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Christmas

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4yo dd really really wants a chrimbo present that I really really don't want to get

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ladybaabaa · 02/12/2011 11:38

It's a fur real friends thing, here.

So £45 (!) plus it looks rubbish. She has asked for it every single day for about the last 3 weeks and even says "I can't wait until Father Christmas brings me Cookie" with a big smile.

DH thinks we should just get it for her but I would REALLY rather get her some Sylvanian familes stuff or something else, but she doesn't seem very interested.

Should I just buy it or risk tears on Christmas morning, advice very much appreciated!!

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WowOoo · 02/12/2011 11:41

Buy it. Well, I'd want to get her something she wanted. And you want smiles and joy in the morning..
Luckily what ds1 wants only cost £20.

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ladybaabaa · 02/12/2011 11:46

You might be right Wow, but I just still have visions of 4 years ago when I bought my ds (5 at the time) a crappy and expensive Power rangers vehicle thing and he and I (and DH!) being so disappointed in the quality. He hardly played with it.

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GooKingWenceslas · 02/12/2011 11:49

I'd buy it.

You have to get them what they really want, even if it's shit.

bubble2bubble · 02/12/2011 11:53

We've bought one for 6 year old DD as it's genuinely the only thing she has asked for and DH insisted.
Personally I think it's really quite ugly, the price is outrageous, it will probably be filthy & uncleanable by the end of Christmas day and annoy our RL dogs ( it's already been whining in my wardrobe for a week). Ans oh yes, I think that Dd will probably lose interest after about 10 minutes with a bit of luck maybe one of our RL dogs will savage it

It is difficult. The damn thing is being advertised on TV every 3 minutes, which is, I know, the only reason that DD wants it so badly. That said, I know it will make her very happy for at least a very short time...

bananamam · 02/12/2011 11:58

Get it.....DS wanted Lego and he is only four too. The prices are shocking but his face will be worth it...he has only got a couple of sets to see how he gets on. The thing he's asks for most is plastic joke poo....fun!! Thankfully that's only a pound!

StaceymAloneForver · 02/12/2011 11:59

my dd (7) wants some toffee the pony thing, she's not getting it as i know she will never play with it after xmas, but i also knwo she will love the stuff I have got and will quickly forget the same as she did last year when i didn't buy what she asked for she asked a few days later and i told her santa must have run out, she said she'd ask again this xmas, but obviously has moved on since then to something equally hideous

Ragwort · 02/12/2011 12:01

I wouldn't - but I am very mean like that - does she receive money as gifts from other people that she could use to 'save' for the fur crap toy.

I am sure there are lots of things my DS woud like but personally I am not prepared to buy them for him - he knows he can save up and buy things

GooKingWenceslas · 02/12/2011 12:06

But she's only 4. She will think Santa doesn't like her!

MrsHeffley · 02/12/2011 12:11

At 4 she's got years for SF however I speak as the mother who didn't get my dd the Moxi Girlz snow doll/cabin last year and ermmmm got it half price this year as I felt so bad and she was still nagging about it.

What you could do is to not let her see the tv,I've banned Pop et al from now on.As soon as they don't see the ads they forget when it's trash.

I do think re your particular toy there will be quite a bit of play value from it eg vets,making baskets etc.

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ladybaabaa · 02/12/2011 12:21

good advice here!!

she normally only watches cbeebies or cbbc (not being smug, they just have the shows she likes) but then her big brothers come along and turn on the commercial crap and she goes all gooey over this flipping dog.

Anyway, she does love animals, she also wants a real puppy which I have made very clear is NOT going to happen so I think I will just give in and get her this. Maybe she will surprise me and play with it for more than 3 minutes.....ho hum

(partly wanted the Sylvanians for myself )

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mamasmissionimpossible · 02/12/2011 12:22

I loathe those furreal animals. I find they come alive at night when the dc's are sleeping and it's quiet.

