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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow I spent more on dinner than most of you do on your kids!  I take it no one lets their kids play video games because those cost $60 not including the actual system.  No one's kid has a bike.  No Legos.  No movies.  No need guns.  What exactly is the one $50 toy people buy heir kids?  It must be a hell of a toy...a single tickle me Elmo perhaps?  Obviously no one's kids have a computer, laptop, tablet, cell phone, their own TV, stereo, MP3 player, doll house, etc.[/quote]

Thank god a voice of reason. We are not extravagant but the first few pages of responses are nutty. These are the same people who love to tell you how they don't have a TV. We have a 4 and 2 year old and will spend a few hundred on 4 year old, maybe 100 in the younger one. Plus some travel and hotels etc. Even like the intro basic v tech lap top style toys for 4 year olds are $100... which it seems to me almost everyone had. But according to DCUM no one is buying them. It's like how the Eagles sell a trillion records yet no one admits to being a fan. Y'all telling stories. [/quote]

I shop mostly year round at thrift shops and get puzzles and family games (making sure all the pieces are there) or at stores like Walgreens, Michaels and also thrift store for things like decorative notepads (found some personalized ones with my son's name), gel pens,and knick knacks (a maze pen):  design books, craft kits, decorate your own electronic toothbrush, chap sticks, science kits, books, toys, design kits, etc.  I then supplement all of those things with maybe $30-$50 of items they really want:  legos, costume, purse, etc.  I probably spend $75/kid and they have a massive amount of items under the tree.

This is just an example:  last year I got this for $2 at a thrift store.  Kids use it all the time and love it. http://www.amazon.com/Diggin-00130-Wobble-Deck/dp/B000GAYMDA. I would never buy this for $40, it wasn't on a list, but I just grab things like that when I see them.

Those mini laptops for kids are so cheap at thrift stores....maybe $5 max.[/quote]

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