Grandparents buying birthday gifts.

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Can I ask you what your children recieve from grandparents ??

It varies from year to year. Its usually a toy or two that costs about £20, sometimes they get clothes for Christmas and a toy for their birthdays a few days later.

Last year dd1 wanted an iPod so she got money from her grandparents to put towards it.

Toys from my dad and clothes from both our mums DS is only 2.5 though so may change as he gets older and starts asking for certain things

£20 from PIL, a cheque for £150 from my parents to go into savings.

My parents. One toy probably about £50 which they will ask what he wants. They will then probably spend about another £50 on small bits and pieces and clothes. Mil will buy him one present about £20-£30 again she will normally ask us what he wants and then a couple of little things she chooses. Fil really depends sometimes a lot and sometimes smaller things as they tend to buy as he wants/needs things and he gets lots of pressies through the year as he sees things which works well as DS is only 2.

A present for around 20/25 pounds - Lego, doll, Barbie etc. Dd1 was 9 a few months ago my pils gave her a 20 voucher and some art/craft bits and pieces, my parents bought her some kind of Nerf bow and arrow set.

My parents buy the kids their first "proper" bike so that's a dearer present whenever the kids get it.

They ask what dc want and I pick the most reasonable gift I feel I can ask them for. Mostly around £10 as I have 4 dc and they get a lot of gifts and don't really need that much.
Ds is 6 soon and I have asked my dp to replace his damaged Jamie and the magic torch video, mil has offered to buy him something fluffy to wear and fil will send money. His extended family buy an item of winter clothing each and I will add to his next onesies, he pretty much lives in them and a game or a book on leopards.
With a lot of dc toys get passed around and I don't like asking for things when I know how tight money is for everyone, as the kids get older I'm going down a more practical route.
If I can afford a party he may got a small toy from friends, but this year it might just be two kids over for a play instead.

A lot from the in laws, usually something worth about $200, from my parents a gift for about $30 for my younger two boys and nothing for the older 3 who are teenagers.

Nothing from MIL, about £200 from my parents in cash & gifts

£100 from his grandparents and £50 from his great grandparents, both my side of the family.

Not sure about his dads side though it varies

Nothing from my side, they dont celebrate, about £50 of clothed and toys from mil for birthdays or cash now for dd1, she buys their winter boots every year for Xmas and then spends about another £50 on presents for them to open.

My nana sends them a fiver each in a card (she has a huge family, children, grwndchildren, great and great great grandchildren) and DHs nana gets them a DVD and some cash each as well.

A push-along fire engine for DD's 1st birthday (they had checked with us first) and some money into savings from my parents. Clothes and money towards her first proper pair of shoes from PIL. Very happy with that!

ILs give a cheque for £10 per year (£40 for a 4th birthday)
My parents spend less but put in a hell of a lot more thought and effort. DM is making Potter-obsessed DS1 a Gryffindor bed-tent this year.

Both sets of Grandparents spend around £50 on birthdays. Usually on one present around £25-30 and a £20 note from my inlaws and a present between £40 and £50 from my parents.
My Grandparents also give the children £20 on their birthday.
My mum tends to buy the children little things throughout the year up to £15 each just because. On these occasions she always gets something for them both.

My parents spend around £100-150 on something big- trampoline/kitchen/playhouse etc. PIL spend around £20 on crap.

My parents give 100 plus a little present to unwrap. My ILs spend between 20 and 30 and my MIL bakes a themed cake - transformers last year. Seriously impressive!

Pils- 200 per child per year into savings, no presents
My mum - 100 per child per year into savings and about 80 per child on Xmas and birthday presents.

From my Dad - they each get a present worth around £20, which I buy locally and then get the money back from Dad (saves him having to spend £££ on postage)

From MIL - she mostly asks now what they want, but will give either money, or buy them clothes, or if there's a present that they particularly want but I've already bought all the presents from us/Father Christmas/my family in the UK, then she'll get that.

Ds1's presents are a bit tricky because his birthday is only a few weeks prior to Christmas, so it has to be managed quite carefully - and DH gets the arse if he thinks DSs are being given too much Stuff.

Well my kids have 8 grandparents with all the divorces and remarriage, so it needs a fair bit of coordinating! My mum and husband get smaller Xmas presents then larger bday presents for the kids, probably around £50 for the latter. My dad and his wife get a present or send about £20, fil and partner buy something fairly big which they ask us about, again around £50, and mil and husband spend around £20 on crap

We're going to need a bigger house now there's two children to buy for...!

DS's 10th birthday is very soon (15 days) and off my mother he is getting a pair of black converses. From my PILs he is getting a penny board (smaller version of a skateboard).