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[quote=Anonymous]I do the "put it on your Christms list" thing, but when he was younger, I told him there could only be 3 things on the list.  So, if we were in the store and he started ogling the Giant Mutant Ninja Piece of Plastic Crap, I'd say "hmmm, do you want it more than what's on your list" and he would rearrange that list.  As long as he was little enough to ask for cheap things he generally got the whole list (of 3) plus some "surprises".  I'll be honest and say I buy too any things.

Now that he's older, I spend way more, and he gets the same number of things, but more them are practical things.  Last Christmas, for example, he got a membership in the school ski club, a new jacket (which he needed), new jeans, a few books, and a year's subscription to Hulu (we'd been TV free for a few years), and a video game.  Add it all together and it cost way more than I would have spent when he was 3 or 4, but frankly other than the video game it was all stuff I'd have bought him anyway.

For his birthday he can choose a "big" present (e.g. one year he got the xbox), a quick trip somewhere (e.g. a night with his best friend at Great Wolf Lodge) or a party that costs something.  If he doesn't choose the party we've invited friends somewhere free like for a nerf gun game in the park or swimming at Wilson.[/quote]

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