HACKER Q&A
📣 gravy

What do you want for Christmas?


What do you want for Christmas?


  👤 Red_Leaves_Flyy Accepted Answer ✓
An affordable home to raise 2-3 kids in with space to enjoy the outdoors that isn’t an hour or more from my job.

A job that pays well, has good benefits and health insurance, that doesn’t make me work nights, early mornings, holidays, snow days, or weekends, so I can have that priceless time with my family.

Normal desires that are increasingly becoming the privilege of the landed elite.


👤 AnIdiotOnTheNet
Wanting to be given things for Christmas is a little silly when you're an adult, I think. I anticipate my parents will buy me the clothing I never bother to buy for myself because I just couldn't care less about clothes.

I'm pretty weird about gifts though I guess. I feel like the concept of giving gifts on certain days is largely a product of cultural manipulation by the wider corporate sphere, so I just don't ever feel obligated, and make it clear to others that they not feel obligated, to give gifts on Christmas or birthdays. I buy gifts for people when they need something and won't or can't buy it themselves regardless of the time of year. Or sometimes just if I know they'll like it. I'm privileged enough to have more money than I need, so I don't really need or expect others to buy me anything.


👤 h2odragon
One of the benefits of being old is you get to indulge yourself and buy your presents early, so I got an N scale train set. Now I'm figuring how to fit a layout table into my room somehow and planning an arduino based control panel for 2 or 3 simultaneous running lines.

The cats find it far more entertaining than Factorio.


👤 ggfgg
Mac Mini Pro and 27” 5k standalone VESA mount Apple monitor.

I literally have a stack of cash here waiting for that to exist.


👤 replete
Purpose

👤 t-3
Nothing. I have way too much stuff and don't need more!

👤 musicale
Truly enjoyable recreation and downtime.

👤 zyemuzu
Less stuff and more sleep.