Buying Kids Presents

Yeah, i think that you said the truth. To be honest, however, i don't set a limit on presents.

No I dont set a limit to how many my kids get I honestly dont buy them THAT much becuase we have such big families I already know they are going to get ALOT of stuff. I tend to tell the grandparents the stuff the kids NEED then tell aunts & uncles the stuff they want and then we usually buy them either 1 big thing or a few smaller ones. I even out the price for them all...if I spend $100 on one I spend that on all of them. They are happy no matter what. Its important to teach them now its not the quantity that matters. My oldest son is amazing come christmas time the most UNSELFISH 12 year old boy you would ever meet! :]

Yeah, sos when u give, give a diffrerent one. So that u ma be unique

Most children have that 1-3 things they really really want, and as long as you get that 1 thing that was highest on their list. They are happy.... happy happy... And will usually push everything else aside and play with that one thing for months. For me I was easy Trains Trains Trains lol.. I even got repeats people were all glaring as eachother for getting the same ones, and I was happy and would line them up together. I now had a freightyard with some matching Sister engines lol. I was goofy... But in the end it does not matter how many presents they are it matters if it is something they will really really enjoy for months on end or not. I still have my trains although one is sentimental garbage lol. - DNatureofDTrain

setting a limit is great but have you thought this through two and four are only young when they get to say 10 and twelve and each thing they want costs hundreds how much will ten presents cost you plus you have other family that buy for them.me and my husband have no family and the kids only get presents from us,we set a limit of 2 expensive presents,3 mid price and four low price and with 8 kids its still a stretch.it dosnt matter just yet but asking them to choose presents this way will help them understand the value of money,you dont want them to grow up thinking they can have what they want just because they wrote a list.

Well, I dont have christmas presents because my birthday is 23 day.But i would like receive money =D

I used to when my Kids where little and I bought about the same amount as you did and I think that is enough as they got older it got a bit less as they wanted more expensive Things but my Kids where always happy with what they got and they still are now lol They are Adults now and they get one big Present and then just a few Bits Actually they are spoiling me now lol which I told them not to but they don't listen lol

I set a amount of money that I spend on them you are right they are younger it is so much easier mine are 15 and 13 and what they want is expencive so i just set a certain amount but i normally can't stick by it.

Well this year is my daughters' first Christmas and she only got three gifts. I don't feel the need to go crazy on Christmas because she gets toys all throughout the year, and she is too young to enjoy clothes as presents yet!

10!!!! OMG i don't think I even got that many from my parents growing up. we buy like 1 or 2 for each depending on the price of the gift. this year they're both sharing a TV set they wanted. and "SANTA" is bringing them the Movie Cars DVD. I maybe got 2-3 gifts from my parents and the rest was friends and family. my boys have a lot of gifts from famliy and i wan them to learn that getting gifts isn't everything. i think setting a limit is good, but remember not to go too high

i dont have a set limit on the number of presents but I do make sure that each of my kids has the same amount under the tree. Even if that means I have to wrap batteries seperatley lol to even the score because at the ages of 6 and 8, they do take notice, and will feel they didnt get as much as the sibling

i buy them clothes,not toys..

Gifts for the kids should well taken care of. Dont spoil them and think of a perfect gift for a specific age.Make sure they would love it. The cost wouldnt matter as long as your gift made them smile then thats enough reward.

10 presents? That's a lot already. I think your children will not complain for getting 10 presents. I agree that setting a limit is necessary. You can't get unlimited numbers of presents for your kids anyway. It will cost very expensive and it's not educating. Kids need to learn the value of things, and if they own too many things, they tend to regard those things low, because they have a lot of them still. Well, again, I think 10 presents are a lot already! I've never imagined having 10 presents in my childhood..

Ten is alot, I think, I have two kids and my husband has two more with his ex wife, so it's four kids we have to buy for, I think three presents is enough and it should all be the same amount of money.

I don't have kids yet. I will probably do what my parents did. They set a dollar limit, not a present limit. They always tried to get us close to the same amount of gifts number wise, but they always spent the same dollar wise.

We only have the one child to buy presents for, I've never counted the pressies for her. The nephews & neices all got cash, $10 each.. they seemed happy with that.

wow thats great..10 presents?? i limit my presents to one only...too much indulgence of it could be spoiling them...

i dont think you should set limits for gifts given to children it should be given from the heart and as you ttold your children are too young to even start seeing how many presents they got

i wouldnt set a limit of gifts you should buy your children because as they start getting older you wont to have to buy that many toys