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Mil wants us to return lo's gifts to her house once he's opened them....

Do you agree to doing this? Lo is 4 and only goes to her house for an afternoon every 3 weeks on average...

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Birthday gifts that aren’t toys

I’m having trouble trying to find toys for my daughter. She is my second child, so she has my son’s toys to play with. I

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Is he a joke?

Baby dad not seen our son for almost a year and posts a card with £200 in for Xmas. He claims he’s trying to do better in order to see his son (for reasons). Yet goes out and spends more than £200 on clothes for himself the same day!

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Am I the only one who hasn’t decorated their tree yet and hasn’t bought presents?

I’m such a shit present giver and being on a budget makes it harder. I’ve been stressing so badly.

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My husband bought me 0 christmas gifts

Originally my husband and I agreed no christmas gifts for eachother this year just the kids since money is tight, I kind of prompted that idea knowing I'd probably get nothing anyway, but then we changed it to stockings and one gift for eachother and now it's just kinda whatever we want. I got him two gifts was plan...

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Amazon delivery

I ordered gifts for my son on December 7th and it hasn’t even been shipped yet. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

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MIL opinions on Christmas gifts😭😭

It’s Christmas shopping time and my MIL is so exhausting. My husband and I are spending our money to buy Christmas gifts for everyone in the family. She keeps dictating what we give each person. My husband bought his uncle a fifty dollar bottle of his favorite whisky and my MIL reallocated it to her man, because tha...

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Is it okay to get families with multiple kids a group toy?

I picked an appropriate sized Picasso tile set for the amount of kids but is this insensitive? Should I find separate gifts for them? I have a small budget at a lot of families to buy for. ($50 per family 5 families)

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Are you done wrapping gifts 🎁?

Because I'm not 🤣🤌🏾😵‍💫...

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Xmas Gift?

Is it crazy to get my baby a Xmas gift?? He’s due May 26th🤣🤗

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Do you find it annoying when people purposely go OTT with presents for your kids?

So my friend has 2 kids, (I have 1) we buy for each others at Xmas but usually spend around £20ish and around £10 on eachother, so only small gifts. I was talking to my friend about it and we agreed the same this year, because my daughter is getting a STUPID amount of gifts! Tell me why my friend dropped off 3 massi...

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1st time Christmas shopping & people are so rude!

I've never really been Christmas shopping before but I went for the first time last night. We wanted to let our toddler pick out an early Christmas gift for herself. I had SEVERAL adults (without children accompanying them) either try and shove their way through me with my toddler or give us death stares when I didn...

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Is it against policy/rules to send a Christmas card to your therapist??

My MIL told me that’s way too friendly to do and I shouldn’t have sent a card. I mean she plays a huge part in mine and my daughter’s life. It’s not like I got her a gift?

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Christmas Eve Box 🎄

Is this okay for a Christmas Eve box for a 1 year old?

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What do you think of this idea??

Instead of buying stuff to put in our son's (he's 2) stocking we decided to go through his toys he hasn't played with in a while and wrap up what's still age appropriate and that we think he'd enjoy and put those in his stocking so he has more to unwrap on Christmas without having to buy stuff he m.y or may not end ...

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my fiancés mom went & bought a different play kitchen rather than the one on Christmas list…should I be annoyed or no? I picked that one specially because it was wooden, small for our space, and had some basic lights on the oven…

Not sure what she got but it’s just annoying.

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