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To think the YouTube 300+ present parents per child are ghastly

37 replies

Rosepetalgeranium · 27/12/2018 09:47

No child needs 300 presents. A certain family gave their children about 20 lol dolls. All that plastic all that waste and the children didn't even seem to enjoy the presents, ripping though them in seconds and getting to the next.

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ravenshope · 27/12/2018 15:23

I enjoy watching them.
There's only been one that's made me sad though- a little girl who is a youtube star being given loads of expensive designer presents but you could tell she was bored opening them and said she only wanted two things. And she had no one to play with her toys with.

PristineCondition · 27/12/2018 15:27

You can watch something else?

BreakYourselfAgainstMyStones · 27/12/2018 15:32

I would buy my kids a thousand presents if I could afford it.

They are just parents trying their best, like most of us. Watching it isn't compulsory.

AGHHHH · 27/12/2018 15:34

Jfc even if money was no object I would be completely overwhelmed with 300 presents. I think I'd be overwhelmed with more than 10...

And yes, obviously the OP can watch something else, but they're still entitled to an opinion on it. I hate passive aggressive, cop out responses like that. Hmm

DinoDave · 27/12/2018 15:39

300 presents, really? Bleughh, what a ridiculous waste.

PristineCondition · 27/12/2018 15:40

It wasn’t passive aggressive.
She can wat h something else

PristineCondition · 27/12/2018 15:41

Watch*

AGHHHH · 27/12/2018 15:42

I imagine the OP will avoid them but now that she's seen it she probably wants to rant about it.

Three HUNDRED presents. Lord. I got beans.

😂

Thesearmsofmine · 27/12/2018 15:43

I am guessing you mean the Inghams? I don’t watch them although they live locally to me, I find their excess disgusting tbh. Very glad I haven’t seen them out and about.

user1495884620 · 27/12/2018 15:46

The only reason these videos exist is because people watch them. And then generate more interest by people frothing about them on social media. So just not watching would be far more useful.

BatCakes · 27/12/2018 15:59

That Ingram family video is an absolute shocker and I say that as someone prone to excess at Christmas. I go mad with gifts etc and spend a small fortune. I like spoiling the kids and probably spend a good £600 per child, however when a Nintendo switch and a couple of games is £420, it soon adds up

I then idly clicked on their video and it's just repulsive. Ugh.

formerbabe · 27/12/2018 16:02

I find it grotesque

CaptainBrickbeard · 27/12/2018 16:08

I haven’t seen any YouTube families so don’t know about the specific video but I really can’t imagine any child enjoying receiving 300 presents in one day. I also can’t imagine it being psychologically beneficial to them to be filmed getting such a pile and have their reaction to it broadcast to the world.

pasanda · 27/12/2018 16:08

Disgusting people. No child needs 300 presents. They clearly have some sort of mental health problem.

Pathetic

Ozgirl75 · 27/12/2018 16:09

Money isn’t really an object for us but I wouldn’t dream of buying more than about 10-15 really nice gifts. That combined with grandparents all buying about 10 each makes for a huge amount of new things.

WhyDontYouComeOnOver · 27/12/2018 16:14

Why does having a mental health problem equate to buying your children an excessive amount of presents? Confused

Or is that just another comment using mental illness as a way to insult...?

OrangeJellySpread · 27/12/2018 16:22

If it is the Inghams I guess they need something to make people forget that daddy perved on a few young girls.

AGHHHH · 27/12/2018 16:22

Why does it have to be a mental health problem?

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Rosepetalgeranium · 27/12/2018 16:23

Er yes I know I can watch something else, but I wanted to rent about the video I've already seen.

You could comment on other threads if you have nothing to add other than that 🤷

Yes it's the inghams if we are allowed to mention names, they must have toys everywhere if they do this every year!

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CherryPavlova · 27/12/2018 16:27

I’ve not seen it but it certainly sounds ridiculously excessive.

pasanda · 27/12/2018 16:29

Not meant to insult at all.

But nobody in their right mind thinks buying their dc 300 gifts for Xmas is normal!!

Let's say 10 hours worth of opening pressies. That's 30 an hour. Or 1 every 2 minutes!

NOT FUCKING NORMAL!!

Crimbobimbo · 27/12/2018 16:32

How terribly common. I think the expression is 'more money than sense'.
Is he the dad who was texting young girls? Perhaps they wanted to take their mind off things.

AGHHHH · 27/12/2018 16:32

Not meant to insult 😂😂😂😂

CaptainBrickbeard · 27/12/2018 17:55

I just found the video. It’s over half an hour! Who sits and watches that??

I find it really disturbing that these are real children being filmed and shown like this to over a million people. What must it be like for them at school?

I can’t inagine waking my children up on Christmas morning with my phone in hand recording them - what a strange and bizarre way to live, with your childhood and family life on camera. It looked like a very sad Christmas morning to me, present mountains and all. The three of them sitting in a row, opening such a ludicrous number of gifts for an audience. Very depressing!

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Rosepetalgeranium · 27/12/2018 19:30

They got even more presents on boxing day!

I've fallen into a bit of a black hole reading about them tattle.life/tags/the-ingham-family/ honestly this shouldn't even be legal, it's not fair on the children

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