What have you bought your DCs for Xmas (in pictures)? Xmas lovers only please [title edited by MNHQ at OP's request, ho ho ho!]

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Following on from the tits up thread linking to nm piture thread by a another poster, I am braving our own on here and dawning a flame proof suit... will do each dd individually

Proud christmas lovers, feel free to join in.

Gosh. I can't believe this is real but have just read through and it is .

It all feels just a bit, erm, showy? I suppose we are all free to post what the hell we like but I find it distasteful to gloat about the piles and piles of expensive presents you buy for your children.

My two have no where near the amount of money spent on them and I think they are pretty lucky.

No offence to anyone, not bullying but genuinely shocked about the 'thing' of posting copious amounts of presents.

I'm not mad keen on the kiss thing but that's both personal choice and what I am conditioned to expect on this forum. It doesn't harm me.

Nico that's fab.

I make a present every year for both of mines. I haven't started yet this year, or even got a clue wha to make yet. I find they tend to be the presents they still have several years later, when they've outgrown the toy or the clothes, because no one else has that and it's personal for them.

I am not talented enough to make dolls though.

How do you do pics on the app?

Thanks Laura x.

knitted the only person throwing stones is you. The hudl and lego are expensive as was was the lego school bag.
Laura's pile is huge and she has done really well if she has spent less than me. Clearly i need to be better at bargain hunting. I have one child who has an disability and is lego obsessed so i need a healthy budget as lego is not cheap.

laura your kids are clearly going to have a fab xmas

Maybe yours are the ones that count U2 or are spoilt, mine never have and wouldn't occur to them. As a child I was always very grateful for what I got. Mine are always grateful too.
If they moaned about a drop in presents they would be getting some lessons from me, but gentle ones as obviously I would have failed to impart the lessons in the first place.

100 presents??!

I am even more shocked!!

I think I need to hide this thread.....

5K every year????? The locally charity shops are in for a treat when they have a clear out!

I don't agree with the comments about this thread upsetting others.

I could read a thread about how someone has just bought a new car while I can't afford one, or how someone conceived first time while I have been struggling with infertility for years, for example.

I think if we all stopped posting things that might upset others because they can't afford or have what someone else has there would be very few threads here.

Thanks RJ. The doll is similar to a Tilda pattern. I'm debating on making my son a mini Kermit and Constantine but I've got to work out or find a pattern.

hardly as its spent in orlando lol

The thing I find the worst about all these threads is - it's BOUGHT!

Not 'brought'

ARGGGHHHHHHH

I have 4 children. The older 2 have a much smaller pile than the younger 2 because their stuff costs more per present. They don't mind at all.

I'm a single parent and save really hard all year to buy presents at Christmas, I don't get hair cuts, nights out, new clothes, driving lessons etc because I don't want to find that in the run up to Christmas that I've got no money. I start buying stuff in September when I find bargains, which makes the money go further and the pile get bigger.

I've saved some money for Black Friday incase any good offers come up. I don't think I've paid full price on anything I've bought and it's all been done online (I hate shopping!).

I don't take photos of their gifts because I hadn't thought of it, I wish I had though! but it can't be any stranger than taking a photo of my oven when I've just cleaned it surely?

Ok, I may spend £150-200 but £100 is on a decent bike that will hold its value for resale and the remaining £50-100 is for the wooden advent calendar I bought this year (will be reused) and all the stocking and random bits and bobs I will get. He will have one present from me under the tree. My tree present budget is usually £50 but this year it's higher because bike as I said.

Kisses at the end of posts look stupid, they aren't punctuation they are a kiss fgs, why are you kissing strangers after every sentence? It breaks up the flow of what you are writing and looks frankly mad.

I hope no one who is struggling financially this Christmas sees this thread and feels even worse.

Christmas threads are usually moved off the main boards and into xmas so anyone who is having a hard time thinking about xmas doesn't have to see them.

so this is why there is an xmas corner.

There are however bargin threads over here, which help everyone as well as other great tips on how to make the most of xmas with very little.

coconutty
I am and not just Christmas every day living, I don't give a fuck about the thread, I appreciate some people may, however if I was to feel upset about what others have or are able to afford, I would struggle with every thing in my life, down to food shopping.
Not all people have the same, and even if they do they choose to spend things differently. There are always people with more and less.

wowser are you the spell police ? make you feel better downing someone who perhaps has a auto correct malfunction or perhaps dyslexia , ahh shamies it annoys you much unless its a pattern of " brought" ocd

Oh mine wouldn't dream of moaning. They know better than that. I just think that many young children who are used to getting as many presents as Lauras might be pretty shocked if they wake up one year with only one present. Like I said, I could be totally wrong and willing to concede your point.

I grew up pretty poor and valued everything I had too and I hope I have passed those lessons on to my own as well.

coconutty no worse than reading all the holiday threads etc. Such is life some have more than others.

Am I the only one who thinks this is massively excessive???

Personal choice I suppose but I kinda agree with coconutty in that anyone with bog all money will feel shite if they see all these piles of boxes.

wowser and wave!

just don't tell my husband that I admitted to being wrong for once

What I find sad coconutty is that people who have had a nasty few xmasses previously and are having a tough time want to chat and talk about xmas and enjoy it this year are having their parade pissed on because they brought gifts.

You know like people who have lost their husband this year, people who have lost their homes, their jobs, whose children are so ill they need to be in hospital, but who are desperately trying to focus on Christmas and have a nice time.

People, who in all the misery of their lives like to focus on happy things to keep them going? People like that are on this thread, and are getting viciously slatted. I feel sorry for them.

Think its partly to how you prepare your kids U2 as next year my kids will have one small gift as we will be arriving back to UK on xmas morning. Some people buy stuff through out the year, some people wait until xmas.