To be annoyed by photos if piles if presents on Facebook.

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It is probably present pile envy but I am finding it a bit vulgar. Plus it is making our small pile look crap.

What I want to know is, who ARE these tightwad MNetters who self righteously only give their kids a couple of presents because the photos I see on FB (and like to) are of piles and piles of presents with kids frenziedly ripping into them, just as it should be.

I think Christmas should be one day of the year where you are not being worthy and uptight and I think it's more to do with tightness than teaching your children good values even if you won't admit it to yourself.

Worthies, your kids love plastic tat. Stop making their Christmas about you and how you think it should be and get them some!

the thing is, most of our presents are things like bathrobes, socks, jumpers, tights, school bag, bedding

stuff like that, I think most people have similar things wrapped up surely? So it looks like a lot but is just the stuff you would buy normally but wrapped up?

I can't begin to imagine my dismay as a child if I opened a big, exciting looking parcel and found..........a school bag .

DS got a pair of silver cufflinks, DS some wine.
That's all.
No mountains of plastic here.

well i posted a pic of our tree and presents and the stuff left out for santa and the gingetbread house we made and have posted pics of kids opening, playing, building toys (lots of lego). it probably does look a lot but meh we have five kids and i love christmas.

most years i take the pics and post them so dp can share xmas with us as he works. this year he actually has the day off its fab, we are having a great day and sharing on fb means grandparents, aunts, uncles etc can see and they love it.

you get threads like this every year with people complaining, meh if you dont like it turn fb off, no-one makes you look at it.

YABU. I saw lots of 'Santa's been!' photos on FB with varying present pile sizes and it didn't even cross my mind that the big piles were boastful. If you've got small kids then a beautiful tree with presents underneath is such an exciting thing. Plus massive presents doesn't necessarily equal massive expensive. My ILs went hugely over the top last year with Gigantic Items of Tat. Quantity does not necessarily mean quality..

Well the only picture DS2(17) has posted on Instagram is of a mug that looks like an old fashioned Marmite jar that cost me £8 in BHS. The presents that cost the most haven't been mentioned on Fb, Twitter or anywhere else.

We have had nothing plastic bought here.

Well my son was absolutely thrilled with his character school bag :)

Someones put pictures of their piles on Facebook? Yeuch!!!!!!!

My youngest DS was very happy with his new school bag too.

I posted a pic of my tree, I have done every year. I've taken photos of te tree and presents before I even had te Internet.

I don't think there's that much under our tree considering there's 9 of us. I've seen friends with one or two children with far more presents than we've got. Mind you, they've probably got more room than us! Mine did a get a Wii U between them so that was their main present and only got a few other little bits.

Ok, well, this is a genuine question. My one friend who does this (others put pictures of themselves, their families, their children and their decorations and food) has posted a picture of branded bags that her gifts came in (I assume the actual gifts are inside but you cant see them in the picture.) Think a Harrods bag or Links of London.

Am I being miserable to think its the tackiest thing she could have possibly done? Perhaps I am being miserable but I admit the first thing I feel when I see those pictures is 'look how amazing and expensive MY presents are'

If you don't like it delete them. Don't bleat on about it.

YANBU to have personal dislikes but YABU to care what others post on facebook.

Sorry your piles are small (snigger) and I hope it was a case of quality over quantity. Have a merry old time regardless :D

sure I loved christmas when I was a kid, because toys, TV, sweets and puddings were very important to me, the abundance of those sorts of things at christmas sends kids into an almost painful frenzy of excitement.

Obviously as an adult I just dont have the same level of enthusiasm for those things.

For youself, no, of course not. But the point is enjoying providing the raw materials for your kids' frenzy of excitment, cos you remeber how !!!!AMAZEBALLS!!!! it felt when you were little, no ?

Some of us find the enthusiasm to make it great for our kids Suzanne, still don't understand why that is something to mock a person for.

Tbf I'm probably guilty of this today but there are 12 people here for Christmas so 12 piles of presents. We have a bloomin mountain!

Yanbu. To me Christmas is about much more than the presents and I hope my children feel the same.

Facebook is often all about boasting though, look at me and my amazing life. We are probably all a little guilty of that.

Carpe, yes I understand that lots of people genuinely enjoy seeing the wonder and amazement that kids experience at the plethora of christmas presents.

When mine were young I 'did' christmas because it would have been unfair not to, of course I liked to see them happy.

But I have no desire to relive it vicariously, as I said my memory is of almost painful over excitement, and generally for me the pleasures of childhood pale in comparison to adult life

Also I cringe when I remember how completely enamored of toys I was, it makes me a little uncomfortable the way that children are encouraged to covet things.

You need a severely autistic child. No materialism at all. (But then you find that Christmas with a child not interested in presents & stressed out by the day is a bit :( really)

I use Facebook because it's full of my friends and family who are interested in seeing what I'm doing and vice versa. I don't see family much so they like to see my photos Perhaps you should delete these people if you feel so badly towards them.

BrianTheMole, obviously you're c

*completely wrong. I've about 50 friends on Facebook, all direct family and friends. It's on another baby for I've seen all the braggy photos - which I'm 99.9% will appear on Facebook too. Unfortunately on a form I can't choose the cunts I see - on Facebook I can. So yep, wrong.