to blatantly lie about what my ds wants for his birthday?

[wildflowersinajug]

OMG my friend asked me what my son wants for his birthday, I said Playmobil, but only because I love it!

He likes it but I'm the one who really really loves playing with it, assembling it etc!

Can't believe I did that

How many of you out there has done something similar? Please don't let me be alone!

A grown woman playing with Playmobil? You should have moved on to Lego years ago.

However I understand you can't have all those tiny pointy-edged pieces around with a young child, so I suppose you have to make do with the baby stuff until he's ready to move on with you. So YANBU, under the circumstances.

You're not alone

A couple of years ago I told friends that my DD wanted the My Little Pony Pinkie Pie baby for her birthday - she had never even mentioned it but I thought it was so adorable that I really wanted her to have it

She does plays with it hardly ever occasionally!!

oh i love playmobil, dd1 has loads and never plays with it but i keep buying her more. I got her lego for x-mas and spent ages putting it together .

My mother, every year, used to order us Hornby train sets from Santa.

And every year Santa brought Hornby train sets.

Guess who loves playing with them?

This thread makes sense of 'my' childhood hobbies...!

YANBU - unless there is something else he really does want, and will therefore be missing out on? (from your OP I'm guessing not)

I've always chosen DCs' presents when somebody asked - don't see the problem. DD hasn't asked for anything specifically yet, but next Xmas she will be in school so all the peer pressure will kick in.

IMO as long as (when they are old enough) they ask for one thing, the rest can/should? be surprises.

YANBU. The birthday my DD had the year we left Bangkok resulted in a lot of book tokens. I had decided that the flat we lived in was drowning in a sea of tat and didn't need to be topped up.
She was happy, I was happy and the parents of the invitees were happy.
This year I think I'll set her up an Amazon wish list thing.