So what do YOU want for Christmas?!

[ThatsNotMyPinot]

There are so many threads on what to get DCs/aged relatives for Christmas, I thought I would start one with our Christmas wish lists - fantasy or otherwise!

This is the place to be extremely materialistic and share what you would like Santa to bring you this December 25th.

After world peace blah, blah, blah, I would like the following:

A nice watch (haven't had one for years)
An appointment to get my 'colours' done
Sheepskin slippers
Some new running trainers
Riding lessons
Some nice skin care products and make up
Paperchase stationary
A shopping spree for new clothes on the back of having my colours done

I am never in million years expecting all of this, maybe one or two things if I'm lucky! I also like surprises/little bits and bobs too.

What is on your crimbo list this year?

[Pistillate]

Bottle of really posh Sherry

Gorgeous silky nightdress

A new bathmat

Leonard Cohen CDs

Think I might ask my dd's to choose bathmat. I need to start teaching them how to do present shopping.

[Pitmountainpony]

An Ackerman rug to put on the wall.
An Arthur Umanoff stool.
An Adrian Pearsall settee.
Oh and a mid century house to put it all in.

[stinkingbishop]

Oo.

PJs (why do we all want those?!)
The new Bill Bryson
The ability to do proper smokey eyes without looking like I'm on crystal meth
Turkish Delight
Crystallised ginger
Some UGG-like black boots
A grown up adventure holiday which doesn't involve adults dressed as foxes or any mention of Peppa Pig or eating left handed while you cut someone else's food up or wet wipes - Japan/hunting for snow leopards in Ladakh/the North West Passage/Patagonia/Timbuktu...
A house (we've been renting for over a year and have moved about 10m times recently because of jobs/DCs etc) - somewhere there is a POINT to plotting DTDs' height on the walls and to planting bulbs...
The ability to do a good blow dry
Self-ironing bed linen, so it's just really lovely and crisp and uncreased

Oh and universal child education, the eradication of poverty and treatable diseases, global sexual equality and all terrorists rounded up and put on the naughty step, natch.

[secretscwirrels]

Ahem. Those expected babies at Christmas don't forget they are often late. DS1 was due before Christmas but arrived after new year.
18 years later what I would like is some noise cancelling headphones so that I can read in peace while all around me make a racket. Do they work?

[VikingVagine]

Hmmmmmm

A Kenwood Chef
A small Persian rug
A white dressing table with three mirrors and little drawers
A pair of boots I've spotted on Celtic & Co
Some sheepskin gloves


Now going back to read what eveyone else wants, to get some inspiration!

[ScarerAndFuck]

I want a set of three photographs, taken at dawn on the days each of the DC were born. And I want to frame them in those old fashioned looking frames that are made from two pieces of glass sandwiched together with the photo in the middle. They hang from a chain and look really nice.

That's it, that's all I want. And I haven't told anyone so I know I won't get them. But maybe next year

[HorryIsUpduffed]

A cleaner just for the bits I hate - floors, spiders, oven, microwave.

I get quite anxious about Christmas presents, tbh. My parents want telling what to get me, then often don't quite - eg last year I asked for a subscription to something and they said yes but never actually arranged it and it took so long for us to realise that it was then too late to remind them

DH likes to get headline items that make me feel guilty about his generosity, or resentful about what the money could have done (eg a weekend away with the DC when we are meant to be saving up for a plumber).

PIL like to buy presents that cost the recipient money - eg a photoshoot without any prints included, or a tablet for DS1 without any games cartridges. Or clothes that just don't suit, or don't remotely fit, which you can return but only at the sale price, so you can't get anything worth having in return.

I sound like an ungrateful hag but I just want someone to choose something for me that actually suits me, without my needing to specify a precise thing. I'd rather have a box of homemade tablet (yum) because someone remembered that I mentioned liking it, than an expensive necklace I won't have an opportunity to wear.

[Mckayz]

I want someone to give me a foolproof, failsafe method of getting DD (15 months) to sleep in her cot instead of being with me. This must involve no screaming from DD.

Would love to share a bed with DH without her between us.

