Please DO NOT Buy My Kids Toys For Christmas

Please DO NOT buy my kids TOYS for Christmas..

– Kid wants toy for Christmas and talks about it all the time.

– Kid opens toy for Christmas and immediately rips it open and starts to put it together & play.

– 2 days later kid is asking for new app on their iPad, and you suggest they go play with that awesome toy they wanted so bad that cost santa over £100… They say they don’t feel like it and are bored with it.

– One week later, toy is shoved in the back of their closet, never to be seen again… UNTIL you do a pre-Christmas clean out the following year when said toy is then donated because the child expresses that she no longer likes it.

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AH, it kills me a little every time!!!

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This year, we are making a Christmas list filled with EXPERIENCES, not toys.

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Want to know what Aunt Emily can get her? A movie date with her on a weekend, a trip to the zoo, a painting class… something where they can spend time together!

 

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Live far away? You could give my son a swimming lesson vouchers, a gift certificate to a pottery painting class, cooking lessons, go carting, a favorite book of yours with a personalized note of why you love it & him THE EXPERIENCES and MEMORIES he simply will NOT forget!

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No big pile of presents will be under my tree, if I look back on my childhood I don’t remember any of the presents I received, I remember the people, and my little girl and boy will remember the days out, the special times with their family.

Not only will my children have the best time, I will not have the stress ans anger of searching shops to get the toys they want and then the heart ache of seeing money literally bein poured down the drain.

This christmas will be all about family and my kids having the best time.