WIBU to buy my son a bed for his birthday?

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DS is turning 4 next month and is all of a sudden very long and tall, and I often find him with limbs hanging out his toddler bed.
Would it be mean of me to get him a new bed as his birthday present? I would put it all together as a surprise for him with nice new duvet covers and balloons, but I can't decide if it is actually not very exciting for him, or dare I say it... a bit tight. We don't have much spare money so would have to wait a good few months to buy him a new bed. He doesn't need anything for his birthday and has lots of toys - I feel like just buying more tat is a waste of money.... but also don't want to be mean.

What do you think?

I did it, he got a cabin bed and a choice of new sheets. I put it together whilst he was and when he came back he had his 'big boy bed' ready for being 4 years old.

I think some posters on this thread are miserable bastards looking at this from an adults perspective.

He turns four and he GETS A BIG BOY BED. If it also happens to be a race car etc even better. But if not, some awesome sheets and stuff are brillliant. I've got the video from my children going in to their room and the total shock was brilliant. Similar age too OP. Mine got racecar and Thomas beds from Ebay and Facebook. Didn't cost much (we didn't have much that year) but they were well loved.

You might as well say cake is shit on their birthdays as you have to feed them anyway

You might as well say cake is shit on their birthdays as you have to feed them anyway

The two things, a birthday cake and a bed, are not comparable.

A decorated cake with candles and everyone singing as it's brought out is not a mundane food. It would be comparable if someone said they didn't want to do a birthday cake for their kid because they'd had cake before and actually a plate of casserole with a candle and some sparklers would be more sensible and as it would be their dinner as well as a birthday treat.

Awaits someone saying that their kid would always choose birthday casserole over birthday cake...

I've bought a bed as a birthday present about that age, with new duvet cover, and couple of character cushions and a couple of wrapped toys to open. She loved it.