How much do you spend on your kids for their birthday presents and how old are they?

samandona

malibusami86 wrote: »

gosh im suprised by this. i spend 100-150 on my daughter and cant imagine spending under £50 - it doesnt go far these days.
In my family its usually like this
£100 ish from parents
£30 ish from grandparents
£25 ish from aunties/uncles
£10 from great grandparents/friends

all useful, including games, books, bath stuff, learning toys/cd roms, clothes and normal toys........ we co-ordinate gifts to cover everything

Not everybody has the luxury of grandparents and aunties/uncles and certainly not great grandparents. Some people don't even have both parents. £50 can go a very long way if you are careful about what you buy and shop around.

Also, I'm puzzled by this 'buying the non-birthday child a present too'. Im not being critical, I just don't understand it. I get its so that they dont feel left out, but do you tell the non-birthday child they are getting a present for this reason or do they come away thinking they should always get presents on other people's birthdays? I can understand how very young kids dont really understand birthdays anyway, but older than 5 doesn't it send out a wrong message about life and fairness?

Perhaps I will understand better if my twiglet ever gets a little brother or sister :rotfl::rotfl:

kazd

I have a 15, 12 and 10 year old. Birthdays are normally approx £250 which includes party but we also tend to go out for a meal and pictures as a birthday treat so you can be looking at £350. Christmas I budget for £300 ea but sometimes can be as much as £500.

I save throughout the year so I at least have £200 towards ea birthday and the £300 ea for Xmas, so I save £125 per month.

I have warned them that we are going to start cutting back a bit.

zippybungle

I have 3 Kids (2, 5 and 7).
I don't honestly know how much I spend on them, they are all at an age still where they don't really appreciate the value of money (allthough trying to teach them).

I buy lots of bits and bobs through out the year when I see things on offer (3 for 2), sales, Homebargains etc. They seem to like lots of little prezzies, so I usually get lots of little fairly inexpensive things as and when I see them and then hide them away. They do get lots of practical things (toiletries, clothes, underwear - things that I would have to buy anyway) but do not get many toys or clothes inbetween Birthdays and Christmas, unless they really need them.

All 3 of them always have a Birthday party

Zippy x

katieclampet

I have 3 daughters, all 21+ and usually spend about £30ish on birthdays. Usually it is perfume, or dvds or makeup that they cant afford to buy for themselves.

katiex

katieclampet

Sorry, didnt realise you meant "kiddy children" and not children! :rotfl:

katiex

Mics_chick

samandona wrote: »

Also, I'm puzzled by this 'buying the non-birthday child a present too'. Im not being critical, I just don't understand it. I get its so that they dont feel left out, but do you tell the non-birthday child they are getting a present for this reason or do they come away thinking they should always get presents on other people's birthdays? I can understand how very young kids dont really understand birthdays anyway, but older than 5 doesn't it send out a wrong message about life and fairness?

I can't speak for anyone else but I do do this so they don't feel left out but more so that I can give my son something during the summer as his birthday is 6th January so he would get all his presents at the same time of year otherwise.
I give my DD a small pressie on his birthday too coz it's not fair to treat them differently....
If other peeps don't want to do this or don't see the sense in it that's fair enough

Mics_chick

kazd wrote: »

I have a 15, 12 and 10 year old. Birthdays are normally approx £250 which includes party but we also tend to go out for a meal and pictures as a birthday treat so you can be looking at £350. Christmas I budget for £300 ea but sometimes can be as much as £500.

I save throughout the year so I at least have £200 towards ea birthday and the £300 ea for Xmas, so I save £125 per month.

I have warned them that we are going to start cutting back a bit.

If you are able to afford this Kazd then that's great but imho it loads more than I would ever spend on mine...

poppy-glos

£30 last birthday for 8 year old, and choice of party or treat out (chose the treat and took a friend to the cinema then macdonnalds)

mumslave

I have four kids ages 5, 4 in two weeks, 20 months and 3 months.

Just now whilst they are young, birthdays are around £30 each, christmas is around £50 each. I have a large family too, so even if we just get them a couple of things they have loads to open.

I dont give any of them presents if it isnt their birthday, the whole point of the birthday is its a special day for that child, not their siblings, they all have their own birthdays.

Mrs_Imp

I still only get around £30 from my parents, or a magazine subscription. Seems like a good amount to me, so I suspect that any Little Imps will be getting similar.

We used to get 'unbirthday' presents until the age of about 5 too. I think it was so that we didn't have a tantrum on siblings' birthday. It was only ever something like a hair clip or a second-hand Sindy, so nothing terribly expensive.