Dd1 (14) is easy to buy for, she is really into clothes and helpfully sends me about a million links to stuff she wants.
Dd2 (8) on the other hand, I literally have no idea. She’s gone past that age of playing with plastic toys, and I’m currently in the process of ridding the house of all the needless shite that never gets played with. But she’s not really moved onto the next stage of being into fashion etc so it’s an awkward inbetweeny age.
She is really into playing on the iPad, but she got a new one for her birthday. Her bedroom is tiny (very small box room), and there really isn’t room for much in there. She does hobbies/activities (horse riding and majorettes), but there’s nothing she needs for either of those things.
To complicate matters further, she still believes in Santa, and I have created a rod for my own back here by buying too much stuff for her in previous years. So if she comes down to hardly any presents on Christmas Day, it will be difficult to explain. However, this year the thought of another avalanche of shite coming into the house fills me with horror. It’s not good for my sanity, or the environment. And she will never actually play with any of it.
WWYD?