In thinking it has sod all to do with anybody else how much others spend on christmas ??

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And yes it is a thread about a thread.

So long as people aren't starving the children or flogging great Aunt Ada in order to pay for it beaks should be kept well and truly out imo .

Me to altinkum It does stress me out though! I have a sleepless week until the date is advertised. I have a text system so if any of my friends hear they let me know and we all dash up there.

Its madness but SO worth it. This year I was hardly dressed and all bleary eyed, some poor woman had been up all night on the Amazon sale and had not slept at all.

The things we do......

I think if everyone stuck to what they could really afford and then brought up their children to be decent and kind, there wouldn't really be any problem. Every child knows someone who brags about what they have, but those don't tend to be the children who have many friends.

I can't think of one occasion where my (now grown up) children even mentioned what a friend got for Christmas or a birthday, yet some of them would have had quite expensive presents and others would have had much cheaper presents. Having said that, I do remember one year when my son and four of his friends all had guitars - there was a difference in price of about £500 but all they talked about was who played best, not which guitar was most expensive.