Wendy Williams discusses the Christmas Present Controversy:
“When is Christmas Giving Excessive? What is Enough?”
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I think when certain gifts are expected it’s sad. I love to give gifts that have special meaning. That might be a $50 item or a $5 item. It’s all about the thought that someone puts into it.
It is getting more and more expensive. The video games and systems are getting so expensive that you can’t much without sending several hundreds of dollars.
I think it all depends! If you have a mom and dad that are working their butts off all year, finding deals, using coupons, etc to give her kids a Christmas of a lifetime, then kudos to them – nothing is too much. Now if you have a family that is beyond wealthy and generally give their kids everything anyways, then yes I think it would be excessive. I’m sure that picture is not an every year thing and that the parents worked hard to create a pile of gifts like that.
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I think it becomes excessive when you are buying gifts just for the sake of it.
That’s a hard question to answer. I just really want my children to have a great Christmas, with goodies & such, but I also want them to understand the meaning of Christmas & to understand why it’s important to help those that are less fortunate than we are. I don’t see any sense in going bankrupt to buy them gifts galore, but yeah, within reason, I do like to buy them several gifts each! 🙂
Enough is what makes someone happy, anything more is just you showing off.
Our family celebrates 3 different times and our kids are blessed enough to receive very nice gifts from grandparents and aunts and uncles. It can be overwhelming so we try to keep our own gifts to our children very modest.
That photo of the gifts is disgusting. it is way over the top and the children could not possible know what they got. I think 5- gifts and a stocking with small items would be best. I like the idea of a family gift of a board game to play as a family also would be great.
i think it depends on the age of the person on the receiving end. Young children should get a few more things from “Santa” but older kids who don’t believe any longer should get one or 2 nice gifts from mom and dad. at least that’s what we do at our house. adults don’t even buy for each other.
I always go by the need, want, read and do. 4 gifts plus stocking stuffers.
4 good gifts says Wendy 😉 I totally agree!! Some people really go overboard and it becomes some weird parent competition or something!
I think most people I know do Christmas in excess. I have been guilty of it. Nothing like that picture above, but definitely too much. This year we are doing less, but for the simple reason I want them to see the real value of Christmas!
I think giving at Christmas is too much when it’s EXPECTATED you receive or have to give gifts at all. I always think of what Dr. Seuss quoted in the Grinch that stole Christmas Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. “What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”….I think that has been lost now a days and it’s expected that you give or receive something. I want Christmas to be about friends and family and love and god afterall it is a celebration about him not material gifts!
To me Christmas gift giving is excessive when it turns out to be a buying frenzy of the latest trend or when people are paying off what they spent using their credit cards months later.
I think children shouldn’t receive more presents than the age they are. Anything over is excessive.
A few nice gifts per child is plenty. With all the children who don’t get any gifts for Christmas, the tree with all those gifts under it, make me super sad.
Gifts shouldn’t be about money but about intent
I dont spend more than 200 on each child anything more than that is too much!
Gift giving is excessive when it will take months to pay off credit card bills. Giving small tokens of appreciation is enough, even if that means a heart felt card.
Times like these when there’s other children out there that won’t get a single present but who am I to judge?