to be ever so slightly alarmed that DS is......

[davidtennantsmistress]

already talking about & looking at this coming year's xmas list for santa.

(is 5.5) it's already half the argos book, bloody good job i've been doing a £10 a week xmas club this year since january I say. :o

[fuckmepinkandcallmerosie]

Oh the dreaded TOY book.

Well that's what mine call it

[Adair]

Dd is 5 too and her Christmas list is currently blutacked to our living room wall where we are 'not allowed to take it down til Christmas'...

Her list says (amongst other things):
princes plasds (princess plasters)
box ov swits (box of sweets)
skwinkiz (squinkies? Guess who has been watching ads)
lali kali shooz (over my dead body)

[meltedchocolate]

£10 a week? Lucky mare :o I am sticking 3 quid a week and started in May...

[meltedchocolate]

*sticking 3 quid a week IN MY PIGGY BANK

[davidtennantsmistress]

:o lol.

FMP - we have it as the toy book - I give him a month till he gets a pen out & stars what he wants, and then 2 months till he wants to cut it up & stick the pictures on his list for father xmas.

ad - sooo glad it's not just DS lol.

melted - have to this year, am PG, & due in august so once bubs arrives i'll be lucky to manage £5 a week I think, but tbh i've got it pretty much covered already, so anything over will mainly be getting spent on my car tax which is due end of december. :(

[davidtennantsmistress]

(besides as me dad says even £2 a week is better than nothing as it's still £100 quid, which is half for food & half for pressies)

[meltedchocolate]

Well I shall need more than the 84 quid I shall have at the time (though occasionally I do CRAZY things like put a random extra quid or two in :o) but I decided it would ease the pain of forking out all at once. Congrats on your pg (again... lucky mare, I wants another one, hard to make with no penis around though :o)

[meltedchocolate]

Probably more like a hundred actually. Yay, knowing that has made me smile :)

[davidtennantsmistress]

:o steady on extra quid or two. that's what we've decided tbh with 2 now plus all the family we gotta save of the boy will find a lump of coal a satsuma and be happy. lol.

ah dunno - could always use a turkey baster (just not the xmas one )

[meltedchocolate]

haha, I could use a turkey baster but it doesn't sound as appealing. Arg, extended family presents, who to buy for, how much to spend. Blardy family/Christmas politics :o

[davidtennantsmistress]

quite, we have 3 kids incl DSS, 4 nephews/neices, 2 sets of parents, 2 sets of grandparents & only my bro & SIL DP's lot do cards. I figure boots have 3 for 2's which will sort out all the nephews/neices/grandparents parents can have a voucher each at £15 quid from M&S, (in fact they're valid for a year I think so might get one a month from now till xmas) so really will only be the kids - god only knows what that will be/when we'll get it. :o

[davidtennantsmistress]

:o love it.

[meltedchocolate]

Good plan DTM. JanJoJo :o My DS is only two, I am off the hook for a couple of years yet, phew... or is a couple of years a bit optimistic? He's actually nearing three.

[davidtennantsmistress]

i'm sure we were never like this with our parent's were we? hopefully not - althou no wonder my folks have literally always done a xmas club (remember going to drop the money off for mum as a kid to the lollipop lady)

melt - 2 3 you'll be good for another year I think, DS was 4 when he wanted his first party for birthday & xmas. i'm sure he think's santa's made of money given everything he wanted was a fortune, so far we have half the argos bok, a new wii a ds and a 'oh mummy what's that - oh yes one of those' - me - DS 'but you don't know what it is' DS - yes but I want it. :o oh to be 5 again. lol.

and it's not just boys toys - he wants girls as well.

[AandK]

Sorry but I've already started and I will not be really taking much notice of a list this year as he got a puppy in January it will be lego and nintendo games and DS will happy or lump it I'm no longer stressing about giving him too much :)

[BabyDubsEverywhere]

191 DAYS TO GO!!!

I love it, mine will be 3 and 4 by then, this will be the first year they will get the planning of christmas i think, I cannot wait! I have already started on my Christmas Spreadsheet

[blueeyedmonster]

Ds is 3 and has been pointing stuff out in that book that he want's for christmas!! I'm glad he hasn't started on his birthday too.

[davidtennantsmistress]

:o - but it's not even July yet god damn it we're not even half way thru the year. lol.

[peanutbutterkid]

Argos catalog is brill for encouraging literacy & numeracy skills .
One year DC each totted up lists worth over 1000 quid (yes, I made them add it all up) out of Argos, what they wanted for their birthdays.

[davidtennantsmistress]

:o peanut - I like that, see we cut & paste on account of it being creativity.

[Adair]

yup, we do cut and pasting in lieu of actually buying the toys here too...

[Ismeyes]

Nooooooooo! They can't have an argos christmas list yet, the July catalogue isn't out yet and that has the Christmas toys in! At the grand old age of 30 I still get excited about the argos catalogue!

[davidtennantsmistress]

IS - yes me to, I like to look thru the new book when it comes out - i've no doubt the boy will have changed his mind at least half a dozen times by xmas (hopefully lol).