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Mum asked me to make a Christmas wish list. It's always hard, because I already have so much stuff, I keep getting rid of stuff but the stuff keeps arriving, and it makes me nervous since I never really got over the fact that for ten years I was moving at least once a year, and often more. So much stuff. :( And it's hard to get rid of stuff people gave me. Because they gave it to me! And I like it! I just don't know where to put it!

Also, Mum makes it extra hard on herself and everyone else because she considers gift-cards to be gauche. I don't; I fucking love gift cards, but she thinks they show a lack of initiative. IDEK, she likes making life difficult.

I've become reduced to wandering around retail websites, looking at stuff and trying to get ideas from it, like grow your own oyster mushroom kits and thousand-piece jigsaw puzzles. I've asked for a lot of art prints and messenger bags because let's face it, I have a million messenger bags already but I will never have too many, and it's hard to have too many art prints, like, walls are pretty big.

She told me to ask for some "Crazy expensive stuff" because she's getting an inheritance, but the craziest thing I can think of is a sofa from Ikea and I want to pick that out myself because furniture is important and I have very specific requirements.

I mean, I guess I could get a sofa from somewhere else, but that enters a murky and unfamiliar world I'm not eager to brave.

Comments

[cynonymous.livejournal.com]

Could she hire your movers?

In the food-of-the-month vein, how about a CSA share?

Or, for a great gift that you don't have to store or move, a couple of shares of stock of a company you like?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Stock's a good idea. I've no idea how that works, but I wonder if I asked her to pay into the investment doodah that I already have....