Aibu to give dd (8) and empty stocking for Christmas...

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Well ,empty apart from concert tickets to see one direction?

She truly believes that she will marry harry

Sure, if your daughter likes pop music it's a great gift.

It's just that presenting it in an almost empty stocking might make it seem a bit pathetic.

I'd ditch the stocking, especially as she doesn't believe in Father Christmas, or bulk it out a bit.

I was thinking about getting her a teeny tiny stocking and have a gold envelope peeking out the top

that's a completely different thing to buying a full size stocking and putting an envelope (which would look a bit lost) and nothing else in it. why didn't you say that to begin with?

The thing is how many tickets have you bought and who is going . If you have had to buy 2 tickets so that you can go with her that ticket is not IMO part of her present ,so her present is the cost of 1 ticket .still seems a bit measly to me but I spend a lot at Christmas .

I would go to the poundshop and spend a tenner on sparkly stuff, nail polish, sweets and maybe some pencils etc - so she has a pile of stuff to unwrap, but it hasn't broken the bank.

Go to Tyger and buy some crap odds and sods for her stocking to fill it out a bit. Or pound land type cheapy shop.

Depends what you can afford whether it's 'measly' or not, surely? Bully for you that you can spend a lot. Some people can't.

Check out the Christmas bargain thread in the Christmas topic, there are 1d t shirts on amazon for about £2 poss free delivery.

Three of us going, but she couldn't go without us, could she?

Now if I could get DD1 tickets to the Dr Who prom or tickets for both to Matilda, I might get away with it. But even at 15 and 12 they are going to want a few physical somethings.

Love the cracker idea. But we tend to go with the "whoevers holding the main bit when it splits gets that cracker" so what if somekne else won it?

Why three?

She will get other prezzies off other people

Oh - and I have, in recent years, always put hot choc powder (nice from whittards or cadburys), squirty cream and mini marshmallows in the dses' stockings, so they can make posh hot chocolate - that goes down a treat!

Me dh and her

well she could go with one of you or you could have joined up with a friend of hers, one child ticket each / split the parent ticket. So no, it's not her fault you've bought more tickets than she needs / wants. You could spend a tenner and still put a lot of little fun things in there.

Really....Not her fault we have to go with her?

Why do both of you need to go?? Me and DH fight about who doesn't get to go. That's £60 you could have saved, do both of you really want to see 1D?

no... not at all. Quite bizarre that you're both going! Sell one of the tickets to one of her friends' parents and you take both of them, with £60 in pocket to buy her a few presents. Your DH can't possibly actually want to go?

It's not mean at all, especially as she doesn't believe in FC.
I am with 'prozacbear* on this one.
OP i love your idea of little stocking etc.

I just think that by filling her stocking with tat its cheapening it.
She's desperate to go, but she also knows it would be a massive stretch for us, both in terms of funding it, but also acquiring the tickets as she knows they are difficult to get..

My point was only that her ticket is her present ,the other 2 should not be part of her present , why buy 3 if they were that expensive .I have taken my dd to lots of concerts over the years ,it wouldn't cross my mind to get a ticket for DH .

I would fill her ordinary stocking with cheaper bits and put the tickets right at the bottom so she does see them OR maybe wrap them in a box in a box much more fun but if you do an empty one she will find them right away so its 6 and half adozen what you do

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Smaller stocking.

It's not mean, there are going to be hundreds of children not waking up with nothing for christmas.