How many presents do your tweens get?

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Anonymous wrote:My 10 and 14 year old girls each got 25 this year, plus a stocking. I realize that sounds ridiculous now that I’ve counted it up.

Omg I didnt even count the ones from grandparents - it’s 25 from us

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My tween and teen girls are getting a lot. I posted in another thread at how ridiculous and frivolous it seems but I remember being a teen and wanting all the stuff that everyone has. So, here we are. I hope they're happy in the morning with all their Sephora items (including the coveted Summer Friday lipbalm that costs so much), Athleta clothing, Lululemon clothing, hoodies, Uggs and Kendra Scott. Oh and a Stanley. At least a gaming system seems substantial.

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DS 12 is getting the two big things he asked for: a PS5 and an elaborate water gun. He's also getting a lego technic set, books, some random board/card games, a few pieces of clothing and some other things I've noticed him eyeing when we go shopping.

He hardly ever asks for anything, so we go overboard at Christmas.

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Anonymous wrote:Ours isn't the number of gifts so much as the dollar amount. We pick an amount we want to spend on each kid and get the items off their list that work.

DS asked for a PS5, some games, and some shoes (3 or 4 pairs).

DD asked for a bunch of makeup and skincare items, shoes, clothes, a ton of books, and an Apple Watch.

DS is getting a PS5, 2 games, and 1 pair of shoes.

DD is getting an Apple Watch, 2 pairs of shoes, makeup & skincare stuff, 4 books, and a few store gift cards to buy the clothes herself.

Both of their Xmas hauls add up to the same amount within around $15 of each other. They'll also be receiving gifts from their grandparents and other relatives, too.

Wow. Spoil your kids much?

My kids don't know any other kids who don't have a game system with games or shoes. My kids don't have the most recent game systems, like a Steam Deck or PS5 because they have other expensive hobbies and ask for those things instead. If giving your kids a game system and shoes, or other similarly priced items, is spoiling then I guess every kid I know is spoiled?

Rich bubble momma

Oh please, if you had that money you’d spend it on your kids during the holidays too.

I'm the PP who got called a rich bubble momma here. I actually don't think that's true. In my experience, moderate and lower income people save specifically for Christmas, and if their kids get something nice, like a bike or a game system it's always a gift. This is both because being able to give nice gifts is a point of pride, and because they want their kids to understand that these things are gifts not expectations. UMC and UC families boast about not spoiling their kids at Christmas, and saying they make their kids use "their own" money for things, but the reason their kids have their own money, is either because they get money as gifts, or they get generous allowances, or they get money from "working" for other UMC/UC people who pay their friends kids at inflated rates. Or they decide something like an expensive pair of shoes, or sporting equipment or a bike is a "need" and buy it at a random point in the year, when lower income kids might wait for Christmas for the same thing.

That's just my observation.

100% nailed it. We are solidly middle class and our kids don’t have an allowance so wouldn’t be able to buy anything for themselves. We do nice gifts at Christmas but nothing all year.

I'm UMC and save all year for Christmas for big gifts. Big gifts always come at Christmas.

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I think 5? One big present, new shoes, new pants and 2 other little thjngs. I had a pair of drugstore sunglasses for him too but I can’t find them. Took me less than an hour to wrap his and mt husband’s.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks! My 11 year old requested a steam deck and an Apple Watch and a very pricey razor scooter bike. Ummm I can’t get all of those and no way on the watch. He’s getting the bike and some other lower cost things like sweatshirts and a 3D pen and posters.

Off topic, but 10-11 is too young for a device, imo. My DH also asked for an Apple Watch too but my job is to parent her, not succumb to every wish and whim.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is getting skincare/makeup/perfumes, hoodies and sweatshirts, a pair of Uggs, and some junk jewelry. I think we’ve spent about $600 on all of it, but some will be held back for her birthday, which is in 2 months.

The tree will look pretty bare, since all these pricy but tiny things from Sephora take up no space at all.

+1. And WTH is Tower 28?

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Tower 28 is a makeup and skincare line

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Anonymous wrote:My 10 and 14 year old girls each got 25 this year, plus a stocking. I realize that sounds ridiculous now that I’ve counted it up.

Omg I didnt even count the ones from grandparents - it’s 25 from us

My 14yo got a lot of clothes. He outgrew everything so he got 7-8 pants and 6-7 sweatshirts plus his normal gifts. I could see the number of gifts adding up for girls who may want makeup or accessories. 25 is still a lot. I don’t think my kids even got that many when they were younger.

I have 3 kids and they got 10-15 gifts each. Half or more was clothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks! My 11 year old requested a steam deck and an Apple Watch and a very pricey razor scooter bike. Ummm I can’t get all of those and no way on the watch. He’s getting the bike and some other lower cost things like sweatshirts and a 3D pen and posters.

Off topic, but 10-11 is too young for a device, imo. My DH also asked for an Apple Watch too but my job is to parent her, not succumb to every wish and whim.

10-11 is the perfect age for an Apple Watch. I got my son one so he could contact us. He would use it if he was at practice. He used it mostly to call us to tell us he wanted to hang out with friends after school, he needed to be picked up from practice early, to ask permission to eat with friends after practice, etc. They didn’t really use it to call friends.

They got phones in middle school when they were almost 13.

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4 each from us + stockings. Also get gifts from grandmother, aunt, uncle, 1-2 things from each.

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When it’s an expensive gift so I would really just buy one, I will supplement with the things I want them to have. For example, pajamas or clothing I’d buy anyway or books.