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Christkindl wanted: 124 wishes are waiting to be fulfilled

2021-11-26T05:59:10.816Z


For the third time, Jennifer Heckenstaller has set up a "wish tree" in her stationery store. So many wishes came together this year that not all of them fit on the tree.


For the third time, Jennifer Heckenstaller has set up a "wish tree" in her stationery store.

So many wishes came together this year that not all of them fit on the tree.

Oberschleißheim

- The pensioner's wish is only a few lines long, but heartbreaking.

“I am 90 years old and no longer bake myself.

I love to eat Christmas cookies, but I can't buy any.

If someone would bake a few for me, that would be my greatest pleasure, ”it says on the menu.

The cookies are one of the wishes that hang on the Christmas tree at Heckenstaller Stationery in Oberschleißheim and wait for Christkindl to fulfill them.

For the third time, Jennifer Heckenstaller, owner of the stationery store, has set up her “dream tree”.

This year it is full to the brim with postcards of your choice.

A total of 124 wishes came together - too many to all fit on the tree.

"Flowers, they make my life more colorful"

Each wish can have a maximum value of 30 euros, so that “they can also be fulfilled,” says Heckenstaller. But many are well below that: a 69-year-old lady would like to have a “La Mer day cream” for Christmas, a family of four would be happy about shopping vouchers at “DM”. A nine-year-old girl wishes "some cuddly toy, teddy bear or rabbit, I don't have any". A family of eight would need shopping vouchers from the “Hit” supermarket and a 39-year-old woman is happy “about every kind of flower, it makes my life more colorful”. And then of course there is the heartbreaking letter from the 90-year-old. The desire for cookies.

Even Jennifer Heckenstaller has to shed a tear every now and then when reading individual cards.

She works with numerous social institutions and helper groups in Oberschleißheim.

"Every organization has the option of selecting ten people or families and addressing them, because they know best who really needs it," explains Heckenstaller.

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So many wishes have come together this year that some no longer fit on the tree and end up in the basket next to it.

© Bert Brosch

Each completed card - absolutely anonymous, of course - is hung on the wish tree or, when it is full, placed in a basket next to it.

“Anyone who comes to my shop can take a card with them, fulfill their request, package it and bring it over.

I will then distribute it to the organizations. ”Should one of the 124 requests not be fulfilled, Wunschbaum initiator Jennifer Heckenstaller has a few companies up their sleeves as sponsors who would step in.

“But everything has still been fulfilled so far.” BERT BROSCH

Source: merkur

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