QuoteEvery Christmas and kids' birthdays are a nightmare, because you know more big boxes of plastic crap are going to be given to them. Depressingly, gifts at birthday parties seem to be in the £15 range in our village (so that can be a £300 haul), and we get duplicates. ...At least with the kid's stuff you know it will be broken inside a month, so it doesn't stick around for long. We're ruthless at parties - £5 is the limit, as they left ours, they got a twix. One whinged at me about the lack of a better present, so I took the twix back. That caused f**king havoc. Islington mum having a mental aberration trying to balance her child's incredible rudeness vs. rage at me for making the little sod cry.
Every Christmas and kids' birthdays are a nightmare, because you know more big boxes of plastic crap are going to be given to them. Depressingly, gifts at birthday parties seem to be in the £15 range in our village (so that can be a £300 haul), and we get duplicates.
