how much do you spend on a 5 year old and 3 year old?

[hunnybun1981]

about £ 200 in my case. 1 main present and few small gifts and clothes etc

needmorecoffee, why does dd only get a book? Does she get things from family.

cos she doesn't really understand toys as she has never held one (no arm/hand function) and has no concept of ownnership.
But she does like books. No point buying toys she can't play with.
She can't open things either.
My mum might get her something (last year it was an inappropriate golliwog ) but in-laws refuse to acknowledge her existance cos of her impairment.

needmorecoffee thats awful i cant believe they do that ?

what kind of people would do that?

needmore coffe, i am sorry i didn't know anything about your dd, so now i do!!

Am i right in remembering a golliwog story last year? or did i dream it!!

I am and abot your inlaws, thats bloody crule and pathetic.

Does your dd like lighs or sounds? Just wondered.

in-laws pretty mean all round regarding present. But some poeple are like that.

about £50 on main toy and about £20 on stocking contents and that is that. we have no money worries, no debt and husband earns a good salary, but even if he earned a lot more we would spend anymore (not on this age group)

erm thats not spend anymore

About £120. each child. They all the the same amount spent on them whatever age difference. Don't see why my DP's DS should have more spent on him because he is 6 years older than my DS, what's fair about that. Quite surprised at how many threads on here say they spend more on one child than another.

DaphneMoon - It's not as simple as spending more on one being unfair. How about giving the same amount of enjoyment being how you measure "fair"?

Young children just don't have the same concept of cost as adults, so ds2 will love and enjoy the Bob the Builder toys, and wooden railway that he'll get to play with, and the fact that it cost us nothing extra on top of what we spent when it was bought for ds1 won't bother him in the slightest. In fact if you added up the orignal cost of what he'll have, it would be more than ds1 gets spent on him.

Once they're big enough to understand money and value then that's the time to be fair in terms of spending.

I'm spending about £150 on DS (nearly 2), but £90 of that is for some furniture for his bedroom.

you could give my daughter a huge helium balloon on xmas morning and she would be over the moon lol

ur so right they have no idea of the concept of money

I have spent a grand total of fiver on my DC who is nearly 3. It is a set of paints from Tesco.
A lady at playgroup has got an easel she no longer uses plus my mum has bought a sponge and brush paint set. My mother in law has bought him a life size remote control fire engine so he will have a whole easel and paints, a fire engine plus some smaller presents from his secret santa at playgroup, aunties uncles and godparents.

I am also thinking of getting some underwear and some stickers. I think that's loads.

As others have said with so many cousins DC has a bike, character bedding, clothes, toys and books all handed down so wants for nothing.

By spending so little ourselves but ensuring a good spread it means we can afford to accept invites to christmas dos etc to catch up with friends and travel to scotland for xmas so I'm happy with that. When DC is older Im sure it will be a different story

i suppose everyone is each to their own sometimes i believe people live their childhood through their own!

if i really couldnt afford it i wouldnt be doing it but i know lots of people get into debt for their children the joys eh.

we have our bonds and also a monthly saving plan for when they need it too.

i wish the kids programmes would have no ads for toys all you here is i want i want lol.

To be honest we spend alot on the kids at christmas however they get very minimal things throught the year.

Mine are 3 and 4 and will be getting £200ish each.
It is higher this year because DD has got a DS and games to go with it, and lot's of little stocking fillers.
I will spend the same on my DS, though i have no clue what on, all he has so far is a Thomas scooter and a baby born stroller, he seems to have everything and it was his birthday last week.

we're about £200-£300 each. I don't really keep count. However, except for perhaps 3 other presents we are the only people who buy for our DD's and apart from clothes they get little else throughout the year.

This year, I've budgeted £100 for DS(5) - Spent £75 so far mainly on 1/2 price Lego/Playmobil. DD(nearly 2) £50 budget - Spent £3.50 so far. I have my eye on toddler mosaics at £20 but have no further inspirational ideas yet so that may be it.

I dont set an amount from Father Vhrsitmas, they get 6 gifts each and they are whats wanted within reason

dh and i get a gift each for each of them- I set a £20 budget (based on the jacket I bought ds1), dh chose a theme (wii games) rather than a cost iyswim.

I use boots style offers a lot, dh uses ebay etc.

No idea total amounts all I know is we've not used credit as we buy little bit at a time so that is ok

oh we only buy Christmas and birthdays- that makes a big difference!

I am just wondering this at the moment as starting xmas shopping soon! I have 2 DD's. I dont really see the point in spending loads on more toys and rubbish to fill my house. They have so many toys etc that I dont see the point in adding to that.

So I am stuck for ideas. I really want to get them Rose petal cottage but dont know if they will use it. Again though I think this is alot of money!

Blimey.
Dd (2.5) is getting a second hand bike (£6), a couple of charms for her charm bracelet (£12), and tbh, other than stocking stuff which I suspect will come to £20 or so, that'll be her lot. Ds (4.5) will be getting some ebay playmobil - maybe £50, plus his stocking.