Far too many presents!

kegg_2

jennikitten wrote: »

Since there are a lot of people out there struggling to afford presents for their children, perhaps you could take some of them to a local charity/support group/playgroup along with your children & explain that some people don't get anything for Christmas so it's nice to help other people out?

These are presents bought by other people for her daughter, it would be rude to give them away even to the most deserving of charities. If these people people had wanted to give to charity i am sure they would have.

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We often hold presents back if our son gets too many... we'll gradually give him presents randomly, as rewards for being good.

Use them for bribery!

gingin_2

Why does she get a stocking, a santa sack and presents hanging on the tree. Are these all from you?

runninglea

put a few small presents in the stocking and let her find it in her bedroom - she can bring it into your room and open it. Then she can wait a bit, after breakfast to open some under the tree etc

gingin_2

jennikitten wrote: »

Since there are a lot of people out there struggling to afford presents for their children, perhaps you could take some of them to a local charity/support group/playgroup along with your children & explain that some people don't get anything for Christmas so it's nice to help other people out?

Great idea.

My children's school were asking for new toys/gifts, to be given to the London City Mission, who will then be hand them out to children who will get very little, if nothing for christmas. It might be worth putting a few by for something like that, OP. Or you could use some of the smaller presents to make up boxes to send to children overseas.

http://www.linkromania.co.uk/shoebox-appeal

sneezyboots

laurenjs88 wrote: »

a santa sack, a stocking, our presents, family presents and Tree presents she has well over 60 presents to open!

I am amazed at the quantity of different types of presents your daughter will have. Maybe if you cut them down to presents from you (santa) and presents from family it may be easier. Sounds to me like you are basically giving her most of the presents yourself just branding them in different ways (stocking, tree, santa sack etc).

No child needs presents from santa and you as if they are clever enough to turn around and say "well these are my santa presents now where are mine from you mum" they certainly are old enough to know the truth. That was in fact a very clever ploy I remember my cousin conning my aunt with until the age of about 14 though! "From santa I want an xbox and from you I want a PS3" :rotfl:

faithcecilia

jennikitten wrote: »

Since there are a lot of people out there struggling to afford presents for their children, perhaps you could take some of them to a local charity/support group/playgroup along with your children & explain that some people don't get anything for Christmas so it's nice to help other people out?

Until I was 12 my parents ran hostels for the homeless, and one of these had a family unit. One year, when I think I was about 7 and my brother 4, a mother and children came in during Christmas Eve night - I found out years later that the dad had belted the mum one time too many and she had finally come to her senses and run. When we got up Christmas morning we were told that there were children downstairs who had had to move quickly so Santa didn't know where they were, so would we like to share our presents with them? Of course we did, we each chose a few presents from our pile and my dad took them down to this family.

We were not a well of family ourselves and never had mountains of presents, and we did feel a dent from the ones we gave away, but to this day I believe we recieved the best gift ever that year - the gift of kindness and sharing.

CRANKY40

I have always let my son open presents from people as they arrive....that way he can thank them properly and they get the fun of seeing his face when he opens them. On Christmas day he gets a present from Santa on the end of his bed, and some presents from me downstairs. He will also get some presents from the family that we have Christmas dinner with.

It means he doesn't get bored in the school holidays as he has something every couple of days usually, and it also means that if I ask him who bought him a certain item, he actually remembers who it is from. He is 6 now, and I've always done this.

eleanora_

faithcecilia wrote: »

Until I was 12 my parents ran hostels for the homeless, and one of these had a family unit. One year, when I think I was about 7 and my brother 4, a mother and children came in during Christmas Eve night - I found out years later that the dad had belted the mum one time too many and she had finally come to her senses and run. When we got up Christmas morning we were told that there were children downstairs who had had to move quickly so Santa didn't know where they were, so would we like to share our presents with them? Of course we did, we each chose a few presents from our pile and my dad took them down to this family.

We were not a well of family ourselves and never had mountains of presents, and we did feel a dent from the ones we gave away, but to this day I believe we recieved the best gift ever that year - the gift of kindness and sharing.

That's a lovely story - your parents sound like wonderful people Do you know if the mother and kids managed to get back on their feet?

themull1

kegg wrote: »

they are not your gifts so you cant not give them to her as you would in effect be stealing her christmas presents.

Eh? what are you on about? of course its not stealing her christmas presents it was an idea on how to eke them out, so there weren't too many to open all at once.