News, Mom Takes Flak for Buying Kids 300 Christmas Gifts
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Seems way too excessive for me, and it seems like a good way to create spoiled children. But I don't know her or her family, so I have no way of knowing what the kids are really like, and if this will spoil them (or spoil them more) or not. I did notice that the article said that she accrued no debt, so apparently she's able to do this and still live within her means.
So, I'll just say "merry Christmas" and leave it at that.
I don't think it's so much the money as the sheer numbers. One hundred presents each means each kid faces nearly two solid hours of unwrapping gifts, that's nuts. It definitely gives me the impression that this is way more about mom than it is about the kids.
I don't think it's so much the money as the sheer numbers. One hundred presents each means each kid faces nearly two solid hours of unwrapping gifts, that's nuts. It definitely gives me the impression that this is way more about mom than it is about the kids.
I agree. It looks like it's more about the mom then the kids.
At first glance, I'd say 'excessive', but I'd also be inclined to say, "Not my business."
Given that it's said she does 'extreme coupining', maybe it's a family that fell on hard times a while back and there were a few lean Christmases (where the gifts were essentials, rather than wants), and now maybe things are better and this is to make up for those years? Who knows?
I already posted this on another thread. $2000/3=$667 per child
That is not a huge amount of money. Buy your kids a cell phone, tablet or laptop and you're close to half of her cost. I wouldn't buy my kids that many gifts, but it doesn't bother me that she did. I don't know what is in the presents. Different people spend money differently and as long as her and the kids aren't a drain on society and are not negatively affecting others, then I'm content to let those presents be their business with no concern to me.
I never could have dreamed of getting any of those as a gift, period.
Not saying anything against the lady in the story, but my family wasn't poor and $667 would have covered me for Xmas+birthday for 3 years at least. Most expensive gift I ever got was a Super Nintendo and that was shared with my sister.
So each of her kids got 47 purple Gatorades, 13 gallons of Valutime Fabric Softener, 78 slices of American Cheese-style food product, 162 expired Snickers Bars?
I never could have dreamed of getting any of those as a gift, period.
Not saying anything against the lady in the story, but my family wasn't poor and $667 would have covered me for Xmas+birthday for 3 years at least. Most expensive gift I ever got was a Super Nintendo and that was shared with my sister.
Different times I'm guessing. You need at minimum a home computer if you have school aged kids, if your kids are old enough to need a laptop and/or a phone, giving it to them at Christmas is the smart idea. The laptop is a gift, instead of a $600 purchase in March for no reason.
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