[LayMizzRarb]

Colored pencils, notebooks, art and craft supplies and little toys; to take abroad to the children's orphanage/village I'm off to next month. That's what I have asked my family for this year.

I may not have all I want, but I have all I need.

Honestly can't think of anything I need.

[killerhamster]

Ooooo...

A chocolate orange and some chocolate coins
...

Haven't thought about the rest yet, but defiantly chocolate, in various forms.

[showmethemoneyhoney]

I'd like:
Some more Persephone books because they are so lovely.
Cosy PJ's
'Expensive' smellies, not the usual Nivea/Dove gift set
Smaller boobs
Something lovely that DH has thought of himself without me leaving lists and hints for months beforehand.
A real leather iPad cover.

[thegoosemama]

fleecy PJs
Dior pure poison
irregular choice shoes

and for my second son to have arrived :)

[cloutiedumpling]

I'd love a silver necklace with the DCs' fingerprints. We've three kids though and I think it'll be too expensive.

I'd also like sheepskin mittens. I'm fed up with having cold hands. I think DH knows my username so I might just get these!

[looseleaf]

I would like a beginners gardening book (we have a garden for the first time and I want to transform it into something beautiful). And lots of plants maybe?

Nothing else as our flat tiny and I'm not interested in'stuff' much. Except lots of chocolate. Or maybe nice bath oil as had children's value bubble bath or nothing all year

[jennymac]

An Emma Bridgewater cake stand. Fed up having to put my cakes on our boring plates!

[Dildals]

To celebrate xmas as a family of four rather than three ...

[kateandme]

for my mum and dad to be happy.
to not be a burden.

[joanofarchitrave]

To have a NOISY Christmas. I've been married on and off since before the last Labour administration, and both my husbands have without fail always wanted 'nice quiet Christmases' i.e. we all sit so still we might as well be dead, saying 'Well this is nice' at intervals and listening to the clock ticking. I'd like to go to London and look at the lights and skate at Somerset House and look at the Avercamp in the Nat Gallery, and take a random selection of ds's friends to the panto and give them Coke in the interval, and have a shrieky drunken party with my sister and lots of cousins and nephews and nieces, and I'd like to hold open house for the neighbours with shedloads of mince pies, possibly for several weeks at a time, with more shrieking and carols on the CD player and playing/singing along on the piano, and I'd like to have a Christmas tree six feet tall and some new decorations and flashing lights, and I'd like to go to every one of the work social events I can and should go to (I work across several teams), and I'd like to go carol singing loudly and off key, and I'd like to go to midnight mass at the cathedral. I'd also like to stop being grateful for the pitiful little bits of Christmas that I feel allowed to have.

[Mooster1709]

Some of these posts made me cry.

A night nanny
A keratin blowdry
A pair of jeans with slim-but-not-quite-skinny legs and a high waist (but from where??)
A lush bath bomb (and time to have a bath)
A leather biker jacket
A necklace chosen by someone else )I don't trust my own taste and am chronically indecisive)

Mainly a night nanny though.

Can't remember who asked, but The noise cancelling headphones do work. Amazing things.

[Venushasrisen]

Hmmm, I think I have all I want (first GC last June completed list)

[trixymalixy]

Ooh in my dreams I would like:

Treadmill
Sweaty Betty or Stella McCartney running gear
Top of the range babolat tennis racquet
Weekly private tennis coaching
Beautiful soft leather biker jacket
Lovely soft non wool blanket
Leather pencil skirt
Babyliss big hair
Rose and violet creams
Clarins hand cream

But my real dream Christmas present would be for the kids to be free from allergies and spend the whole holidays scoffing big tins of chocolates, roasted chestnuts and smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.

[Retropear]

A walk in snow
A cosy day on our own playing with the dc's toys and watching a film we all love.
A new cookery book(eye on HFW Fruit)
A Riverford turkey(won't be happening)

Will probably get 2 of the above.

If I was rich- a log burner, a zero maintenance but stunning haircut and some decent clothes so I don't look and feel shite half the time.

[magichamster]

A new mountain bike.

Any recommendations?

[VikingVagine]

A tidy house


Not going to happen though seeing as DCs and DDog are hell bent on making a mess.