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[quote=Anonymous][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 [b]Walgreens, Michaels and also thrift store[/b] 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]

Meant to say I shop those bolded stores after holidays (Xmas, halloween, etc.).[/quote]

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