is this ok?

[hunniesugarplum]

DP and i are expecting DC1 30/10/09, obv first christmas not far after. I know full well this baby will be spoilt by all family - mine and DP's and i am a realist who realises that they will not have a clue about christmas this year, i am also realistic to know whilst i say i wont want to go mad this may not be the case!!

Anyway my question is- WIBU to just get baby clothes and one or two toys for the first chrismas? i would be aiming to spend prob around £50 max, more likely less. my feeling being, everyone else will get lots of toys bits for baby, and as a child grows and knows more of christmas, so do there expectations, so the money side of things will surely be made up for over the years, especially when you consider the costs involved in just having a baby, and the current climate?! or am i being a skinflint??

munchkinpoppet My birthday is halloween also I too have always loved it and felt special

I have nothing to add to this thread except that comment about my birthday being great.

As you were.

My DD will be 9 months at Xmas and we wont be getting her anything, nor for her 1st birthday.
Babies don't know about presents. Anything you get would be for you more than it would be for the baby as was for SlartyBartFast which is fine if you have the money, but I don't. Family will still buy, and hopefully they will ask what we need so we get stuff that will be useful.

We got DD a box of tissues for Christmas (11 months). Pulling them out of the box was her obsession at the time and she was delighted to be able to yank every single one out without having the box taken away from her by a killjoy parent.

I am keeping a ledger in my head so she will be fractionally more likely to get whatever expensive thing she wants when it really matters, i.e. around 13 or so, because I was so tight with her when she was a baby.

ninedragons - ditto with the 11mo and box of tissues! Dd loved them!

I may be very mean, but I wouldn't buy any presents at all for a 2 month old at Christmas. They have absolutely no clue what's going on, and everyone else will probably go overboard anyway.

I have friends that buy a christmas ornament every year, their little one is now 17.She has onescommerating(sp) learning to walk, skate, read,this year will be passing her driving test etc !!