Christmas presents

[ScaryFairy28]

Do you buy xmas presents for XP from DC?

Yeah. Nothing much and usually something homemade - last year I got XH a picture frame with pic of DD in it and she 'customised' the mount.

This year I have made a calendar with pics of DD (£4 from groupon) and she is painting a mini canvas (89p!)

Ha!! You've got to be kidding, I wouldn't buy that numpty anything even if it was from DS!!

Something homemade or something from the pound shop. He once gave me a bottle of wine and twice gave me 'Bloody Amazon messed up my order so your present didn't arrive'. I quite like the Amazon excuse, he doesn't use the internet or even have an email address!

I do for my nice ex (older daughter's dad), though that daughter is almost old enough to do her own Christmas shopping! The nasty one gets a card from youngerdaughter, but she's just a toddler so when she's bigger, if she wants, I'll help her make/buy something for him. I think once they get to the age that they want to do this, it's more cruel to the kid not to let them than it is to the ex- also she can then use it to fill his house with ugly cheap tat by stealth

Yes I do..just to be the better person
Only spend a fiver and now ds is 9 he usually chooses smellies to give his dad

I also do this on xp birthday and fathers day...and I have done for past 8 years!

Yes i do the boys pick what they want to get him and exp does the same for me

I did the first Xmas after we had split up. They had made hand-print bags at nursery so I gave them out as presents.

Since then we've had no contact, so no presents anymore.

Yes something small. As the DD's are bigger what I do is either get them to make something, or give them a fiver and send them into the shop

First year i sent cards with DDs foot print on ans some photos as he chose not to see her from birth - 9 months.

Didnt get him anything last year because he was nasty, manipulative and aggressive.

This year Im going to wrap up some books DD has as doubles and some other things for them to share. Therefore really a present for DD not him.

We agreed when we split up to spend £20 buying a present to each other from DS. I have stuck to that over the last 4 years, but my ex-H hasnt.

Friend keep telling me to stop buying him anything and that I am a mug, but at the end of the day it is about DS getting his Dad a present. I don't want my DS to get dragged into something that should be between myself and ex-H and I'm not about to lower my standards to be as childish as him.