When do you start your wish list?
By SomeCowgirl
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
United States
November 1, 2009 7:40pm CST
My husband and I have just finished our wish list separate, but still need to do our together wish list. In any case, the fact that we have / are doing these lists made me think of asking everyone here a question. When do you start your wish lists for Christmas? The day after Christmas so you'll have it ready for next year, or do you start in say November so that you can ask for things that maybe just came out (video games) or aren't coming out until a few weeks before christmas (video games again). Do you even do a wish list? Have you asked friends and family to make a wish list? What type of item is on your wish list the most for this year?
My husband and I have wii games, or xbox 360 games and accessories on our respective wish lists. Now on our together list, we know atleast we'll be asking for the wii controller charging station, but anything else we're not quite sure.
Anyone heard of the "We wish you a merry christmas" wii game? It's coming out soon!
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9 responses
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
2 Nov 09
Have you ever seen the TV show "I Want That!''? They show all kinds of cool gadgets and the latest stuff. In my bookmarks I have a folder with that title and I save stuff I find online that I want to get later on. My wish list has nothing to do with Xmas and everything to do with cool stuff I want or am interested in learning more about. My Amazon.com wish list is ridiculous!
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
2 Nov 09
Canellita, I don't think I've gotten your response to me in my inbox! That is very odd as I got everyone else's I do believe! In any case, I have never heard of that show but I do know I've seen a segment full of cool gadgets or things on the today's show, I thinkt hey do this for the christmas season as well, toys and neat things coming out for kids, and adults I do believe.
In any case, My husband and I have recently been shopping a lot. We haven't had a real job in two years, I still don't have a job but hope to start one soon. In any case, We don't have a wishlist online per say but things we do want to get.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
3 Nov 09
It seems like you still have your reserves about it, but your staying for the kids and the insurance the job offers (that is to say, you know what your getting, no like health insurance)...
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
2 Nov 09
Congratulations on not needing a "real" job. I have been teaching part time now at the same school for 4 years. I can not believe I lasted that long! I am at that point where it is hard to think of leaving since at least it provides regular steady income and I always know what I am going to have (unlike some jobs).
It's also the kind of situation it is hard to walk away from because of the kids I work with, but I know at some point I will have to move on.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
8 Nov 09
Maybe grandma, cousins, aunts could help with the purchases? That's happened in my family plenty of times. When you can't get all of what the child wants, people chip in... though most of the time it remains with just one "from" instead of all that chipped in.
Lol, I'm sure when my husband and I have children we'll do much the same with having them make a wish list, and then trying our best to get atleast a few things from whatever's on it. Of course, it's appropriate for their age!
@highflyingxangel (9225)
• United States
3 Nov 09
I don't really have a specific time where I put together a Xmas wishlist. I just add things to my Amazon wishlists and then I go about adding things. Whenever it gets close to the holidays, I take a look at what things are dominating my wishlists and then I try to let people know about those things. I feel like it's just a better way to do it. I don't want to be annoying and tell people about what I want all the time. I like mentioning it passing once or twice and be done with it.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
3 Nov 09
I think that sites like that allow you to email your wishlist to others. That would be a great idea to do, you can email it to them and that way they'll see it, you'll only have to send it once. I don't like the idea of bothering people too much with what I want either, but if I know they have a bad memory I might mention it to them more.
@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
2 Nov 09
We need to do our together wish list soon so we can give it to my mother,and usually when I do a wish list or when I would do one when I was a kid I would wait until a couple months before Christmas to start it,and I have heard of the We wish you a Merry Christmas game on the Wii and it seems like an interesting game,I love you.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
2 Nov 09
We would just tell our grandmother or my mom what we wanted for Christmas when I was growing up. I assumed they wrote it down themselves somewhere, but they never had us write it down for them. I guess they felt that way left more of a mystery, but to be honest, this way is just the same plus it allows us to have more of a choice as we can write as much as we want down, and then it's a surprise as to what we really get.
