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Jan. 2nd, 2007 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickChristmas is now over. It would please me greatly if nobody ever complained again about how I am impossible to buy for and how I never, ever say anything about what I might like to have for Christmas.
I refer the lot of you to the following post in which I clearly stated what I would like to have for xmas and then explained why I would like to have it and finally provided a link to where folks could BUY what I wanted because it was weird and hard to find. Nobody got me coupe soup bowls in Mikasa pattern Citation. I had to wait for three months without them to see if anyone was going to buy them for me for xmas and then, after all that waiting, nobody bought them. Bugger that for a lark, I gotta say.
The reason that I do not spend time generating wish lists of crap that I want is that telling people what I want is not particularly productive. It takes lots of my time to make a list and then I can't buy-n-have the stuff on the list because that's stuff I've agreed not to buy so that it will be in the gift queue. And, y'know, all the stuff in the gift queue is stuff I want because if I didn't want it, I wouldn't have asked for it. Basically, I do the legwork and then I have to wait (instead of buying-n-having) to see if anyone buys me what I want and then nobody listens to me anyway. I'm not impressed with this system.
I've bought my own damn coupe soup bowls... which I really wanted. A lot. They'll be here in a week and a half. Go me!
I refer the lot of you to the following post in which I clearly stated what I would like to have for xmas and then explained why I would like to have it and finally provided a link to where folks could BUY what I wanted because it was weird and hard to find. Nobody got me coupe soup bowls in Mikasa pattern Citation. I had to wait for three months without them to see if anyone was going to buy them for me for xmas and then, after all that waiting, nobody bought them. Bugger that for a lark, I gotta say.
The reason that I do not spend time generating wish lists of crap that I want is that telling people what I want is not particularly productive. It takes lots of my time to make a list and then I can't buy-n-have the stuff on the list because that's stuff I've agreed not to buy so that it will be in the gift queue. And, y'know, all the stuff in the gift queue is stuff I want because if I didn't want it, I wouldn't have asked for it. Basically, I do the legwork and then I have to wait (instead of buying-n-having) to see if anyone buys me what I want and then nobody listens to me anyway. I'm not impressed with this system.
I've bought my own damn coupe soup bowls... which I really wanted. A lot. They'll be here in a week and a half. Go me!
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Date: 2007-01-03 01:25 am (UTC)The perfume I like is $50 a bottle. I don't like the other kinds. If you're not getting me Chanel Crystalle, do not try to give me White Linen or something else. They are not even vaguely alike.
If I ask you for a carbide lamp and caver's helmet, do not laugh and think that I am joking. I am not. I wanted one. Not a piece of jewelry. Not a tassle (yes, I got a brocaded tassle one year), nor teddy bear plates because you think I need a "fun" change.
So I've given up making lists because nobody has ever purchased anything for me from them. With one exception. I got a sifter one year from my children. I was THRILLED because it was what I asked for, and what I wanted!
Ranty, aren't I?