AIBU to think it's OK to not have a 'main present' at Christmas

[helsinkihelen]

So I think we've got enough for the kids this Christmas - we've spent about £180 quid on one and can easily do that for the other. My partner keeps on saying they need a 'main present' but I think they have enough - eg one child has a 7" tablet, a collection of spy stuff, a Pokemon game, a flipslide game, some football gear and a medium sized lego set. Plus I will do them a stocking. But my partner is obsessed with the idea of a main present as apparently none of what we already have seem to qualify! Its not that we can't afford something else - I just don't feel we need to. Is it a thing that kids get a 'main present'? I didn't have much growing up but I feel spending £200 odd quid on odds and ends is just as good as having a 'main/big present'! Who's BU?

Thank you everyone. I wasn't sure if I was being a bit of a grinch about it. They are almost 8 and almost 6. And also I am mindful that both their birthdays are not long after Christmas so they get an awful lot in a short space. I think it's a lot different to when a lot of us were kids. We buy stuff/treats for them all year round (as most parents do these days) so they really want for nothing. When I was a kid it was Christmas and birthday and if you didn't get what you wanted you had to wait a whole year!

DS isn’t getting a main present this year, he’s getting a trampoline when we move house in the spring. He is 3 though, so has no idea how it’s all supposed to work.

Neither of mine have a ‘main present’ this year. They already have bikes/scooters etc and are too young for tablets (4 and 2.5), so I’m not buying something big for the sake of it. They’ve got about 5-6 small ish things that they’ll really like, plus stocking fillers.

When DD was 3 she got DS to write a list for Father Christmas on her behalf. She asked for a triangle, a square, a rectangle, a circle and a hexagon. I'm not sure which one she had in mind for the main present but she also got a Baby ChooChoo which pleased her no end

my just 4 year old has asked for ‘a nice flower for my bedroom’ and my 2 year old has asked for ‘a pretty ribbon to go round my neck’

@helsinkihelen I think getting your child one present for Christmas is terrible

Your list sounds fine. I'd have thought the main gift was whatever they'd asked for, even if that's a small inexpensive gift.

Currently dc1's "main" gift is a light that will fit in the palm of her hand and cost about £5. She's getting larger stuff, and more expensive stuff, but that'll be her "main" present in her eyes as she's wanted one for ages and has asked for it. - Which of course will make santa look a real skinflint when she's asked what she got for Christmas, as she's sure to only mention that one thing!