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I don't think it's self indulgent to give to your kids. It's her money. She loves them. What's the problem? A freaking iPad these days costs a good $1000 when you add tax and a cover and accessories etc. $2000 is not a lot when it comes to 3 kids for Christmas in 2015. Maybe back in 1975 it would have been insane.
I used to spend about that much on Christmas because of all of the "obligation gifts" in addition to what the kids wanted.
It's the reason that I hate Christmas and dread the holidays. You need a second job to pay for it. Everyone makes you feel guilty if you don't come to their party or donate to their cause or give a gift to the lady in accounting that you've exchanged three words with in ten years.
Ugh.
I don't do it anymore, now that the kids are grown. At work, I still have to play along, but I hate it, and resent being forced to participate.
People think there's a war on Christmas? I wish.
Not the capitalism part, but the religious part. Because, you know, it is still first and foremost a religious holiday where many people go to church to celebrate/reflect and all. So while the unreligious, "I'm not Christian, I celebrate Christmas for the presents and festivities!" crowd are running around like crazy people spending thousands on presents, many of us are sitting in church either every week (all year) or during the Advent season, and on Christmas itself. Every family is different, though. Some religious people still take the gift giving very seriously, others less so.
At the end of the day, one's socioeconomic status and how much they have to spend probably has more to do with it than anything. What's the difference between 20 presents and one present equaling what those 20 cost? The 20 presents for one kid looks crazy because there's so many, visually it's a lot, but if another parent spent that same amount on just one gift, it's pretty equal isn't it?
If people think Christmas is about spending thousands they either do or don't have on gifts, they're the problem. Still, to each their own.
Last edited by JerseyGirl415; 12-12-2015 at 05:53 PM..
More power to her, to each their own, but who published her family's tree picture?
Clips from the link
“I LOVE spoiling my kids in the festive season and I work damn hard to make sure it is every bit as amazing as it can be,” the 27-year-old mother, from England’s Isle of Man, wrote on Facebook after an Instagram photo of her family’s Christmas tree — packed with 300 gifts for her and her husband’s daughters 13 and 9, and son, 19 months — went viral.*
“I was shocked how judgmental people were,” Tapping told British talk show This Morning on Thursday. “My attitude is what I buy my kids is my business, no one else’s.”
If a relative did it, she's probably PO at them big time. If it was her, well, put stuff out there and you risk becoming the spectacle, so don't complain.
Why did she feel the need to tell anyone what she was spending to begin with?
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