Wish List (with a certain amount of pie-in-the-sky)
Step One
Make a post (public, friends-locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all. 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, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
Surf around your friends-list (or 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 your “trash” is another's treasure.
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.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
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This year, I’m out of work and things are tighter than they’ve ever been. What I *really* wish is that I could get my act together and not feel so pathetic all the time...and a few other things you can't buy at the mall. (But a little prayer, positive thinking, good mojo wouldn't hurt.)
Meanwhile, as per LJ tradition, I wish
1. For my mom to have a safe and happy visit with her mom in Oklahoma.
2. That all my loved ones and their loved ones and I overcome our health difficulties.
3. That the assistance I'm giving my friend in her fledgling business will turn into a real job.
4. Someone would renew my paid LJ and icons---they expire in less than two weeks. Or my AAA membership. Or buy me a BJ’s membership.
5. Someone would make me an LJ layout of my very own (I can supply the art.).
6. I could get this fabulous belt from Torrid, size 4.
7. I could get a haircut, for crying out loud, because my hair has reached that impossible, in-between length and I never seem to have $20 to spare.
8. I had a better car, or could afford massive intervention on the one I have. (20 year-old Honda with +250K miles on it)
9. I could get copies of The Accidental Husband and/or Ten-Inch Hero on DVD. I don’t care if they’re new, used, factory or bootleg as long as they play in my DVD player or computer.
10. I had a gift card or two or three to help me through some of those rough weeks. Especially WalMart, Aldi’s, or 7-11.
Please PM me if you need my contact info. Happy holidays, y’all!
ETA Thanks, Anonymous, for the LJ reload. Also to kerry_louise for offering a copy of the long-awaited The Accidental Husband, w00t! valderman74 is going to help with a haircut, yay!
The belt went on sale, 50% off. I Santa'ed myself!