What would you like for Christmas?

I would like one Christmas without personally having Covid, (past 3 yrs) and without family in hospital for emergency situations, just ONE peaceful healthy family Christmas please (alas it will NOT be this one as health emergencies have put the boot in to ruin it already) fingers crossed for next year!?!

Someone to love and I can trust

I'm in the "too much stuff" camp. I received a pair of beautiful diamond stud earrings years ago from my now Ex-H - not the sort of thing I'd wear anywhere, would be too worried about losing one ... I had to say, outright, plan something, go somewhere, do something together. The earrings would have been a weekend in Florence, spend time and make the memories.

For me - I might suggest to my son we have a couple of days somewhere - York, maybe - or a Winter weekend in Barcelona! No more "stuff".

Allsorts

Peace. At home and The World.

We’re you ever a Miss World or other beauty contest contestant?? That’s what they all say, without exception 🤣

Since you’re asking I’d like an Apple Watch please 😊😊😊😂😂😂x

All of our AC’s have asked us and we’ve told them not get us anything we’d rather spend time with them as we have everything we need or want. I don’t see the point is getting more stuff. I love giving to my family and get to see the joy they get from their gift. This year my eldest son recently moved into a new flat so we’re giving him money to treat himself to something he’d really like, but wouldn’t dream of buying. My 2nd son and his partner are going away to Tenerife for Christmas so we’re giving them euros, my youngest son and his wife will be given money to spend on themselves and not his daughters. My daughter and her partner will also get cash to treat themselves as they’ve had a tough year, with ill health. My Granddaughters will get some really nice gifts. I spend more on the adults, as DGD get gifts from everyone in the family.

DH and I don't exchange gifts. We have everything we want so there is no need to spend money on things we don't simply because it's the thing to do.

This year, however, we are treating ourselves just after Christmas. We're going on a 2 days mystery tour in early January. We couldn't resist a weekend away with coach travel and half-board for £49 each.

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I would like one Christmas without personally having Covid, (past 3 yrs) and without family in hospital for emergency situations, just ONE peaceful healthy family Christmas please (alas it will NOT be this one as health emergencies have put the boot in to ruin it already) fingers crossed for next year!?!

Oh you poor thing! Fingers crossed that this year won’t be as bad as you are anticipating. 🤞

I usually tell my family that I don't need a present, my huband sometimes gets me a box of glace fruits and my youngest daughter gets me something nice that I didn't think about.
My oldest son buys presents for the adults in our family and then seems to dish them out at random. Others get presents from him that we would have liked and they don't, and we get very odd things that might have suited them. Very strange.

I can't think of anything I really want but after reading this thread I will take DH shopping for a bird feeder. Squirrels aren't a problem here but there is a very agile mouse which has worked out how to get to the peanut feeder. So it will have to be mouse proof. Our local cat lover had died and her cats were rehomed, I used to complain that they frightened off the birds but I guess they were good mousers.

Books books & more books then enough time left to read them all!

Neither I nor my adult children or teenage grandchildren actually need any more stuff. But somehow a cheap fun ( or useful) present isn’t acceptable. So I am stuck for ideas of what to give or what I would like.
However my daughter has planted about 80 bulbs in my garden for me for my birthday / Christmas so I have those to look forward to in due course.

DH asked me what I would like. As we’ve just bought a new to us car and mobility scooter for him, we agreed on something small.

I’ve told him I’d like some dark chocolates from either of two small manufacturers. They’re not the most expensive but a real treat for me as I don’t buy them for myself. He didn’t seem keen on the idea!

We are going to treat ourselves to some new dining room furniture, what we have was mine before we were married and (a bit like us) it's somewhat the worse for wear, rather scruffy and has definitely seen better days.

The downside of this is that DH will leave it to me to choose and there is just too much choice, particularly for a Libran who has difficulty in making decisions ... I am spending a lot of time on websites like The Cotswold Company etc. and I lose track of what I like and where it is.

I never have any idea what I want for Christmas and birthdays. I must drive Beloved mad.

The thing is, I'm never bothered what people buy me. That sounds terrible, but what I mean is I don't mind what I get.

A few years ago, one of the grandsons,aged over 21, so not a child, bought me a block of Cadburys Dairy Milk. I was just as chuffed as I would have been if he spent a fortune.

I dread the question popping every year.

heavenlyhealth It hasn’t got a strap. As an old leather bag, one must be made for it to match the old leather. A shoe repairer is just that. A cobbler or saddler could have done it, but most don’t do that sort of work these days .

I hadn’t really thought about presents yet - but I may be getting better vision after cataract surgery! Best present ever. I’ve been wearing distance glasses for 59 years! I’ve spent a small fortune on glasses and eye tests in that time. Fingers crossed! 🤞

I used to tell my DDs when small "a tidy house and two smiling girls". I usually got the latter but am still waiting for the former!

My dad once told me, when asked the same as a small child "a pair of shoelaces" - and I bought these for him every year thereafter!

This year we've all had a poor time healthwise so my wish is for a trauma-free Christmas and news of a pregnancy for my youngest DD on her third round of IVF.

I always ask for book tokens. I have all the stuff I need by now and very specific tastes but I still love buying nice things for my adult daughter.

I just want my son and daughter back, and their children 😕

My daughter is very bossy.
I not only have to provide a list but the links to Amazon so that she can order. She also does the shopping for her sister who is too lazy and disinterested to bother and has no idea what is bought.
I save a Christmas ideas list on the computer as I think of things.
Must get around to forwarding it.

I give money to sons a d DILs. I have told them I don't need, want anything for the past two years. Somehow tgey have figured out what I would like eg new fleecy dressing gown and an air fryer. I just can't get into all the adult presents at Christmas, GC yes. I enjoy being with one or other family on the day but usually for a week as neither live near me. That's the best present ever.

I would really like a double violin case. I have to take my violin and viola together at times and it is a real faff to take both cases. My viola is ¾ sized, the same size as a full size violin, so this would be ideal.

For my partner to have surgery to have Bert removed.
Bert is a growth, caused by a blockage in the lymph system... think Elephant man, but in the area of his genitals, hanging down below his knees.
He can sit in his rise recliner comfortably without sitting on it, he has to walk sideways because otherwise it swings and pulls at the skin.
It's been affecting his mobility for about 4 years, causing him to take early retirement from the Foreign Office. It's affecting his continence, it's difficult to keep the area clean, which results in repeated UTIs, current one is on its 3rd different lot of antibiotics.
Just for him to be able to go to the kitchen and make me a cup of tea, or for both of us to be able to go out for a coffee would be wonderful.

Another Christmas 😄