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Should there be a limit at Ce hristmas

  • 15-11-2013 09:18AM
    #1
    Gmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    Just wondering if there should be guidelines on the amount parents should be spending on kids at Christmas. Every year there's the horror story of people spending hundreds on their kids and resorting to borrowing from money lenders at a gazillion per cent.

    If people spent 100 quid per kid under 5 or say a limit of 150 for a 5-15 year old or something like that there would be less pressure on parents to compete with others at Christmas and get themselves in to debt


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  • #2
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,062 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    Guevara?


  • #3
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,901 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Good morning Fidel!


  • #4
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Maybe people should impose these limits on themselves as opposed to relying on constant nannying from the state.


  • #5
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Is Ce hristmas some sort of hipster Christmas?


  • #6
    Gmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    Am learning to type Christmas for Christmas


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  • #7
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,262 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Ce soir?


  • #8
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,062 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    Gmol wrote: »
    Just wondering if there should be guidelines on the amount parents should be spending on kids at Christmas. Every year there's the horror story of people spending hundreds on their kids and resorting to borrowing from money lenders at a gazillion per cent.
    I
    If people spent 100 quid per kid under 5 or say a limit of 150 for a 5-15 year old or something like that there would be less pressure on parents to compete with others at Christmas and get themselves in to debt

    €100? For an under 5? Really?


  • #9
    Brayson Large Sprint
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Brayson Large Sprint


    I think the state should give us all token presents and any private present giving should be totally banned

    Unless you mean "should people just have more common sense and stop spending so much if they can't afford it", then yeah...


  • #10
    Gmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    Uriel. wrote: »
    €100? For an under 5? Really?

    Yeah probably too much but was trying to leave it at an amount where something like a bike could be bought, but it's probably too high


  • #11
    ebbsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    I would invest in a decent spell checker from Santy.


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  • #12
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    When I were a lad I got an orange and a Curly Wurly. Didn't do me any harm.


  • #13
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Gmol wrote: »
    Just wondering if there should be guidelines on the amount parents should be spending on kids at Christmas. Every year there's the horror story of people spending hundreds on their kids and resorting to borrowing from money lenders at a gazillion per cent.

    If people spent 100 quid per kid under 5 or say a limit of 150 for a 5-15 year old or something like that there would be less pressure on parents to compete with others at Christmas and get themselves in to debt


    What are you on about? Sure Sanity sorts out all the Crimbo presents for the kiddos


  • #14
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,695 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    The limit is directly proportional to how annoying the kid is.


  • #15
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    When I were a lad I got an orange and a Curly Wurly. Didn't do me any harm.

    What about the poor women you punish by saying "take that Mammy you bitch"


  • #16
    Gmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    When I were a lad I got an orange and a Curly Wurly. Didn't do me any harm.


    Oh it did, you're backwards:D


  • #17
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    And who would be setting that limit? How would it be enforced?

    Aside from that it's none of anybody's business what or how much I spend on my kids at Christmas time.

    Ludicrous idea, it's too early for nonsense trolling like this.

    (btw, my kids are getting one of these for Christmas)


  • #18
    Brayson Large Sprint
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Brayson Large Sprint


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    When I were a lad I got an orange and a Curly Wurly. Didn't do me any harm.

    I thought for a min you said you got an orange curly wurly and I was all excited :(


  • #19
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Uriel. wrote: »
    €100? For an under 5? Really?

    €100 doesn't buy all that much these days - it's 2013, not 1913.


  • #20
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I thought for a min you said you got an orange curly wurly and I was all excited :(

    chocolate and orange and chocolate and mint are the devil's work.

    :mad:


  • #21
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,062 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    €100 doesn't buy all that much these days - it's 2013, not 1913.

    Yeah but a kid under5? It's not like you're buying a 4 yr old a PS4?

    Or are we these days?:eek:


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  • #22
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    I think 100 quid is enough for a child up to 3 unless it's for a staple toy like a bike or scooter or something. My kids don't just get presents from Santa either: they get stuff from their grandparents, godparents, aunt/uncle etc too.

