dds 3rd birthday.

[zobey]

So dd is 3 in Jan, and I've got her everything she wanted for Xmas. I've got her for her bday, a tablet kids one cost 42.00, desk cost 19.99, duplo cost 19.99, dressing up trunk 24.99, two dresses I've had made for her 26 each. And a play house cost 179.99. I'll get her craft bits to go with the desk but do you think that's enough or am I being tight. I'm also going to get her the frozen wand that sings that she wants that's 12.99.

No one in their right mind can think that's tight!

Don't worry op, there's plenty two weeks left to source some decent gifts .

I would go so far as to say that compared to some people, the OP hasn't actually spent much. A friend of mine has always spent literally hundreds and hundreds of pounds on each of her 2 daughters every birthday and xmas. They're not that well off, normal family, they just choose to spend a fortune on their kids (who are now late teens).

However she has never been on here listing the stuff she's bought and asking others to read about it.

I've always spent substantially less on my kids than my friend does on hers. She thinks none the less of me for it. We do what we do.

Why would intelligent person in this day and age really think it mattered 'how much is enough' to buy their own kid? Everyone knows there are folk struggling to still even have a roof over their heads this xmas - who honestly sits about wondering if 300 quids worth of presents is enough for a 3 year old?!

Why did you so carefully list the prices of the gifts in your post OP? I ask out of genuine interest and strange fascination.

She "usually" gets more? She's 3! You're saying you spent even more than that when she was too young to even understand it? On what?

As an aside, being someone who is genuinely struggling to heat my house/feed my family/pay my rent etc, I find this kind of shite pisses me off no end. I have to go without to be able to live at all, fuck presents! You're being obscene, your kid needs love and a decent home not mountains of plastic crap. Buying her all that doesn't mean you love her more, just that she'll grow up not knowing the value of anything. fucking ridiculous goady bollocks

Worst stealth boast ever. Why bother to engage??

JamaicanMeEatMincePies

It's clearly a boasty goady post, please don't take it seriously. this type of reaction is how the OP gets her / his kicks.

Personally I find the idea of a child being given that much stuff at Christmas obscene and rather depressing.

Far rather a smaller amount of presents they will actually get excited about, than a huge number they will be totally overwhelmed by, to the point of not even appreciating them…what kind of example are you trying to set your daughter? Greed, materialism, ostentation?

Finally, I usually hesitate to comment on anyone's grammar and spelling, but I honestly think that if the standard of English in your post is anything to go by, your child would benefit from a bit less plastic in the house and a few more books.

I know it is, it's just irritating that some people apparently get their rocks off by pretending to be hard done by like that. It's bloody hard to be in the position where you can't afford to live, and if she's going without to fund some ridiculous amount of stuff that her dd clearly doesn't need then she is either an idiot or isn't actually going without anything she couldn't live without in the first place

I think this thread would fit in well at the other parenting site especially if you post pics

Sad...really really sad on every level.

not so stealthy stealth boast alert

Don't do what my parents did and spent a fortune on gifts to 'make up' for being sub par parents...

Naahh op, it's basically nothing and you're being tight

Vulgar boast and actually very sad if at three years old your daughter asked for all that branded stuff. How would she even know?

Personally I'd spend the money on educational resources and activities. If you need to spend £300 get some music lessons, books, preschool magazines with craft activities, and visit some museums. Too many kids have mountains of plastic tat lavished on them at the expense of parental investment in their education.

It seems just about enough, only make sure you leave the price tags on to show DD in case she questions you on the meagre number of presents.

It's excessive. The play house alone would have been a combined xmas gift and birthday gift in our house

YABVU - way too much for a 3 year old! Save your money for when she's older.

Yabu but I'm sure you already knew that. It's an obscene amount.

My DD will also be 3 in January. She's getting some Duplo, a dressing up outfit, a book and some chocolate. Any more presents than that would be overwhelming for her.

Also have a January born DC. She's 7 now and will expect more than a few bits of cheap tat. At 3? Not so.
OTT amount to spend and surely a stealth boat. WTF is the point of this thread OP?

My dd will be four in January she will be getting snow glo Elsa and a pre school doll. I am concerned both dolls was a bit over the top but the Elsa doll won't arrive in time for Christmas and she asked for the other doll for her birthday.

Let's try to drag this thread out to 4 pages.

My 2 are January born and, while they are little, birthdays are pretty low key present wise, they've just had Christmas fgs.

Save your money and get her something in the summer.

If this thread is indeed serious then frankly I think you have bought too much - even if you can easily afford it. Buy a family pass to the zoo or local farm park or something, children really don't need all this 'stuff'...

I can't even remember what my DD had for her 3rd birthday.

We did go to the zoo though and she loved it. Surely that would of been more fun?