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The responses on this one were so strange, 200 dollars is NOT very much to spend on 1 kid for christmas, so I can totally understand the OP's frustration. The amount of presents that 200 dollars can buy 1 kid would definitely not qualify as "spoiling" in most families.
December 27, 2008 at 3:13:00 PM ESTI don't know what things were like growing up for you, Margaret... but in my family, $200 was a lot. Still is.
December 27, 2008 at 3:25:00 PM ESTMy parents are by no means poor - I'd consider them to be middle class, maybe even higher middle class nowadays.
But my point is that $200 CAN buy a lot for one kid.
It can also buy a lot of food and clothing for those who need it.
Some consideration for those families who are not as well off as your own would be nice.
It wasn't the amount, it was the "Bah Humbug" and "woe is me" attitude which grated on people. Particularly now, when the forum is overflowing with people that have REAL hardships.
December 27, 2008 at 4:11:00 PM ESTSpend whatever you are able to spend and be grateful you have anything to give. If she had said "I am so lucky I can spend $200 on my child", no one would have complained.
I don't think the OP meant to be insensitive, but it was a little hard for me to feel bad for her.
December 27, 2008 at 5:27:00 PM ESTThey were all over the poor OP like she was made of HAM.
December 27, 2008 at 6:07:00 PM ESTSo very condescending.
We're in the same boat as the OP but we also use Christmas and Birthdays to buy our kids MOST of what they get each year...so it might seem like we spend a lot on our kids at Xmas but in reality its because we buy a lot of their clothes and what-not at this time of the year instead of spread out over 12 months.
December 28, 2008 at 12:59:00 PM ESTThe older your kids get, the smaller and more expensive their gifts get, we bought our kids each about 2 things and they added up to $250 each!
And anyone who thinks that a 12 year old doesnt need a laptop is obviously living in the 'hills' somewhere...the schools have computers in the jk/k classes.
Its the same old story on Etsy, unless you are literally a starving artist, you have no business being on there.
She Who Runs Amok, it's not about the amount. That is irrelevant. No one is saying you have to be starving to be virtuous. It's about the whiny attitude, entitlement, insensitivity, cluelessness, joylessness, lack of gratitude, lack of perspective, etc.
December 28, 2008 at 3:34:00 PM ESTGetting all caught up in debating the numbers is pointless. You can spend very little and enjoy what you have or you can spend a lot and focus only on what you didn't get.
I guess it depends on what you are used to. If you regularly spend x on a child for the holidays, and can suddenly only spend x - y , that would be depressing.
December 28, 2008 at 6:55:00 PM ESTMaybe if she hadn't included an amount, people would have been more sympathetic, but that sounded totally in line with a middle class family's xmas budget.
The entire point of the objectors is to be thankful for what you have, instead of focus petty little complaints.
December 29, 2008 at 5:08:00 AM ESTSome have valid, painful, complaints, which threaten their security or their life. With this to consider, it is hard to swallow something so trivial.
Remember the little boy who died of terminal illness over thanksgiving, whose dying wish was to feed the homeless. Yeh. Mull on that one for a while. And be thankful for what you have.
Winchester complaining about being insensitive? Oh OK! That's rich!
December 30, 2008 at 7:21:00 PM ESTNow on the issue at hand. $200 or even $600 is hardly like over the top. Specially if it includes a lot of stuff the kids needs, like clothes, shoes, coats, boats, gloves, underwear, socks and the stuff kids actually like getting. Maybe they get all the essentials at one time a year which is christmas. I think some jump to a lot conclusions!
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