A few weeks ago I posted about the Amazon wishlists, getting some of the other MonitorDuty posters and commenters to share theirs. I thought I’d pass on a site I’ve found useful, now that it’s holiday shopping season.

My Amazon wishlist is six pages long because it’s mostly for self-reference. I’ll read an article about, say, the Venona Decrypts and go wishlist several books about it, but I don’t really want all of them and I may just someday get them from the public library. Amazon doesn’t have any other way to bookmark the books you want without putting them in the wishlist. Amazon does allow you to rank your items from high to low in desirability, but that can be a hassle and your gifters may not even notice this if you do take the time to mark them.

So I have started using the AllIWantForChristmas wishlist service to highlight the favorite items I really want. The nice thing is that you can spotlight items from any and all online services. That helps because I can find DVDs far cheaper than Amazon at DVDPacific, a videocamera deal that’s way better than Amazon’s or Best Buy at an unheard-of place called Buydig.com, the pans I want from Cooking.com, etc. If my friends and family were buying them from Amazon they’d be overpaying.

Now I just need to get other people to use it so I can find things for them. (I don’t think I’ll ever get my parents to use this, no matter how hard I try. Their Amazon membership actually expired from disuse.) So if you have one, please tell us all by replying!