To totally not understand paying £75 for a 1D ticket for young children?

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Seeing on FB today lots of friends with children in DS's year (6) are taking their children to see 1D.

I just don't get why you'd spend £150 on tickets (assuming just two of you are going) when they're so little.

some folks have money to waste, I don't....

some kids are big fans of 1D and have parents who can afford it?

Are the tickets really £75 each???

They want to.

YABU - it's no different than me spending £200 on taking my DS to see wrestling live a couple of years ago. He was little.....I can afford it and he loved it. It's all relative.

Squoosh, my ticket was 48, dd goes free as my carer.

I was at ID last weekend in Dublin, and at least 50% were under 10, the rest were their parents and teens. The tickets were birthday presents from my mum to dd - I would have thought twice about paying €164 for 2 tickets. She absolutely loved it though.

I'm very glad we saw them last weekend before all the drugs stuff came out, I think that would have changed the atomosphere a lot given the average age of the crowd.

It's their money, if they can afford it why not? You don't know what it means to them and what they're doing without (if anything) to pay for the ticket.
I don't like judging what people spend their money on with the exception of parents who smoke 20 fags a day and then claim they can't afford things for their kids. Then I hoick my judgey pants high.

Apart from that, let them get on with it.

It's no different than spending on football match tickets, theatre, the Olympics, taking the DC gokarting, theme park days out etc. A lovely treat if you can afford it.

I've just spent £75 on shoes. I bet I'll enjoy them as much as those kids will enjoy the concert. I'd spend ten times that on a holiday lasting a week if I had the money!

Dd isa going to see 1D on Tuesday my mum treated her bad managed to grab some last minute tickets. She loves them and my mum is just as excited about taking her.

Why shouldn't they spend their earnings on something fun. Presumably they are not pleading poverty or leaving bills unpaid.

Children's activities vary in price, I went to a concert at 10 and it was amazing and I'm very glad I had the chance.

£75 is ten bottles of cheapest wine, lots of people easily get through that a month yet the concert will create memories for the same price.

Y6 is pretty much the peak age to enjoy a 1D concert. A west end show would be similar. I spent that for dd to see a concert when she was only 7 and she still talks about it all the time, but that was a classical music concert so we can pretend it has more inherent worth than 1D. If I had more money I would buy more experiences for my dcs. They've never been to a theme park for example and I think that would be lovely for them. We do go to the panto every other year and that costs around £180. Lots of kids get stuff like that as bday or Christmas presents.

I'm still shocked that One Direction tickets cost £75.

Woman I work with is taking her 4 year old to see them, I don't really get it either as have a DD of the same age & can't imagine she'd enjoy it all that much this may well be because she has no idea who they are as I would rather scratch my eyes out than listen to that shite

I can well imagine a 1D crazed 10 year old would have an amazing time and the money would be well spent but I do think it's a waste bringing a 4 year old.

Why did the tickets cost so much? DD's was £43.

YABU

My friend is taking her 9 yo dd tomorrow. She bought the tickets as a Xmas present last May.

Her dd has talked of nothing else since Xmas morning.

I went to see NKOTB when I was 11. I luckily won the tickets in a radio competition as there was no way my parents could've afforded it.

I still look back on that day with a smile on my face, I has an amazing time.

These kids will have an amazing experience.

I like to go and watch a Christmas ballet. There are always lots of children there. But I have never heard anyone complain about a family spending money on tickets for this.

Tickets to Matilda are about 70 to 90 pounds depending on the seats.

Are people wrong to buy them or is it ok because it's Matilda.

We're seeing the latter in the summer and I was taking my granddaughter to see 1D next April. It won't happen now because of how sleazy the press pics were but by the same token I imagine there are those on the RSC who've looked equally as sleazy at times. That said its 1D who have peed me off

Ooops, read it as a 6 year old for some reason, really wish people would use ages not school years

My DD is 6 (but a mature 6 IYSWIM) and I am taking her. The money was spent a year ago so if she lasts through half the songs then I'll be happy.

Bolshier Sorry - if it were year 6, I'd totally agree - I did mean age

DS is year 1 - they are 6 years old

YABU
My friend has bought tickets for her 5 year old, there is a group of us going tomorrow night with children ranging from 5 to 16 who are all incredibly excited. Our tickets were also £48 I add.

Personally I try not to judge what folk spend their hard earned on. It's their choice.

Ahhhh right, well like I said I don't get either but hey, it's their money.
Thinking about it there was a child of about 5 when I saw Gaga & I was they were £95 tickets!

We often give experiences for our DC's presents such as watching Top Gear Live or weekend at Alton Towers. They seem to prefer doing new things ( not all expensive ) to getting more 'stuff'.