£200 to spend for Christmas. What to get?

edwardcasbon1 · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:19

Hi everyone,

My girlfriend has given me £200 for Christmas to get some presents for myself.

I can't think of anything I want that wouldn't mean me adding cash myself. Would like surround sound setup but would mean me adding about £400. Have also thought about getting one of those HP microservers but can't help thinking there must be something better to spend the money on.

So, my question to you all is... what would you buy yourselves for Christmas if you had been given £200 to spend?

Many thanks for ideas.

Edward

ColdAsIce · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:23

What a complete cop-out from your girlfriend. She should be the one out there finding nice gifts for you and putting more effort into it :/

Pav89 · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:26

nom nom nom. It's calling you!

You can't beat it, £112, with £88 to spend on beer money / more hard drives/more RAM for the server

Azza · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:31

Firstly, your girlfriend should know what to get you!

Secondly, get a watch.

fiveub · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:40

If you put £50 towards it, you could get this!

Pav89 · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:44

5UB said:
If you put £50 towards it, you could get this!

So OP would have to:

Buy voucher
Wait for email
Buy what he wants to buy
Oops...has money left over from the voucher

OR:

OP Buys what he wants to buy
Exact money comes out of his bank account.

Which one makes more sense?

Macky · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:49

The voucher obviously. :rolleyes:

Voltar · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:53

You could: buy a bottle or two of wine.

Or: go to a nice restaurant.

Or buy some clothes.

MookJong · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:53

That would suck, Christmas is all about surprises.

If you don't know what you want then I would just keep it and put it towards an iPad2 when it comes out in April

J1234 · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:53

Voltar said:
You could: buy a bottle or two of wine.

This.

alex_tank · 22 Dec 2010 at 20:58

LOTTERY TICKETS.

TheCenturion · 22 Dec 2010 at 21:01

Buy a weapon to strike your GF with for not getting you a better present?

fini · 22 Dec 2010 at 21:07

Use the money to take a hotter, far more creative and far less lazy girl on a couple of dates.

Also, dump your existing girlfriend for being rubbish.

petemyster · 22 Dec 2010 at 21:11

I would love to see your gf's reaction if you were the one handing her £200 as a christmas present.

Efour · 22 Dec 2010 at 21:12

Spend it on the GF or you will get in trouble anyway.

Randomface74 · 22 Dec 2010 at 21:13

If I was given 200 quid and told to spend it - I'm pretty much waiting to buy a car - so I'd go buy it and say "thx made all the difference.."

Clum · 22 Dec 2010 at 21:16

Paintball gun. Then shoot the woman for being such a rubbish cop out.

Raikiri · 22 Dec 2010 at 21:27

Pav89 said:
nom nom nom. It's calling you! You can't beat it, £112, with £88 to spend on beer money / more hard drives/more RAM for the server

Somewhat off topic but how is that as a media server and has anyone got OSX running on it?

Cheers

Pav89 · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:11

Raikiri said:
Somewhat off topic but how is that as a media server and has anyone got OSX running on it?

Cheers

Not using it as a media server ATM but should be absolutely fine! I'm really surprised how quick it is! Some people on that Hot Deal site

are running Amahi on it, so I doubt there's a problem with using it as one! Not seen anyone attempt to put OSX on it. Will be kinda difficult since it has an AMD processor.

Semiskimmed · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:33

blow up doll tbh, just to see her face!