3 DC and only one big bag of presents

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I don’t understand when people say they’ve been wrapping presents all day.

Eldest DC have two presents to open each, they both got new trainers too which they have already.

Youngest has a few cheap games from Lidl and a kindle fire plus stocking stuff which is all stuff he’ll use.

For family, we don’t buy individual pressies, we do a family pressie instead.

In the past, I used to buy more but most of it just ended up scattered around the house and never used so I don’t bother now. I just don’t get the need to have a big pile of pressies anymore.

It took me max two hours today including bits for one stocking, writing a few cards etc - I was watching TV too so wrapped slowly.

I feel sorry for the children who are subjected to parents that can afford to, but choose not to spoil them a bit at Christmas. The smug stinginess, need to virtue signal and outdo each other for who is giving their kids the least is insufferable. And this notion that lots of presents are ‘tat’ is also really stupid. Most people get gifts they know their kids will like and use.

I've found that using Christmas stickers rather than sellotape has saved me loads of time this year.

Because it’s Christmas you miserly miserable grinch 😂

Honestly not trying to be a grinch, just wondering if it's all stuff that is actually welcomed.
I couldn't be doing with an avalanche of 9+ gifts from multiple people. I don't want that many things!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

My DH has done the majority of the wrapping.

I haven't even started wrapping presents for the extended family.

I agree with others though, this is yet another, my kids only need 1 present, posts.

You must hate me then because I buy kids stuff like PJs, underwear, socks and toiletries then wrap them up for them.

Expensive items are for their birthdays.

Why would I hate you? 😂 My mum also used to fill our stockings with things we needed / would use, including socks, underwear, toiletries etc. None of that is tat if it has a use. I’m talking about the ones that deliberately choose to get their kids a bit of coal, a satsuma and a dull educational book only; as if anything else will cause their child to immediately turn into an ungrateful, entitled brat, burn a massive hole in the ozone layer and permanently raise the world’s temperature by two degrees.

Merry Christmas!

I don’t understand when people say they’ve been wrapping presents all day

I don’t understand people who get their children cheap shite from Lidl as Christmas presents but here we are.

12 gifts for an adult child?! That's totally excessive to me.

OP - YANBU. My kids have around 10 each but they're young so many are stocking gifts /small items eg stickers, pens. They have 2 main presents then the little bits and bobs. I'll see how it goes this year and adjust accordingly next year. It took me 3 hours to wrap everything for 3 kids and 1 husband.

Really? Are you that shallow (or thick) that you think price affects quality/value? How sad.

I get you OP, most people are still exchanging loads of 💩

surely most people accept that there's usually some sort of link to price and quality, otherwise nobody would ever buy any food other than asda smart price, clothes other than primark, wine more than £4, a car other than a ford focus, etc...?

Whooooosh

Explain your point, then. I didn't get it either.

Well of course you are being unreasonable.

Some people buy more presents. It then takes them longer to wrap them.

My 17yo has 10 (plus money). The dogs 4 each. A friend 2. It didn’t take me particularly long. The friend has a big family. I expect it takes her a lot longer.

What's not to understand
It is pretty bleeding obvious most kids get more than a few bits from lidl.

Others obviously have more people to buy for or have bought more presents. I am with you OP though and would find the thought of wrapping 100 presents or more overwhelming. We came to an arrangement with friends and extended family to stop buying for each other years ago so now it is just immediate family. I buy about 5 or 6 presents for my granddaughters plus a small stocking each and about 3 presents for my daughters, husband and son in law. My mum gets flowers and I give money to my daughters so the presents are just small things.

Small chicken and a massive salad?

I spend ages wrapping the few presents I give, OP, cos I LOVE wrapping presents. Ribbon, fancy seals, little dangly things . . . bring them on! Really envy people doing a couple of hundred.

I don’t get why there is an assumption if you buy lots at Christmas it must all be tat. We have dozens of stocking fillers (books, bath/hair stuff, gloves, chocolates/sweets, family card games, travel versions of a couple of board games, mugs, hot chocolate spoons, new phone covers/key rings, paint brushes/pallets, a tshirt, handcream, mini lego builds. The only tat like stuff is some slime, fingerboards and some horrendous lol doll baby, which were on their lists and I know they will enjoy. I’ve never known them to discard anything by Boxing Day but I spend a lot of time deciding what to get and try and ensure it’s all things they will either consume or they will play with. I’m always mildly surprised how little many seemingly well off people spend at Christmas. I love finding treats that friends and family might not get themselves but would enjoy and I also like letting the kids have a day of being totally overindulged. It’s probably just what you are used to. My parents always made a huge thing of Christmas. They only stopped making me a stocking after our eldest was born and we stopped staying with them Christmas Eve

I've just spent a few hours wrapping. Three kids five adults in the house, plus presents for five people outside the house. The youngest has six presents, and I gave my daughter a hair system (so hair wrap, deep conditioner masque with brush, fancy shampoo and conditioner, and a new hair dryer) - that alone was four presents and I gave her a set of books and jammies. And so for the others. I also take time to select the right paper so no one has more than two presents wrapped in the same, different tags, and mix up bows with ribbons and a few awkward shapes I wrap in tissue and make it look like a cracker....I enjoy doing it. It's almost meditative!

Bit weird to be so smug about getting your kids barely anything. It stands to reason if you don't get them anything, you've got nothing to wrap.

It's different if it's because you can't afford it but it reads like you skimped so you didn't have to wrap them up and you think that makes you somehow better than everyone else.

Lidl do some excellent toys, including some branded stuff like Minecraft, paw patrol etc (you know, stuff most kids actually want) Mine had a wooden train track little town thing when they were small that they played with for hours, and the wooden kitchen they had was easily as good as any other one. Some people don't have a choice but to buy shite from lidl, which is fine because it's not actually shite. Snobs are missing out and over spending if they look down their nose at lidl.

Here here.

My son got everything he wanted. He didn’t ask for (or get) tat.

We don’t go into any debt for Christmas (or anything else).

He loves and appreciates all his gifts, is a kind and generous child and deserves to be spoiled a bit-

it’s bloody Christmas not ‘give as little as possible while patting yourself on the back for your moral superiority’ day