What is Santa bringing you this year?

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Probably the same as last year here Sweet FA, we stopped doing cards and pressies for each other a few years ago, but we do sometimes see something and just get it, I'm always buying the sort of thing Liz is too tight to buy, she procrastinates like a pro.
 
I've never been a great fan of Christmas, when my girls were little it was nice but now I prefer to just let it pass me by.
 
I used to love Xmas...when my parents were alive with my sister (also dead) and her children.
But it all changed.!
Happy memories but now it is just another day.
We buy what we need want as we wish.
Nida likes gold !
Last year I bought a new mini PC and "Bridge" camera.
This year we are refurbing the house and more !.
Mainly out of normal expenditure
Tiling the toilet almost complete.....all done by us !
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Nothing. We also buy what we need/want throughout the year, rather than indulge in the insane chase around the shops 'for the pressie' and end up with something that is not needed or wanted. We have spent an awful lot this year on Brunhilde for future trips [inverter, induction hob. new chairs. 2 x electric bikes]. and over the last 2 weeks I turned my phone into a brick and broke my ancient laptop, requiring replacements PLUS DVD Writer to transfer ancient software and a 2TB External SSD Drive because new laptop has no traditional Hard Drive and a small'ish internal SSD. Need to let the cretin card cool down before it overheats :rolleyes:

Steve
 
Got a small folding portable bbq here in Thailand for £6.
Having sold our cadac it will allow wood/charcoal cooking outside.
And a camp oven.
Now having got a ridge monkey, that and our camp oven meant we hardly used our cadac.
Yes "Last of the big spenders"
Also got a mains 1 cup cappuccino/espresso coffee machine.. for £20.
Proper steam forced through a filter screwed in thingy with ground coffee
It will froth milk but I am content with a strong.proper espresso.
Also Iced cappuccino at a booth in the city for 50p when we shop.
Lovely loin of pork at £5 a kilo.
I could go on !
 
I'm getting Mrs GMJ a new Kindle and she will get me some CD's to fill in some gaps in my music collection.
 
I have a really good seperates system up in the loft but not used it in almost 20 years, I should sell it but apart from the deck it's all good stuff and I'm loath to sell it, The deck is just a Technics one a mate gave me, I might even have got rid of it already.

I only play CDs in the car and van, mainly coz radio is so shit these days.
 
I have a decent enough set up in my man cave and have been working through my record/CD collection whilst exercising each day. This has shown me the gaps in my music hence getting some for Xmas. I also seem to have lost some records over the years and suspect that my ex wife nicked a few when we got divorced.
 
I only use my Kindle for reading so don't see a need to upgrade it, battery life seems to be okay it wasn't new when I got it about 4-5 years ago, I seem to go through phases of Kindle and real books, I much prefer real books and go on price, I recently started with Audible as I get a free one each month, first one was Brenden o Carrol Autobiography, I'm still reading the hardback biography so I'll have a listen when I've gone through that, I think that'll be his last until he writes again.
 
Her Kindle is one of the early ones with no backlight so she wants one that's lit, which is fair enough. I was relatively late in getting a Kindle...maybe a couple of years ago...and mine is backlit and the better for it. I still read books made out of paper but usually during the day, preferring the Kindle at night.
 
Not sure, I think mine is a paperwhite or some such, it does the job, I have the Kindle app on everything anyway puters phone and tablet so I can have a quick read anytime anywhere if I have a signal.

Actually, I'm not sure if I need a signal, need to look into that.
 
I use my phone to read ebooks. Adjustable Backlighting built in, and ebooks add no space/weight consumption. Buying ebooks via Playstore [gift voucher from the phone purchase] and/or Kobo when needed. Normally works well, but Thursday night took over 90 minutes to get my latest ebook into the Family Library with the 'assistance' of Google Tech Support. Obscure message flashed up, and Tech Support eventually suggested checking my stored payments. Because I have been using the Voucher, my registered Credit Card had expired. Even after updating that, we couldn't get the Ebook into the Library, and ended up having to delete my Google Account ['You will lose all data and subscriptions permanently'!] and then recover it [didn't lose data etc] and play around with various screens to navigate back to Family Library [wouldn't have risked Account Deletion without Google Tech Support that it was the only solution; what a stupid method!] and juggling 5 or 6 screens on a phone was slightly awkward ... But all is now well [or do I mean, 'All is now, well ...]?

'Twas a journey through nymphomania; straight from one cock up to the next ... :rolleyes:

Steve
 
Not paid a penny for a downloaded book yet. Oodles of free ones on Amazon plus some folks I know have sent me memory sticks with books on which I have yet to finish ploughing through.
 
Yeah, EuraJohn gave me my first Kindle, a very basic but perfectly usable one which I passed on to BarryD when I bought this one, he also gave me about 4k books too, which I did look through and still have, but I'm not that into fiction these days, I do read some but I like to leaf through a book and see if it bites, most don't, I'm more into film and video these days, didn't I send you the same books a while ago?
 
GMJ said:
Not paid a penny for a downloaded book yet. Oodles of free ones on Amazon plus some folks I know have sent me memory sticks with books on which I have yet to finish ploughing through.
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Tightwad! :D I tend to buy ebooks in series order and Google does offer 'Shelves' in the Family Library so storing each Author's books in sequence is easy. I probably spend just under £20pm on ebooks that Elaine and I share; neither of us drink [a pack of 15 beers we bought for a July 21 Rally went out of date with 5 unused, and I have whisky and brandy unopened from 1991 and 1983 respectively], and we haven't returned to buying coffee when out because of Covid risks, so the ebooks are cheaper than beer. coffee and cake!

Steve
 
Yeah, and he's not even from that place north of England, doesn't seem to have a liking for the Wooley things either, a very odd bloke altogether and that's coming from me.
 
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