My christmas bonus worked out well enough... my boss lets me take stuff home and pay for it later on a "tab" of sorts.
I racked up a pretty big tab while getting some good stuff for a friend of mine, and my tab was over $800. For christmas, my boss knocked $400 off my tab, so I basically either got all those gifts for free, or like my Sailor Moon and GTO boxsets for free... either way, it works for me