Kids Xmas, is it enough

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So here is what I have so far and now I think I'm spoiling the kids...

DS1 11 YO -
Lego star wars darth vader tower
Lego stranger things
Lego star wars genesis
Lego ideas nasa
Lego creator book shop
Lego Xmas train
Lego star wars at p walker
Lego madalorian set
The child mandarlorian teddy
Lego colleseum
Inline roller skates
Lego star wars sith art

DS2 aged 9

Lego lamborghini
Lego ideas piano
Lego marvel hellcarier
Lego marvel avengers tower
Lego star wars boost
Lego marvel art
Football
Roller skates
Magic trick set
Retro sega mega drive
Lego architecture London
Break the board
Madalroian teddy
Lego super Mario starter set
Lego super Mario Castle
Lego technic cement mixer

DD aged 7
Lol doll remix super surprise
Fun locket secret journal
Kodak printomatic
So bomb DIY
Present pets
Squeake interactive dog
My own rainbow
Vtech secret diary
Scruff a lov snow pal
Little live pet bird
Flossi flamingo
Rainbowcorn
My baby tumbles
Hatchimal flying fairy
Lots of teddies
Aquabeads
Playabil scooby doo
Little live pet fish
So slime
Kenitic sand

Its up to you but personally I feel that's loads. Maybe not in terms of quantity but in terms of price (lego is very expensive). Also, I'd go for a little more variety even though they are lego mad.

I definitely know more about girly things then boy things as my boys never mention or play with anything but lego

Thaaats probably because, it’s all you buy 🤷🏻‍♀️

3k worth of Lego.. will take a lot of time to build. Likely they have no time to consider playing with anything else

Well its pretty universally clearly enough isn't it... but, I understand what you mean. I could keep going and going for my DC but we have to space stuff out!

Personally, I think it's an absolutely obscene amount of stuff. I don't begin to see how children can appreciate presents if they receive such a ridiculous amount.

No child needs that many presents.

You did ask.

I think it’s a lot and that’s coming from someone who spends too much. My dd also only played with Lego, I have bought her...

Lego technics lorry/crane
Lego Harry Potter house
Lego car (£12 set)
Kenetic sand
Felting kit
Light up race track thing from Amazon (£16)

Plus stocking with little bits.

I know I will probably acquire another Lego set during Black Friday 🤣 I think I have probably bought her too much already and will probably put a Lego set back for her birthday.

Would love to know where you are going to store all this stuff, do you live in a massive house?

I struggle as dd2 has a box room, I have to rotate her Lego so some is kept in the loft and some in her room, would love to display some of the bigger sets such as the London bus and Campervan.

Entirely up to you, if I had the money I would be doing this. If your teaching them to respect what they have and understand how lucky they are then your doing a great job.

My parents always gave me grief over spoiling my kids, but they are my kids. I teach them to respect their toys & look after them. What isn’t handed down between them or friends & relatives is given to charity, still in good condition. My DCs enjoy doing this and understand they are lucky to have what they have, so as far as I’m concerned they aren’t that spoilt.

This isn't going down very well. It doesn't help that the title is: Is this enough? You knew the answer. I think the question was intended to provoke people.

Would love to know where you are going to store all this stuff, do you live in a massive house?

The Lego shop
Nobody spends that amount on Lego.

@pinkksugarmouse

This isn't going down very well. It doesn't help that the title is: Is this enough? You knew the answer. I think the question was intended to provoke people.

Yes, if it was a genuine question based on her mother’s comments the title would have been ‘is this too much?’

Sorry to hijack your thread OP but do you mind me asking how you display the lego sets. Dis makes his and if they break he has no interest in re making, looking for ideas as to where to put them!

Op did you name change for this....

@Galwaygirl

Sorry to hijack your thread OP but do you mind me asking how you display the lego sets. Dis makes his and if they break he has no interest in re making, looking for ideas as to where to put them!

