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What would you like for Christmas that unfortunately is impossible...

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milk · 09/11/2013 12:43

When I was 3 years old at a party I was given a packet of Dolly Mix. I remember how delicious it was even from then. However, my mum explained afterwards that I can't have it again as it contains gelatine and I could only eat vegetarian sweets.

Every year since then I have always asked/searched for vegetarian dolly mix but I have never found any :(

Is there anything you'd like for Christmas but can't have it?

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Mogz · 09/11/2013 15:23

Aww that's a shame, I wonder if it is all the components that contain gelatine or whether you could get the different sweets separately.

I want a Harris hawk, but we've no land and are renting at the moment, I'm just waiting on when we can buy a house. I've already taken a falconry course and got lots of practice in flying at a local centre. Unfortunately at this point i'm not sure we will ever afford our own house, so it's looking like a pretty impossible present.

Retropear · 09/11/2013 16:04

I want a log burner but we have no chimney.

When we move a fire/log burner will be at the top of our list.

olibeansmummy · 09/11/2013 16:43

I want a pony! But have to wait til ds is bigger so we can share.

Pennythedog · 09/11/2013 16:47

A lie-in

BoyGirlBoy3 · 09/11/2013 16:49

I want a baby, it is my dearest wish.

2kidsintow · 09/11/2013 16:54

I'd love new sofas. A few years ago DH wanted the downstairs rooms swapped around so we had the sofas in the smaller room. We have one of the 5 seater curved sofas in the front room, a pouffe and a telly and not much else. I feel cramped in there and DH's habit of keeping a pile of tat important possessions next to him, combined with the curved shape means that there isn't actually enough space for the 4 of us to sit together comfortably.

I want to swap back to the back room, use the 2 ends of the sofa (that do detach) to make a 2 seater sofa, buy a 3 seater and move the dining room into here. I miss being able to sit in the same room as the fire. :(

But DH doesn't want to. And the cat is old and feeble and scrabbles his way up the sofa leaving scratches as he goes.

Sigh!

NettoSuperstar · 09/11/2013 16:55

A Kitchenaid

treaclesoda · 09/11/2013 16:55

I'd like my elderly parents to be ten years younger. No, twenty. That would be nice.

SauceForTheGander · 09/11/2013 16:57

A time machine so I can go back for a day - I'd like to hang out with my Grandma - can I have her just for the day please?

MrsBungleScare · 09/11/2013 16:59

I'd like my mum and granny back.

and a million pounds

AndHarry · 09/11/2013 17:02

Three days at a spa. To be spent mostly sleeping. Or three days sleeping on my own at a Travelodge. Or in my own bed. I'm not fussy.

IamInvisible · 09/11/2013 17:02

I want DH to be at home on Christmas Day because 'our Christmas' has always been the four of us. It won't be right that it will just be three of us this year. It makes me cry just thinking about it.

Roll on the end of January.

InkleWinkle · 09/11/2013 17:07

I'd like my mum back.

Wish we'd known last year that it would be her last one.

gintastic · 09/11/2013 17:13

I'd like all the eleventy million odd jobs that need doing round the house to be done. I just look at them, can't decide which is most important and then do none of them.

And if I could lose 2 stone and keep it off that would be just fab! Baby will be 1 in a few weeks and the "baby weight" is wearing a bit thin now...

AndHarry · 09/11/2013 17:21

I'd also like a new kitchen and bathroom, a mattress that fits our bed and all my spots to be gone. It is ridiculous that I have spots at my age.

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milk · 09/11/2013 17:34

My Dolly Mix seems insignificant when I hear of all your losses/desire for life :( I guess I should be grateful that most of my relatives are still with us (including my 93 year old Grandma) and my kids are here to join in with the fun too :)

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drinkyourmilk · 09/11/2013 17:36

A baby. After 10 years it looks like it will never happen alas.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 09/11/2013 17:43

A Chanel handbag.

Have you tried veggie Percy pigs? I'm veggie too and they make me very happy.

ChestyNut · 09/11/2013 18:00

My dad and a baby.

CreamyCooler · 09/11/2013 18:03

Not me, but my DS used to ask for me to have twins every Christmas!

Badvoc · 09/11/2013 18:04

My dad

Laska42 · 09/11/2013 18:09

World peace ,

To be able to retire from work now (I have 10 years n more to go , but then at least I do have a job)

To be able to afford a house for my son

Goats and chickens a dog and a cart (yes really!!)

My parents to be in their sixties not their late eighties..

FortyFacedFuckers · 09/11/2013 18:16

A baby

Or lottery win (for IVF)

Although I am blessed to have DS 8 I would really love at least one more

FromthePinkGlitterySide · 09/11/2013 18:29

I would like DH to be home for Christmas Day. He works every year from 8am til about 5pm and it's shit. It's all rushed in the morning and by the time the DC are in bed, he's asleep on the sofa.
I feel guilty being so upset because I should feel lucky, we have a jobs and are financially ok, we have a happy family, I just want a Christmas like off the telly

FromthePinkGlitterySide · 09/11/2013 18:30

Shit. Grin

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