Is this too cheap of me for Christmas?
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| Fri, 10-01-2004 - 3:01pm |
My 3 y.o. dd just had a bday and received tons and tons of toys. My relative from another state sent a gift card to a toy store for her. Since she doesn't even know about this card/wouldn't understand anyway and just got so many toys, would it be wrong to use it towards Christmas for her?
There's a nice chunk on it and it would help us out for the holiday. (I refuse to use my snowflake money!)If DH knew he would call me cheap (like usual) and that I was mean not to take her to pick out something now. But I didn't mention that card and he never asks me where I get money since he knows I get tips.
I already sent a thank you to the relative. BTW, he always sends them for bdays and Christmas and he never asks what my kids picked out. (only see him once a year)
Would any of you use it for Christmas?

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Check with the store though. It might have a time limit on when the card can be used and if it does, use it right away.
IMHO, kids these days have too much and it is up to us as moms and dads to put limits on it. Last year for Christmas, my kids got three presents each from Santa. We explained to DD (DS was only 1) that Santa couldn't bring her EVERYTHING she wanted, because he had to get toys for all the other boys and girls. We then had her go through all of her old toys and decide which ones she wanted to "give" to Santa to help him provide toys for other kids. It really worked. She occassionally brings me toys to mail to Santa because she doesn't play with them and hasn't in a long time.
Don't worry about DH calling you cheap. He'll get over it when he realizes you have tons of extra money. Then he'll be happy you were so "cheap."
Kellie
I've also been known not to open all of our daughters presents right away too. She gets so much for Christmas! I save some of them for her birthday too (February). She doesn't notice because she is only 19 months and neither do the relatives because they live far away. It works out in my favor and I'm not afraid to do it. Right now we are working on debt and that is the best gift I can give her. We are going to start saving for her college and buying a home after we take care of debt and she will benefit from that so who cares?
Anyways! Just my .50 worth!
Stephanie
Kassandra
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Trisha
Yes, I would!
You don't even want to know how cheap I am with the subsequent kids (poor kids!!!
Becky
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The thing that concerns me is the not telling Dh about it and later having him think you received the money from tips. I think a lot of peoples money woe's comes from not being honest about money, or having different ideas about how money should be spent. I understand it's difficult when you want to pay off debt and dh isn't exactly on the same game plan, and I do not know what the answer to that is. I do know that if I hid something even as little as that from my dh the guilt would be much worse than the decision on whether or not to save it for christmas.
-Darcy
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