    My 5 year old wants a 3DSXL and he also wants/needs a new bike so happy enough to get them but I've heard of people splashing upwards of a grand on kids that age which is silly but obviously their choice.


  • #23
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,697 ✭✭✭Lisha


    ebbsy wrote: »
    I would invest in a decent spell checker from Santy.

    It's Santa btw





    :)


  • #24
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    wexie wrote: »
    .

    (btw, my kids are getting one of these for Christmas)

    Yeah agreed, put them to work on the farm, let them earn there Christmas.


  • #25
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    Yeah agreed, put them to work on the farm, let them earn there Christmas.

    gotta teach them young, also dead handy for collecting daddy from the pub after a few pints


  • #26
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,602 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    I have this argument with herself every year, she has loads bought already for our just gone 4 year old son and wants me to buy more. If I thought he would actually use any of the stuff after 1 week I'd have no problem but he wont.
    Too much of an emphasise on value and how much to spend, I will get my son something he will use.

    I bought an ipad last year, he uses it every single day and loves it and importantly learns from it, far better value than an accumulation of €200 worth of crap that will be junk by new years day.


  • #27
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    rob316 wrote: »
    Too much of an emphasise on value and how much to spend, I will get my son something he will use.

    one of the things we do is just save lots of things they would have gotten anyways like new PJ's slippers and clothes. They just love opening presents even if it's practical stuff and they're still too young to realise they've been tricked.

    Absolutely agree with the IPAD/ tablet, we got them cheap android tablets last year (50usd each) and they love them, taken them off the wifi so we decide what goes on them and mostly they use them for educational games and colouring and stuff.


  • #28
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,602 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    I was looking on my facebook feed last Christmas eve and it was full of my idiot friends putting up pictures of how much stuff they got there child like it was some competition. It was really pathetic I thought. And the amount of stuff they got was ridiculous, some younger than my then 3 year old son.


  • #29
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    rob316 wrote: »
    I was looking on my facebook feed last Christmas eve and it was full of my idiot friends putting up pictures of how much stuff they got there child like it was some competition. It was really pathetic I thought. And the amount of stuff they got was ridiculous, some younger than my then 3 year old son.

    O, yes, the old facebook ,"look how great my life is", but behind closed doors come january/feb credit card time, not so great any more.


  • #30
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    rob316 wrote: »
    I was looking on my facebook feed last Christmas eve and it was full of my idiot friends putting up pictures of how much stuff they got there child like it was some competition. It was really pathetic I thought. And the amount of stuff they got was ridiculous, some younger than my then 3 year old son.
    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    O, yes, the old facebook ,"look how great my life is", but behind closed doors come january/feb credit card time, not so great any more.

    Don't know what's more depressing: the posts of your idiot friends or you sitting there bitching to yourself about them at Christmas.


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  • #31
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    kneemos wrote: »
    The limit is directly proportional to how annoying the kid is.


    If you extend that logic then all kids would probably be murdered at christmas.


  • #32
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    People should spend what they can afford to spend. Going into debt over Christmas presents is really stupid. Surely the help such people would need is budgeting advice and nothing more.


  • #33
    DebDynamite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭DebDynamite


    Don’t have kids, but I will not be spending a lot on my kids, especially until they’re at least old enough to even know what’s going on.

    You see people making a big deal and spending loads of money on their baby’s first Christmas, which is absolutely ridiculous imo. They haven’t even a clue what they’re opening and could much prefer a present which cost €10 over one that cost €100.

    I also will also be asking my parents and brothers & sisters not to be buying them presents. I see friends who have nieces and nephews and the money they spend on them is crazy, especially when they start to get older and get really fussy. My brother-in-law’s family have done a Kris Kindle among themselves where they pick one niece or nephew to buy for, and I think that’s a good idea.


  • #34
    Matt_Trakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Matt_Trakker


    Ps4 costs €399, g'luck with your €150 :rolleyes:


  • #35
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    anncoates wrote: »
    Don't know what's more depressing: the posts of your idiot friends or you sitting there bitching to yourself about them at Christmas.

    I wasn't bitching about anybody, just saying this is what facebook is all about.


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