In defence of the grown-up Christmas list

Lauren Bravo
4 min readNov 18, 2020

Making a list, checking it twice — but over the age of 10, are gift requests naughty, or nice?

Around this time every year, I have conversations with friends that go like this: “Argh I have NO idea what to get Dad, he hates everything.” “What do you buy for a sister-in-law who moved to Bali to live in a tree?” “Ffs, I spent £40 on a monogrammed leather shaving kit then remembered he has a…

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Lauren Bravo

Food, fashion, lifestyle writer. Author of How To Break Up With Fast Fashion, and What Would The Spice Girls Do? A flibbertigibbet, a will-o-the-wisp, a clown.