I want real freedom. It's basically impossible.
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A reversal of the cuts my health insurance is making and further to have all of my healthcare paid for by the insurance I pay a ton of money to have. Especially hurts since the insurance company is my employer, or at least I used to. Now they have the same parent company or whatever they call it these days.
My mum to meet my daughter.
Snow
real and true.
I want to have children, but cannot afford them for an undetermined amount of time. Fingers crossed that we'll have enough money someday!
3 kids here 12 and under. If you are mentally and emotionally ready for kids just do it. That's the big secret. You will never be ready financially. Kids adapt and will be happy so long as you are stable and can provide the most important necessities like love, a roof and food.
Happiness.
The motherboard in my computer is basically dead. Every morning I must perform voodoo to get just one more post.
But my computer is fairly old now and I can't justify just replacing the board for more money than upgrading the platform. 😔
I have all that I can reasonably want that I could reasonably be given, so I'm making a gift instead, I'm off donating blood in half an hour, hopefully someone will appreciate it 😋
To spend xmas with my grandparents that passed away!
The Return of the British Empire
I hear a monkeys paw rattling somewhere right now...
Shhh you might summon every K9 on the platform!
A (significant) raise in salary (after tax) to invest and hopefully increase my portfolio.
Some day I'd love to be the owner of a Curta calculator, but considering the cheapest I've ever seen them is $700 I don't think that'll ever be a Christmas gift. A tax refund gift to myself perhaps one day, but certainly not a Christmas gift.
Fuck me for wanting one a loong time ago when you could get a real old one for like 350€... but absolutely not having the money.
What a masterpiece and a story too.
A whole new life, but I’ve already been there, done that—it’s not what it’s cracked up to be.
I hope to have a whole new life eventually because reincarnation is my favorite concept of an afterlife, but no hurry on that.
Linux market share to grow more
B... But I thought 2025 would be the year of the Linux desktop!
I’m certain I won’t get it, as it’s not on my wishlist nor have I ever mentioned it to anyone, but my number one desired object right now is a life-sized, anatomically correct model of a specific non-human animal body part.
A furry accessory?
I guess you could call it that too. Especially if you're dressing up as a stallion.
For all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace.
But if I had two wishes this Christmas ...
To have my dad and aunt cured of their disease so I can finally feel happiness again
To win a housing lottery so I can move the fuck out like why the fuck do you need to be lUcKy to FUCKING LIVE IN THE CITY YOU WERE FUCKING BORN IN? Some apartments and condos had yearly incomes of 100k to 150k yearly. Bro. If you're making One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars every year, you're most likely making $1500 a week. You should be considered rich or well off. Why the absolute fuck are literal rich people unable to fucking just live on their own in their city without needing to be lucky? The US Government is a humongous failure. Any country with homeless and desperately poor people has a failed government. Then you have these exact poor people fighting each other for enough money to escape poverty on Mr Beast Games and everyone's watching it without understanding how fucked that is. That poor people are given a carrot on a stick to chase for everyone's entertainment.
Medical debt for my disabled friend/roommate's cat who had a bad accident which severed a tendon. I'd love to pay it off for him if I could. Emergency visit to the vet for a severed tendon, all the follow-ups, and drugs over his month long recovery. I recently used up my savings and added debt myself to renovate my entire previously unfinished basement for said roommate/friend and have nothing left to give. Took him and his two cats in because he needed to escape his abusive mom. It's been a big fucking stain on his fresh start from my pov and I'm bummed out about it /rant.
Sex. Not gonna happen with the kids at home and houseguests.
What about your spouse/partner? Maybe they'd have sex with you instead?
Dunno, OP sounds kinda kinky.
More tools. A knock off power probe, a set of wrenches, mid length metric sockets and a few more pairs of pliers from amazon.
I want to be able to buy out the entirety of my geeky/nerd knick knack store. But I most likely won't because I'd feel cluttered with so many figurines and other stuff that I'd end up donating it.
With the way the weather goes anymore due to climate change in my area, a white Christmas. I think either last year or the year before we had one, but that also came with the first subzero temperatures I've ever dealt with.
This year there's been basically no snow at all outside of maybe a day or less and not even that cold. I've been able to use a leather jacket I've been wearing most of fall and haven't needed to pull out my actual winter coat besides once this December. I really do like my winter coat, so I'm bummed about that, but also bummed because I associate Chrismas with snow because there was always snow every winter in my hometown compared to now.
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