Too Much Soap?

Late each fall, I talk through options for things my kids can ask for as Christmas gifts. Things they really want or things they need. We try to limit the requests to reasonable items, though they're not always reasonable, because they're children. Regardless, this last year, as I was talking with them about it, we were struggling to come up with items to add to my son's list. All he really wanted was a skateboard.
(He got one, by the way--and pads to go with it.)
Well, a few months before, he'd decided he hated using body wash. He wanted to use a bar of soap. I happened to have some fancy ones that I had been given as teacher presents, but never used since I prefer body wash. Who cares if my seven-year-old smells like Tropical Breeze or Rose Petals, right?

Only one problem. We were running out. And while it's no big deal to go to the store and buy him a plain old bar of soap, now he'd grown used to using all these fancy ones. Ok. Time to put it on the Christmas list.
Soap on a Christmas list? How boring is that?
Not that boring, if you ask for something a bit fancier than what you find at Walmart. ;) He received two different bars of soap that had a toy car in the middle. Once you used up the soap, you had a toy to play with. That's fun, right? Those didn't last very long, honestly. I think he made sure they went as fast as possible so he could get to the fun part.
​A friend also found some fun holiday scented soaps at TJMaxx and stocked up. Peppermint. Pine. Vanilla. Yum. Who doesn't want to smell like those?
And then, of course, he got several plain bars of soap too.
You'd think that would make for a boring Christmas, but he was excited. He got exactly what he asked for and then some. And, let's be honest. There's no such thing as too much soap.
Have you ever asked for something that seemed a little boring, but was exactly what you wanted? I keep asking for rugs. ;) How boring is that?