We’ve grown up in a society where ‘I want doesn’t get’ or at least that’s what I tell my kids when other adults are in ear shot. When as an adult we’re asked to say what we want, not would like, but really want, it’s like leaping over a boundary of everyday politeness/etiquette. It feels pretty liberating.

I’m crossing that line and may I say before any of you brand me as a demanding, high-maintenance brat ‘I WOZ PUSHED’ by Anya from Older Single Mum with a ‘Reveal what you want’ meme. There, I’ve told. Now I’m not only a ‘want want want’ type but a tell-tale too! Actually while we’re at it I’d better add bully as I’m going to demand that some other bloggers do the same.

I WANT:

1. A self-cleaning/tidying home. They have those public toilets that clean themselves so why not a home that does it too? I know I’m not alone. I find housework so boring and exhausting. Just imagine leaving a room, pressing a button and the floor tips up taking all the crap with it only to tip back up five mins later leaving a clutter-free, shiny space complete with a smell that doesn’t need to be sniffed at twice to make sure nothing mouldy is lurking under the sofa.

Picture thanks to Icadrews @ Flickr.com

2. I’d like some seriously expensive designer handbags. Not those awful logo ones but a big, leather number that you see nearly breaking VB’s sparrow like arm. I would care for it like a newborn.

3. To play an instrument. We did have piano lessons a few years ago but the piano wasn’t really my instrument of choice… you can see where I’m going with this. It didn’t really take off. I’d always fancied playing a Saxaphone but now I’ve mellowed (pah!) I’d like to learn the guitar and I don’t mean play it with a sheet of music in front of me, I mean being able to hear a tune on the radio and then pick up my guitar and instantly play along. That, or play it in a really cool band.

Picture thanks to cobalt123 @ Flickr.com

4. Our own home. I should explain that more but I can’t be bothered. One day we will own our own home and I will decorate it and make it look spectacular. Just before this I will discover that I am the only human being in the world to the same DNA thread as Linda ‘Changing Rooms’ Barker.

5. For one of the grooms on Don’t Tell The Bride to watch the show before they marry! My goodness there’s an example of how awful someone can look when they’re saying ‘I want, I want, I want’. Do I look that bad now??

Right, I’ve said what I really want which of course doesn’t include the really big things that we all want: Happy and healthy kids, World Peace, elimination of starvation, diseases and for the Duchess of Cambridge’s breasts to be given a day off. Now it’s the turn of:

Tea & Biscotti
The Singing Mummy
Three years & home
Yummy Mummy Training