Christmas Wish Meme
Nov. 22nd, 2009 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nozenfordaddyStolen from all over...
Step One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, 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, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love an 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, or link to this post (it'll be public) 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.
1. Christmas cards. I'm utterly rubbish at sending them tho - so if you want one back, you'll have to send me your address.
2. Donate to a food bank. I'm partial to the Sacramento Food Bank, but anything helps. Something like 49 million people are in danger of starving in the USA, and for a country that prides itself on being first in the world in any number of things I think we should be able to feed our children.
3. Contact a local hospital and find out if they need any toys, or volunteers in the children's ward around the holiday to make things brighter for the kids.
4. Music, I have an eclectic taste - but I never seem to buy anything. Burned CD's, links to a song you think I'd like even recommendations are appreciated.
5. Recipes! No fish, no onions, nothing that required my cookery skills be better than your average self taught person.
6. Make me an icon for this journal. It's as weird as I am and I like quirky little sayings.
7. Make me an icon from one of my pup's, or a layout for their journal or a vid for them - how ever you express yourself visually.
8. Surprise yourself with something you never let yourself have. That second slice of cake, a new CD, taking a Saturday and doing nothing.
9. Buy a bunch of $1 toys, wrap them and hand them out to random people on the street - shamelessly stolen from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snowbunny22 but it's an idea that makes me smile - and it will make people on the street smile too.
10. Write, it doesn't have to be for me - though that would be lovely. Fic, poetry, journal entries anything that requires that you put pen to paper (or fingers to typewriter keys) and express yourself.
Address: Ask if you need it.
Step One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, 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, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love an 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, or link to this post (it'll be public) 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.
1. Christmas cards. I'm utterly rubbish at sending them tho - so if you want one back, you'll have to send me your address.
2. Donate to a food bank. I'm partial to the Sacramento Food Bank, but anything helps. Something like 49 million people are in danger of starving in the USA, and for a country that prides itself on being first in the world in any number of things I think we should be able to feed our children.
3. Contact a local hospital and find out if they need any toys, or volunteers in the children's ward around the holiday to make things brighter for the kids.
4. Music, I have an eclectic taste - but I never seem to buy anything. Burned CD's, links to a song you think I'd like even recommendations are appreciated.
5. Recipes! No fish, no onions, nothing that required my cookery skills be better than your average self taught person.
6. Make me an icon for this journal. It's as weird as I am and I like quirky little sayings.
7. Make me an icon from one of my pup's, or a layout for their journal or a vid for them - how ever you express yourself visually.
8. Surprise yourself with something you never let yourself have. That second slice of cake, a new CD, taking a Saturday and doing nothing.
9. Buy a bunch of $1 toys, wrap them and hand them out to random people on the street - shamelessly stolen from
snowbunny22 but it's an idea that makes me smile - and it will make people on the street smile too.10. Write, it doesn't have to be for me - though that would be lovely. Fic, poetry, journal entries anything that requires that you put pen to paper (or fingers to typewriter keys) and express yourself.
Address: Ask if you need it.
