leigh53168

I bought the VSmile Bundle avail thru Samsclub which included 2 joysticks the adapter, and two games for $69. Great deal!

My dd's 5 & 8 love getting new clothes. They are very into skirts & dresses and love fancy nitegowns. So they get 5 or 6 outfits, boots and are each getting a new robe and 3 nightgowns. They get plenty of toys too, but clothes are gifts too.

they are my children too- so they have stockings. But I only fill them with their favorite treats and maybe a toy-stuff I would be buying throughout the year anyway. Kahlua gets dentabones and she's getting a new collar. The kids may buy her a small bag of the shaped dog biscuits Petco has - they seem to like giving her them. My cat Chase- is totally my baby(he doesn't like anyone else) so he''ll be getting his fav soft treats and a new cat tease toy for my 5 yr old to torture him with(they have this weird stalking each other relationship) I'll spend a total of about 20.00 on the two. Oops- I forgot- I'm babysitting my coworker's dog newman Christmas week- so I have to get him treats too! Add on another 10- he's huge!

some are wrapped in the under the bed boxes in my room and some are in suitcases or the large cooler in the garage. The stuff from Santa (which isn't wrapped) is currently in the storage boxes in their own closets- under some summer clothes in those boxes. They will search my closet until the cows come home but not their own!

This is exactly what we do! When my dd#1 was 3yrs we started a tradition of choosing a child from the salvation army tree- usually a girl her age- and bought lots of things for her. To explain why poorer families didn't get as many presents at Xmas as we did I explained that Santa gave each child who believed in him 3 presents (like the wise men) and the rest came from family. I told her that kids who didn't have extra clothes, shoes & food would ask for that from Santa so we wanted to make sure we gave them some toys too. In better $ years we even adopted a family. Now we're back to each of my dds' buying for another little girl. (leaner times!) My girls still get lots at xmas but I am making every $ work for me. It was important for me that my girls understood that Santa wasn't ignoring less fortunate families or that we were 'better' than them. So now the 3 Santa gifts are unwrapped and all of ours are wrapped- I should have started it the other way- would have saved myself a lot of time!