I have told dd (4) that I was scared of Cookie the dog and now she doesn't like it either and hasn't asked for it again.

thornton · 02/12/2011 12:24

Get it, dd has the adult version of cookie plus the cat. loath them both, but the look on her face when she opened them was worth it. Until she switched them on....

thornton · 02/12/2011 12:25

oh, and actualy ladybaabaa both of my dc still play with them 1 year on, so yes hopefully your little girl will love it for more tha 3 seconds!

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ladybaabaa · 02/12/2011 12:29

thanks thornton, that makes me feel better!

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BexieID · 02/12/2011 13:26

Erin (2 3 days b4 xmas) was trying to rip them out of the boxes in toys r us, lol. She is obsessed with dogs. Have got her an Animagic one. SIL got her big bro a Fur real one when he was 20 months, it's been sat in toy box as me and DP cudn't get it to work, lol.

PeachyPossum · 02/12/2011 13:53

I adore our kids husky puppy by Fur real, its gorgeous. Our dog ate the white cat!

I got SF for my DD as I wanted it (she had shown some interest in the canal boat) she never touched it and asked to sell it on Ebay after about 6 months. :( I would get what she wants, its only once a year.

VoldemortsNipple · 02/12/2011 15:27

When I was 3, I really really wanted that fisher price snoopy dog that you pulled along behind you. I can remember seeing shelves full of them before Christmas day in the toy shop and asking my mum to phone fc to let him know where to buy it.

Fc didn't disapoint. I pulled that snoopy dog everywhere I went. Even when the wheel went all wonky. I met an old neighbour a few weeks back and she actually said "remember when you were little and you used to take that dog everywhere you went."

Anyway you DD might get fed up after a day but maybe not. Imagine if my mum decided that a wooden dog with a bouncing springy tail on wheels was a piece of useless tat :o

sweetheart · 02/12/2011 15:56

If she really want's one but you think it's over priced could you try looking on Ebay for a cheaper one?

thisisyesterday · 02/12/2011 16:07

get it!

she is going to be unimaginably disappointed if she doesn't get it.
remember that what she thinks is wonderful is very different to what you think....
my mum decided that my little pony was tacky and cheap and didn't get them for me one christmas (it was the only thing i'd asked for)
she says to this day she will not forget the look on my face once everything was opened and there was no my little pony...

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thereistheball · 02/12/2011 17:29

I agree it's grim but I think you have to get it. Much as we would love our children to mimic our own immaculate taste, we all know it takes years to evolve such refined senses.

WineOhWhy · 02/12/2011 17:37

My mum got my DD the larger one (biscuit) 2 years ago. She absolutely loved it when she got it - a real hit. But she did lose interest reasonably quickly - it is too big to carry around etc. Then it broke (can't go back to sitting position) and I did not get around to getting it fixed. Now it just takes up most of the room in the toybox.

Jinsel · 02/12/2011 17:39

I felt the same about roboraptor a good few years ago then succumbed and bought one on Christmas Eve. They joy it caused still ranks as a Christmas highlight so I'd say if you can afford to get it then do it

happybubblebrain · 02/12/2011 18:22

Buy it. It's much better than Sylvanian familes. Kids know best when it comes to toys.

My dd has asked for boys toys this year (boys laptop, telescope and Ben 10), so that's what I've bought her. She will be really pleased that I listened to her.

MissWooWoo · 02/12/2011 18:43

I have got my dd one of these it's a bit similar to a fur real friend only shitter less expensive. I wouldn't have ordinarily picked it out for her but she saw it on a shopping trip to asda about a month ago. I don't buy toys for dd from november onwards because "it's nearly christmas", she was very very upset - there were tears, nah, sobs but not in a tantrum-y I WANT IT NOW way. She was genuinly upset at the cat being left in the store "who will look after it? I love it. I can take care of it". I had to reassure her that Santa was coming to collect them all that night to keep them all safe and that he would be delivering them on christmas eve to every boy and girl who wanted to take care of one. She perked up considerably.

I cannot wait to see her little face on christmas morning

Get it.

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