I’d like to see jst how relevant it is to other families. That we already have two families outside of our own says something deesn’t it?

Now that you bigged it up so much, it’ll sound fairly rubbish but…

Since we have a large family, every year at Christmas, we make a Christmas list. I don’t think most people do this, but we do. It’s to give ideas of what we want for Christmas. We all have partners now, though, and so having twelve lists on the go was getting impractical - you picked what you wanted to buy for people, then phone everyone and check they weren’t buying it. As a result, it took forever, and everyone knew what everyone was getting, which kind of spoils things a bit.

I decided to do a website which would administer the lists. So with my new website, you can log on, create a list, then add everything you want to it. Once someone else has added a list, you can view their list, choose what you’re buying them, and mark it as bought - effectively bagging it. It takes it off the list, effectively, so nobody else would see it, and conceivably even know it had been on the list. The owner of the list, however, would still see the whole list, without knowing what had been bought.

It’s a fairly simple, but useful site, I think. There are various other features, where you can leave comments which everyone but the list owner can see, so you can buy certain parts of the item, or suggest buying something between you.

You could have stolen my thunder, Stuart. I bet you could have explained it better….

I imagine next Christmas it could be up for open access, though I don’t know how people find out about it. Already there are three different families using it, and only see lists for people in their families.

I’m quite pleased with it. Lots of improvements to be made still though…..

(tho its popularity re general use will depend on how typical a family we are)