I got 5,000 sovereigns, and a pocketbelt containing tints and grain and beastmastery thingies.

Yeah.

Final Haul:
2x Daggers of Reincarnation (tradein)
2x Paintbrushes (tradein)
2x Soaps (tradein)
2x Flowerpots (tradein)
1x Flowerpot (to... Sylandra?)
1x RoA (kept)
1x Marauder's Mask (to Tulemrah)
5x Pocketbelts (kept)
2x Pocketbelts (to others)
1x Golds (kept)
3x Golds (to others)

My modest haul this Christmas (which I'm still thankful for! Yay presents!)

1 x Golden Paintbrush
1 x Dagger of Reincarnation (Given to me!)
1 x Crystal Ball
50k gold
2 x 3 pocketbelts (one set was given to me too!)
1 x mystery present given away that I still don't know it's contents

All artifacts were traded in for a nice sum of 465 credits!

Six pocketbelts from two gnomes, both grabbed on my phone as I wasn't near the computer at the right times. That was quite a lot of effort, but yay!

Modest? Seriously, back in the days when I still played a mortal char in another IRE mud I couldn't even -dream- of 500 credits worth of stuff!

Vials, vials, pocketbelts, more pocketbelts. All three gifts from Ironbeard had vials. All gifts from friends had pocketbelts. Wait, one had dingbats. So, indirectly, one had a crumkindivia cookie, since I bought it with all my dingbats I had been saving.

Modest compared to what the others have gotten.

But in absolute terms, I'm positively thrilled! Just like you, I'd never have dreamed of seeing so many credits at one go, which is why I'm so thankful for that!

I got a flowerpot, and gave away a present that turned out to have a pocketbelt loaded with gems.

2 paintbrushes; traded in
1 magic carpet; being kept
2 daggers of reincarnation; 1 kept, 1 given to Orventa
1 group of pocketbelts; given to Ircria

And a Compass that I got on an alt.
Edit: Major to the person who gave it to me, you know who you are.

This year really did have a much higher number of artifacts, but not only that, a greater spread of artifacts (whereas before it'd be a few people who managed to get the bulk of them. I've only ever gotten 1 or 2 artifacts for a Solstice event in my many years of playing). We're gonna see a lot more people walking around with artifacts and pets and whatnot =)

Best thing I got this time around was a Rune of Prodigious Prowess.

PS
Huge thank you to the admins... we were complaining about how this event was annoying or lame or etc, but you still gave us oodles of goodies in the end. We're like spoiled kids haha. So thanks! Your awesomeness and generosity doesn't go unnoticed

EDIT:
Found out one of the gifts I gave away was a pig nose. Couldn't have been a better gift, for many reasons

Yeah, awesome year for gifts, thanks!

Solstice 2010

1 Merry Solstice stocking (kept) Stocking gave me 10 dingbats (sold)
1 Artifact Soap (traded in)
1 Paintbrush (traded in) Bought 3 pipe runes with credits from paintbrush.
1 Great Rune of Charming Manners (kept)
1 Ridiculous pig nose (kept)
1 Prayer Beads of Terentia (bought with gift)
45 k gold (kept)
2 sets of vials from Ironbeard (kept)
17 Pocketbelts

So happy! Thanks Admins, the entire Seals event I thought was horrid but the arties made my Christmas!

NOT AGAIN! Total number of pocketbelts...16. Just..stop visiting me Ironbeard.

I'm much higher than that.

Ironbeard just refuses to visit me for some reason.

Try hiding all your pocketbelts and loudly lamenting your lack of them.

Ironbeard hasn't found me yet, either. My stocking gave me a vial of chansu this year. Woo.

Mine too!

My goodness, that's a lot! Where do you find your gnomes?!

Edit:

I got:

1 keystone(traded in)
1 dagger(traded in)
1 paintbrush(traded in)
4 pocketbelts(traded in)

Actually, those pocketbelts replenished my rift. I wish I had been around more for the gnome drops, but at least I still managed to presents! Thanks!