Wendy Williams discusses the Christmas Present Controversy:
“When is Christmas Giving Excessive? What is Enough?”
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My personal philosophy is Christmas giving is excessive if you have to put your purchases on a credit card. I never, ever go into debt for Christmas. It is also excessive if you have to take money from your savings account for Christmas spending (or if you don’t have a savings account). If I can’t get it from my monthly income without using savings or charging more than I can pay off at the end of the month (and still pay all of my regular bills) I don’t buy it. Period.
Crazy! Beyond excessive to sickening…I’m sorry I don’t mean to judge this woman. You can barely see the tree. I would love to hear to that some of those gifts were for children that weren’t getting anything or for people less fortunate. Yes, you can definitely go overboard in buying. The best gifts can’t be bought anyway.
I believe that if you teach your children to give to others, there is no excess. My parents were poor, and always overdid Christmas to make up for it. We had gifts from one end of the room to the other…It’s ok…It’s Christmas.
It is excessive when you spend beyond your means and go into debt to give gifts. It is enough when you give a gift from your heart.
I can’t put a number on “excessive”, but I do feel the above seems excessive. In a world of consumerism and commercialism we seem to forget the real meaning behind Christmas and that giving to others (others less fortunate, volunteering, donating etc) should be a big focus.. not on giving gifts to your family!
To excessive to many gifts I’m like Wendy 2-4
This picture looks really excessive and the situation probably is, but I would love to hear the Mom’s take, maybe she has her reasons. Maybe it’s the first year she could ever afford gifts for her kids and she decided to make up for lost time, who knows? I would just love to hear both sides of the story. The video only showed Wendy’s opinion and we didn’t get to hear the Mom’s story.
I think depends on age too, but more than 3 gifts when they turn 10 is a lot.
My opinion is if you can do it and work hard a getting good deals more power to you to have a stack of gifts like this. My concern would be if the children would just expect this amount of presents every year.
I’ve never seen so many presents almost covering a tree as in the picture. I feel several gifts per person is plenty.
I keep it down to 2 or 3 gifts for my niece & nephew. They don’t need a lot of stuff and I wouldn’t buy more even if I had extra money.
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My dad would always take a certain amount of money per child and purchase things we needed or stuff from the dollar stores. We always had huge piles of presents but he would take and separate things to make it look like more and give us more to open. We did not get things all year long. He would get all our clothes, socks, shoes, panties, snacks, coloring books, little toys, gum, drinks, etc… and wrap them all. We were always excited but we were not spoiled at all. We did not have much of anything really. It was just fun for us to open something. Each set of clothes, etc.. were broken apart with a shirt in one package, a skirt in another, etc… I think we averaged about 50 presents or so but instead of getting things throughout the year, we had to wait all year long for new things. I guess I would say I don’t know what I think about this because I do not know the situation of the family and what the presents really are. Too many parents are buying their kids all these expensive electronics and higher priced stuff for Christmas and even all year long and if these presents are less than that, what would really be the problem with it really? Nothing. Just some family fun on a special occasion like we did 1 time a year if anything like our situation.
Christmas gift giving is excessive when you buy more than you can afford and/or it is stuff that will not be used or there is no place for it.
We follow the rule in our house of “One thing you want, one thing you need, one thing to wear, and one thing to read”. I think that is more than enough presents for my kids and they seem to appreciate and use them more.
I agree with Wendy because that is just ridiculous. My daughter gets 10-15 presents but that always includes clothes and shoes for school.
I think going in debt or giving kids too many presents where they won’t use them or appreciate them is going overboard!
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That picture was crazy! Talk about excessive. I’m not sure what Weny’s answer was. But being happy and having a good family is enough. She does say if you have it and want to spend it more power to you
I agree with Wendy! That woman’s christmas gifts are ridiculous. It is way too much stuff for anyone and I read the article and each child received 100 gifts. I don’t know of any child that really wants to sit through that much and how would they appreciate it? Christmas is about giving and I think the gross consumerism displayed is the antithesis of that.
I think anything over 10 gifts per person is too much. Outta the 10 there can be 1 or 2 expensive gifts and the rest should be small and inexpensive.