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  • Same here - my parents were dirt poor when me and my sis were growing up so it was one gift at Christmas, sometimes shared, and nothing more. But it was a present we appreciated sooo much because we knew it would have cost my parents so much to get it for us. We never had the latest whatever, but we didn't care - I'd rather that than tons of gifts and no concept of gratitude or understanding what it costs to give out of what little you can afford.

    For the first 4 years of Jessica's life she only got gifts (apart from those silly relatives) from charities because I didn't have anything to give her - it was a choice between eating, heating or presents so food and warmth came first :lol: I remind her that she is very lucky now, since I met Steve, because we can afford the things we need and to be grateful for what she does have - she still remembers relying on aid parcels from the Salvation Army and places like that. I won't let her forget it either.
    And that's a good attitude to have :)

    That's part of the reason why Jessica gets very little at Christmas - I don't want her being one of those kids who tots up how much their gifts are worth and then complains they weren't as expensive as so and so's or someone else got more stuff or whatever. She gets one large present and then little things like some stickers, a few sweets - stuff like that. It's been easier to do this since we moved to Staffordshire. When I lived back in Wycombe, her relatives on her father's side would buy literally sackloads of gifts, half of which remained unopened for most of the following year and the other half get sold on Ebay. I hated how much crap she got because she got very spoiled - I don't like that. Last year we saw her best friends (they live next door) getting two sacks full of gifts each from their grandparents and Jessica said she was glad that wasn't her because she knew she'd never play with them all...no kid needs that much crap in one day and now that we live over 100 miles from her relatives, they can't send her that stuff. Jessica doesn't even play with toys really anymore so anything they do buy is usually money wasted.
    LOL - £50 worth of socks. Now that's one hell of an anti-climax :lol: Mind you, I've bought Steve socks (but he already knows about them so not so bad :lol:)
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