What is this Yuu bag craze?

Enterprise_1701C

It might be useful to tell him that he can buy it if he still wants it in a fortnight!

I think 7 is a lot older than it used to be, kids grow up way too fast, and as long as he understands that the money is GONE when he has spent it, then I would let him have it. If he wants something else the following week then he will learn that he can't have his cake and eat it too. It may be one of the best ways to teach him about money and save him a fortune when he is older.

Counting_Pennies_2

onlyroz wrote: »

I'm a bit puzzled about how he has managed to save up £43. Has he actually been consciously saving up? Or has he just been given money that he never got round to spending? E.g. do you still buy him sweets, comics, toys etc, or has he been forgoing all of these to save up for this bag?

This money is a combination of money relatives have given him when they come round, money given at birthdays and Christmases and some reward money when we were managing his behaviour. All he wanted to do was save.

Since his sister started getting ticks on her reward chart he has been keen to dig into his piggy, and now has a fixation on the bag.

I say he is 7, as that is what he is in my eyes, but he is actually 7 this week, and we are giving him a much begged for Nintendo DS and we are going to take him to Toys R Us to choose a game to play on it on the evening of his birthday (after school). I am hoping he will choose to use his money to buy another game, as he will be so excited.

At that point we can then look at the options and make it his choice, with a lot of guidance from us in a certain direction.

Thanks all for your responses

Edna_Bucket

Just a few thoughts on this Yuu Bag craze.
We bought one for my 10-year old so that she had an activity bag for a school trip. The coach trip was a 3-hour drive.

To be fair to her, it's the only thing she has ever asked for, so I bought one.

Everyone is stating the £43.00 price tag, but that is to forget the £6.99 delivery charge.

For £50.00, this bag is gratuitiously over priced and shows that good marketing to children makes fools of all of us. We could have bought SO much more bag and contents for half the price.

Well done to Yuu Bag for clever, manipulative marketing and a slapped wrist for me for being suckered in to it.

Now that we have a Yuu Bag, my younger daughter also wants one and spent a full 10 minutes extolling the virtues of the many pockets, clips and clever storage areas within her sister's Yuu bag to justify the purchase of another.

One thing must not be overlooked; the kids love them.

Edna

Alikay

I'd let him get the bag with his savings. I remember DS1 at a similar age saving all his birthday money and every coin he was given or found to buy a football shirt: Over £40 what was basically (to me anyway:o) a garish nylon T shirt!!! He loved it though, because he'd bought it and it was an important lesson about making choices, spending money etc.

lika_86

I don't understand why this is an issue. You give him money, presumably so he can spend it on things that he wants and yet you want to control what he does with it?

If you're going to control what he spends HIS money on, why not forget the pocket money and just buy him what you think he needs/will use?

If your boss gave you your salary and you saved up for a completely gorgeous but impractical pair of shoes because you loved them, would you appreciate your boss telling you that you weren't allowed to buy them because you won't be able to walk that far in them and that you should buy something more sensible instead, even if you loved them? Even as adults we buy things because we love them and want them, let him buy what he wants.

lika_86

Although, if he's going to use it as a school bag, have you considered putting towards it the money you would have spent on a school bag? That way he will have some money left and you'll both be happy?

emsywoo123

DD (8) saw these a little while ago on the TV, and some of her chums had them....she *of course* wanted one.

She also had sufficient money saved up, but I faffed and padded for a couple of weeks, by which time she had gone off the idea and still has her money saved for holiday time

Mojisola

How about teaching him that it's never wise to spend all the money you have in one go - suggest he can take half the cost of the bag from his savings and he has to save the other half.

He may go off the bag before his savings reach that level.

Mojisola

lika_86 wrote: »

I don't understand why this is an issue. You give him money, presumably so he can spend it on things that he wants and yet you want to control what he does with it?

If you're going to control what he spends HIS money on, why not forget the pocket money and just buy him what you think he needs/will use?

If your boss gave you your salary and you saved up for a completely gorgeous but impractical pair of shoes because you loved them, would you appreciate your boss telling you that you weren't allowed to buy them because you won't be able to walk that far in them and that you should buy something more sensible instead, even if you loved them? Even as adults we buy things because we love them and want them, let him buy what he wants.

This is a seven year old child - not an adult!

He won't be making decisions about where he goes to school, what he eats, what time he goes to bed so why should he be able to spend all the money he has in the world without some parental guidance and control?

shelly

I think the OP might have sorted this out by now as the thread is over a year old