Christmas Gifts...What are you asking for?

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Hello everyone!
With the Christmas season right around the corner I was wondering what you are all asking for this year?
Especially the fellow men on this forum, what gifts are you asking for to advance you in your spiritual life/the Faith, hobbies etc.?
God bless!
 
I don’t ever ask for anything. That is not the point of gift giving to me. And I love surprises, so my family is on their own. 😉
 
I asked that the money spent on any Christmas gifts for me would be sent to a good Catholic charity.

I don’t need anything, in fact I’m to the age where I am downsizing. I have enough books to read, both vehicles are in good shape, don’t need any tools, …
 
My family never knows what to get me so several years ago I started buying my own books, after shave, and more books. I order in September, give them to my wife to wrap and by the time Christmas arrives I’ve forgotten what they are and am still pleased and surprised.
 
I always ask for the same thing–pierced earrings (fishhook preferred), candles (and I specify the three scents that I can tolerate) and towels.

The only jewelry I wear other than my wedding ring is earrings (although I have stopped wearing small ones and posts after losing two different ones pulling off my mask–I can HEAR large earring when they fall off). I love quirkly earrings that express my interests or that are holiday-related–right now, I’m wearing turkey earrings about the size of a quarter!

I use candles almost everyday, so I appreciate having a large supply!

And I HATE ratty, threadbare towels–and that’s the way our towels look after a year or two of use. So I LOVE getting new, soft, plush towels and relegating the ratty ones down to the basement pile of “scrubbing towels.”

I also love anything associated with ice skating, and uranium glass for my collection.

One other thing–EVERY year for the past ten years, my kids have gotten me a goofy Jesus item because when they were little, I would draw Jesus for them in stories, and my Jesus drawings were…not really good, and He always wore a blue sash. When I drew Jesus as a Baby in the manger, it really looked like a carrot (swaddling clothes), and my daughter swears that this has scarred her for life. So one year they (and my son-in-law, too) stayed up very late to craft a “Nutcracker Jesus” for me. Ever since then, they have found the most ridiculous Jesus gifts–last year, it was a refrigerator display of “What Would Jesus Wear?” At the moment, I have Him dressed in a dashiki and khakis.

I also like food gifts, unfortunately.
 
I don’t really want anything… well a new car would be nice, I’m currently in an 11 year old Renault with dodgy interior wiring that has gaffer tape holding bits of trim together, but I think that a new car might not quite fit onto Santa’s sleigh.

To be fair it is mechanically functional, so it can wait until LO starts school in September so I don’t want anything. My wife offered to buy me a SwitchStationBox 17, but it’d just gather dust sitting in its box, much like the quadcopter drone thing my parents got me for my birthday. I’m a nightmare to buy for, but I love getting people presents.
 
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I just told my daughter I wanted a power screw driver for Christmas! (she usually gives me perfume or a purse)
 
When they ask, I always tell my loved ones to surprise me. Whatever they wish to do for me, I appreciate. They know my tastes, my simple pleasures in life, they know what I love, and I leave it up to them. Some of the best gifts I’ve ever gotten have been totally unexpected.

One year, my sister made me a steppingstone for my garden path out of dyed concrete (it was green) and she embedded in it a glazed ceramic cat. I still have that today, and I got it for Christmas in 2000.

In 2013, she made me a beautiful needlepoint picture of a couple of cats resting contentedly in front of a fireplace. It was a lot of work, as it’s huge. She framed it for me, so all I had to do was hang it.

I love things people make with their hands, but whatever the gift, I appreciate the thought behind it.

Best of all, when they can visit, they gift me with their presence.
 
I am only asking God for one thing: to let my 17yo girl survive her brain stem tumour and be well again. I miss her.
 
I pray that God heals your daughter and that her health is restored. God bless your family!
 
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Love flannels so I ask for those usually, I have way too many haha. Always love new board games and hoping to get the Summa Theologica. Also the iPhone 11 has peaked my interest as my iPhone 7 is slow beyond belief
 
I’ll pray for your family, so sorry for the struggle, God bless you both.
 
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I am only asking God for one thing: to let my 17yo girl survive her brain stem tumour and be well again. I miss her.
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…and books 😊. Always, books, or art supplies, or a sculpture from Creator Mundi.

Creator Mundi

Below is the one I told my husband about for this year, The Angel of Strength. He loved it so I won’t be surprised if ‘we’ get that for Christmas 😂 I have many of the smaller angels, crosses, and other prayer devotionals and use them throughout the day. Being a very tactile person, I find the cool weight of the bronze is focusing and comforting. I’m often found holding a peace during Mass, prayer, in hospital waiting rooms, etc.

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For myself I am in need of several pairs of new kneesocks as I wore out 10 pairs last winter.

I would really love to go to Mass at Christmas with the rest of my parish. Especially those elderly and at risk people who haven’t been to Mass for many, many months. So an end to the Covid pandemic is very high on the very short list.
 
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