What To Get A Blogger For Christmas

Well, it’s almost Christmas, and I’m a procrastinator.  Besides that, I’m hoping my wife is too, and that she will read this list and get me something from it!

Here are some “essentials” that I would love to get for Christmas, and they would probably be great for the blogger in your life as well!

 

Tech

iPad – I would love to get an iPad so that I could do more blogging from the couch.  I don’t know how easy it would be to type full blog posts, but I think it would definitely be funner to read and comment on other blogs with one.  Oh yea, and I want a black one (much more manly…hahha).

Beyond the “productivity”, it would just be fun!

 

 

Slingbox - Have you heard of the Slingbox?  This thing is awesome, and it would make a great compliment to my new iPad!  The Slingbox is a system that plugs into your current cable TV output and to the internet.  Then, you can log into your Slingbox and see your TV signal anywhere – it “slings” it to your computer, tablet, even iPhone.  You can even control your DVR and watch those shows as well!

 

 

A Second Monitor  - Have you seen those multiple monitor setups?  1) I find those to be awesome.  2) I think it would be more productive to be able to spread out multiple windows and not have to always tab back and forth (and I hate tabbed browsing, just annoying).  I like to be able to lay everything out and see it without having to click to different screens or alt+tab my way around.

 

Reading

I always like to read a few good books a year.  These are the latest titles that have caught my eye, but I haven’t had time to read them yet.

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance by Perry Mehrling
• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
• Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins

 

Other

Starbucks - If you know me, you know that I live on Starbucks.  That’s kind of sad for a personal finance blogger, but I like my coffee.  It doesn’t need to be Starbucks, but that is what is convenient everywhere I go in my life for the most part.

 

Keurig - If I am at home and want coffee, this thing is awesome.  It brews single servings from little cups (K-Cups), and you can get tons of different coffee varieties (including Starbucks, believe it or not).   This would be so nice to brew up a cup in the morning, or for those days that I have to go to work before Starbucks opens (damn you Starbucks and your late Sunday openings…).

 

 

A “College Investor” T-Shirt – My wife would never get this for me, so I may have to do it myself, but I thought it would be cool to get a “The College Investor” T-Shirt to sport around.  I could wear it to blogging conventions, bowling alleys, and the like!  There is nothing better than shameless self-promotion in my book!

 

I hope you like my list!  If any of you have these, and would love to share your stories, post them below (it might make me jealous though)!  If you’re a blogger, what else would you like for Christmas this year?