Honestly, I’m busy tossing stuff these days. I sure don’t need more “stuff”. An Amazon g.c. so I can feed my reading addiction with Kindle downloads is the best gift I could get. Besides wedding and/or grandbaby news and I’m sure neither of those is happening.
I want an Amazon Fire Stick because Amazon won’t let me play movies through the Google box on the tv anymore!
My Christmas last year was extravagant …my husband bought be a luxury vehicle. I also got the typical sweaters , nice body lotions, cook wear and other indulgences I get once a year…but the fact of the matter is, I can’t enjoy anything material if the lives of my children are at risk due to the current climate of terror threats we live in…I also can’t ignore the facts of the innocent people who have lost their lives simply for being in the right pace at the wrong time…here or abroad . None of us are immune and I can’t enjoy a gift giving celebration when too may cannot enjoy the same basic right we all should be able to celebrate
I think letting terrorists take away from our family celebrations, gift giving or not, is just giving them what they want: to make us give up our way of life, and live in fear and depression.
I only want a pair of gloves. If I get it or I don’t, it’s not important, but I’m not going to let the actions of terrorists make me feel guilty for experiencing the gift of joy at receiving something given to me in love.
@Nrdsb4 - ^I couldn’t have said it better and completely agree! 
ETA: Gift cards, only gift cards on my list…
Here’s something I would really like but it would be horrible to even ask for it. I fantasize that I could just drag in from work and find something wonderful in freezer or refrigerator that I could just heat up, and it comes with a nice bottle of wine! (Although I would really only drink about half a glass of it)
So, I would love to receive something nutritious and homemade, frozen and ready to go!
I’ve asked for one of those digital photo frames, nice pajamas and fancy moisturizer that I cannot bring myself to splurge for. With my luck, the frame will be empty and it will be years before I ever get any photos organized myself.
World peace and all, sure, but I wanted an electric tea kettle (so I bought it for myself a few days ago and love love love it), I still want a new waterpik, a fitbit (because I figure if I’m looking at the steps or lack of steps I take I’ll actually do something about it), anything for quilting or sewing. Lottery tickets, theater tickets, movie tickets - all good. I’m thinking about a Kindle, probably the cheapest Fire, just to read on yet another device and my Nook is wearing out.
Yep, call me materialistic, I still love presents.
Why would it be horrible to ask for that?! Give me your DH’s email! Or your DS’s or DD’s email! I want you to wake up one morning and find that meal in the frig, AND the wine! You work hard. You family probably doesn’t have a clue what to give you to show you they love you, and here it is! Come on!
twoanddone- if it is just for reading, you want a Paperwhite Kindle, not a fire.
For Christmas, I want my 75% off Saks designer sale! I’ll glady take 50% off at Selfridges, too.
On my list I have a Mah Jong set, a Williams-Sonoma bread box (supposedly keeps bread fresher) and a new bathrobe. I figure the bathrobe is a gift for the family, so they don’t have to see me in my ratty one anymore.
I picked out a necklace at a event and showed it to my kids. I know they purchased it for my H to give me. I also purchased new oven mitts from William Sonoma after Thanksgiving. I told my H they are from him.
An electric ice cream maker… a Chemex coffee pot… Elena Ferrante’s “Neapolitan” novels (I read them on my Kindle and would like to have the paperbacks)… my favorite Dr Hauschka face cream… and a magnifying glass to read the insanely small print directions on my oven cleaner and other products!
No presents, please! This is my normal request.
My D’s answer this year was (first time in her life she could say that) - it is my own money. Oh well, cannot control them forever, I am sure whatever she gives me will be a good memory!
I will take money from anybody outside of my family, but I am still waiting for offer and loosing hope!
I always ask for $100 from my sister. And she asks for the same. We each throw in a bottle of wine and call it done. Works for us.
Guaranteed this will not help you Onward.
Chalk
We just got a new driveway put in and it has a large 40x60 foot spot at the top. I have a deep desire to do a 3D drawing and it is the perfect blank canvas. If it snows I will have to wait until spring.
I will need to park the cars strategically though. No one should have to see that view of me as they drive by. X_X
@mom60, tell me about the oven mitts. Something unusual, or were you just due for a new pair?
I recently bought a pair of “oven gloves” from B, B, & B, and they are pretty cool.
I also need no more ‘stuff.’
One thing that has piqued my curiosity is the new ‘23andme’ DNA kits. It could provide great information- health & ancestry-wise and only take up a little space on the computer.
H has a bunch of different oven gloves and mitts for BBQ. He likes the ones that are the very small silicone ones – just your fingers fit – the best and finds the other ones cumbersome. They were $1/pair at a hardware store.
My H and I don’t buy each other anything (except I always get him the Farmer’s Almanac), but we might each get something we want when it comes up–he would like a trumpet, and I keep telling him to go ahead and get it . He’s telling me to buy a new laptop, but I’m putting it off because I’m in the midst of putting a small screen porch on our home down the shore so I can go outside when the mosquitos are out–which is all day, much of the year. That is such an extravagance that I feel like I’m done for the year.
My D makes me a mix CD every year–really enjoy that!
My mom usually gets me a gift certificate from my favorite independent bookstore, and I get her one from B and N, and we are both totally happy picking out books guilt-free!