Christmas List for a 20-something
When I was a kid, I had so much fun coming up with my wishlist for Santa. Such was the age before consciousness of parental socioeconomic status and their ability or inability to fulfill all the most outlandish Christmas wishes… Gone are the days of paging through American Girl Doll catalogs and selecting an iteration of Felicity’s holiday gown that I hoped would appear under the tree. My little brother used to construct elaborate PowerPoint slideshows for the dozens (!) of gifts he desired. I will never forget the one year he requested a toy from a retired generation of the Power Rangers that he found on eBay which cost over $100 and although Santa fulfilled his wish, he played with it once and then never touched it again.
Now, my brother is 18 and I am 21. On one of our rare FaceTime calls, we discussed our mom’s recent text message to the group chat of just us (without our dad – that’s how we knew she meant business). She said: “It's December 1st. Need your Christmas lists,” complete with classic mom brutalist punctuated sentences. My brother exclaimed to me with devastation, “When did I become a person that asks for socks for Christmas?!” I resonated with the sentiment, and was inspired to share my exceedingly boring adult Christmas wishlist:
You know it, you love it: Socks. I in particular am looking for some good crew socks in neutral colors, and a pair or two with some frilly white lace. Naturally, I am in desperate need of replenishing my supply that seem to have been robbed of me by the black hole that is my sock drawer.
Next, I’m looking to embrace my inner horse girl and acquire a pair of riding boots. I have been super into the brown cowboy boots I thrifted this summer, but have already worn them to death and am in need of another pair of functional footwear to tag in to give the ol’ cowboy boots a break. My favorite Youtube fashion girlie Laini Ozark has been raving about a pair of black leather knee-high riding boots with a low heel and I have been suitably influenced to need them for myself.
Before all else, I am a scrapbooker at heart. Perhaps one of my most dorky entries on this list is ink and sticker paper for my printer. Not much to be said on this one aside from the fact that using sticker paper instead of normal copy paper and a gluestick has CHANGED the craft game for me.
A slightly more interesting request, perhaps, is concert tickets. A tale most of us know all too well: shows keep selling out SO FAST and have made it cost a small fortune to acquire even GA tickets. I specifically am wanting tickets to Maggie Rogers’s show at Aragon Ballroom in February. I saw her at the same venue the first week of my first year and to see her again would be sooooo full circle:)
Finally, and critically, I need a new laptop charger. Thank you in advance, Santa.
