Limiting christmas gifts to your children how do you do it?

rpmom · #1 (**permalink**) 01-01-2005, 05:52 PM

Hi,

I have wondered how people limit the christmas gifts to children. I know some people only do 3 gifts to repsent the 3 gifts the wise men brought baby Jesus. But how does that relate to santa? like is the stocking filled and then santa leaves 2 gifts and then one from the parents?

DS recieved an overabudunance and truly does not really appreciate all of his toys.

I was just wondering how yar do it
thank you for any advice.

PrincessPerky · #2 (**permalink**) 01-02-2005, 07:40 AM

Well you might not appreciate mine, there is no Santa Clause, he is a fictitious character, kind of like Dr. Seuss' monsters, so he is in books, fun to mention, not real.

If you must lie to your kids, tell them Santa needs to make sure all te kids get toys and if he spent hours putting out fifty billion toys at your house he wouldn't have enough time to get to everyone else, magic isn’t everything.

In all likelihood I am alone in my opinion about lying to kids at Christmas time, so someone else here prolly has a better method.

terry1156 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-02-2005, 10:34 AM

When too many toys were in our house, we implemented a rule that the children could only get as many gifts from santa as they were willing to give to others in need. Since these toys had to be in good shape (no missing pieces) our children learned to keep thier toys in good shape (if they didn't, they couldn't get a new toy in exchange) plus we tried to instill the generosity and joy of giving gifts to others. This worked well for us keeping closets from overflowing.