To ask how reliable a 7 year old's wishes are?

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She's talking about her Christmas suggestion list... Do I get what she's talking about now - it's available, not cheap but not too expensive to consider - and risk her asking for something else?
Do you try to steer them back to their original wishes if you've already bought it?

She has been asking for something that doesn't exist since the beginning of the year so I need to keep her away from that idea else Santa's cover will be well and truly blown.

What's the return policy of the store that has it?

If it's 30 days, buy it on Friday and put it away carefully and the receipt.

Black Friday deals start in November, that's the time stuff sells out.

My dd is 8. She is pretty much reliable to have an idea for a main present and stick with it. I always encourage her to write her list now and send it - therefore, no changing. Santa can't keep up if kids change too much. Im almost done shopping for my kids now!

In our house Father Christmas only brings a stocking full of bits. No more than £30’s worth. I decided a long time ago that he wasn’t going to take credit for the main gift and it’s always worked for us. Father Christmas gives a book, chocolate coins, an orange that only 1 child eats but the other 2 also get, an activity/novelty to play with until I can manage to wake and do Christmas. Some nice pens or other crafting stuff might also make the list but generally nothing expensive.

I once got a huge present from Santa, much bigger than anything he usually bought us, I hadn't asked for it, but I loved it.
Many years later I discovered that what had happened was dm had a friend whose dd had asked for this from about March through to around 20th December.
On 21st December she announced she didn't want that and wanted something else, so the mum had passed it on to my mum, who gave it to me.
(if I'm remembering rightly it was the year her dad had died, so I think it would normally have beenconsidered tough luck, but not that year. She certainly wasn't spoilt)

There are lots of garden centres etc that already have trees up - so you could post a letter there...
Second the PP who says Santa only brings the stocking...otherwise why bother hanging one up if he's never going to fit anything in...
(BTW my DD was Lego not Playmobil and after several Harry Potter kits we had loads of spare Harrys...I ordered extra heads & hair from an internet shop and was able to create the whole of Gryffindor plus Weasleys :) - Could you customise a Playmobil figure? Or are there people who do that?)

We have a great local toy reseller whose name is "The Playmobil Man". I bought a nonexistent older set from him that he cobbled together from other sets, so maybe eBay or FB marketplace can help you mix multiple sets?

That won't help if what she wants is something like "star wars Playmobil" that my DS asked for every year!
OP, only you know your DD- some 7yos absolutely know their own minds, and some can be influenced into desiring what you've already planned/bought

I agree with a couple of PP about Santa only bringing small thing but for another reason which was pointed out to me on a child charity website.

From school age the kids will start going in and telling the other kids what they got from Santa. Child A is from a less affluent family and only gets inexpensive items while child b is from a richer family and gets loads of bigger ticket items. child A will feel bad / think they've been naughty / think Santa doesnt like them. So we give the bigger ticket items from us and stocking from santa.

@Harriett123 we tell our children Santa delivers but we pay for them (I appreciate that doesn't help other children if ours are saying what they get).

For the last few years, my now 6yo has announced around September what she wants from Santa and has stuck to it. He only brings one gift in this house, not electronic or living. She knows her mind.

We are starting to assemble this year's request already, she doesn't make it straight forward.