Keeping Christmas 'fair' between siblings

[EdtheBear]

Questioning myself after reading another thread.
My kids are just 2 and about to turn 8. I opted to keep thing 'fair' by having same number of gifts each. 2 yo had less spent on them.

Is that reasonable, would you spend the same on each of them?

Sounds right to me. If you spend the same amount on a 2yo and an 8yo the 2yo will look like they have much more.

My children are 3 and 9. Youngest had less spent on him as his toys are cheaper. Also a few less as they are bulkier.

Younger one did get less, but it was more than older one got at that age.

Depends on the kids.
Mine didn't get exactly the same number of gifts but were all happy. They all got what they wanted. The older ones had less but expensive items. Younger ones had one big, and similar smaller ones - there's 18months between them so although they don't count presents, they would notice and think it unfair for one to have more presents. Older ones didn't mind that they had less as they got what they wanted.
Fair, imo, is how they are treated.

They don't know how much you spent. It doesn't matter so long as they're happy with what they hot.

Got not hot.

Mine get similar, but not identical numbers of gifts. The amount spent depends on the year, but they know that it evens out in the end.

They've never said or even implied that they have issues with this.

We’ve done it as fair as we can with a 5 and 3 year old

Ds looks like he had more spent on him, but in reality dd’s cost a lot more so she didn’t get as much.

However they were both over the moon with what they got

The value of the gifts is irrelevant surely? More important that they have things they actually wanted.

My two have always got items from their list and the value varies wildly sometimes. But they always have the same number of gifts to open.

Also your younger child might be benefiting from toys which your older dc had so they gain in that way.

Yes younger one benefits from things the older one got. He's only just 2 so too young to put in his wish list.
And yes the older one got what he wanted.