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.

IT DOESN'T MATTER who else buys what and how much anyone buys this isn't about that

I would join in, but all I've bought so far is two selection boxes, and I've already eaten them both

Happy Christmas DDs, I love you!

Probably £150-200 all together.

This is the sort of comment I find really odd your declaring your going to spend a fortune on your dc but then berate other people for buying and probably for considerably less!

Bizzare.

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For as long as buying gifts has been in fashion people have been buying all sorts of amounts, just because you and your family shared only a few - I am guarantee other people in the world had lots more and lots less.

That looks great Birra! I have asked granny to get DS one of those :)

I have lots of questions about this. Do your children actually ask for, say, 10 dolls? Are they ever told 'no'?

As I said before on nm's. My issue with it is how many years can one person buy that much for?

If a child is used to that many presents then one year someone loses their job or something they are going to be very disappointed when they wake up that xmas with much less than they are used to. Like it or not, they probably aren't going to be too grateful to get a few presents when they are used to getting so many.

For me it is not about affording it. My children get enjoyment out of saving up their pocket money and having to wait for something they really want. If I gave them so much for xmas they would have nothing to save up for and look forward to.

IME children never appreciate huge amounts of gifts and often become overwhelmed. Reminds me of my 3 year old niece who had a birthday party last week and she ended up crying saying 'no more presents, no more, stop the presents' because she was so overwhelmed by them all and just wanted to play with her doll!

EhricLovesTheBhrothers here are some more xxxxxxxxx

Why do you feel the need to pick on someone? Does it make you feel superior? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

fairgame I haven't spent anywhere near £300 on my 3yr old DS as like keep saying I've picked up lots of bargains and that's why he has shit loads of toys. So it just goes to show shouldn't just a book by its cover, in this case a photo, so I wonder if it was a different thread of how much have you have spent will show complete different side to it

at onerepublic!

Sorry sorry, I will shut up now.

I love the animal heads too knitted there so cute.

I do go a bit crazy but I don't buy what I can't afford, my dds would appreciate Christmas the same if I spent £50 or £5000 I like to think weve taught them that there's more to life than expensive stuff, to be grateful, gracious and thankfull which they are, I buy what I do because I want to not because they expect it, on the other hand I have never done birthday partys for them and a much smaller budget for birthdays.

laura you really don't need to ever explain yourself your actions to others, especially randoms on the internet. People have different priorities, people also sometimes see the things you chose to get/do rather than the things you don't and go without.
I agree with a previous poster, the thread title says ...what have you brought the dcs in pics in the Christmas topic, to me it was quite obvious what it was going to be about.

Fairgame, I dont think I have spent 300 on mine or ever will....do your play with all you get them with that huge budget?

TBf your pile looks a similar size to mine ignoreme it was lauras pile i was at. It's huge!
I'm not slating laura btw i'm genuinely shocked at the size of the stash, it's the biggest i have ever seen.

thank you madsadbad!

Sadly it seems I do, to bullies who have nothing better to do. I dont mind people have an opinion and not liking the post....fair enough....but why slate someone for something such as puttin x...oh grow up!

Thank you for commenting x

Are they ever told 'no'?

Mine are told no pretty much all year Sol.

fairgame as I said before, it will get split between my home and their dad's home, they don't get separate gifts from him x

I only have one dc knitted and he is getting a hudl, some lego, a new school bag, some pyjama's, a jigsaw and some games. Most of it is dvd's, he gets loads of them because he has an hour's drive each way in a taxi to school and likes to watch dvd's on the journey. Normally there are some things that he doesn't play with which is why i try not to go overboard.

EhricLovesTheBhrothers i think you issues if a little x annoys you.

I don't believe a child who is used to having say, £600 spent on them would be just as grateful if one xmas they wake up only having £50 spent on them. No matter how much we teach them to be thankful for everything they receive.

They start to expect things, it's just human nature for them to expect the same amount of gifts if they are used to it when they don't really understand the value of money. I think we can pretend that our kids would appreciate it, but I am pretty sure mine would be disappointed if they only had one gift at xmas after having years of getting more, and I don't think my kids are alone in that.

Laura, post again when all the lego is out the boxes, people are struggling to equate size of boxes to loads of presents, and thats whats great about lego it bulks it all out, say compared to a small box, containing something truly valuable!

I wonder if you would get the same comments about tiny bags of plastic.

fairgame actually that was just few presents I got out the boxes I have stacked I was merely wanting to show of my new duvet, as it;s a early xmas present to myself, but like I said I've spent nothing like the budget you have

that should say have issues for the grammar police.

Fair I think some people would call that going over board, not me, but some would so I dont think your in a position to throw stones. We all have our reasons for buying our children gifts at xmas.

see when i had kids i knew they were going to be expensive little people who need to be fed, clothed, go to hobbies and all the other things like xmas and birthdays that mean presents. loads of room to store things in and my money to spend on them so yep they play with, use, and make things out of the stuff i choose to buy them and been there and done it with losing a job and when i was a teen had to steal milk to meet my basic food needs as was in complete poverty and will not have that for my kids so will spoil them at xmas and birthdays and treat them all year round alongside teaching them the value of respect, kindness appreciation as it lacks in a lot of adults nowadays

you sure about that U2 because I was that child, one year my mum could only make us something and it was well appreciated and treasured but I was heartbroken when I found her upstairs sobbing her heart out about it, which upset me because my parents had raised me better than that and no way would I have been happy to see them get further in debt for presents.