Sugar 'Stache: Holiday Gift Guide for the Erin McGee in Your Life

I know this time of year EVERYWHERE you turn there is a ‘Holiday Gift Guide’ for every type of person or animal on the planet. Holiday Gift Guide for the Girl You Love but Aren’t Ready to Marry. Holiday Gift Guide for your Side Chick. Holiday Gift Guide for the Owl Lover but is Terrified of Real Owls. Holiday Gif Guide for the People You Work With but Really Can’t Stand but You Have to Get Them A Gift Because They’re Going to Buy You One and You Don’t Want to Look Like a Tool. Well, you get the idea. These online guides are somewhat helpful (depending on the price range they give. I mean, how dare someone suggest an $800 handbag for someone you maybe chat with 3 times out of the year???) because it’s not like all of those random people in our lives are copying you on the email containing their exact Christmas list to Santa.

Not to mention who are the folks still writing Christmas lists outside of the children contacting that jolly fella and being ‘proof read’ by their parents?

I mean don’t get me wrong the last list I wrote was in high school as I’m sure most people would admit to. This makes a lot of sense considering parents probably asked their offspring to make one due to the fact they had no clue what to buy their freethinking, materialistic teenagers. There’s also the ‘grown-ups’ in college that email their parents a list of things they need to survive the rest of the year in school, and those needs become Christmas pressies. Or there are the really, really ‘grown-ups’ fresh out of college in the really, real world who send lists to mom and dad for things they need to survive life on their own. Because well, it’s hard out there for a pimp.

Christmas becomes more of a what I need rather then a what I want like childhood. Mom needs a new set of hot rollers and a vacuum. Dad has let the yard go so he must need a new leaf blower, and of course a tie because duh. That’s not fun! Just like the skank character in Love Actually who we all hate because she’s a home wrecker wannabe says, “I don’t want something I need, I want something I want.” *

*Though her character is awful she makes a great point with this line.

With all of this being said I decided to create my own Christmas list because gosh darnit it’s fun! And I haven’t done it in a while! And I think anyone who reads this should do the same just for the fun of doing it. Unlike childhood the chances of me receiving any of these on Christmas morning isn’t likely, (I’ve been a bit naughty this year) but a girl can dream! And by gosh by golly, it’s Christmas, and everyone knows anything is possible at Christmas! Maybe I’ll inspire something on your own Holiday Gift Guide and at least one of us will have one of the charming items on my list, and that is more then good enough for me! Happy Wishful Holiday Season, darlings!