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Katie started this great holiday tradition a few years ago and for anyone who wants to participate lets give it a January run when we're all a little calmer?

Step One

- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your DW. The post should contain your list of 10(or more) 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 DW, or link to this post so that the holiday joy will spread.


Step Two

- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) 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.

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.

Don't forget to include a shipping address.

So here are my holiday wishes! 

1. Pictures of your adorable pets being adorable. 

2. An electric tea kettle

3. Any video editing jobs for my husband. 

4.  Get your flu shot and tell other people you did. It's so important to be able to protect everyone with herd immunity. I feel so passionate about it because of the children I work with. 

5. Headphones as I seem to have lost mine. 

6. Advice on how the heck you buy a new car and not get ripped off. We need to and I've been putting it off for months because I'm paralyzed by the enormity of it. 

7. Post to you DW, I miss when this was a vibrant community. I know it'll never come back, but if I'm putting in wishes...that's on my list. 

8. Donate to Australian wildlife. It's breaking my heart seeing the effects of the wildfires there. Climate Change is overwhelming in it's awfulness.

9. VOTE

10. Costume in Detail...yes it's weird but I've never read it. Actually any costume book I haven't gotten any new reading material in a long time. 

Now everyone else do yours as that's the fun part for me.

oh right the address *headdesk* 2601 west walnut st, colmar PA 18915