Weirdest gift request

[ColdCottage]

I just wondered if you'd had any jaw dropping requests for Christmas gifts?

Be that odd, hugely expensive, massively unreasonable or just plain funny?

@AnonymousAgain I had to smile when I saw your post. I actually do have a furry aeroplane! . My cuddly Vulcan bomber

At the age of 4, my friend asked for a pink yacht and a green sports car. She turned 40 last year and got the sports car

Ds offered to bring dh home a cloud from a hike up a hill mountain recently. He was trying to work out how we'd get it into my backpack

DS2 when he was 4 - to be an adult.

DH regularly asks for practical items such as tools. For his bday he asked for a silicone sealant gun. This year he has asked for extra long gloves for cleaning out the drains. This is the 2nd time - the last lot wore out. Always a fight between PIL and SIL who both want to be the one to buy the hilarious gift

@RangerLady wow you must have a lot of dirty drains

When DS3 was 4 he asked for one of those silver towel rings you hang from a wall. He's now 10, and it's still at the side of his bed, where his dressing gown is threaded through.

DS wants a sharks jaw ( preferably from a megladon)

My brother has cerebral palsy and learning disabilities, he spent a good 15 years asking for a real life elephant ny mum and dad constantly bought him elephant figures but it never wqs good enough he wanted the real thing. My parents would always say but where would you keep a elephant and he would respond with in the attic everytime.

My eldest ds one year askee for fairy platinum washing up liquid.

My middle DC wants a shopping trolley, preferably the one from the CO-OP as apparently it doesnt steer weird.

So did you all manage to find the odd items requested?

After watching Charlotte's web, my 3yr old was desperate for a real pig in a pram.
I still suspect she's disappointed santa didn't sort that for Xmas

Dd is just mercenary. Asked her for a Christmas list aged about 5 and she circled about 50 items in the Argos catalogue. Probably checked they were in stock too.

I know a child whose main request was "something that's too big to wrap, so I have to have my eyes wrapped up instead": she didn't care what the gift was, as long as she would be taken to it with her eyes covered, like her friend had been before being presented with a bike; the same friend had told her it had happened "when Lucy went to Narnia" (see imdb trivia).

She was disappointed on her birthday when her present was not only wrapped, but looked very small and insignificant! But after some persuading she opened it to reveal a funny sleeping mask from Claire's Accessories: her mum told me that she grinned from ear to ear as she was blindfolded, taken on a short car journey (back to her house) and led right inside her present: a playhouse in the garden. It was also strategically placed so she could only see the garden fence, and it took her some time to realise she was in her own garden! She was absolutely delighted.

@letsgomaths that's brilliant

Dd is delighted with her funky PostIts. She has taken leaving notes for people to another level: she writes the note on a PostIt and WhatsApps a photo of it!

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