How much do you spend on birthdays?

[parkejm]

Not loads - probably well under £50 unless there's something specific like Oscar's scooter that should last years, and I definitely will look on ebay for 2nd hand things, or go to charity shops, Poundland etc to keep costs down. We have been known to not get anything too - I won't spend money if there's nothing I think would be a good present. We were lucky enough to get a digital camera last year on Freecycle (Oscar loves playing with my camera) but he was so happy with his presents that it didn't seem necessary to give him it. So we're keeping it for this year.

I do buy presents all year round though. I do like the idea of keeping birthdays and christmas special but I like to buy things when I know he'll like them/get something out of them IYSWIM.

[Jelly]

around £50 I guess.
DS2 is 5 in two weeks. He's getting a scooter (£10 on sale), 2 water guns (£8 at Asda) and I might get him some Top Trumps and a book or two.

They're not having a party this year. We are going to Legoland for a weekend between their birthdays (4 weeks apart) instead, which is also why I have only got him a few presents.

[Moffgal]

Dec just turned 3 and we got him a swingball set £13.99 on sale, a jigsaw £3.99 a space hopper £3.99 and a couple of other bits. Spent less than £40 thats for sure. but then we had a family party and that cost a fair bit in food.

Conor's scooter has just broken entirely and he's lost without it so he's jjust had his birthday present early. Razor scooter down from £80 to £52.

How much we spend really depends on what they want. I wont buy stuff for the sake of it.

[kelly]

£50 and no party. There's 5 of them and 4 of their birthdays are within 8 weeks so we just can't afford more.

[Annie Goolahey]

About £50 for birthdays unless we are feeling particularly flush - can be as little as £30.
But we do have parties for J as well, which tend to cost about £100.

C is too little to have asked for a big party yet - so generally about £30 on her present and a little tea party.
But both their birthdays come relatively soon after Christmas and they get spoiled by family and friends. I like to make the day an occasion tho - take them out for icecream or do something special together.

[helpimfalling]

Fecking ridiculous amounts k got an iPad


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[nattylou]

Not a lot. Ds got a Guinness Book of Records (£1.11 second hand from Amazon, perfect condition), and a second hand bike (£10). We got a new seat for it, £6. His party cost us £50, but it was a friend who did it, Owls and a falcon in the garden, and the children all got a framed photo of themselves holding a bird instead of a party bag. Huge success.

Dd is getting a pink guitar £22 from Tesco. She is having a pamper party. I have already got the party bags - £1.19 for 6 pastel gift bags, She is inviting 4 friends, and I got 4 lots of Hello Kitty hair slides, 4 slides per lot, for 49p each, and I am putting in a bar of Galaxy – more grown up, a lip balm – 3 for 99p and a pair of fluffy bed socks – 2 pairs for 99p

Nail varnishes 2 x 4 from the 99p shop, hair bobbles – massive card full of various styles and colours 99p shop, massive make up selection from B & M in the sales after Christmas £8, and my mum won a pallet of 12 lipstick colours in a raffle and has given us those.

I will be getting 3 large pizzas from Asda, Hello Kitty fairy cakes, crisps, cherry tomatoes and possibly a few other bits, but not too much as they won’t eat a lot (going on past experiences). Me, my friend and her daughter will be doing the beauty-fying, and no doubt there will be lots of dancing round my lounge too.

They get money from both sets of grandparents, and they get little bits throughout the year, a comic or a couple of bits from the £1 shop.

[donna-j]

C is too little to have asked for a big party yet - so generally about £30 on her present and a little tea party.

Well done on that one. My C (was 4 in April) is obsessed with her birthday parties and started talking about the next one as soon as this year's was over. It is very irritating.

[Chocolate Lips]

Well done on that one. My C (was 4 in April) is obsessed with her birthday parties and started talking about the next one as soon as this year's was over. It is very irritating.

Same here Mine have talked about their parties for years, probably because they go to so many. DS was 5 in May, had a MASSIVE party and was already talking about the next one the same day.

[Katoid]

Not too much on their pressies TBH, but the parties I always go to town on those and spend way more than I should.