To think this is bloody ridiculous............?

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What sort of message is she sending her children? Or am I being judgey?

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Jeez. Where does she get the time or the energy to wrap all of those? I'm fed up with the whole thing after wrapping about 3!!

Xmas Excess: Parents Splash The Cash airs Thursday at 8pm on Channel 5

So it is tomorrow but on channel 5

Yes it's 96 presents each.

The teen girl got a tablet last year and hasn't used it. She broke or lost the charger so it's now sitting redundant on the top of her wardrobe. Also saw a photo of said teen with piles of stuff and it looked like an awful lot of toiletries sets which she's probably still working her way through.

One of her kids is only a tot, I can't imagine what you'd buy for a child that small - 96 things?

I really don't care if she wants to do this, I understand she bargain hunts throughout the year (but I NEED to know where she stores everything!!!) and I should think she gets more than just tat.

But I remember one year when DD1 was about 4 and I'd bought her about 9 or 10 things. My IL's came over with about 40 presents for her for Christmas. It was fucking ridiculous. DD got totally bored after about an hour, nothing got played with (because my living room was full of stuff and there was no floor space), I spent half the day trying to clear up paper, get things out of boxes and set things up for her and I made it quite clear that they were never to be so fucking ridiculous again.

I think half of those toys got given to a charity shop eventually. It was really insane.

Sigh to the precious one who doesn't see this guff for what it is.

The poor kids will probably end up with RSI after opening so many presents

My eldest is 6 and I've been guilty of buying any old cheap tat in the past just to make his pile bigger on Christmas morning. I'd say 90% either broke within hours or I found the following year still in the box. The last two years I haven't done it. Just set an amount and if he wanted more expensive presents then his pile is obviously small. And guess what. He doesn't care. He's happy he's got what he's got and I have less wrapping to do.
I bet most of those presents in the picture are just whatever she could get her hands on for cheap just for the effect

I couldn't give a shit what she does but if someone were to exploit Channel 5 and their ongoing bullshit programming on the spurious reasons of why the plebs are poor, then more power to them.

I don't know..channel 5 will probably manage to stick in one of her relatives twice removed was on benefits at one point. Just to really drive a wedge

To quote Granny Weatherwax "There's some psychology there...."

There is more to this than just wanting her kids to have loads of presents. She should spend her money on therapy, not plastic tat.

I think she's just stupid!

How will her children ever learn to appreciate anything? What sort of life is this storing up for whoever they marry , when they are going to expect a boatload of "stuff" every year? Where do they even keep all of that cr@p?

They don't go on holiday apparently - wouldn't going away as a family, broadening their horizons and enjoying time together be a lot more appropriate. Build some memories instead of contributing to landfill. She and her partner must be crackers!

I recall this from last year - am I right in thinking that she buys lots of small/cheap gifts. They are her children its her money. Fair play to her.

Probably aload of old tat.
Who is she trying to impress because it looks and is ridiculous.

£1500 for 96 presents each allows £5.21 per gift. If the pile includes one 'big' present of £50 each, then the average cost of the other 95 items drops to under a fiver. There must be an awful lot of cheap tat in those parcels

And where on earth do they keep it all? No wonder a lot doesn't get played with, they probably can't find anything.

If she can afford it why not?

Are you serious?

Because it's revoltingly, hideously, embarrassingly excessive. Because it makes her look slightly unhinged. Because it will be totally overwhelming for the children and probably spoils the whole Christmas morning experience rather than enhances it. Because they cannot possibly appreciate, value or enjoy that many presents.

It is completely fucking ridiculous.

There is more to this than just wanting her kids to have loads of presents. She should spend her money on therapy, not plastic tat.

Totally agree with this. I understand why people who grew up without much feel a need to overcompensate for their own children but this is bordering on insane, akin to that of an obsessive hoarder. It's just not right. And it's not good for her children, it's potentially quite damaging on a number of levels.

I'm one of 4 siblings and growing up, my father was the breadwinner. We had very little money, but every Christmas, my mum would get into debt to buy ridiculous amounts of presents.

I remember a man with a little brown book coming round every week to collect money from my mum, and my mum panicking in case she didn't have enough. Never understood it as a child and don't understand it now.

One word: WASTEFUL

I'm sure it used to be frowned upon - for good reason in my opinion - to be wasteful; deliberately and wantonly wasteful.

I hope to god she sees sense and hands half of that pile over to charity, not because I'm some "holier than thou" do-gooder, but because she knows from experience nothing will be achieved by her children having or even opening the majority of these presents. If she was hoping to get something out of this I can only imagine most of that will have come from the buying of them - the sense of satisfaction - and yes, the media attention will no doubt top it off.

But it's over. It's done now. For the love of god, think of the environment! Think of the resources is took to produce these items, only for them to go unused and unopened. Think of the need for them elsewhere whilst they sit there gathering dust, and for what? There is only one way any good can come of this; give a hefty chunk of these away.

I just don't get how anyone could be arsed to think of 96 presents each. I actually couldn't care less what other people spend their money on, but I just look at that and feel knackered.

I've never done Christmas lists, as I quite enjoy listening to what my kids burble on about and then getting it if it's affordable. My kids are late teens now, and I think they've got 14 presents each this year (yes I'm still ridiculous enough that they have to have the same number 😉) and I got bored wrapping that many! Each kid's presents fit in a small carrier bag though, as I've bought them stuff like Christmas socks and chocolate oranges.

The other thing is that she says she's been buying stuff since July. Small children don't want the same shite by Christmas that they wanted in July. I made that mistake once, and spent the week before Christmas desperately trying to find a Lotso bear, and putting what I'd already bought in the "toys for poor kids" box.

Actually, she could put half of what she's bought in a charity box. Feel smug and do good. Win win.

She's on This Morning at the moment (spooky things happening in my house at the moment so I've got the tv on to stop me hearing things).