Tube socks.
Gifts?
Nothing yet, of course. Christmas is next week!
Though we're having Secret Santa later today at the office.
I interpret the OP's question to mean gifts given or received EVER, in the past, not just this holiday season. Once again, I feel compelled to tell this story on these boards...
In 2000, I took a glance at D&D 3rd Edition, and said "It's too complicated for me." Later that year, I took my fiancée to a Wizards of the Coast retail store (remember those?) to show her some D&D stuff, because I intended, once we were married, to play it with her at least once. The lady working at the store gave us a sales pitch for 3rd Edition. After we left the store, I told my fiancée "I have no intention of trying 3rd Edition. It's too complicated, and I have plenty of 2nd Edition material to use."
I thought that was the final word on the matter. After all, she didn't seem to care about RPGs at all, so what should she care about edition? Imagine my surprise when she got me a 3rd Edition Player's Manual... for a wedding present! I mean, we're Orthodox Jews, and I was expecting to get Judaic-related stuff (and in fact, she got me Chanukah-related stuff too, as that holiday was coming soon.) But a D&D manual?!? I guess that lady's sales pitch must have worked on my wife after all.
So that was the only reason I gave 3rd Edition a chance at all. After trying D&D for a couple of sessions, my wife quit RPGs altogether, complaining that she didn't "get it." I found 3rd Edition too complicated myself, and would have given it up, but then my old friend said that HE wanted to try 3rd Edition, so we began a campaign that was to last for over 3 years. After the first few months of that campaign, I had to admit that once you get past the learning curve, 3rd Edition is addictive. In fact, I came to think of 3rd Edition as THE D&D. I could never go back to 2nd Edition again.
I continued to use that 3rd Edition Player's Manual for over 8 years. Even when I got the complete 3.5 core rulebooks, and learned 3.5, my friend wanted to stick with 3.0. Only when Pathfinder RPG came out did I switch to that... and even then, I sometimes dabbled with 3.0, or referred to it, using that same old 3.0 Player's Manual my wife had bought me over 10 years before. That gift just kept on giving.
As for ME giving gifts, when I visited my wife's cousin in 2001, I had heard that he was getting into D&D, so I got him a 3.0 Player's Manual and a set of dice.
And I once got an old D&D Basic rulebook and set of dice for another relative's birthday. (This was before the Pathfinder Beginner Box came out.)
I got a lot of Steam games this year.
My 72 year old aunt gave unto me and Missus Turin a 4 day stay at her Outer Banks, NC beach house for Christmas. Much bonding with relatives, long conversations into the wee hours of the morning and playing fetch with her 10 year old dog was had.
I didn't want to leave. *sniffs*
Oh, boy. The guy who gave me the amethyst dice broke up with me yesterday. :(
Keep the dice! Don't give them back!
*hug*
+1 on the hugs and the keeping of the dice.
Oh, boy. The guy who gave me the amethyst dice broke up with me yesterday. :(
Look at it this way: someone who doesn't want to be with you doesn't deserve you. Good riddance. Only truly, horribly sad thing is he had good taste in gifts. You still have the dice, though...
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Any guy who finds himself with a genuine Gamer Grrl gf and DUMPS her has got to be a >Censored< idiot. Those type of women are too rare to be ignored!