My DS is turning 2 next week and I don't think I shouldn’t buy him anything.
He already has everything he needs or wants. My older DS is 4, and I still have three full Kallax boxes of toys from when he was that age that DS2 hasn’t even seen yet. There are also gifts in there that are still too advanced for DS1.
I did a huge clear/ sort of the toys last year and gave a huge box of small baby stuff away for free, and sorted the rest.
We’ve always been fairly limited with toys. At Christmas they get one bigger present, one smaller present, a few surprises and a stocking. I think they still get plenty but not huge piles like I see online.
I’m the same on holidays/ days out. I don’t buy souvenirs or another little teddy every time we go somewhere because they already have plenty.
I’ve looked at some of the Fisher-Price animal sets, but he already has two that are very similar to the one he doesn’t have, so it feels pointless.
Would a cake and a few toys brought out from the Kallax boxes that he doesn’t know exist be enough?
I feel a bit guilty because it’s not that we can’t afford to buy him something. We could take him into a toy shop and let him choose whatever he wanted. I just really dislike buying things for the sake of buying them.
YABU - This is stingy
YANBU - It is fine