For xmas how much to spend on a 4 year old

KittyKate

Wow I would never spend that much! OK I don't have kids - just nephews - but I'd cap it at £50. £25 on a 'latest must have' toy, two decent £5 web buys, another £10 on stocking fillers (from the market/claires accessories/woolworths/poundland/tesco etc) and the last £5 on a selection box and some sweeties. What with all the presents kids get from other relatives, they'll forget what came from whom anyway. I wasn't spoiled as a child and it really made me appreciate how hard it is to earn money, but how easy it is to spend it!

Viz_2

My daughter is 4 years old this xmas. She has been the only child on both sides of the family since she was born, and always been spoilt. Not that she knows any different !
We tend not to look at the prices, more if she would enjoy the gift (and if we have space to store it !).

growingafamily

my SIL just hands her kids a pile of catalogues and they ring everything they want and usually get it all, they are really ungrateful kids with a terrible attitude as they get what they want no matter what they do the rest of the year (of which some nearly turns my hair white)
I spend around £10-20 on my lil bro and maybe upto £50 on ds (that includes clothes for the next year etc and other things he needs - gets a few bits from family too)

tazzababe

skintchick wrote:

:eek: at the replies!!


£300 on a small child is unbelieveable! What is it teaching them about the value of money? I'm honestly shocked.

My dd definatley knows the value of money, she gets 20p a week from me and the same from my parents. She has the opportunity to spend whenever and on whatever she wants, but she chooses to save it so she can buy something special for herself. Like I said, I only spent that much because I had to get her a new bed, that in itself came to £175. I admit it is a lot of money, and I try not too. However I somethimes have a tendency to buy stuff wrap it, then get so excited about it I show her before xmas, then I have to go out and get something new.:rotfl:
Defo not doing that this year though

Loop

I spend about £50 on Isobel (the baby who will be 2 in Jan) and about £70 on Sophie.

However that does go up if I have a particularly "flush" xmas.

My brother is 13 and he got a computer worth £400 for his birthday, christ my parents would NEVER have spent that on me!! He gets anything, Ipod, tv/dvd combi, PSP, Playstation, 3 mobiles since he was 11, You name it...but then all the kids nowadays get all of it, so its VERY hard not to buy it, as you feel guilty, no doubt!!

I usually spend £60 on my brother.

Lillibet_2

My son is 14 months, last year & this year will be about the same at around £90-100 but £25 is a charitable "adopt an animal" thing in his name, £35 is on a limited edition annual sworvorski (sp?) christmas decoration being put away for him & £10 is on a bottle being laid down for him for when he is (much) older. So only about £30-35 on actual "stuff" including stocking fillers. Usually one or 2 toys & then usable stuff like socks, PJ's, this year a pair of £5.99 wellies etc. No sweets or chocolate but some home made gingerbread men & a apple in his stocking.

HTH;)

The_Governor

Too much truth be told.

last year we did well as we spent about £200 on our eldest plus about £150 on our youngest who was only 1 at the time.

I think this year we'll break the £250 barrier for our eldest because we have bought her a PS2. But she'll also be getting an XBOX 360 courtesy of Tesco R&R

Not that she'll be allowed to become a video-game drone mind you, more like I will

tiff

A PS2 AND an XBOX!!

char22

we spend around £400 on my 5 year old and a little bit less on my 2 year old.
some of you think that is too much , but being on a very limited budget i save for christmas all year from january 1st and my children don't get new toys throughout the year ( exept birthdays and what they buy them selves from their money they get from friends, tooth fairy etc)

i don't think it is spoiling them as they get nothing all year they are grateful and appreiciate every single thing they get on christmas.:D






and maybe i want my children to have better christmases than i had

recovering_spendaholic

I spend about £100 on a big present for each of DD's and then buy stocking fillers (bubble bath, colouring books, sweets etc) so about £200 each, which I know is way too much but I am not kidding that is only a fraction of what some of their friends get. I got made redundant last Christmas and am still not working so this year I will have to spend less. I am planning on getting a Baby Born car for DD2 and I haven't got a clue what to get for DD1.