To be incredibly proud of my DS and his willpower / savings ability

[theITgirl]

BTW he is 10
DS has brought himself the Lego Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle (£80).

This is from pocket money of £2 a week and £15 of birthday money.

It has been his own choice to do this. I just wish I had his willpower,

I wish I did too! Good on your DS!

Wow! Well done to your DS! Can he give me any tips?

Brilliant, bodes well for his future, deferred gratification, more power to him!

Hope he gets hours of enjoyment.

He is upstairs now - busy building.

Aaaaaw what a great kid, why didnt you offer to go halves i.e he save one half you pay the rest?

Shame he had to save it all on his own.

Good for him.

(My 5 year old is hoping to save up for the lego death star. It is going to take him almost 5 years!)

Well done to your DS :)

My 9y DD is very similar in that she saves up for something big. She has been saving up for the Harry Potter audio CDs over the past year or so, having got the first as a gift. She got the 3rd as a gift too and bought the others. She is currently half way to saving up for the 5th.

Might have guessed it was you Fabby!

He could have had it as a birthday present, but he wanted a hamster instead.
This year has been quite tight financially so the alternative was food/water/roof.

Well done to your DD Hulababy.

Yes Fabby thats right, coz when he wants a car, house trip round the world
of course mum/dad will hand him half .FFS.

there's always one isn't there? ignore.

well done to your ds. he must be a very focused boy to have held onto the same goal fo all that time!! my ds would have forgotten by lunchtime what he decided to save for at brekfast.

My DD on the other hand is completely the opposite - I have £x what can I get for that. However she is younger, and hopefully she will learn something from this and start saving up herself.

I bet he really looks after it too.

You can always rely on Fabby to find the alternative view, even when there isn't one!

Well done to your DS OP

My DD1 has done similar - saved her birthday money and pocket money and anything she's been given (like money from her nan for a good report) and bought herself a kindle. It is glued to her!

Ah, the flabby school of parenting strikes again.

Thanks for your second post Fabby. You are right he will take great care of it.

Well done your ds.
Nothing wrong with saving for something.
We refused to buy ds 12 an xbox.........said buy one yourself.
He has saved most of his £ 15 a month allwance since February, and added his birthday money, and has worked out by October he will have £190.

Well done to your DS!

Can I send DSS round for some tips?

Well done to him!