My DS has them on every available surface in his bedroom. So the wall shelves. Top of the wardrobe. On top of his book case. He has a mid-sleeper with a desk underneath and shelves behind the ladder - all full of lego. Plus a 12cube kallax unit. The top is covered in lego and most of the cubes have sets in too. (Other than the few which have boxes of unbuilt sets/random bricks. His bedroom at my mums house is similar

I’m very jealous, not at what you’re spending, but at the idea of an assembled set being displayed instead of cannibalised for parts and scattered across every room in our house.

This would never work for us. Ds builds Lego in a matter of hours, not days, and would be unable to focus and play with a new set while there is still unassembled Lego in the house. Everyone buys him Lego so I have to purposely stagger family gift exchanges. If he got a pile of Lego like that he would not sleep until it was built.

It sounds like this works for your family. I’m not convinced that I can claim that our version of Christmas/ toy purchases works for ours so I’m definitely not judging. If anything it’s given me something to consider.

@Galwaygirl hi. We buy lego display boxes depending on the sets and the value.. if they are more expensive we get like glass/ plastic clear display boxes.. if u search lego display boxes on amazon there are plenty

@Bikingbear this is my very first post ever.. thats why looking back should have worded the title better.. total newbie

@thelegohooverer I used to have this problem when they were younger. They used to get small sets and not many because they would build and destroy all over floors and any surface. I gave them a lecture one year on how if they want nicer bigger sets then they have to start respecting them more and appreciate them. Now they display them all and never have crap lego lying around especially the big sets. Maybe with little £10 sets they still do but not so much. They have treated them well the last 2 or 3 years and therefore have started getting bigger and nicer sets.

If you have the money, then great. You do you. When I’ve had the money I’ve done the same for my children.

Although surely you must understand that, due to the pandemic, many families have lost their income, are struggling to find new jobs or have lost partners that have led to a catastrophic financial situation at home. Your present list (and I do love a bit of Lego myself) could be seen as boasting.

My son in law has a floor to ceiling display of various Lego sets, many lit and it looks awesome.

@pinkksugarmouse

This isn't going down very well. It doesn't help that the title is: Is this enough? You knew the answer. I think the question was intended to provoke people.

I agree, maybe the title should read “is this too much?” 😂

Flipping heck, I only saw Lego Stranger Things on your list and I know how much that costs because my 13yo is desperate for it! So that alone as far as I'm concerned, is enough as a main present and maybe a couple of stocking fillers.
In short, yes you certainly have enough for your kids!

If you can afford to spend 3k, spend 3k but I wouldn't be asking anyone if it's enough.

Some of us can only afford £50 for our kids

Not having a go, just a reminder

Especially in these shite times x

@27Yardsofdentalfloss I agree! If I had the money and DS was younger I would have loved to have bought him the Lego Stranger Things, a book and a bar of chocolate for Christmas. He outgrew Lego at age 8 as he was doing the 7+ sets at age 4 and I couldn't afford the more challenging ones. I don't think I would buy more than that even if I had the money, I'd buy more for the toy appeal as we have been poor when DS was younger.

It's not the most pressing dilemma but yes that is too much, screens don't melt brains and everyone works hard for their money.

And you have doubled up on the secret diaries for dd - no one should have that many secrets at 7.

And it does irritate me that you have posted about your 3k budget so don't bother pointing out that I'm jealous and bitter as I am both those things.

Mine - ages 8, 12 and 14- get:-
1 big present average £50 though some times it's more- eg if getting a bike, tablet
Stocking which ends up being about £60 each though in my head it's £30 - but includes boring but useful things like pyjamas
They get pretty big presents from both sets of grandparents (prob around £30 each) and have three sets of aunties and uncles and great grandmother so it seems they have a lot to open
Mine genuinely struggle to think what they want or need - my son would be happy with 'robux' tokens
Last month I found a bag of xmas presents my oldest hadn't even looked at
I really don't think kids need as much as we think
Saying that I bloody wish mine would play with Lego