Christmas big ticket items?

FlirtatiousBrat said:
hahah Sara and I were discussing the Doll of the Year for you Jamie last night! I've ordered the DOTY since '05 (I think)
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See, I knew you people gossiped about me LOL

This will be our first DOTY, and Amelia is going to completely freak when she sees it. She loves to skate, and will love this doll to pieces. She has Kit right now, and plays with her all the time.

I am REALLY stumped for Rae. She will be 4 in a couple of weeks, but she could care less about anything. Give her a box of markers and she's happy LOL
 
mummytothree said:
DS did see this new Fisher-Price Ultimate Dinosaur but at $129 bucks I DON'T THING SO!!! It's to easily trash able (even though it was stinking cute!!!)!!! :D :D
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Carter (will be 5 in Dec) is getting this for his b-day.
(he's HUGE into dinos - playing with them, reading about them, pretending/make believe with them)

For xmas maybe a Leapster 2 and a couple of games? - but I'm afraid that will be too baby-ish for him in a few months, so I'm pondering just going ahead and buying the DS (that way I can get a few games too - hahaha)

He's REALLY into stuff he shouldn't be - lol - I don't think he understands that "Santa" doesn't bring guns/swords/light sabers (just because mom won't buy them, doesn't mean that Santa automatically will either, buck-o)

Then I will have a 6 week old to buy for - I know, I know.... but with Carter being 5, I sort of have to make it look "real". Magic of the holidays and all.
 
As a family, we'll be receiving a Wii from Santa. It's already in the closet, hidden in plain sight! DH and I were out shopping sans kids at the beginning of the month when I said, "Hey McFly, if they have a Wii today, would you buy one?" He hemmed and hawed a bit then finally said yes. Neither of us ever thought there'd be one in the store, but lo and behold, there it was. And it was ours. And it was good. :D (And yes, I really do call DH "McFly". Quite frequently as a matter of fact. :D )

JP wants XBox...he's just going to have to want, lol! Devin wants a DS...more dreaming. He's got to be 8 years old before he can have one (house rule), he'll be 6 next month. Anyway, they've both asked for a projection clock and movies. JP also wants new DS games and maybe some GameCube games (because he's so unaware of the Wii in the closet, lol!)

Other than the Wii and games, I have no idea. They both have birthdays coming too. D's is 11/18, JP's is 12/17. I have to plan for those as well. :mellow:
 
I don't think we're doing anything big individually--my girls will be 4 and 2 and don't care. Plus their birthdays are in the next couple of weeks, so it would be overload. I'm tired of big toys!

But, we do do a big family gift each year (mostly with money from the inlaws). Last year we got a trampoline. This year I think we're getting bikes for everyone! Dh and I don't have bikes anymore (haven't for YEARS) and my 4 year old would love one... then we'll get a trailer too to pull them in for family bike rides. I'm very excited. :)
 
I have no idea yet. We have all the big game systems and they all have DS. I'd love to just get them each one fairly big thing and be done. But it never seems to work out that way. I always spend too much at Christmas and am never happy about it.
 
Keira's getting the Cool School Computer
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I couldn't really think of a big ticket item to get her this year. I was planning on getting her a doll house for Christmas, but we ended up getting it for her birthday. Long story, I wanted to get her a playhouse and DH said no, so she got the dollhouse.
 
Mandy said:
DS is probably getting his first shotgun. I know that sounds like a really bad parent but he is really into hunting with DH and wants to take his hunter's safety course so we will probably do something along those lines.
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Not at all Mandy. Some people just don't realize there's a sporting aspect to guns. My dad owns a gun shop and I own a couple myself. I'm not a hunter, I just like blowing up milk cartons and stuff LOL. No need to justify it to me, I've been around hunters and guns my entire lift. Much safer with them than on some streets in this country, for sure.

....hey, I could get you one at cost but the gas you'd spend driving down here probably wouldn't help LOL...
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DD will only be a year old at Christmas, so no big ticket stuff for her. But you bet my list is FULL of big ticket stuff I want for ME! lol.... Bind-it-all (the new PINK one), new EHD, PS CS4.... yadda yadda :D
 
Leapster 2s for my twin boys...I got the Leapster 2s, hard cases for both, the charging station and the Wall E game all for $208. Nothing is cheap these days. Luckily I got a gig doing admin for a store so the $200 from that came in handy. I am about to get another $200 payment so I will use that to buy the boys bikes that I'll save for their 5th bday in April!
 
