What do you really want for Christmas?

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I've spent the afternoon with a friend, and we've been planning our annual Christmas Shopping Extravaganza - it's become our default present to each other, brunch somewhere nice, a browse around the shops, coffee in a garden centre etc.

We don't actually buy much other than a few stocking fillers for our children, and a few little items here and there, but she asked me what I really really wanted for Christmas.

I said I would love a copy of Sense and Sensibility, preferable a dusty well thumbed paperback.

She wants a door stop.

Neither of us is being a grinchy bah humbugger, we're just quite happy with a little token gift. So what would you like?

A while ago I saw an ad on Facebook for a Star Wars magic mug. All the characters’ lightsabers light up when you put a hot drink in it. I want that.

Black knee high boots that I can zip up over my chunky calves - not designer just high street.

not tiny like a door stop but I don’t spend money on things like that for myself.

A bread maker

I really want the passenger princess cup from primark that’s been haunting my Fbook feed - not in stock for click & collect or anywhere near me sadly 😔 since DD arrived I’ve been a passenger princess in DH car with DD in the back!

I want good hiking socks and a super lightweight sleeping bag.

Dream world—To stay somewhere beautiful with my family and have all the cooking and cleaning up done for us.
Reality— sealskinz waterproof socks

Books. Lots of books.

Luckily I will probably get them :)

A Robert Welch toilet brush. So expensive but such good quality!

A new kindle.

Ideally - not to have to host our parents. Realistically - new slippers.

I had to look up Robert Welch and am intrigued as to what makes this so good and so much more expensive than other brushes?!

A good drill.

OP would you be interested in my 70+ year old mums hardback copy of Sense and Sensibility complete with award plate that she was presented at school?

I'm just about to charity shop it.

Their stuff doesn't rust. I have their toilet butler and, unlike the last one I had, it looks absolutely beautiful after many years. The previous ones I had rusted quickly.

I also have their kitchen knives, which are also fabulous.

And I love their designs.

Big fan here!

I really want one of those rolife kits where you build a little scene.

An outdoor water proof storage container and a greenhouse with non breakable glass, please

Oh yeah and a couple of those Scandinavian socks please in pastel shades, thanks

Genuinely just want both my kids at home for Christmas. That would be enough of a gift. The house is overflowing.

Clear skin with no effort (a tall order that Santa won't fulfill).

Yarn. I have tons but never the right one for the project I want to do next…

A bigger bottle of Saltworks’ Ko Mene fragrance as the mini one I got in a set last Christmas has nearly run out.

A book called Dopamine Home.

There were two other things I had on my mental list but I’ve already forgotten them 🤦‍♀️

Record player. Only because it was my birthday recently and my older brother tracked down a very sentimental record for me from our childhood, but I don’t have anything to play it on.

To not be on my own - it's exh Christmas with the kids this year and dp has an awkward custody swap so probs won't get to spend time with him either.

Now I knew who Robert Welch were as someone I buy for last year asked me for oyster forks and that's the store I bought them from - they were lovely.

What would I like this year .. hmmm

Well maybe something from Robert Welch or Culinary concepts like salt pots or vase/jug

A needle case

Potted hyacinths - Iove these every year

A lovely and cosy longer than hip length no button wrap cardigan in a soft grey or navy that I curl up in or throw over a dress when I go out - no idea if the perfect one exists but it would be a well used present

Fever tree martini mixer

Pavers do wide and extra wide boots, may be able to help