Today, we are launching the very important 5th annual Amazon Mansion Christmas Morning Wish List, as we always do to brighten the mornings of residents with no families or homes to visit.

This is perhaps our most modest Amazon wish list in a while, with 15 items ranging in price from $6 to $29.95. We know a lot of people are struggling.

We are hoping to use some of these items as stocking stuffers, one for each of the residents who gather around the tree in the Great Room.

It’s a small number, eight to ten.

(IMPORTANT: If you don’t see a default address on the Wish List to the Mansion, here is the address you need to put in at checkout: Bonnie, The Mansion, 11 S.Union Avenue, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816. Thanks.)

Maria and I will be there; maybe I can even play the ukulele for the first time. I’ll have to get cracking.

We’re seeking disposable face masks (50 for $8.68), an acrylic paint set so the resident artists can do some of their own decorating, canvas painting panels ($17.82), Craft Kit Snow Ban builders (made of clay, $26.99), flameless battery candles ($18.99), Juegoal pre-lit Christmas Wreath, ($22.39) 12 Sheets of Christmas Window Flake Stickers ($5.93), 3 pc Swedish gnome ($8.15), Stairway Cordless Pre-Lit Christmas Swag Wreaths, ($1384), Gingerbread Man and Snowman inflatables for outside ($32.36).

The list is small but meaningful.

It can get very lonely on Christmas morning when most residents are away with family, relatives, or old friends. Lighting up the Christmas tree and the Great Room and offering some stocking stuffers are important.

The Wish List tells the residents that somebody cares. They will each have a stock in their name hanging by the fireplace.

I’ll also go to Walgreens, the Dollar Store, and Amazon to get some toiletry items to put in the stockings.

The residents need soap and shampoo, and deodorant. If you wish, you can send some of those things to Christmas, The Mansion, 11 S. Union Avenue, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.

The residents will be grateful.

They never seem to have enough acrylic paint or toiletries.

I know things are tight now, but the list is published with reality very much in mind and the lowest possible cost. Please help if you can; this will make a huge difference.

If you purchase items, the default address should be the Mansion address above. If it isn’t shown, please send the Christmas items to The Mansion, 11 S. Union Avenue, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.

If you are not comfortable purchasing things online, you can send your donation to me via Paypal, [email protected], or Venmo, Jon-Katz@Jon-Katz-13. Or a check to Jon Katz, Mansion Christmas, P.O. Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.

Thank you so much. This will brighten some Christmas mornings. They need to know they aren’t forgotten.