# What do you want for Christmas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933 "2018-11-03T16:09:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/21 "2018-11-03T22:18:51Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Yeah, but if they are already in captivity that sorta negates that issue. Not to my way of thinking. I have an intense conviction that one should only keep those animals that one is prepared to give the very best quality of life available to. There are plenty of pets which require very little in the way of effort, to keep very well. Parrots may put up with poor conditions better than some but that doesn’t mean they should. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/22 "2018-11-04T01:07:35Z")
My cousin has a stock answer for this type of query : " a blow up doll and a case of fix-a-flat" in 50 years hes never received it …. As for me id like a grand or two in cash to pay for a mistake or two ive made recently ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/23 "2018-11-04T01:16:26Z")
I want a complete set of cycling gear for all weather conditions…that fits me. It’s out there (in one or maybe two places) but it’s expensive to procure all at once. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/24 "2018-11-04T01:31:45Z")
I think $1,000 would outfit me nicely with a kayak and necessary safety gear. I may as well get the roof rack for the car, too. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/25 "2018-11-04T01:32:33Z")
I’m very, very lucky to not need anything. The chess set would be cool though. I had started playing chess online, and my Wife got interested in it. So I have been teaching her to play. Not a weekend goes by without her asking to play. We usually fit in about 5 games. I shouldn’t be surprised at my wife’s competitive spirit. She’s raced 4 full 140 mile IronMan races. I’m the Sherpa/Pit Crew. Chess, music and beers. Beats the hell out of re-runs on TV. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/26 "2018-11-04T02:04:31Z")
Since I have had to give up on buying books due to restricted finances, I would like all the cool Art books for the last few Star Wars movies. Not just the pre-prduction art, but amazing coffee table books like [this](https://www.amazon.com.au/Star-Wars-Art-Ralph-McQuarrie/dp/1419717936/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541296952&sr=1-1), [this](https://www.amazon.com.au/Star-Wars-Blueprints-Production-Archives/dp/0760355444/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541296813&sr=1-5&keywords=j+w+rinzler), and especially [this](https://www.amazon.com.au/Star-Wars-archives-1977-1983/dp/3836563401/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541296652&sr=1-2&keywords=star+wars). ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/27 "2018-11-04T02:30:52Z")
A Blackstar Artist 30 combo Amp. It has dual 12" speakers. Normally a little over a $1,000 but currently on sale for $600. That would be a great Christmas gift. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/28 "2018-11-04T02:41:07Z")
A couple days alone with my wife. Sleeping late, then, um, staying up late. So, I guess a couple nights in a nice hotel and a couple nice dinners out. We could do that for $1000. I love my kids dearly, but they’ve kind of put a damper on the romance. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/29 "2018-11-04T02:58:03Z")
Audubon bird a day calendar Labrys lapel pin Electric toothbrush Slippers ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/30 "2018-11-04T03:07:02Z")
I’d love to have my Seamaster DeVille sent back to to Bienne, Switzerland and completely refurbished. $1,000 should just about cover that. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/31 "2018-11-04T03:07:53Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Not to my way of thinking. I have an intense conviction that one should only keep those animals that one is prepared to give the very best quality of life available to. > > There are plenty of pets which require very little in the way of effort, to keep very well. Parrots may put up with poor conditions better than some but that doesn’t mean they should. I am fairly certain, no, for sure I can do bird husbandry with success. I am not a quitter. The birds I would look in to could be rescues or bred in captivity. I do not advocate wild caught birds or birds illegally transported to the US. I wouldn’t even consider it if I didn’t think I could do it right. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/32 "2018-11-04T03:18:47Z")
Nothing, thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![UCBearcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/77aa72/32.png) [@UCBearcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UCBearcats)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/33 "2018-11-04T04:02:13Z")
2 of Santa’s helpers that are mine for a couple of hours. 😈 ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/34 "2018-11-04T08:37:53Z")
I’d like a gemstone globe. something like [this one.](https://www.amazon.com/Unique-Art-21-Inch-Gemstone-Tripod/dp/B0085U3J46/) My manager at work had a gorgeous one (gift from a client), and I burned with envy. However, I hesitate to buy one online, based on a photo. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/35 "2018-11-04T11:02:14Z")
I’ve asked for a [personal locator beacon](https://www.amazon.com/PLB-375-ResQLink-Buoyant-Personal-Locator/dp/B006JXY0CQ) for Christmas. I’m nearing completion of a multi-year project to travel some of the Intra Coastal Waterway. I should finish the boat mods next year, I will probably choose that date to retire and start my nautical wandering. In light of that, the PLB seems like a good choice and more useful than the normal grill tools, clothes, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/36 "2018-11-04T11:28:58Z")
I want to find a nice, bright piano lamp for around a hundred clams. It is weird - the ones I’ve found so far are either too cheap (~$29) or too expensive (\>$200). mmm ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/37 "2018-11-04T15:23:03Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Price limit is $1000. Three ounces of primo weed. One ounce of a couch-lock indica, one ounce of a trippy sativa, and one ounce of a middle of the road indica/sativa hybrid. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/38 "2018-11-04T15:38:11Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > Calamitywear Dinosaurs: [Dinosaur Platter - Calamityware®](https://calamityware.com/products/calamityware-platter-dinosaurs?fbclid=IwAR2QiKgUNkXbOSYGZD8dKV3SKr3I7bm3ByqlHa6zxlf52rbL0CBqbOtGhg8) > > You’ll see it’s well under $1000. I already have the plate with the pterodactyl on it. I am putting that on _my_ Christmas list for real. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/39 "2018-11-04T16:28:27Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Keeping in the _spirit_ of Christmas, I wouldn’t mind [this Japanese whisky Advent calendar](https://dekanta.com/store/japanese-whisky-advent-calendar-2018-premium-edition/). I would like that. Sent the link to my wife. The past 5 years I have been making and selling my own advent calendars with micro distillery products from the state of Washington. The cost of making them and selling them at cost has reduced my market to just a few people so I won’t be making any this year. I still haven’t recovered the cost of the bottles and boxes, I still have a bunch of both. Got the idea from a [local distillery](https://heritagedistilling.com/collections/spirits) that still sells them. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933/40 "2018-11-04T17:31:24Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > I’d like a gemstone globe. something like [this one.](https://www.amazon.com/Unique-Art-21-Inch-Gemstone-Tripod/dp/B0085U3J46/) > > My manager at work had a gorgeous one (gift from a client), and I burned with envy. However, I hesitate to buy one online, based on a photo. That’s awesome, I’d be happy with one of those too. I also want a weighted blanket, not necessarily this one but something similar: [https://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/The+Most+Luxurious+Stress+Relieving+Weighted+Blanket/206436](https://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/The+Most+Luxurious+Stress+Relieving+Weighted+Blanket/206436) I have an ancient, falling-apart and sun-faded comforter that I refuse to give up because I love how heavy it is. I like the weight on me when I’m trying to fall asleep even in the summertime. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933.md?page=3)