No mummy, not an Xbox, I want a.....

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My DS (2.5) is telling anyone who asks that he would like 'socks' for Christmas this year. When I told my friend, she said that her child once answered her with 'Mummy, I'd reeeeeeally like my own packet of Blu Tack'.

Any other great 'modest' Xmas present requests?

Or what about one of these, MyPanda?

When she was younger dd asked for a box of plasters, just for her. She even kept them in her room as they weren't allowed to go in the box with the 'normal' plasters.

They didn't last long, as every day she had a new injury which required a pink plaster..

My granny used to call her the Plaster Queen

DS is 5 and wants a red pen!

Post-it notes. Think they were all gone in a matter of days.

my 4 year old wants a pillow

Here we go Plumping. You can get a tiger for £2500 and its a rescue too
bigcatrescue.org/buy-a-big-cat/

ghostspirit I can beat you on that! My 6yo wanted a pillow case - not just any pillow case, but a torn-up one, like his favourite shredded pillow case.

Competitive non-parenting.

Ah so many people on this thread that I want to give a big cuddle!

Ds2 (3) has asked for 'sweeties'. That's it so I asked if there was anything else he might like and he thought about it and said 'do you think I might be allowed 2 sweeties?'

My DD (nearly 3) wants a yoyo, a bat and ball and a scarf.

Got a yoyo but a bat and ball is finding a bit harder to get...

My niece (who is now 12) when she was 3 or 4 years old was asked what she wanted for christmas:

Niece: Presents!
Uncle: what sort of presents?
Niece: Christmas presents!

I see your not toy tigers and give you DD who wants a unicorn

My oldest DD is 21 now but when she was about 3, she got into bed with us one Christmas morning to open her stocking. She ooh'd and aaah'd over her chocolate coins and crayons etc and said she loved them. She went on to say she didn't really mind that she hadn't got the Magna Doodle she had put on her Christmas letter to Father Christmas as he must have run out. She hadn't realised that her main presents were downstairs under the tree.

Mr That looks nice though might wait until summer as he will sit waiting for the sun to make a Rainbow with it iyswim

Robin I never even thought of a light , I have just ordered one for him Thanks

Is it a bit sad that I got all excited for your son mypanda when I saw that rainbow projector!

Did you post last year? I vaguely remember someone in search of a blue unicorn and lots of people posting links to them!

Durham - aw! I bet her face was a picture when she realised!

When DS was 5 he told everyone who asked what he wanted from Santa - 'A packet of Jaffa Cakes'. It made it sound like we didn't feed him or something!

He had spotted those huge long packets they have in shops just before Christmas, and was desperate for one. Shamefully, when I went shopping the week before Christmas, EVERYWHERE had sold out! So then he told people, 'All I asked for was some Jaffa Cakes, but I didn't get any'. He was very happy with the rest of his presents though!

I made his day when I put Blu-tack and a huge roll of baking paper in his stocking last year! He loves tracing stuff and it was so much better than the tiny sheets of 'tracing paper' in the art shop.

Durham my brother remembers me doing similar. He is much older than me and him and my sister used to wake me up on Christmas morningg to wake up our parents.
We would open our stocking first and two years in a row he said lets go and see that else's santa left and I was wide eyed 'you mean there's more?'
He said he had been worried I'd be disappointed on Christmas morning because I'd watch adverts wanting that and that and that. Yet I was always impressed with my stocking.

These stories are so cute! Unfortunately, I don't have one.

When DD1 was 3 she got some Charlie and Lola knickers in her stocking. Her reaction was - "why the heck have I got knickers for a present?"

Disclaimer - she's a very lovely and kind 7 year old now and she was lovely at 3, I think that it just made her a bit .

I think that's quite cute as well RoundRobin - my two could just as easily come up with that sort of thing too

All Yes it was me that posted last year for help as couldn't find one anywhere , managed to in the end though

DS was 2 and asked Santa for a "little tree". We had to figure out whether he meant a toy one, a real one or something else. It was the real one.

Santa got him one in a little pot and he was delighted, it lasted about a week before the cats had chewed all of the branches off, but he didn't seem to mind.

TheHobbit

What the fuck am I going to feed it??!

Getting a tad misty eyed reading all these posts about our lovely ( if a tad eccentric ) children!!

I know! I've loved reading them all- thanks everyone!