whats everyone buying their kids for xmas?

*Louise*

Quite organised for the kids - its the family I still have to buy for...

DS1 (7)

New Bike £120
Helmet £15
Test tube alien £13
Sonic game for game Boy £25
Green Power Ranger £5
Magnetix £20
Lego £20
Playmobil set £30
electronic Monopoly £20

I have managed to buy a Nintendo DS for £90 with 6 games and accessories, it is still packaged, so he will get that as an extra that I hadn't planned.


DS2 (18mths)
Happyland playmat, cottage and various accessory packs £130
Toy Rocket £30
Little touch LeapPad £30
LeapPad books £15
Spin n Spill turtle £30
Musical Octopus £15
Water Wand £5

Still to get him one of those dancing mumble penguin things...and still have to get little things for their stockings

Pooky

AnnieH wrote:

We have already done most of our chopping. Step son (11) has got a Hot Wheels set
Step daughter (10) OH doesn't know what to get her. I have told him what I think she'd like, but hey who am I to say anything :rolleyes:
DD1 (8) has got a rock tumbler - she will love it
DD2 has got a Barbie horsey head thing
DS (20 mths) has got a dumper truck with mega bloks and a hard hat

Good luck with the rock tumbler - my daughter loves and collects polished gemstones to my parents got her a tumbler to use at theirs when she stays in the holidays - they soon realised why I hadn't got one earlier - the noise of it whirrrring around for 7-10 days is hell on earth.... Hope you've got a garage or shed to put it in!!!!

oldandhappy

AnnieH wrote:

We have already done most of our chopping. Step son (11) has got a Hot Wheels set
Step daughter (10) OH doesn't know what to get her. I have told him what I think she'd like, but hey who am I to say anything :rolleyes:
DD1 (8) has got a rock tumbler - she will love it
DD2 has got a Barbie horsey head thing
DS (20 mths) has got a dumper truck with mega bloks and a hard hat

I think with all the chopping the hard hat will be useful.....;)


But joking apart I am amazed how much people spend at Xmas...as a child I had loads and loads of pressies and I loved opening them all but honestly cannot recall much about the contents..just the thrill of all those packages under the tree....and I have seen the same in our youngest granddaughter age nearly 4...Mrs Happy who has not started even thinking about it yet;)

immoral_angeluk

My daughter (20 months) is getting

play kitchen (£5 reduced from £20 online)
teletubbies aquadraw (£24 using £5 off code on ebay)
disney princess puzzle (given us free by a friend who didn't want it. It's still sealed!)
an early learning centre 'funky footprints' mat £7 inc postage off ebay
Wooden blocks £1 from tesco
lots of books. (About £15 worth from school-link)

bigmuffins

Wow I have saved 1.2k already by not buying a rocking horse for my dds!
:rolleyes:

Is this for real £2.5k + for a 2yr old? :eek:

astonsmummy

Bought spud 3 books for the price of 2 in woolies, numbres, dressing, and words (he's a bit slow in his speeh development) to add to his presents.
And when i went to get his train set from argos it had £5 off! bonus!

ailuro2

Have set a budget of 120 pounds all-in for dd(8), looking for a magnets kit of some sort, she keeps talking about the set they had in school (for 'forces' project)
she got an NDS lite for her Bday in hallowe'en so mostle games/clothes/books,nothing major.

suzukibabe

We have bought DS who is 3:

Big fire engine (£15 in Woolies)
Lunar Jim
Disney Tin-has books, pens, cd inside
Spell it out floor puzzle
Mini hot water bottle with a fun cover
A magnetic drawing board- a bit like magnadoodle
Bob the bulider slippers

We've also made up a stocking full of little bits and bobs, and i keep seeing extra little bits to put under the tree.

ailuro2

shirlgirl2004 wrote:

My DD (2) is doing incredibly well this year. I said I didn't want anymore toys in the house this year so said we'd just buy her a traditional rocking horse. It was an ebay bargain, they normally cost 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 thousand £ but I got it new for £1,200. It was made to order and it's gorgous. Since ordering it in September I've managed to buy quite a few other bits too though including

You could have bought a cheaper rocking horse and saved the money for a couple of years then bought her a real pony with that amount of money.:eek:

bigmuffins

Don't think a real one would present a problem for someone with that kind of budget!
Had to have a peek at these rocking horses - waaaaaaaaaaay out of my league!

http://search.ebay.co.uk/rocking-horse_W0QQfromZR40QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQsbrsrtZd

:eek: :eek: :eek:
Have to say, if I had that kind of money to spend on 2yr olds presents, I wouldn't be on MSE!