Ridiculous present requests

[HoHoHowMuch]

DS has decided in what to ask for Christmas from Santa. It's the king/queen's crown. Replica is fine, but needs to be real gold and stones, not a toy. He says Santa is the richest person on earth,so should be fine. I gave checked google for a valuation and it seems to 3-5 billion. Not sure if that was pounds or dollars, but either way is a little out of price range. Reminders that Santa brings all children a present of reasonable value to bring them joy seem to be going over his head, so looking forward to a disappointing Christmas.

Make me feel better. What outlandish present requests have you had?

For three years in a row, middle DD asked for a pack of raptors to train.

When DD2 was in Reception, she wrote a polite letter to Santa requesting "A giatar, a pair of pinck tites, and Jack from Green Class" - we got her a ukulele and the tights, but were unable to comply with the third item because that would have been kidnapping.

(Yes, she really did want Jack from her class. Apparently it was because he had fuzzy hair and she wanted to keep him by her bed so she could pat his head).

DS once asked for a swimming pool, specifically not a paddling pool but an actual swimming pool.

Ds once asked 'to BE Peter Pan at Xmas & also forever' (he's Autistic so that lasted a while). Now he'd like a Land-rover. Or a fort. The real one in Wales that's for sale.
Dd wanted many cubes of tissue boxes to build a fort (i sense a theme here) & a 1 kilo block of cheddar cheese 'just for her'. She got them. Her Dad, now my exH, ate most of her special (cheap smartprice) cheese on Boxing Day evening, despite the fridge being rammed with fancy Xmas cheeses. He just got his ASD Dx, aged 58 ...
Oh, Christmas is fun in our house (we had ' OHIIMC' by Slade on at top vol as we drive through the quiet sleepy Borders on Sunday (Dd excited already...)

@HardLanding sounds like your dd is going to end up ruling the world.

@medianewbie that Welsh Fort looks awesome. I totally have plans to buy it and have a beautiful vegetable garden in the middle. Lottery win still outstanding on that one though.

@HoHoHowMuch Gerroff, it's ours !!
(a nat lot win allowing ...). Can you imagine the heating bills though? :0

DS wanted a portal to another dimension last year

@Favouritefruits you can get junior Snickers outfits and they’re just like adult ones.

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DD is after a robot that does everything she says. I think I’ll have to slip Father Christmas a note asking him to suggest that that will take the elves a few years.

A unicorn. She would look after it and feed it. The disappointment she couldn’t have one was really hard on her. We wrote a letter from the fairies and left it under her pillow.

it said that all totally white horses were in actual fact unicorns in disguise. Only a very selective few humans knew this secret and she was very honoured to be told. She must never ever tell anyone the secret.

She still hasn’t to this day, it’s been 6 years. She tells me she still has a letter from the fairies, unfortunately she can’t discuss it bless her

@HoHoHowMuch Could Santa get his dimensions wrong?

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A real tractor

@Looking4wards, still reading through the thread so don't know if others have already responded but a couple of years ago Aldi had a dancing triceratops toy on a lead. It would wiggle it's butt and slowly walk across the floor. Got it for DS and it freaked him out. 😂 but there may be a toy one still out there you might be able to find one (unfortunately ours got donated).

At 8pm on Christmas Eve "The thing that was the top prize at our school raffle. I don't remember what it was. Santa will know, though "

When DD was about 7 she wrote a letter to Santa asking for a brown felt tip pen!

I admired her restraint - needless to say Santa obliged.

Last year DS1 (10, autistic) asked for a PS4, an iPhone 13, a Samsung flip phone, an Xbox360, a season ticket for old Trafford and a Rubiks cube. Guess which one he got?
DD (7) said 'dunno, just not toys'. Which was helpful.

My DS too young for a Christmas list, but I remember when I was young circling the Argos catalogue and then making two lists. One for me and one for my teddy 😁

My DS too young for ridiculous requests but reading these has been entertaining.
I asked for a seal when I was a kid, I even asked the next door neighbour if it could use his pond. 25ish years later, I still have the toy seal I was given as a substitute. His name is snowy.

I once wrote to Santa on Christmas Eve asking him to make my dad well - he had flu. Think I had got him muddled up with God, although I may have been thinking of the healing vial Lucy got from Father Christmas in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

I don't know if it was the same year but I also remember asking - on Christmas Eve again - that if my parents had got me a Viewmaster (Father Christmas only did stockings, tree presents were from family) could he oblige with some of the slides. He replied saying this was not possible because if i got slides in the stocking I would know I had a Viewmaster under the tree (and not at all because it was far too late to buy any at that point).

Mine - a Harry Potter broomstick that really flies and a crystal ball so that he could tell fortunes...,

@crymeout @Figmentofimagination
Thank you both for the suggestions. I will gently try to find out if a non-real-life-breathing dancing triceratops will do instead this year.

I asked for a pet monkey! The local pet shop had them (back in the 1970s) I still remember the bitter disappointment of a Tiny Tears doll and a toy Cash Register…
Ddad had said yes to the monkey…

When DD was little she asked for tiny real swords tiny! Actual metal. On further investigation this was to stick to her small littlest pet shop cats so they could fight!?
Anyway I actually found some online a little packet of tiny swords she was delighted.

My son is autistic and has looked through the whole Smyths catalogue and doesn't want a thing. He does however want a Coronation St teatowel from the official ITV shop