My husband got his first shotgun at 10. My son got a muzzle loader of his own last year to go hunting with (prior to that he used his grandfathers) so not strange at all. We have been looking for my son to get one. He has to take the hunters safety course this year coming up so might be a present for his birthday next year. He will be 16 next year.
Mandy said:
DS is probably getting his first shotgun. I know that sounds like a really bad parent but he is really into hunting with DH and wants to take his hunter's safety course so we will probably do something along those lines.
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I think that Santa is bringing new bikes this year! Although both my boys love that big dinosaur as well. They just love to push the button at Target, and my two year old will hear it clear across the store and beg to go see it.
 
I got Ava a Leappad Clickstart video game system. It looks like a little computer mouse and keyboard, she is obsessed with my computer...wonder why? LOL She will be 2 1/2 by Christmas and the system is for 3-8 so I hope she will get some good use out of it.
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Jennifer!! I bought one of these last year for my twins for Christmas and let me tell you THEY LOVE THEM! The only mistake I made was not buying one for each of them! LOL! Instead I bought one ClickSmart and one (stupid, stupid, stupid) Vtech V.Smile Learning System (what a piece of crapola).

This year a lot of people are talking about getting those Leapster 2s. Does anyone already have one for their kids? What are they like? I don't know why but I really don't know much about them.
 
We've been saving up since May. The kids big gift this year will be bunk beds, which since we also have to buy mattresses (kids are still in toddler beds) and sheets, blankets comforters, etc, will be costing us over $1000 all together.

They've outgrown their toddler beds and they desperately want bunk beds. They've been looking at sheets for weeks now - Batman! Spiderman! Cars!
 
Jennilyn said:
Neither of my girls are getting big ticket items this year, they are just getting stuff that's like $30 and under. Barbies, Bratz, Baby Dolls, etc. oh and DD2 wants a Bakugan?
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My son is really into Bakugan, he loves them! They are pretty inexpensive too.
 
Well nothing is written in stone yet. lol

FYI it took us 3 months (after Christmas) to find a Wii...and it was calling stores every single week in the area. ...so you might not wait to get it if you can find it. A manager of a Game Stop store told me some Wii games are going to be in short supply so grab them the minute they come out...or better yet pre-order them. He warned me that some stores will pre-sell but still not guarantee that you will get the item. He said that the Game Stop stores ONLY sell tickets for the amount of games they are getting in...so think we are going to try that.

Gotta get these boys to write down their lists...talked to them about Kaboodle last night and they hadn't heard of it. Told them my friend, Stacy (Pewtertm), uses Kaboodle...and Brian says "what line of work is she in then?" ROTFL They had no idea what a Kaboodle was.

Oldest (will be 20 the week before Christmas) wants computer parts to upgrade his home computer.

14yo is talking Legos again...I love Legos...such a great investment! Maybe a Wii game if he can decide...but sounding like he wants a large Lego kit. Again I need to get that ordered!!

13yo has mentioned a Wii and/or DS game that is a Sims Creator game... but that is all he has said so far.

I did pick up some DVDs when Best Buy had them on sale a few months ago... the 2 EMERGENCY (remember Randy Mantooth?) series 13 yo ds wants... and 2 MYTH BUSTERS series the 14 yo ds wanted.

I want to get my shopping finished!! Maybe the boys can work on their lists this weekend...we got a new LEGO Shop At Home catalog this week in the mail.
 
no clue what we will be doing this year. We already own all the major gaming systems (XBox 360, PS3 and Wii) and Cody has a PSP and the new iPod Nano already, Jenna has her own mp3 player (not fancy or anything) and my Gameboy Advance to use (since I don't use it anymore). The boys got a train table two years ago. We have Guitar Hero 2 and 3, and bought Rock Band the other week (since we have been wanting it for ages!).

Probably a game or two for each kiddo, for the Wii or 360, maybe a game for Cody's PSP. For Cody, we are thinking of getting him an iTunes gift card so he can get his own music for his new iPod (he paid for it with babysitting money). Jenna is pretty easy to please ... Bratz and Polly's, or anything Hannah Montana or HSM. The younger boys ... anything Cars.

Total for each kiddo ... $150-200 which includes clothing. Normally I tend to get more clothes than anything, thankfully, they all love getting clothes!! hehehe

I already know what I am getting too. lol the Wii Fit.
 
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