making a list, checking it twice

     All right, I was up until 1:45 am last night making my Christmas list on  Elfster.  I am a fashion nut.  I love to look through fashion magazines.  (My personal favorite is People Style Watch.) So I was listing and fine tuning that list for about 5 hours.   In years past, a Christmas list didn't really mean much, I knew that if I really wanted something, and didn't get it, I would probably just buy it after Christmas for myself, and for a reduced price even.  This year, the Christmas list is everything.  Let me give you the prequel.  On July 22, 2010, a day that will live in infamy, I, after spending so much money that I felt very guilty, promised my husband that I would not buy any clothes for two years!! Yes, you heard right, two years!   A week from Monday will be four months.  So now my Christmas list really means something, like it did when I was a young child growing up in North Carolina.  My Dad was a teacher and my mother never worked outside the home.  We lived far out in the country on 8 acres and counted down the days until the Sears Wish Book arrived in November.  Then the four of us, my sister and two brothers, fought over it for days.  Trying to wait patiently for a chance to look, decide what our wishes would be, and make our list. My brothers both had spring/summer birthdays so they had another chance.  But me, if I chose wrong had to wait until the next Christmas to try again because my birthday is on Christmas Eve. I could just say I made a mistake but since starting I am almost on a mission.  I teach Earth Science and each year I have my students do some local initiative to help the environment and here I was buying all these clothes tha eventually ended up in a landfill.  I mean New jersey can no longer dump garbage here.  They have to pay other states to take our garbage.  Maybe I will even continue after two years!
    So this is it.  This is all I will be getting until next Christmas.  Let's just hope they don't come out with some amazing fashion trend for this summer that I can't be seen in public without.  I will be working on my Christmas list again tonight.  Let me give you the rules.  I have four children, one gift from each for my birthday.  A gift from my husband for my birthday and one for Christmas.  Then one secret santa gift for around $50.00 from a family member.  (There are a few things on here over $50, just hoping they will come down before Christmas.) If anyone out there is reading this, I need your help. Help me make this elfster list the best ever.  (I have given a few options for different things I really want, like the nude pumps.) Let me know what doesn't make the grade and what that classic is that I don't have on my list...Remember, a total of seven gifts, all under $50.  Also I was thinking that if the items are cheap enough people might give me two? Quality or quanity, give me your opinion.  Here goes...