What im getting my 8 year old for christmas

[Laureli]

Here's my list. I'm trying not buy anything more bit she's so easy to buy for ! Dare I ask to see what everyone else is getting for simlar age !!
This all comes to around 400£ if wondering:)

Tiny tasties cake kit
Aquabead deluxe
Sylvanian families
Sylvanian families market
Polly pocket dress up
Pottery studio
Mini baby surprise
Bath bomb dispenser
Melissa and doug dentist kit
So slime potion
Our generation doll and horse
Guinea pig mama surprise
Lush snow fairy jelly
Sticki rolls book bracelet
Airbrush art kit
Stich monopoly
Hatchimals alive
Barbie style head and nails
Zara hello kitty perfume
Zara barbie pink body shimmer
Squishmallow top trumps
Cosmic lamp
Orbeez foot spa
Jellycat pink bunny
Diy play dough maker
Pen creator studio

She's asked for most items on this lost including the styling head and sylvanian families ! She's still very much into playing with toys x

If you add up up what parents, then grandparents, then aunts and uncles spend on many children, it would probably be around that. The OP has said that's its only £150 from her...

Why bash a stranger on the Internet you don't know. Am I not allowed to spend my hard earned money on my child regardless if it's £400 or £40

I agree 100%! I saw the OP in a completely different light when I read the “poor kids” comment. It was spiteful and the OP should be ashamed. I’m sure the person who the comment was aimed at has a polite, courteous child(ren) who is grateful for what is given and is on track to be a responsible, hard working adult!

I was thinking this too tbh. My 7 year old wants a couple of Switch games, a nerf gun and new football boots. But it’s quite sweet really if OPs DD still plays with those kinds of toys. No issue with the price here, I could easily spend £400 by the time i buy what he’s asked for, a few surprised and some books and stocking things.

OP are some of these going in a stocking? Genuinely curious. I have a list for my 3 but their stockings are smaller bits (keyrings, an akedo figure and such like) similar to what will go in their advent calendar.

BTW no judgement from me, Christmas is your own imo. Always going to be told you are right or wrong by someone

maintaining your home - I mean where does she keep it all?

im not judging, im in awe. My dd has bookshelves completely full and piles of books/jigsaws/craft kits on top, a chest full of cuddly toys and an IKEA unit full of other toys and she gets about a fifth of your dds list and it’s still all overflowing. Does it get thrown away before the next Xmas? Do you donate a lot? Or resell?

God, people can be so awful and judgy. Very weird behaviour when you don’t know anything else about the OP to be making such assumptions.

I can’t afford to spend that much on my children but my first thought was what a lovely list of presents.

Exactly this.

I may add books to make her pile even bigger !!

Sums up OP completely. Choose a book because it's educational, wanted by the child, thoughtful, not plastic junk?....No, any purchase of books is to make the pile even bigger.

@HaveYouSeenRain if the list, three months in advance has been posted on social media, I think it's fairly safe to say the "pile" will be doing the rounds.

She will have a wonderful Christmas 😊 and so will you seeing her excitement at all her goodies 😁
Don't pay attention to the mayor mc'scrooges. It always seems to be a competition on here about who buys their kids the least, who's children are most grateful, or who opens their presents the latest. It's weird.

This is my kind of list too! Good shout.

Any wonder the OP has snapped back with nasty comments like this on her thread. Who gives a shit if she does make a tiktok? Just because MNers like to stick by the rule of 4 doesn’t mean you can sneer at anyone who buys their kids more and make presumptions about them.

I think it’s people being concerned about the planet really. At the end of the day we’re all impacted by plastic waste and overconsumption. I’m not an angel myself, btw, but you did ask why people care . I think it genuinely makes a lot of people feel anxious more than judgey as such

I don’t know what rule of 4 means. The point of this list was to show off and sneer at “poor children” who won’t get as many presents. The Op herself was quite mean to a poster who said she couldn’t afford that much.

FWIW it’s worth I just got my second child something small and fairly token for their first and second Christmases when they didn’t need anything. It was more so their older sibling didn’t feel sad for them tbh! Obviously they’ve got more stuff as they’ve got older!

Nope, the poster did not say she could not afford as much for her children. She said 'madness for the OP to buy thus much'. That poster was judgey, so the OP snapped back. Rightly so

Only understandable comments are climate based. Otherwise, really stupid to judge what someone else buys for their kids at Christmas or any other time. How bizzare

Where does the weaving loom come from please, that sounds creative!

Why would you think of that.

If you save all year for it, I guess she doesn't get much the rest of the year. poor kid

I'm just here to see what 8yo's are getting. Personally we always go for one big expensive thing from parents, smaller gifts from aunts uncles, grandparents etc, and small stocking fillers.

He was 8, i think. It has been his most used xmas present. At the time the kids kindle came with 1 year free Kids subscription too.

I do still end up buying books - kindle unlimited has lots of e.g. 50 book series of self published minecraft fan fiction, etc, which he likes but is just shite really. But he always seems to find something.

We also got a kindle 2 years ago with the unlimited subscription for a year. Often they go on sale around Black Friday. My DC loves hers and handy for travelling and holidays.

My 8 year old DD has asked for a nerf gun, a lava lamp, a baby doll and a harry potter note book. I am still trying to find a space for all the birthday present crap so am super glad my DD isn't into 'stuff' and isn't massively materialistic.

@Balaclava1000 DD is similar but it's sometimes a double edged sword - she's hopeless at coming up with suggestions. Last year's "list" was a dustpan and brush and a "cute reindeer mask". Hence I enjoy these threads.

@debbiewest0

I've bought the weaving loom set from hobbycraft (they have £5 off a £15+ spend atm on their website with a code advertised on their site). It was £16 down to £11 with code and free click and collect