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wish list thingy (updated)
Dec. 4th, 2007 11:34 amSome people are posting Giftmas wishlists. I was feeling really weird about doing one. Not inspired. Too selfish. Too ego-ey and then today I saw one and got some inspired. So here is mine.
Instructions go something like:
Step One
* Make a post to your LJ. The post should contain your list of holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple to medium to really big. The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
* If you wish for real life things (not stories or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
* Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
Surf around your friends list (or friends friends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use — or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free — do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf — to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not — it's your call.
There are no strict expectations with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just…wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
- a handwritten in the real world letter. it would be super cool if it was a little love note to our friendship. but something tangible that i can hold to remind me of you would really make my year.
- items from Etsy with anatomical drawings, bugs, trees, or bones on them
- someone to recalculate my checkbook and find the error that has me and the bank disagreeing on my balance
- money to help pay off my accordion so i can bring it home sooner
- blank cassette tapes (yes old fashioned cassettes)
- accordion song books. especially old ones from the 20's - 50's.
- mix cd's. i often drive around and feel like i am leaning on your shoulder rocking out with you when i listen to a mix you made. it makes me happy
- an iPod. My last ipod shuffle was an awesome gift and then my computer ate it and snapped it's usb port. so i am currently lacking any mobile music options. the oldest beat up ipod is fine as long as it still functions.
- a picture of us framed.
- coasters - it's totally true - i have a coaster fetish
- your treat for a night at bourbon and branch
- Zappos or anthropologie gift certificate (ok i just couldn't help this one)
- size 16 / 18 A line circle skirts (used is fine)
- size 9 boots that are comfy for walking in. (used is fine)
- red wine / whiskey
- a literary agent / book publisher that would like my style of poetry
- talismans
- a story you write that has both of us in it as characters
- fancy cheeses
- new LJ icons that you make
Instructions go something like:
Step One
* Make a post to your LJ. The post should contain your list of holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple to medium to really big. The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
* If you wish for real life things (not stories or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
* Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
Surf around your friends list (or friends friends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use — or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free — do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf — to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not — it's your call.
There are no strict expectations with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just…wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
- a handwritten in the real world letter. it would be super cool if it was a little love note to our friendship. but something tangible that i can hold to remind me of you would really make my year.
- items from Etsy with anatomical drawings, bugs, trees, or bones on them
- someone to recalculate my checkbook and find the error that has me and the bank disagreeing on my balance
- money to help pay off my accordion so i can bring it home sooner
- blank cassette tapes (yes old fashioned cassettes)
- accordion song books. especially old ones from the 20's - 50's.
- mix cd's. i often drive around and feel like i am leaning on your shoulder rocking out with you when i listen to a mix you made. it makes me happy
- an iPod. My last ipod shuffle was an awesome gift and then my computer ate it and snapped it's usb port. so i am currently lacking any mobile music options. the oldest beat up ipod is fine as long as it still functions.
- a picture of us framed.
- coasters - it's totally true - i have a coaster fetish
- your treat for a night at bourbon and branch
- Zappos or anthropologie gift certificate (ok i just couldn't help this one)
- size 16 / 18 A line circle skirts (used is fine)
- size 9 boots that are comfy for walking in. (used is fine)
- red wine / whiskey
- a literary agent / book publisher that would like my style of poetry
- talismans
- a story you write that has both of us in it as characters
- fancy cheeses
- new LJ icons that you make
