Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Having watched far too much Nick junior I'm already getting myself in knots about what to buy both DDs this Christmas. Eldest seems to be easy - she wants:


- a mermaid

- a pony

- a fairy

- and a princess (ahem - easy peasy I say in my best Veronica Salt's Mum's voice!!)


But smallest daughter will be 1 on the 23rd December and I've no idea what to buy her as, poor little hand-me-down kid that she is, she has more than enough of her sister's old toys.


Has anyone got any good ideas for what to get her? The age appropriateness thing is a bit negotiable right now as she's eating all her older sister's toys anyway, but not too many small bits and I'm trying (and failing miserably) to steer clear of the blatant branded/plastic offerings.


We've got jigsaws/walkers/trampolines/instruments - so really don't 'need' anything - but we can't not give her something for her birthday and Christmas - can we? Yes I know the box will be the main attraction - but any good ideas on what to put inside it?


Your idea always very very welcome. And sorry in advance for bringing up the 'C h r i s t m a s' word so soon in the year :) x

Link to comment
https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14271-christmas-and-hand-me-downs/
Share on other sites

Will she really notice? We hardly gave little sb anything last yr when he was 8.5m as were in Oz visiting my sister - think he got a book and little train. For his 1st birthday he got a trike but it came in July rather than April!!


Suppose if big sister is getting a mermaid she might cotton on to the present thing earlier though...

My son loved the Wow Ambulance and still does actually. It was my daughters orginally but he has pretty much appropriated it. He was forever shuffling around with one of those WOW people in his mouth (visible only by the feet.), nothing to swallow and the older ones use also. He particularly like putting the people in and out when he was little now whizzes them around.

The wow stuff is good and has varying price points (from around a tenner) and appears to be indestructible - important in our house... Just williams sells it or can get online. Or Ebay.

Aw thanks for the suggestions (and I promise we're not actually entertaining the idea of a mermaid etc - or their Barbie/Bratz etc counterparts) and I know she won't really notice. I think it's the '2nd kid guilts' as it's so easy to get eldest daughter new stuff (as it's new for us too) and littlest one seems to get the cast offs.


Also eldest daughter needs (another) course in sharing as her cast off toys are still 'hers' in her eyes (although she got bored of them yonks ago).


I'll look up the Wow stuff - indestructible = v. good here too.

I've got exactly the same problem with 4.5 and 2.5 girls.....and at 2.5 she WILL notice if she's missed out! I think I've reconcilled myself to having to update some of our older toys or duplicate the things they play with most to avoid arguements. (Although obviously older sis will think she can requisition all the new stuff and give little sis the old ones...so maybe not avoiding those arguements after all!)

I've got exactly same problem. Eldest son 3 and daughter 1 and it's not so much her as i know she won't care two hoots but for her birthday a few weeks ago my son was very aware that he had got more presents when it was his bday!!!


I'm going down the sharing route. I've made as a joint present a teepee and then grandparents are giving her a kitchen (however obviously son will play with it now and she will just take things in and out of oven over and over and over again!!) and then from us i'm going to wrap up all the different pots and pans and whatever that comes with the kitchen separately so it looks like she has lots and then also it means that son has to share everything with her!!!


I think it must be even more difficult for you as they are both same sex ie you can't do the obviously clothes for the future etc as she would obviously wear her sisters.


Oh the dilemnas and the expense!!!


Good luck

I put away some of older childs toys as he grew out of them. I am planning on wrapping them up for no.2 - oldest thinks this is a great idea and no.2 won't notice. Of course the older one then rediscovers them and wants to play with them all over again but then it means the sharing goes both ways

I do the same with clothes...


I do buy the odd new present for no.2 as well - I'm not sooo mean

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Latest Discussions

    • Possibly a little specialist (and the ultimate eventual clothes horse unless you're into fitness!) but we have the Pivot: PIVOT | Ultimate Space-Saving Bed & Home Gym Solution It's a full weight Olympic squat rack which pulls down from the wall into a double/king bed. When we bought it as a Kickstarter project it was less expensive than a murphy bed from places like the Wall Bed Company, though this may no longer be the case. Super easy to put together ourselves.
    • The skatepark has been a great use of a derelict site, but surely the point is that that site should not have been allowed (and should not continue to be allowed) to have become derelict in the first place. As someone who couldn't live much closer to the Grove Tavern, I would welcome any redevelopment efforts. The current state of the pub is untenable, wasteful and ultimately an embarrassment for the local area.  The concerns mentioned about young people and the lack of public space for them to spend time are totally valid. And I agree, its very inspiring that a group of teenagers have built the skate park and created something out of nothing. But that shouldn't prevent the site being turned into something that is of utility to the whole community - whether that be housing, supermarkets or a pub/restaurant. 
    • Crikey. I made one comment  relating to the ice cream flavour, which referred to a previous thread which you started.  That thread was also about a specific named local cafe (not the same one). You subsequently deleted most of your very long posts on it, which included one in which you made false and insulting assumptions about another forum member (not me). Luckily nobody had quoted your posts  in their responses, so the content is no longer on here. In view of the subject of that thread (you and your son didn't like the vegan hot chocolate) I thought my comment above about the ice cream flavour was funny. I'm sorry if you found it "sarcastic". Maybe we have a  different sense of humour. I thought the rest of my posts on this thread  were helpful. I'm sorry if you didn't. I'm not deliberately "replying to every one of your posts " !!! What a very strange thing to say! To the best of my knowledge I haven't replied more to your posts than to anyone else's! I post a lot on this forum.  If you click on my name you can see all my posts.  I have lived in the area since 1991, and I have an interest in what is going on. I've been posting on here almost since the forum started. I am  retired, apart from promoting and  running music gigs, which takes up a lot of my time, however yes!  I do have many other  things to do!  I don't know if they are "better" than posting on here.  You post on here! So do many other people! If everyone had "better things to do" there would be no forum! I am  "out" on here, and always have been. I don't have anything to hide behind a forum name, and I have always gone under my own name.  You can come and find me any time if you want to address your apparent grievances with me in person. I am glad your son is better.
Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
×
×
  • Create New...