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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 14 minutes ago

Wish I had friends to spend it with instead of a person who is abusive and swears at me every day.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I want real freedom. It's basically impossible.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 7 minutes ago (1 children)

Freedom is free, comfort is what costs.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

While I'm a huge fan of what you're saying, I'm more about going unimpeded. Barriers really suck.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 5 hours ago

My mum to meet my daughter.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

real and true.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I want to have children, but cannot afford them for an undetermined amount of time. Fingers crossed that we'll have enough money someday!

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] Syltti@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

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 😋

[–] Toes@ani.social 5 points 10 hours ago

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. 😔

[–] NastyNative@mander.xyz 6 points 10 hours ago

To spend xmas with my grandparents that passed away!

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago

A (significant) raise in salary (after tax) to invest and hopefully increase my portfolio.

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The Return of the British Empire

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I hear a monkeys paw rattling somewhere right now...

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Shhh you might summon every K9 on the platform!

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Linux market share to grow more

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

B... But I thought 2025 would be the year of the Linux desktop!

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A whole new life, but I’ve already been there, done that—it’s not what it’s cracked up to be.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I hope to have a whole new life eventually because reincarnation is my favorite concept of an afterlife, but no hurry on that.

[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

To have my dad and aunt cured of their disease so I can finally feel happiness again

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 12 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Sex. Not gonna happen with the kids at home and houseguests.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 29 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What about your spouse/partner? Maybe they'd have sex with you instead?

[–] Nfamwap@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Dunno, OP sounds kinda kinky.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

I'd like to skip Christmas, I get nothing out of it but headaches. I don't enjoy the family get togethers (individually or in small groups my family is mostly fine, but all of them at once is too much) I don't want anything that can reasonably be asked for or given as a present, and I don't have any space for the useless junk I'll inevitably receive.

What I need/want is money. I'm not struggling, but I have projects and things I'm saving up for and whatever they'd spend on gifts if they feel like they need to give me something I'd much rather them just give me the cash or Venmo me. They're not going to gift me a new heater, deck, washer/dryer, paint for my living room, etc. the best I can hope for is some gift cards to Lowes, home Depot, etc. and inevitably the cards will all be to different places so I can't even use them all on what they're intended to go towards, and there's a good chance that once I've saved up enough I'll get the best price at a store I don't even have any gift cards for, so they're going to sit around collecting dust because I'll never remember to grab them when I need to go buy a box of screws or something.

Just give me cash.

[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 2 points 10 hours ago

I guess you could call it that too. Especially if you're dressing up as a stallion.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The same touchscreen gloves I got two years ago that are no longer being made. There's three pairs on eBay and if no one buys them for me I'm buying them all for myself.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Find a pair of gloves you love and use Conductive thread sewn in an x pattern a few times. Works great.

[–] xylogx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Used to be it was hard to find touchscreen gloves. Now most gloves are touchscreen.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 7 points 20 hours ago

touchscreenis indeed the easy part

these gloves were so warm for how thin they were, that's what made them special

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A single family home... it'd sure be nice though.

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[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Think of the shareholders!

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Did you know that Taco Bell is releasing a chicken taco? Don’t do it friend, you will miss out big.

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[–] MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Zier@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I want Saturn, somebody please buy me Saturn and all it's moons.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Time. I just want time. And so far haven’t gotten any.

Is it bad that I’m grateful to COViD? I invited my ex and her father for Christmas dinner so they could also spend time with our kids, but we never had compatible meal routines and they’re insisting on dinner at 3pm. However she came down with just enough COViD that they probably won’t come. I can have dinner at dinner time! I get time to sleep in, time to enjoy Christmas with my kids, and even time to put dinner together.

If the rest of my week could go like that, I’d be so grateful

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