Christmas Wishes
Step One
* Make a post (public, friends locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
* If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
* Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
* Surf around your friends list (or friends friends, or just random journals, or holiday_wishes/wish_list) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
*Anything from my Amazon Wish List. (Search - suzanne.nichols@gmail.com)
*I'd never say no to books. I love books.
*Music. I love Music. Send me what you're listening to, or a song that reminds you of me. It doesn't even need to be the actual song, you can just send the lyrics. :)
*Friends. New Friends, Old Friends, Young Friends, Blue Friends... Well you get the idea!
*Send a soldier a care package. So many of them have no family or don't have families with the means to send them something. It means the world to them while they're deployed. There are so many sites that do this, you can google them or here are a few:
Any Soldier
Operation Gratitude
Operation Shoebox
They will appreciate anything from a simple Christmas card to a box of random stuff. Don't send perishables, it might take a while to get to them :)
*I'm not picky, I love getting mail. It's fun and it always makes my day :) So even just a holiday card will be a fun ray of sunshine
* Make a post (public, friends locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
* If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
* Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
* Surf around your friends list (or friends friends, or just random journals, or holiday_wishes/wish_list) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
*Anything from my Amazon Wish List. (Search - suzanne.nichols@gmail.com)
*I'd never say no to books. I love books.
*Music. I love Music. Send me what you're listening to, or a song that reminds you of me. It doesn't even need to be the actual song, you can just send the lyrics. :)
*Friends. New Friends, Old Friends, Young Friends, Blue Friends... Well you get the idea!
*Send a soldier a care package. So many of them have no family or don't have families with the means to send them something. It means the world to them while they're deployed. There are so many sites that do this, you can google them or here are a few:
Any Soldier
Operation Gratitude
Operation Shoebox
They will appreciate anything from a simple Christmas card to a box of random stuff. Don't send perishables, it might take a while to get to them :)
*I'm not picky, I love getting mail. It's fun and it always makes my day :) So even just a holiday card will be a fun ray of sunshine