See below for instructions.

There is one thing that isn’t on any of the lists below that I really really want quite badly: a Sous Vide Supreme, which you can only buy from that link, for $399.

Instruc­tions

A lit­tle expla­na­tion of how Amazon.com’s wish list sys­tem works. If some­one has some things on their Ama​zon​.com wish list, oth­ers may pur­chase those things for the wish list owner. Ama​zon​.com will then auto­mat­i­cally ship the gift items to the wish list owner and remove the pur­chased items from the list, so that no one else buys the same things.

This means two things:

1. You do not need to know my address in order to pur­chase things for me from Ama​zon​.com and have them shipped to me.
2. You have to coop­er­ate and do things right, or it won’t work.

In order to buy me a thing from one of the lists, click the name of the thing. That will take you to the item page at Ama​zon​.com, where you can see the price. In order to buy me the thing and have the whole wish list sys­tem work, you have to add the thing to your cart from this item page! If you nav­i­gate away from the item page and then come back to it, it won’t work. So the idea is to first click the item, then click “add to cart,” with­out doing any­thing else in between.

When you check out, you will have the option to have the item shipped to me, or to you. Obvi­ously, don’t have it shipped to you unless you plan to see me.

The other option is to click the wish list name (big and cen­tered, e.g., “Gen­eral Wish List”). This will take you to the Ama​zon​.com wish list page, which shows more infor­ma­tion than the list above (includ­ing prices), and also gives you the oppor­tu­nity to add things to your cart.

If for some rea­son you decide to pur­chase more than one thing, you must return to this page and click the item name, or add it directly from the wish list page. Ama​zon​.com will save your cart for you, but if you add one thing, then use Amazon.com’s “search” fea­ture to locate another thing by name, it won’t get shipped to me or get taken off the list.

This should go with­out say­ing, but if you go some­where else to buy some­thing for me, you a) won’t have my address, and b) run the risk of buy­ing a dupli­cate. So just stick with Ama​zon​.com. They have great prices and cheap (often free) shipping.

Finally, if you do buy some­thing for me, send me an email and let me know that you bought some­thing, but not what. Don’t want to spoil the sur­prise. Let me know you bought some­thing so that I can be sure to thank you in the most appro­pri­ate way.