The Wish Book
Now with more crap from China
Remember the Sears Wish Book?
As we all know, that’s loooong gone - because the internet, but there’s an alternative:
The Amazon Book.
It’s new and improved with higher prices and tariffs to make your holiday extra expensive this year.
Well, one of these things showed up at the house and if you’re six-years-old this should be high on the must read books of fall. It has been thumbed through, walked around with, stepped on, fell asleep on and generally not too far from the child at all times.
I have been shown every item in it and sold on why this would be good for her this holiday season.
This is the year of the Christmas Wish.
It’s also the year of “No”.
The problem is there's nothing in it. Nothing.
All of the stuff in the book is just crap.
Let me explain:
There are 3 categories of toys here:
The will never happen category - this includes guns, Barbies, knives, MAGA hats or anything gold.
The you’re too old category - That ship has sailed. You don’t need the ice cream making set as it’s for 3 year olds and a lot of the Melissa and Doug stuff falls in the category. We’ve already made them rich, and now it’s time for Apple to get all our money when you’re a little older and start to ask for an iPhone.
The “that’s just crap category - This includes any toy made by Mr. Beast and anything that states you have to “collect them all”. Also, you don’t need any more squishmallows - the dog just eats them anyway.
This does not leave you with a lot of choices this year, so we’re just going to ask Santa for a Nintendo Switch 2 and hope you get it and like it because you’re really at that age where toys are no longer the fun they once were and yet you’re too young for an iPhone.
It’s hard to shop for this age I am finding out. You would think that with all the crap that’s available we would have a hard time choosing, but the fact is she’s lucky enough to not be wanting for anything.
Of course, there will be something under the tree for her, but it will be less this year: partly due to fiscal constraints but partly due to the fact that she’s good when it comes to stuff.
She was never much into stuff.
Today she had the time of her life making chips out of paper and guacamole out of some green wrapping paper while using the best gift of all:
Her imagination.
Keep Shopping,
TH and Co.
Experiences are special too. Start a snow man pageant on your street. Go bowling or two an indoor fun park. Make care packages for the local charity or overseas people. Back in the day they had these shoebox charities you filled with fun and necessary stuff and the charity shipped them to soldiers in wars around the world. Regardless of religion I guarantee that one or more churches in your area make Thanksgiving and Christmas food boxes for the holiday meal which they deliver to the families in need in your community who won’t otherwise have a holiday dinner. Watch all the old claymation holiday movies during December. I’m writing about free fun in an upcoming edition of my new newsletter Bren’s Booty about making life special with the small things you love. But here’s an early scoop for you and family. Find a room with undisturbed space and make a pillow/blanket fort. Let her decorate it for each upcoming holiday Halloween Thanksgiving and Christmas (or your personal favs) and retreat there a couple times a week when the going gets tough (schools now do a big work push before winter breaks and it can be overwhelming) or just to share a cookie and stare up at the twinkle lights on the ceiling. I’m a practical person so the hall closet ‘store’ would do for materials, but sites like Pinterest have some amazing ideas to make it ‘princess magical’ and what not. Enjoy!