Kids! This is where all my money goes!

carriel_2

My eldest has been back in school for a week & my youngest has been in for 2 days, they each have invitations today for parties this weekend, so 2 cards, 2 pressies = £20 Then DD passes over a letter for a theatre trip, please complete slip & bring in £13 thank you very much! Add to that the cost of their school milk & fruit & its been one expensive week so far & its only Tuesday lol. Plus I need to pay fees for dance classes this weekend :eek:

pounds_and_pensive

Don't forget that the school photograph season is approaching too

black-saturn

I'm the opposite. I find them more expensive in the holidays.

Locana

pounds_and_pensive wrote:

Don't forget that the school photograph season is approaching too

Oh No!!! Last year my child did not smile. Did i buy the photos? Yes i did. where are they? in the cupboard!!!

bobbadog

Bulk buy cards on eBay for such things! 6 Moomin ones on there for £1 at the moment, they'd suit everyone. Everyone loves a Moomin.
Unless that's just me. £10 a present is a lot too!

chatta

Start saving for teenagers, it doesn't get any better

tsharp

Sell the kids.

KatrinaC_2

bobbadog wrote:

Everyone loves a Moomin.
Unless that's just me.

That's just you. Moomins give me the HeebieJeebies. They're just not right...:eek: :rotfl:

Kat

spud30

I was just thinking how expensive it's been since we went back to shool !!!

Trip money, water money (to pay towards water coolers), band money.

DD fell and shredded her new trousers tonight, so needs a new pair, school photos were done yesterday, school disco next week :dance:

Here was me hoping things would get a bit cheaper once they were back in school :mad:

Snaggles

I tend to spend about £5 - £6 on presents when my son goes to parties - all the kids his age seem to love the Power Rangers or Doctor Who figures that you can buy for about a fiver each.

And I get my son to help me make cards too - We do them on the computer and personalise them with the child's name and age (and a picture from their favourite TV programme if I can find out what it is) - you can buy fairly thin card that will go through a computer printer, and a lot of the parents have commented on how much their children like them. I'm not saying this would work with teenagers though hahaha!

(Edited cos I just can't type today!)

KatrinaC_2

Locana wrote:

Oh No!!! Last year my child did not smile. Did i buy the photos? Yes i did. where are they? in the cupboard!!!

Same here - they were so bad I couldn't even use them as grandparent presents. I'm planning on saving mine to extort money from DS with when he's older <wicked cackle...>

Kat