Wish List '04
This year I took my time creating my Christmas list. I figured, it is the last year where I can salvage any gifts directed just towards me and not to "the hubby and the wife". So for weeks I worked on it until I got it just right. It's not that it is a huge long list or anything. I just wanted to make sure that what I had on it, I really wanted and I wouldn't find myself standing in a return line three days after the holidays only because I wasn't careful enough to put down "Sand" as the color of my Ugg boots. Needless to say, once distributed, I caught some major shit. These are some of the comments I received. As an additive, here are my responses as well:
"I don't want to buy that as a gift. That's not a Christmas gift, it's just something you get. "
What is the difference? If you need or want something, what does it matter when you get it? Since when are certain gifts for certain days? If you want to buy me presents all year round, that is fine by me, but I am just trying to cut you some slack here. You will earn points by sticking to the list.
" You have an expensive list there."
It's a wish list. Wishes are meant to be somewhat extravagant---that's why they are wishes. Isn't there something special about opening up a gift under the tree you hoped you would get but somewhere in the back of your mind know it is a bit impractical? That's part of the magic of Christmas. If you can't put something on your wish list, where else would you put it? Also this: sometimes people like to chip in on gifts. Enough said.
" There's a lot on your list. Which do you want most?"
I have provided you with a list. I have taken the guessing work out of it. Why don't I just go to the store and purchase it myself? Now you're asking me to put it in numerical order?? All you have to do is pick something---anything---on the list. It could be item #2. It could be item #7. Whichever it is, I will be happy. I am happy already. The only reason I have a list is because I can't seem to escape the question "What do you want for Christmas?" which I thought would end shortly after I stopped sitting on Santa's knee in the department store.
In any event, I don't distribute my list to everyone. I don't give it out with a "Happy Holidays! Here's my list" attitude. There are certain people who I know will be wanting to shop for me. And what's so wrong about telling someone exactly what you want rather than having to pretend they know you just so well they can guess what you may be wishing for this year? People compile lists for groceries, errands, accomplishments in life. Yet when it comes to having a list for Christmas, the one time you can acually say "Hey look, I know you might be planning on buying me something. I don't necessarily want you to, but if you're going to feel compelled to do so, here are the things I could use", why do we become so "put-off"?
Items on a wish list are meant to be different than the everyday things you buy. These days, as a working woman who is easily self-sufficient and doesn't really need to rely on anyone to purchase a gift to make me happy. If I need or want something, I go buy it. I don't wait. However, there are those few items that you keep to yourself and share only in the few weeks (or month) before the big holiday. These are the items you won't just go and buy. And if someone were to get them, well that would be swell. But if they aren't under the tree, that is fine too. I love Christmas for so many other reasons that this is not even close to being #1.
FYI-After being heckled about my Xmas list for some time, the fiancee began to send me his. Well actually, he keeps sending me addendums and what-not. I received one the other day with a note saying "This would make a good stocking stuffer". It was a $58 shirt. In all my years past, my Santa Claus stuffed my stocking with candy and socks, not $58 shirts. Perhaps now that I have moved to Brookfield, things will be different. However, you've got a better chance of adding the shirt to the wish list column. But choosing your stocking stuffers is definitely taking things a bit too far.
"I don't want to buy that as a gift. That's not a Christmas gift, it's just something you get. "
What is the difference? If you need or want something, what does it matter when you get it? Since when are certain gifts for certain days? If you want to buy me presents all year round, that is fine by me, but I am just trying to cut you some slack here. You will earn points by sticking to the list.
" You have an expensive list there."
It's a wish list. Wishes are meant to be somewhat extravagant---that's why they are wishes. Isn't there something special about opening up a gift under the tree you hoped you would get but somewhere in the back of your mind know it is a bit impractical? That's part of the magic of Christmas. If you can't put something on your wish list, where else would you put it? Also this: sometimes people like to chip in on gifts. Enough said.
" There's a lot on your list. Which do you want most?"
I have provided you with a list. I have taken the guessing work out of it. Why don't I just go to the store and purchase it myself? Now you're asking me to put it in numerical order?? All you have to do is pick something---anything---on the list. It could be item #2. It could be item #7. Whichever it is, I will be happy. I am happy already. The only reason I have a list is because I can't seem to escape the question "What do you want for Christmas?" which I thought would end shortly after I stopped sitting on Santa's knee in the department store.
In any event, I don't distribute my list to everyone. I don't give it out with a "Happy Holidays! Here's my list" attitude. There are certain people who I know will be wanting to shop for me. And what's so wrong about telling someone exactly what you want rather than having to pretend they know you just so well they can guess what you may be wishing for this year? People compile lists for groceries, errands, accomplishments in life. Yet when it comes to having a list for Christmas, the one time you can acually say "Hey look, I know you might be planning on buying me something. I don't necessarily want you to, but if you're going to feel compelled to do so, here are the things I could use", why do we become so "put-off"?
Items on a wish list are meant to be different than the everyday things you buy. These days, as a working woman who is easily self-sufficient and doesn't really need to rely on anyone to purchase a gift to make me happy. If I need or want something, I go buy it. I don't wait. However, there are those few items that you keep to yourself and share only in the few weeks (or month) before the big holiday. These are the items you won't just go and buy. And if someone were to get them, well that would be swell. But if they aren't under the tree, that is fine too. I love Christmas for so many other reasons that this is not even close to being #1.
FYI-After being heckled about my Xmas list for some time, the fiancee began to send me his. Well actually, he keeps sending me addendums and what-not. I received one the other day with a note saying "This would make a good stocking stuffer". It was a $58 shirt. In all my years past, my Santa Claus stuffed my stocking with candy and socks, not $58 shirts. Perhaps now that I have moved to Brookfield, things will be different. However, you've got a better chance of adding the shirt to the wish list column. But choosing your stocking stuffers is definitely taking things a bit too far.
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