How many presents do you usually buy for your child's birthday and how much do you typically spend?
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Anonymous
| I am curious as to what other parents do for their child's birthday in terms of presents. How many gifts do you typically buy for their birthday? what about Christmas? Do you give them more at Christmas or about same number for both birthday and Christmas? |
Anonymous
| One. I can't imagine why anyone would give more than one present for someone's birthday? Unless it was two things that go together, like a diary and a matching pen. We don't celebrate Christmas. |
Anonymous
| Christmas is definitely bigger than birthdays. As far as number, each person in our family gives the birthday person a gift, which means at least four gifts. Sometimes I get more than one gift, but not usually. |
Anonymous
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One present from us, plus I "help" the sibling choose a present. Grandparents, etc. give (too many) presents, so there are lots of packages to open.
We don't celebrate Christmas, but for Hannukah, we try to have each kid have 8 things to open (1 each night), but that includes grandparent presents. It usually works out to a couple "bigger" things, then smaller stuff (i.e. a book) to equal 8 presents. |
Anonymous
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One "large" present from us, such as a bike, or an experience (trip to amusement park, play at Imagination Stage, etc). Then several smaller, fun presents, junky fun stuff, joke stuff. Sometimes one outfit for my girl.
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DD is 4. For birthdays, one large present from us, and I used to do a few small presents too, but between gifts from friends who come to her party and grandparent/aunt gifts, it's just too much. This year, I also am letting the grandparents give the big present that I had in mind for us to give (they always want to give a large present too), and we are just going to give the accessories that go with it. She gets so overwhelmed by it all that I don't think she realizes what is from us. For Xmas, Santa brings one largish present, and we give a few smaller presents. Ditto on the amount she gets from other family members.
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Anonymous
| We give about 5-7 presents for each of our two girls. We don't have family in the area, and they rarely if ever send gifts, so I want them to have presents to open. We give about the same number for Christmas and birthdays. I think it would be sad if my children only had one present to open on Christmas morning. |
Anonymous
| We decide approximately what we are going to spend for xmas for each child, but don't have a certain number of gifts we give. If our limit were $400 each and one wanted a $200 game system and a $100 pair of shoes, he would probably not be receiving as many gifts as his brother who likes matchbook cars, books, crayons, balls and other less expensive things. Our younger one will be turning 3 on Xmas eve, and we are still working out how to balance gift giving. We are considering limiting bday gifts for both to one big ticket item. |
Anonymous
| For DD's 5th bday she got 2 books and legos. That's what she wanted. $35. But then she also got gifts from her friends/family. |
Anonymous
| DD is turning 8 soon. I got her a fancy origami book that is $14 and comes with origami paper. Plus I will give her a gift certificate from me to her saying we can have a baking afternoon. |
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Birthdays- one large gift- ex: bike.
Christmas- one gift (whatever they asked Santa for) and stocking stuffers. Our total Christmas budget last year was $1,000. I just looked at our spread sheet, and while I know we spent $915.57 on Christmas, I don't know exactly how much of that was the kids gifts vs cards vs relative gifts vs daycare gifts vs the tree, etc. |
Anonymous
| About 100 dollars. Doesn't matter if it buys one big thing or a lot of little things. |
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$150-200 on the birthday, depending on what we decide to buy.
We don't buy many toys during the year, so this is when they get new books, etc. |
Anonymous
Is this all your dd is getting for her bday? Or does she have gifts from family and friends too? My dd would cry her eyes out if this was all she got for her bday. |
Anonymous
Um, I'll let her pick out what we make for dinner. I bet a couple of her girlfriends at school will make her cards and include little trinkets (last year her friend gave her a pretty rock she'd painted). A couple of times teachers have given her a cool pencil or something, so she might get that. Is it possible that your DD is used to getting a lot more? If so, that would explain why she would cry her eyes out if she went from getting a slew of presents to one. My DD has always gotten one present on her birthday, so this is where her expectation level is. |