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@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
2 Nov 09
I agree this way is better and maybe your mom or grandmother thought they could get out cheaper with writing it down themselves then having you write it down,and I am sure when we have kids we will have them make lists as well,I love you.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
3 Nov 09
I've never made a wish life in my whole life. As children we would ask "Father Christmas' for gifts for Christmas but basically it we got what our parents gave us. I have never done this at all. If I could wish for something then it would be:
Genuine peace on Earth to men of goodwill
Food for he hungry
Clothes for the naked
Love to be experienced by everyone. Everyone deserves even one person to utterly adore them in life.
That the recession will cease and people will get work again
For th sick to receive medical attention
For myself: that I can still keep my job for another 3 years and that I get healthy.
For you?: A Blessed Christmas and many years of a wonderful married life.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
3 Nov 09
I think that for the most part everyone is wrapped up in the materialistic world to wish for things like that. I realize that my wishlist was more for materialistic things, but I do wish for peace on earth, goodwill to all good people, and for the recession to end, for people to have clothes, food, and shelter. Here they have a program that provides coats for people in need of coats during the holiday's. I think it's called give a kid a coat.
I also wish for you good health and to stay on at your job for three more years. I also wish for you that this lawyer business will be fixed up for you.
For myself? I wish the same as you have said, many happy years. I think this Christmas season will be a joyous one as we plan to try to get together with my father's side, I haven't talked to my father in years until just recently.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
4 Nov 09
It is not wrong to want material things in life. It is good to have ambition and it all becomes wrong if it is put first and foremost and if we hurt people to get these material possessions. This is your first Christmas as a young married woman and I wish you both a joyful one together and do hope that all you dreams will come true. I am making a little progress with my lawyer. He is coming to my office today or tomorrow to collect yet another signed affidavit
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
2 Nov 09
Hi Amber, quite simply my dear I don't. As I may have said before we don't celebrate christas here and in the countries which do celebrate in a big way the obligation to buy many presents just seems to lead to finance problems. My son will receive a gift (another one) as his nameday, birthday and christmas are all only a few days apart.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
2 Nov 09
You may have told me that you don't celebrate Christmas, but if you have, I have forgotten. His nameday? Please forgive me for being ignorant, but I just don't know what that is.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
2 Nov 09
Namedays are the big thing out here, anyone named with a certain name has their name day on that saints day. Most people have a name which is recognised by a name day, so its really easy to remember. It it is the name day of one Sortiris the its the same for everyone else with that name, so we say xhronia polla to everyone with that name that day, or telephone them to say xhronia polla. Sometimes there's a dinner, and the children get their presents then.
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
2 Nov 09
We don't really do wish lists anymore, but we do have things that we know we want. We let our family know things that we are thinking about, and we usually get those things. This year, I want a toaster, a sweater, that sort of thing. I don't think there is really anything my husband wants.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
2 Nov 09
We do wish lists so that it will be more of a surprise, that and so that his mom can keep up with what my husband and I want. There's a lot of people to shop for, so I don't blame her! lol! We don't need a toaster now, but that was on our wedding registry list, we didn't get it though.
@stylishious1986 (21)
• Philippines
2 Nov 09
I think I'll have mine at the end of the year.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
2 Nov 09
You may not have understood me, or I may not have understood you. My question was when do you start your Christmas list? At the end of the year to me is either too close to Christmas, or past Christmas. Hope I've helped to clarify. Welcome To mylot!
@BelieveFast (15)
• United States
2 Nov 09
coming from a large family.. ive learned that the earlier you start the better.. and the most important things are given to the ones who make up their lists early..
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
3 Nov 09
So most likely the ones who give their lists earlier, are the ones to get the things they want, wherein the others might not. I guess it was all about having the money for it, and the ones who didn't make their list up until later, were given things that maybe they didn't really want, but was within the budget. Am I Right?
