# What does a one year old boy want for his birthday and Christmas?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 20, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-one-year-old-boy-want-for-his-birthday-and-christmas/699045 "2014-09-20T20:54:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-one-year-old-boy-want-for-his-birthday-and-christmas/699045/41 "2014-09-23T04:00:51Z")

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> [@Green\_Bean](#):
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> Gee thanks. Now I have a nearly uncontrollable urge to go get a tissue box and start yanking.
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> I’m seriously thinking “well, the one in the bathroom is nearly empty, so maybe I could just do that one and it wouldn’t be such a waste…”

I’m reminded of when Ramona Quimby (can’t remember which book) gave her neighbor Willa Jean a box of kleenex and she did just that.

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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-one-year-old-boy-want-for-his-birthday-and-christmas/699045/42 "2014-09-24T07:53:17Z")

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All the individual suggestions I’ve seen here were for things that some of the kids I know really liked at that age.

My own kid, the only gift he actually appreciated was a set of nesting cups. (And the cardboard boxes)

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