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As every Christmas season approaches, the wife gets on me to get on Amazon and make a wishlist and as a dutiful husband, I begrudgingly comply.  This is a much harder task than it sounds like because I don't want many things and those that I want, I usually buy myself throughout the year.  Couple that with the fact that Amazon does not carry that many things that I actually want and the fact that I don't want to add a bunch of crap on there that I don't want just for the sake of helping people find something to buy me for Christmas and you have a delema for yours truly.

I don't want people to buy me things that I don't actually want or need.  It is wasteful and takes up space in my house - which I am trying to avoid.  But because I know I will never hear the end of it, I scrape together a handful of things that I would be interested in owning and put them on my wishlist and email it to all interested parties.

That is not that bad of a task.  What irks me is that I have created this greed list(seriously, let's call it what it is) about 4 times now and have yet to get one single thing on the damned list bought for me.  Now, this wouldn't matter except that I am pressured into making the list each year.  Each year, I resist a little more, lower my standards a little more, and weep a little when no one is looking.  But each year, I have the same results.

This isn't to say that I am not happy with the presents I get, I generally like just about any present that I get.  I just don't like making the list if no one is going to use it.

So, this year, if I was going to make a New Year's Resolution(which I am not since last year's resolution was that I would not make another New Year's Resolution) it would be to never add an item to my wishlist again.

From now on people, use your imagination.  I am out of the wish list business.