toys with me. There is always a little brother/ sister or just a defect toy.
Guess this is were it all comes back together: TOYS. If I werent a collector myself I wouldnt be that much into this project.
Also I have tons (really!) of handmade clothes from an old woman in order to provide warm clothes for children were needed. She is knitting the whole year for me, every evening. Sadly her husband just died a few days before Christmas... This year I just went to my stock and added a pair of warm handmade socks to every package that you see in the pics above, yet I really dont see anything missing in my stock.

Really cool KingGrayskull!!

Thanks man!

Anyway guys! Lets get back to toys because this is what this Western thread is made for. I just scored a MK 7 Stealth as an ACG for myself!

 

[Jameson Rook]

I got a can of air freshener, a 3-pin plug, a $3 Terminator t-shirt and a caterpillar.

 

[GeneralZodLives]

I got a can of air freshener, a 3-pin plug, a $3 Terminator t-shirt and a caterpillar.

 

[T-?]

Here's my haul! From XMAS & Boxing Day sales, using my gifts cards and such

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

This might be the most Western world thread ever.

First World yo

 

[KitFisto]

To each his own, but I've never understood spending THOUSANDS of dollars on a holiday.

 

[hoodonit00]

To each his own, but I've never understood spending THOUSANDS of dollars on a holiday.

Agreed. Wife and I have 4 girls and we spent about 150 each.

 

[Lejuan]

To each his own, but I've never understood spending THOUSANDS of dollars on a holiday.

It's not people spending that kind of money I roll my eyes at, but people who can't afford to but do so anyway out of some sense of obligation or competition with others.

This year I only got five small gifts total but had one of the best Christmases ever. It was an 'even' year, which means:

- no interstate travel to my in-laws, so we can decorate a real tree together and do an advent calendar.
- my Latvian mother cooks pirags (Latvian pastries filled with bacon and onion)
- my Chinese mother cooks Peking Duck.
- in lieu of gifts for our kids, we asked family to contribute to the cost of an overpriced kitten. So we don't have a whole heap of well-intentioned but ultimately inappropriate stuff.
- we got our girls a bunch of stuff they really appreciated and will use/wear throughout the year.

My sister got me my only nerd gift, a set of melamine plates:

 

[WWEJedi]

Here's my haul! From XMAS & Boxing Day sales, using my gifts cards and such


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Nice haul I like that Lego Wall-E, never seen it before. The batman animated figs are great to. Man-Bat is like a foot long

To each his own, but I've never understood spending THOUSANDS of dollars on a holiday.

Christmas means different things for each family. We make sugar cookies a week before Christmas and decorate multiple Christmas trees for each room. Then buy gifts. I never understood not buying any gifts or doing the bare minimum for Christmas. Just different ideas and thoughts for each though.

Nice plates Lejuan, those are pretty cool. Have you read the Shakespearian Star Wars? Although different eras, you might like those books if you enjoy a historic twist on Star Wars.

 

[Lejuan]

I haven't read Shakespeare's Star Wars. I'm not a massive SW fan, but I might seek that out, it sounds interesting - pretty sure I glanced at a copy in my local CS a while back

 

[cmiller99]

Sir Yodington

 

[Vitus]

We usually focus on the kids lately but the wife knows I like MillaJ and got me this. If only her pic was on the card.

 

[lttgtimaatisgdaicfi]

Feel free to post yours as well. I like seeing what everyone got.

Here is mine.

17 Funkos
10 Hot Toys
2 Premium Format Statues (Captain America didn't arrive in time)
2 Transformers
9 Batman Animated Figures
11 Marvel Legends
4 Arrow Figures
4 Arkham Knight Figures
2 Black Series Figures
3 Graphic Novels
4 3.75 Star Wars Two Packs
8 Miscellaneous Items

Just curious how old you are?

I received this wood plaque:

 

[WWEJedi]

Just curious how old you are?

...20