Bethsmummy Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 ....get less Christmas prezzies when you had two to buy for?? Did you feel guilty if so?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joiner andy Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 just get what you can and never feel guilty, unless you blow all your dough on scratch cards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Just do your best. Love and affection are more important than toys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alternageek Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 My mother always set a budget what she would spend on the two of us ($100, each - I grew up in the 80/90s) If it was the year I got a bicycle, I got less presents than my sister who didnt. If she got a bicycle that year and I didnt, it meant more presents for me. This theory held true until my mid-twenties.... Now we just get something small or gift cards for a set amount. Its not about how much you get, its the fact that you receive something. My mother has told me over the years, stuff she bought in pound lands (dollar stores) made up the bulk of our gifts when we were younger. Which, helped a lot. We never noticed where the gifts came from, well not until we hit our teens.. Also buying through out the year and hiding away. If you teach your kids from a small age that its not how much you get, but the fact that someone (or Father Christmas) cared enough to give/leave you most things asked for is whats important. Its about sharing the holiday, giving and being a family (hopefully, healthy, happy and wise) together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bethsmummy Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 Lovely words of wisdom from everyone. And I know my eldest will be exceedingly grateful for what she gets, I just worry she'll notice its not quite as much as she used to get. She was our only child for 7 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joiner andy Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 i used to get a ball and a piece of string, and if i was lucky i also got a half eaten apple:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joiner andy Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 i once unwrapped a stick from a tree when it snowed my mother put it in dish's and told us it was ice cream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joiner andy Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 we hated it when it rained as we knew it was bath time (a strip wash in a puddle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joanl Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 When I became a single parent to two small children, money got tight but what I did was get them something fairly inexpensive for Christmas. With the other stuff from their nan and other relatives, they never noticed anyway and then I spent a little more for their birthdays. Because, then there was time in between to save for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuy Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 ....get less Christmas prezzies when you had two to buy for?? Did you feel guilty if so?? I have 3, the first born is the oldest (obviously ) so hers is the most expensive single present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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