What would you actually like for Christmas?

I had the car valeted once too.
£50? Cant remember exact amount,
Good for a one off.
Not a thing I would regualrly do.

For DH and child to reconcile.

My DH is getting on a bit and my mobility not good so I would like a small but luxurious cottage with fabulous views and a very good but unobtrusive maid service. Also fabulous meals delivered to order and a comfortable car and chauffeur outside to take us wherever we choose.

I don’t want anything but to be at home with my beloved.

Well, a bit of company on Christmas Day would be welcome. Have you seen the TV schedules? Dire. Elder daughter offered to fetch me to her place and back but there is no way I would let her spend most of Christmas Day driving. Younger daughter lives even further away and they have a small child, so same applies.

However, as far as a present is concerned, I am in the happy situation where I have everything I need and can buy what I want (except company). It could be, and in the past has been, a lot worse. One year, a Christmas box from the Church containing a cabbage, some teabags and similar items was a blessing.

What I want, I can never have again but….. some peace of mind would be welcome - and a bottle of Oban malt whisky!

I want to live with Romily.

Aely: I don’t know how far away your daughters are from you but would you manage to go there by train? I’ve found the Passenger Assistance Service works well when I travel alone, with kindly staff to help me and my luggage to board and alight from trains. They accompany me to other platforms, too, if required and no charge is levied.

Romilo sorry - phone thinks it's cleverer than it is sometimes.

I’m with ginny and feel so fortunate that my family all get on and care about each other. The only thing I can think of that I would like is a bee hotel. Apart from world peace, good health and eternal life. Well maybe not eternal!

i don't need anything just a card from my son and family, other than that let me be, i don't bother with christmas, never had but did all the right things when my son was growing up, my mother wants me to spend christmas with her a she is now widowed....last thing i want.

I think for the first time in my life, having had many family Christmases with children, with parents and in laws, oh, and a divorced brother to cater for, I would like to leave with a suitcase and DH and go to a nice warm country on Dec 20th and not come back until Jan 3rd! It's not possible but just for once I can dream.

i'd like my estranged grandaughters (their mum, my daughter, died in 2023) and my estranged son with his two daughters to turn up on my doorstep.
however i don't think that'll happen so i'll just hope that my remaining teeth behave themselves unlike the one which gave me excrutiating pain last year so i didn't get to eat my christmas dinner until a couple of days after boxing day (when i'd recovered from the extraction).

Fantasy world: I want DH to still be alive.
Real world: nothing. I have all I need and can buy exactly what I want or do need. So I would like people to stop buying me stuff I don’t want and listen to me saying thanks for the thought but please don’t. Not having to deal with a Christmas and all it entails is the best gift.
It’s socially acceptable to not deal with other traditions and holidays, so why not Christmas?

I always say plants, books or yarn.

My best gift is for all my family to be together
Just love family gatherings

Peace and quiet, due to a innocent comment by a family member, all hells broken out in our family this morning, all my careful planning has now gone out of the window...HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

Please don't hit me with remarks about "virtue signalling", because I would like to share my favourite present every year from DD1.
She sends money to Save the Children and I receive a card telling me what has been "bought" on my behalf.
Last year it was a travelling midwife kit used in rural Africa. This year it's a new baby bundle for a child born in a refugee camp.
The thought of a new mum in need of these basics- a towel, nappies, soap, a warm hat, is heartbreaking, but I feel such joy that some little one, somewhere, has these because of me: it makes me quite emotional.

That my daughter-in-law would start helping more like maybe even bringing the milk in earlier than a week after it’s been delivered🥴

Of course I can say nothing and I don’t also I’m terrified of gifts. I don’t want anything. I don’t need anything. I don’t have anywhere to put anything and folks are going to give you something anyway aren’t they? Yikes I wish folks would listen. I like Christmas lights that makes me happy.

And yes, did everybody would give all of their money to places like save the children to the homeless shelters to those in need to those who don’t have what others might take for granted there but for the grace go I🙏🏻

For someone else to cook Christmas dinner and wash up!! That would be the first time in 40 years!

You are not virtue signal Chocolatelovinggran. Lovely way to spend 'gift' money.
That's lovely Foxie. I don't paint, but have been told, by one who does,
that watercolour painting is one of the more difficult forms. If you make an error, you can't just paint over it.

These are for the GNs who are missing folk this Christmas

Please just help yourselves.

I would like for my Daughter to want me back in her life and to ask me to move back down to where we used to live.

Of course, time with the family. But we are given a national trust membership each year which is gratefully received. And I would always ask for book gift cards for other occasions, if asked.