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It's my Birthday
It is my Birthday today, 02/11/2006.
I have received my best birthday gift ever.
My Beautiful wife, Christine, bought me a boat.
Carribean Sandpiper half cabin, 15' 6", Canopy, 1996 40hp merc (370 hours), fish finder, stereo, radio, Nav lights, all white, on a trailer and all licensed.
I am stunned and just a little excited. I may get it by the weekend or early next week at the latest.
Chris had a devious plan. Over the last 3 or 4 months I have repaired, reformatted or installed software on computers for her friends at work, and their friends, at no charge other than some parts(with only slight cursing on my part). Unbeknown to me all had got quotes from shops and then paid Chris half of their quote price which she used as a deposit. Chris financed the remainder and has to pay the princely sum of $12.00 per week for 24 months or $1248 including interest. She will not tell me how much it was but similar boats in the same yard are around $4500.
Apart from hand made gifts from my Daughter I have never received a better present.
So what is your best or most memorable gift? Monetary value is irrelevant.
Never
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3Y3 K4N 5P33K 1337.
hmmm good question, most gifts i get are more practical then sedimental.
god a 48CD wallet once, didnt know how it would go as it was only a fellows one, but 4 years later and i still have it, didnt think it would last so well!
and for my 21st ( late nov ) i have only two things on my list, to have an awesome pissup with mates ( im driving 1700km's to catch up with them! ) and a couple of full sized weather sheilds for my car its something i've always wanted but never got around to getting. that and tint.
if i wanted to get fancy i wouldnt mind getting parts for a new computer, its not something i really need but its a little hard to get upgrades for mine so making a new box would be the way to go.
i remember getting a bike for my birthday once, basic huffy BMX bike, had two major mods, upgraded grank from a mongoose for better top end and road tires, useless in sand but awesome for the footpath. oh and a digital speedo ^_^ was happy about clocking 40km/hr on it
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Sounds like your onto a winner there mate. When i turned 15 or 16 my parents bought me a boat (12ft V-nose punt) for my birthday. 2 or 3 of my mates had punts too, so almost every weekend we would be out using them. At the mouth of the major river where i grew up there's a 'village' of beach huts which is only accessable by boat (there was power though). A mate's parents owned one, so we were there all the time. plenty of fishing and alot of mischief (hardly anyone else there, so we could do whatever we wanted).Originally Posted by Pretender
That was by far the best birthday present i ever got. That boat probably got more use than my car does now
PS. Happy Birthday and enjoy your boat!
Happy Birthday man!
One of my best gifts was from my whore of an ex-gf (ok thats mean but its true), she took me away for a trip to Mansfield (next to Mt
Buller) in April this year, and it unseasonably snowed (hadn't been to the snow since I was 5 years old), will never forget that
3Y3 K4N 5P33K 1337.
Single_girl, yes a CD wallet, i am a big computer geek so getting a good cd wallet is perfect for me, holds all my disks easy to carry or go lanning with etc etc.
my family was never.... well off... so as i said, gifts were more practical then sedimental
heck i got a 5kg tin of coffe for my mum once for her birthday because she was out for a couple of days, it was exactly what she needed lol
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dw patriot, I've got a precious CD wallet as well, used for the XBOX backups.. don't know what I'd do without it!
*takes a moment to reflect on how cd wallets have changed our world*
3Y3 K4N 5P33K 1337.
heh yeah its either in the wallet or in three different spindles i have, the wallet has all my legit games, plus a few side items ( driver CD's etc etc )
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Happy Birthday mate, hope you enjoyed itand remember, fishying a boat is alot similar to a car hehehe just turn and turn
best present i have ever got was my new ute for my 18th 2 sundays ago :P pitty i cant drive till december...i think ill just go admire it now
The Original GoogieMan
happy b'day what a great gift!
luxo barge
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went there last year with my mrs. stayed at a place... um called something similar to the Altzburg.... not completely sure. didnt snow but agreed its bloody awesome.
M&M =D
Happy birthday for, now yesterday!!!
Sweeeet b'day present! Just think, next year you'll be getting something even better! thats how it works isnt it? hahaha
My best would have to be my car, but that was kinda birthday/christmas... And its ended up costing me a stack myself... but oh well...
Happy boating!!
But wait... There's more!!
But that's not all!!!
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Brain function fading .
Thanks for the birthday wishes. It has been a great day.
Our family was very poor when I was growing up and every gift was memorable.
My Dad used to pick up bike parts from the tip and we would build our own bikes or each other bikes, in secret, for birthdays etc. Kids at school were actually jealous because we would reconfigure ours bikes about three times a week whilst they were stuck with just the one new bike. We had bikes with racing bike seats and motorbike handle bars long before BMX was even dreamt off. Maybe someone watched us doing jumps and breaking forks.
So as a kid I did receive many memorable gifts that cost nothing and though the boat cost far from nothing the work that went into getting it was amazing. Chris worked on Sundays, cleaning boats, at the boat yard to pay off half of the boat. I was not aware as I was taking either my Daughter or Stepson to their respective sports. My computer repairs took $800 off the price. The owner of the yard took $1000 off the original price, pretended to give Chris a tradein of $1500 for the old motor and fitted the newer motor for $1000 ($2700 list price). In reality it means he took $1500 off and gave us a better motor.
He said Chris worked so hard but wasn't going to make up the shortfall by today (even though he kept increasing her pay) and he thought she deserved to make it so he arranged the finance for the final $1000 as we were getting the boat at cost price and he couldn't reduce it any more.
I'll be making the payments on that and being extra special and doting on Chris for the next fifty years.
As it stands the boat will cost us $1248 (over 2 years) out of our pocket and 15 x 3 hour shifts of Chris's labour. Even at $20 an hour would only be $900.
Plus the $800 from the computer work = $2948
The original sale price was $4900 with the old motor (81 50hp) + $2700 for the new motor minus $1500 tradein for the old = $6100
$50.00 paid for each answer to a post of mine.
Please note cheques will not be honoured
luxo barge
sounds like you've got a great woman there mate, keep an eye on her.
that sounds very similar to my other half and my christmas present last year. I gave her my vl which i was still paying off during last year because she wanted it and then she surprised me at christmas with the vc, doing extra shifts and saving without my knowing.
well done champ, i'm sure she knows how much you appreciate the effort behind the gift, and once again, happy birthday for yesterday.
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