How much do you spend on your kids at xmas?

coco1980

I have a ds who will be 11 at begining of December, he gets to pick a main pressie for either birthday or xmas and this year wants dsi xl for xmas so will prob spend bout 200pnd on him this year with the dsi being bout 130-150pnd, i have started already buying dvd's etc when i see them on offer and all he ever asks for is a new footie, goalie gloves and shin guards.

savingmummy

I could never spend £200 on each unless i had fab bank account balance and the available money to spend.
Last year i spent £20 on each of mine and this year looks like it will be £40 each.
The grandparents buy them presents so they dont get nothing, i also make them things too which goes a long way.

I have far more important things to put my money on tbh and my 2 are too young to understand that!

When they are older hopefully things will be different and i can spoil them rotten BUT we still have a fab xmas

savingmummy

mich13x wrote: »

I have an 11 month old son and expecting baby girl next month, i wasnt sure what to spend with them both being very young but budgeted for £500 between them, i will probably get them some clothes with this money aswell though. I think its difficult to find a good balance between stingy and over the top and mostly with my family it comes down to just loving christmas so tend to indulge But i think spending whatever you can afford comfortably is your best bet

WOW! I didnt buy mine anything until they were 2+ they really have no idea what going on and whats what at that age!
I`m Not stingy just poor LOL!
I would love to be in your position though :rotfl:

LilacPixie

Probably around the £150-£200 mark each depending on what they want and if there are any offers/glitches in the run up to Christmas. That will include new trainers/boots and some bits and bobs of clothes, brobably a new coat as well. Mine are 2 and 4

Jinx

My daughter gets a budget of £250. Usually one main pressie and some little bits. Am trying to persuade her it should drop now shes 18, funnily enough shes not keen on that idea..... lol

framie96

We tend to spend about £60-70 on our 2 (4 and 7) which is 1 main present and a few bits I've managed to get in sales. They have a small stocking from Father Christmas with books, chocolate etc. We are lucky as they have 2 set of grandparents who spend far too much money on them no matter how much we tell them not to. I find that they can get a bit over-whelmed with too many presents to open

jackomdj

pigpen wrote: »

Check out the reviews of those cameras I am sure I heard not too good things about them and how it was better to buy a cheap proper camera as they worked so much better etc..

I saw a post later in the thread saying they were good but I have to agree with pigpen. We bought our daughter one last year. She took some fab photo's but the quality of the photo's was not very good. We ended up getting her a normal one & passing this one on to our younger daughter to play with. Although the 5 year old does still play the games on it.

lauhen

I think it was me that said the camera was good, I meant that it was good enough for a 4 year old child, I would never expect it to be as good as a normal camera, it's a childs toy/gadget, and when I bought it I never expected my son to produce masterpieces, he takes pictures, deletes them and takes more, we don't mess around with putting them on the computer, the reason it is good is because it is robust, and normal ones are not, ok you can get a cheap normal one, but for a young child the chance of it breaking is high, and then you buy another. Also as I said before I would look for it in a sale, I wouldn't pay full price. Also the reviews are written by adults (parents), and the camera isn't going to be up to the standards of what they want, picture quality was probably the first thing oh complained about, but as I said it doesn't state that it is a super duper camera, and it wasn't for him.

RedPetal_2

You are over populated my dear, now game is over.

kittiej

Who is overpopulated my dear and what game is over?

What a weird post, are you FC in disguise and want to cut back on delivering presents?