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Anyone else's dc request odd things for Christmas?

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lostscot · 15/12/2015 19:18

My ds 7 has requested a budgie and a dyson for the last 3 years, poor Santa was lost for words last year! Anyone else had a odd request?

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DramaQueenofHighCs · 16/12/2015 00:42

My DS asked for 'Cheese'! (He's just turned 7)
We are going to wrap up a bit and leave it in the fridge for him to find Christmas morning and have also got a couple of Cheese themed other gifts too! that'll teach him!

ToastedOrFresh · 16/12/2015 00:50

This thread is brilliant ! Please can someone link last year's thread that was similar to this.

Takes a register on Christmas Day ! Hilarious !

Outaboutnowt · 16/12/2015 00:51

My cousin asked her 3 year old what he wanted for Christmas this year and he thought long and hard before replying: 'a yogurt'. She asked if there was anything else and he said 'yeah, a spoon!'

badhair I get the crutches thing, I wanted some when I was little! I was also desperate to have a pot on my arm (without the broken arm obviously)

Wagglebees · 16/12/2015 02:00

Tbf blu-tac is awesome stuff.

Lovelyd Could she have been thinking of a Christmas stocking/sock? That was always my favourite part of present opening.

What happened with the poster who had a DC who'd asked for a Martin Freeman doll? Last I saw his wife had tweeted back saying she'd ask him to do a message or something?

scrivette · 16/12/2015 02:22

Last year all 3 year old DS wanted was his 'own little hose' which he got.

This year he wanted a jet wash (no chance) and a real life jacket (he will get) no idea why as he hadn't ever been in a boat).

jamtartandcustard · 16/12/2015 06:26

Oh how I envy you and tor blutack requests.....
Stepdd is 6 and for the last 3 years, both birthday and Christmas, she has asked for .... Nothing! Literally. "What would you like for Xmas, X?" "Nothing"
Well excellent! I sometimes think I should conform to her requests but the parent in me just cannot not buy a child a present. So we just have to guess what she might like

ChristmasZombie · 16/12/2015 08:18

My 3 yo DD has asked for cake and juice, alongside a Lalaloopsy doll. I'm sure we can manage those. Her request for "another baby sister, but a boy one this time" will be going unfulfilled!

alwaystimeforcoffee · 16/12/2015 14:22

My youngest asked for a cheeseboard one year- bit bizarre but we got her one anyway!

My nephew once asked for Night Vision Goggles! Needless to say Santa did not deliver those to him!

ClityClityBangBang · 16/12/2015 14:33

Ds (now 8) had asked for a ball of string on many occasions when asked what he wanted.
So eventually last year we wrapped some for his stocking only for the cheeky monkey to tie the door handles on my double doors together leaving me trapped in the kitchen whilst he giggled from the other side of the glass.
He thought it hilarious and after more of the same is now banned from having it!

Witchend · 16/12/2015 14:38

I asked for a real live baby when I was 4yo. Dm's suggestion it was by baby brother was not well received.

Ds last year asked for 2 remote control aeroplanes with missiles. One with a sidewinder and I can't remember the others. Apparently they were heat seeking so the general public wouldn't be at risk when we took it to the park.

TheJiminyConjecture · 16/12/2015 14:38

Every year Dd1 wants tissues.

This year she wants purple tac and tissues.

Stupid Santa bought pink tac last year and this year has to find purple

CakeNinja · 16/12/2015 20:42

Oh this thread is so lovely!

Dd1 once asked for an invisibility cloak. Apart from that, we have fairly mainstream requests.
Dd2 is a blu tak fiend and always gets a pack in her stocking, it's surprising how popular it is with children

Lovelydiscusfish · 16/12/2015 22:49

Dd has apparently advanced the complexity of her wish list one hundredfold over the last three days of dh looking after her all day and evening, as she is now wishing for "a crow".
She means a living one.
She's always been a bit of a nascent Goth, and loved crows etc, but when I asked her today where it would live, she cheerfully asked "Daddy, do you have a spare house?" He doesn't. If he did, I guess we'd be much richer than we are! We also presumably just wouldn't cheerfully give it over for dd's crow to live in.

Pinkvici22 · 16/12/2015 22:53

DD 3 keeps telling everyone she's asked Santa for "a little pony"...I hope to god she actually means My Little Pony

SomedayMyPrinceWillCome · 16/12/2015 23:02

DS (3) has asked for a "shooting scooter". Um...?

squaretoes · 16/12/2015 23:04

Yep! DD (3) has consistently asked for the same things for about 3 months - a penguin (a teddy one, not a real one, mummy), a pink cake, drums, sticks to drum with and aquabeads.
I love that she really wants a pink cake!

Becstarlenski · 16/12/2015 23:59

Oh yes, ds4 wants a jar of sweeties, his OWN packet of biscuits, and new hair !! Poor FC has his work cut out this year !
His older brother basically hogs the biscuits, and I'm just slightly confused about the hair thing !!

Pobspits · 17/12/2015 00:04

Ds once asked for the moon with a face on

Dd was desperate for her own fruit bowl aged 3 and now she's 5 and above all else wants bubble mix.

youmustbekidding · 17/12/2015 00:12

Oh Christ I have had all sorts of random requests over the years, all of which boiled down to the fact that Santa was magic and can do anything. Off the top of my head, there has been:

an actual Tardis. Yes, you know, the one that can travel through time and space;
a DVD player to make a time travel machine from (this was requested a year after the Tardis failed to make an appearance )
a magic bunny (powers unspecified) with a personal lawn and fence
a pair of shoes that when you put then on you can do every exercise in the world including jumping over houses
one of every diamond and precious stone in the universe
a magic wand that can cast real spells
a potion that when you drink it makes you able to do anything you want

I'm sure there were others.

Tuiles · 17/12/2015 00:13

get the salad spinner has been a long time favourite toy here too. I frequently have to clear toy cars out of it to use it! We also have the oxo one and it has stood the test of time (and toddlers)

Kleptronic · 17/12/2015 00:28

My 11 year old ds has asked for a hocky stick customised with a rainbow all over it and the words 'this is a hocky stick'. I have googled it and at £85 he's out of luck.

bellabelly · 17/12/2015 11:11

allyoucaneat - thank you SO much for mentioning digibirds - I had not heard of them. Just ordered an owl and a budgie for my girls, they are going to LOVE them!

RhubarbAndMustard · 17/12/2015 11:19

I started a thread like this last year. The link is here (hoping this works).. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/Christmas/2244446-No-mummy-not-an-Xbox-I-want-a

This year, DS has asked for a boy baby....luckily I'm pregnant, with a boy! but not due till March so he'll have to wait. I suspect he wants a doll though so might have to search one out.

Holstein · 17/12/2015 11:24

An £85 hockey stick that states what it is? Slightly expensive...

my 6yo asked for a baby brother last night. I told him they take nine months to grow, so he said I could get it ordered by Christmas!
We said NO!

Holstein · 17/12/2015 11:26

Ha- xposted with rhubarb. We're definitely not going to be meeting that request. (Particularly as his sister immediately asked for a baby sister when he said that!)

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