steffj89

my kids are 19 and 29 mos and im guestimating about 200 per kid including everything i got from amazon w/ gc's i earned there and i think i actually spent more of the amazon money on my dh this year than on the toys.....and im done....no more buying till next christmas as i have stuff set aside for each of their next birthdays from the sales etc....they will each get one "big" deal and then multiple smaller things in their stockings and wrapped either from santa or from us... my mom always went overboard for christmas and b days and i have done too much i fear as well i dont want them to come to me in ten years feeling entitled to a laptop or an ipod. it made me ill to see the guy who got two laptops in front of me at CC when he said one was for his 6 yo....but then some rules i plan for my kids are pretty dark ages....phones and tvs in their rooms when they can pay for them themselves. no car unless they help their dad rebuild one and earn it with their sweat equity and earn their insurance from me by keeping up their gpa. i just dont get some of it....the technology we have is great and a wonderful thing but at the same time i dont want them to be so connected electronically that they dont appreciate the world around us and the fact that there are people who dont have anything....

i like that target doesnt do door busters they were still fully stocked on everything when we went this afternoon and i was able to get the candyland game i couldnt find yesterday...they had all the movies and cds on our list the only issue i saw was their shopping carts moved sluggishly in the huge throngs of people... CC sucked, and i dont know if i will plan anything that is a door buster ever again

i actually had a good wal mart experience....i did CC first and target and discovered upon exiting CC that i had a nail in my tire and was losing air so went to wal mart and got it fixed while we shopped...we were in there over an hour moslty in toys and junk they had TONS of CPK and were still 40-50 of them there today when i went by they also had plenty of little people noah sets but not the zoos which was fine the zoo they have now is waaay better....they did say it was like a zoo in the early am when they had the electronics etc but all in all it was very pleasant

someone called in a bomb threat at our best buy w. in muntes of them opening the doors but other than that i dont know the specifics....

tell your hubby thank you....and i completely understand the no sitter thing....i had one friday only because parents came for holiday...my DH is a truck driver and only home a few days a month and we live so far out of town a sitter is usually counter productivegood luck

that is what it costs us for satellite internet w/ direct Tv....havent heard of any others this costly but we live in the boonies....and i mean the real boonies there is not a dial up available its all long distance and that seems to piss off SBC ....so it was going to cost me around 90 a month for extra phone line long distance and internet so we went w/ satellite

as for the little people playsets....skip that zoo the one that costs 29.99 this year at TARGET is WAAAAY better....the one there isnt the new alphabet zoo and the kids dont seem to care for it at all like the new one