Dd 13 and birthday presents for friends

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How do other people deal with this?

She has 5 close friends and herself born within 2 weeks of each other.

How do other people finance birthday presents like this? We bought her a really good computer for her birthday (not cheap) and her 2 closest friends a present.

She now wants 3 more presents for her friends. We’ve refused to pay anymore. Her friends have all bought her gifts.

How would you deal with this?

Does she get an allowance? If so, I'd expect it to come out of this.
If she doesn't then I think you need to give her money for presents (surely you bought presents for friends when she was younger? Why is this suddenly an issue?)

Buying her a computer is entirely irrelevant.

If all close the friends got my ds a birthday gift, I would make sure that they would be given a gift in return. The same would work in adulthood and I would treat it as a learning curve as well. Depending on the value of the gift my ds would be intending to spend, I would ask him to use his pocket money to contribute.

I would give her £10 per friend. It's a shame they're close together but that's life.

If you genuinely can't afford it & she has pocket money etc I would suggest she funds it herself.

I would look out for generic gifts throughout the year and snap up bargains. Add in chocolates and stuff from Claire's Accessories such a lip balms or whatever and it can be done cheaply

I would let her buy the gifts. Claire have loads of offers on. It would cost you much to buy them a token gift each.

The computer cost a lot. Meaning we are skint. So it was relevant

I’ve offered a bit towards them and she is putting the rest out of her pocket money.

Thanks guys.

As they’re all born so close together perhaps she could suggest they go out for a meal and then the cinema in future ? That way neither of them has to spend money on presents and they get to celebrate together .