How much do you spend on clothes & toys

Towser

Pepperoni what do you think so far?

Flyonthewall

HappyMJ wrote: »

The new games console each year will cost at least £300. If you alternated years in which you purchased one you could budget £150 each year towards the console...then you've got games to buy. I'd say 3 months between game purchases at around £40 per game. Selling the old one could save £10. So that's another £120 per year.

Consoles do not come out each year. There's years between them!

There was 7 years between the PS3 and PS4, 8 years between the xbox 360 and xbox one and 6 years between the Wii and Wii U. Most people have a fav so certainly no need to buy them all but even if you did and you bought one every other year the second one would be below £250 and by the time you got the last one it'd be below £100.

You can get a new release game for £30-35 easy enough. Shop around you can get some great deals. It's costing me £20 for Uncharted 4 (which will be released this year) but it's over £45 at some places! Shortly after release they drop in price, sometimes as low as £15 within months.

Some games have a lot of replay value so you can't rely on selling them. If you do you should easily be able to get more than £10 back for most if you bought it as new release and sell it to buy another new release a few months later (credit is always more than cash if trading in).

Gaming doesn't have to be anywhere near that expensive, especially for young kids. PS2 for £20-30 and a load of games for no more than a couple of quid each. Hours of gaming for at least a year or two for less than £50!

Children need tablets as well.....

They don't need tablets. They have their uses, but they're not needed.

robbyfine

400-500$ a year. Each child, I mean

MarryM

earlier almost 700$ per year for a child, but as I started to make gifts by myself - the amount of money was reduced

kezzann

I probably spend about £300 a year on my little girl (she gets hand me down clothes from her cousin) and maybe £400 on my little lad. He got an Xbox at Christmas though so it was probably quite a lot more last year. I love to shop the sales though and would definitely reccommend buying winter clothes in summer and summer clothes in winter cause you can save so much!

Less likely to get these kind of sales on toys i guess but January sales and Amazon always come in handy.

Serena03

Roughly £150 on clothes a year and another £100 on toys etc for my 19 month old. i buy in sale, mothercare do good sales, also second hand toys from selling pages/hand me downs/ gumtree/charity shops as well.

Craftingmama01

You can save loads of money by buying second hand and clothes bundles on ebay. Charity shops are full of toys which have hardly been played with.