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To think this is vile

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Ispywith · 15/11/2012 18:18

To get a child of 7 for Christmas their own Xbox, tv & DVD player bla bla bla. Saw it on thread about what people are getting their kids got Christmas. Is it me or is this madness?

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RudolphUcker · 16/11/2012 20:24

We don't have crack dens in Sylvania.

That's nice though, he can do mini-graffiti. And teeny tiny used condoms outside.

PickledFanjoCat · 16/11/2012 20:27

Some of those little weirdy fucks in sylvania look like they would benefit from a night in the crack house..

quirrelquarrel · 16/11/2012 20:31

Begonia
That's exactly my point- that the point isn't (I promise there's a point to this. oh lolz) how much money it costs. Someone was saying that you could get an X box for comparatively little and so it was fine to heap cheap gadgets on a kiddy. What I was saying that the price wasn't the issue because the child won't even know the cost it's what the gadget will bring to the child that counts.
So a very expensive and beautifully made dollshouse will IMHO be much better for a 7 year old than a limited gadget. Am I making more sense? sorry! I confuse myself at times Grin

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:31

He could sell the idea to le toy van. They'd lap it up, he'll make a fortune!

quirrelquarrel · 16/11/2012 20:32

I so wanted a Triang dollshouse with green shutters I saw in an antique shop in the summer. The lady on the till didn't know how much it was Hmm

quirrelquarrel · 16/11/2012 20:32

pop in the missing commas as you wish Blush

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:34

But a dolls house or farm, or whatever wouldn't appeal to many children. Ds for one. Although, he is getting lego. Lots and lots of lego.

TiredBooyhoo · 16/11/2012 20:36

pickled Shock you've been here ages, no? you're not a newbie, are you?

RudolphUcker · 16/11/2012 20:36

You could build your own crack den, from Lego.
Or a big one, from Duplo.

quirrelquarrel · 16/11/2012 20:36

Well.....it was just a leetle example. Insert "supremely expensive lego set" (aww....which I'd still love) wherever I've said "dollshouse".
I mean. Kids don't want only Xboxes.

TiredBooyhoo · 16/11/2012 20:38

my dad built me a dolls house for my first xmas. it was a replica of our house that we lived in. my sister chopped the chimneys off with the tool kits she got for xmas some years later Angry Sad

quirrelquarrel · 16/11/2012 20:39

I'm off to look at dollshouse porn now. Caught the bug.
I really need to go to one of those museums.

PickledFanjoCat · 16/11/2012 20:39

I've been posting shite since about may. Before then I was sensible and using the advice bits..

So not very long at all..

quirrelquarrel · 16/11/2012 20:41

Shock Tired

Does anyone remember the bits in Chalet School where there were all sorts of miraculously intricate dolls houses sculpted by Tom Gay and a girl won it every Christmas? and sometimes the votes were rigged so girls in the San got one?

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:41

I fucking hate lego. My house has been taken over by little yellow squares that burrow into the carpet and maim you as you walk around. I'm not allowed to touch it (because I'm clumsy and smash it. I dropped the dog on the batcave)

A lego crack den would be ace.

He has built an asylum. And a lego me. That he keeps putting in the asylum then laughing.

7 year olds are vile. Wink

takataka · 16/11/2012 20:42

Yeuck

TiredBooyhoo · 16/11/2012 20:43

ooh i thought you were much older than that pickled. welcome to Mn Grin

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:43

My gramps built me a dolls house when I was 3, I loved it. It got smashed up by my stepdad when I was 11. Twat.

stephrick · 16/11/2012 20:44

ok it was a while ago, DD is now 17, but she had the Bratz dolls at 7, save your, money, now it's an I pad.

Moominsarescary · 16/11/2012 20:44

I'd love a dolls house, I want to buy little furniture and decorate it.

Id have hated one when I was 7

PickledFanjoCat · 16/11/2012 20:44

Cheers tired

valiumredhead · 16/11/2012 21:12

I think you mean "you're". It's the contracted version of "you are" and the apostrophe shows the omission of the "a" at the beginning of "are". "Your" denotes possession

I was brought up to believe that it is the height of bad manners to correct someone's grammar or speech. I have brought me console playing son the same way. What a shame you feel the need to belittle someone else surrey

I think I'd rather chat to a polite gamer than a sneery know it all any day.

TiredBooyhoo · 16/11/2012 21:18

that's what i was 'yuck'ing about valium

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 21:22

Valium, they clearly don't teach manners at oxford!

quirrelquarrel · 16/11/2012 21:32

I think Surrey was joking.

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