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A question for all parents....
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Reading a certain other post where £100 to £150 is deemed NOT to be a large amount to spend on a birthday pressie, what do you spend on your offspring? (Excluding 18th & 21st birthdays)
I must be a real cheapskate - I spend around £30 on mine.
I must be a real cheapskate - I spend around £30 on mine.
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I agree wendilla - I am struggling this year to think of what to get - they'd like tvs in their bedrooms but I wont allow it and my youngest is desperate for an xbox but I know which games he wants to play and he is too young so that's another no. He'd like a netbook like my older son, but he saved most of the money for that and we bought the rest for his birthday so it wouldn't be fair to hand the younger one one for Christmas. They are getting past the toy stage but still believe in Santa so I can't just give them the cash and get them to pick something. They have Dsi's and a Wii so they don't need another console. I am tempted to get them a new stair carpet but somehow I don't think they'd appreciate that!
I don't have kids, but spend the most on my mother. I have spent, variously, anything between £20 and £500 on her Xmas/Birthday pressies.
The biggest present I gave her was a holiday to the Bahamas on her 41st birthday (Oct '99). We didn't actually take the holiday 'til the following May, but I gave her the confirmation on her birthday.
The biggest present I gave her was a holiday to the Bahamas on her 41st birthday (Oct '99). We didn't actually take the holiday 'til the following May, but I gave her the confirmation on her birthday.
it depends, I tend to spend around 0-40 quid on birthdays, similar at christmas, my daughters friend has a lot of stuff bought for her but to be honest I saw her open a present from her mom last christmas that cost nearly 100 pounds on its own and she barely acknowledged it. In fact she has a cupboard full of stuff that she never bothers with.
too much of a good thing can be detrimental in my opinion. I am stingy as well. my kids are not unhappy though
too much of a good thing can be detrimental in my opinion. I am stingy as well. my kids are not unhappy though
depends exactly what you're giving - jno jnr got driving lessons rather than a car (one reason Mollykins is unlikely to get a car, though she may not realise it, is the humungous expense of insuring it). But we never set cash limits, it was more 'Maybe he'd like that'. I should think there were years in his late teens when it hit £100, and that was a while back.
Birthdays £100
Christmas £80
we spend more on Birthdays because we can afford to spend more at that time because thats our ownly expenditure wheras at Christmas we have to buy for our Four children plus mums and Dads and a few other gifts it starts getting very expensive.
I don't think £80-£100 is that much nowadays, not when you see the cost of toys etc!
We know some people who wouldnt think twice at spending £400+ on there childrens birthday presents. Buy them a wii plus a few games thats over £200!
Our son wants a nintendo ds for his birthday but weve already told him that he wont get much else on top! as they cost about nearly all of his budget!!
Christmas £80
we spend more on Birthdays because we can afford to spend more at that time because thats our ownly expenditure wheras at Christmas we have to buy for our Four children plus mums and Dads and a few other gifts it starts getting very expensive.
I don't think £80-£100 is that much nowadays, not when you see the cost of toys etc!
We know some people who wouldnt think twice at spending £400+ on there childrens birthday presents. Buy them a wii plus a few games thats over £200!
Our son wants a nintendo ds for his birthday but weve already told him that he wont get much else on top! as they cost about nearly all of his budget!!
Probably about £200 for both - £100 on clothes and the other £100 on toys/gadgets or whatever. I only have the one child and her birthday's in June so most of her clothes for the year are bought as presents. Also, when she was little I had practically no money so I feel I'm kind of making up for when I couldn't get her anything.
