Do you spent EXACTLY the same amount on each of your children?

lyns_2 · 21 October 2006 at 11:40PM

I try and even it up money wise but i think its more important that they have a more even amount of presents its not nice 1 having 2 sacks full and the others having 1.
Last year my daughter had a DS son had a bike and little one had some thing in a big box.They all ways open the smaller presents upstairs with me & OH and then come down stairs and have their main one so it looked strange a little DS next to a big bike and even though the money was the same i did feel bad

lil_me · 21 October 2006 at 11:44PM

With the log I also put what I paid and what usually costs, because some times I get things in sales and save. Aswell as a good bonus to see what I have saved it gives more of an idea how much things are worth. Strange this year so far I thought I had spent more on one son than the other, but it's worked out about even so far.

Turtle · 22 October 2006 at 2:34PM

Hi all, I dont actually have kids but just wanted to offer an opinion about the cost of things RRP v sale price. If you got several things for one child in a sale, and nothing for the other in a sale, and totally up the actual price you'd spent, the value of the 'sale' child's gifts is more than the actual price paid child's gifts. So, I'd total up using the RRP. If you save money into the bargain doing it this way then so much the better!