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Strangest thing your DC have requested for Christmas.

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DominicRaabsTravelAgent · 03/09/2021 21:56

Poor deprived DD aged 3 asked for Juice on Christmas Eve. Queue me risking to the shop to buy a carton of juice and wrapping it when she’s gone to bed.

It was totally worth it, her face in the morning was pure happiness “Santa brought me juice!”.

So what’s the strangest or simplest thing that your DC have asked for?

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TheGriffle · 05/09/2021 20:32

Dd1 asked for blu tack one year and a bag of pasta the next. She was happy when they both appeared.

Youngest is only 4 and has so far only asked for lots and lots of different toys!

ShowMeHow · 07/09/2021 15:43

Age 2.5 ds wanted (and Santa provided) ‘a rake’

NursieBernard · 07/09/2021 16:38

DS (10) has ask for a guillotine paper trimmer this year. Previous years he has asked for a high vis vest, paper bowls and plates and string.

Straysocks · 07/09/2021 16:53

David Attenborough.

Mamamamasaurus · 07/09/2021 17:02

Cheese

And beans in a tin

MonaChopsis · 07/09/2021 17:03

A diamond bigger than her fist (aged 4). Santa delivered a glass paperweight cut like a diamond and she was over the moon.

Gingersay · 08/09/2021 01:35

Dd kept asking for a money payer when she was about 4, so I bought this big fancy till with fake money, a card swiper, a wee conveyor belt and a basket of shopping only for her to be disappointed there was no money payer - a credit card she wanted a credit card!!!

WhatsTheBFD · 08/09/2021 08:59

DD2 asked me for a pack of raptors to train after watching Jurassic World a few years ago Grin

usedtobeboss3 · 08/09/2021 16:27

Handcuffs, when he was about 4. (He was into 'playing policemen') They were surprisingly hard to find, and I did get one or two odd looks...

Firstbornunicorn · 08/09/2021 20:34

@babbi thanks! I’ll try to remember. DS was a week early and this little one is being monitored for IUGR (DS had it) so there’s a reasonable chance she’ll be here early. We’ll see! Boxing Day wouldn’t be an ideal day to give birth anyway 😂

Puffalicious · 08/09/2021 20:50

Can't believe blu tac is such a popular request! DS2 asked for some age 3. He gets some in his stocking every year still- he'll be 15 this year.

DS1, now 17, asked for 'Eddie' on and on when he was 2. For the life of us we couldn't work it out. Thought of lots of characters it could be/ asked friends' kids if they had an Eddie named toy to no avail. Luckily he pointed one day whilst in the car and shouted 'Eddie!' at an Eddie Stobart truck! We duly bought a toy one and he was over the moon. We still have it in our toys for posterity in the loft, to be passed on to grandkids.

Barton10 · 08/09/2021 21:33

Blu tac here too also a stapler and staples

ranoutofquinoaandprosecco · 08/09/2021 21:34

DD age 3 a yoyo! Now she nearly 11 wants an iPhone! Bring back the 3 year old!

LadyofMisrule · 08/09/2021 21:51

A knitted frog holding a knitted cucumber.

TheSockMonster · 09/09/2021 08:13

@HumbugWhale

Pickled onions was an odd request last year but ds aged 4 has told me today that for Christmas this year he would like a level crossing. He has one in his train set already but apparently he wants a real one. I'm hoping he will forget by December Grin
Perhaps you could get away with two of these crossing barriers There’s a video of one working in the reviews.

DS asked for a cheese sandwich when he was 4. Sadly he’d only told his teacher, so I didn’t find out until she asked me about it in January!

Same child asked for an orange juicer a few years later. He was slightly disappointed with the handheld one he received because he’d wanted one of the huge automatic ones that you drop whole oranges into that he’d seen in a hotel we’d stayed in.

DD used to ask for toys that didn’t exist.

They both stopped believing around 9 years old, probably due to Father Christmas’s constant inability to deliver…

SoulfulSal · 09/09/2021 10:56

A nutribullet - he was 2.

It was a repeating advert on a show he watched before bed each night and really piqued his interest.

He desperately wanted to 'smash up all the boo-berries' 😂 and asked for it repeatedly.

SoulfulSal · 09/09/2021 10:59

We did get him a nutribullet too, was an easy request lol.

This year he wants 'a real motorbike that's blue and orange like Blippi with 50 engines and it flies in the sky'. He says this exact sentence over, he's very decided and specific. Somehow I don't think he's going to be lucky this year 🤔

NormaSnickers · 09/09/2021 14:03

When DS was 3 he asked for school uniform, he knew he was starting school the following year and appeared to firmly believe that his uniform would be supplied by Santa! I duly bought a tiny school uniform in the correct colours, DS was very pleased!
This year, aged 9, he’s mentioned wanting an extendable back scratcher!

PalacesOfMontezuma · 09/09/2021 22:58

@LadyofMisrule

A knitted frog holding a knitted cucumber.
Is that something they've seen somewhere, or just a completely random idea? Although my frog loving DS would be chuffed with that!
PalacesOfMontezuma · 09/09/2021 23:01

My DD(5) would like a horse, a dog, a fish tank for her bedroom and a wolf spider 😬

Given that we don't have a horse budget, our cat hates dogs and the rest of us are arachnophobic she's going to be disappointed. We've told her she needs to be a bit older to have her own fish tank too.

RAFHercules · 11/09/2021 17:36

Rudolph, the real one, not a toy. Hmm

Smeds · 13/09/2021 00:41

DD at 3 years old asked for an orange present. Didn't matter what it was, it just had to be her favourite colour. I bought a Terry's Chocolate Orange, wrapped it in orange tissue paper and orange ribbon with a mini jingle bell on top.

Purplealienpuke · 13/09/2021 03:45

Dd asked for a hedgehog. A real live prickly fucker.... 🤣🤣
She got a stuffed one. She handed it on to her DD with the story

Sweetener12 · 13/09/2021 09:43

My niece asked for a dress 'like her mom wears' meaning the night gown Grin

AuntMary · 13/09/2021 22:26

My granny asked my cousin if she wanted anything brought back from holiday.
My cousin asked for bunk beds.