I feel bad saying this but whatever my best friend buys my kids!
She said to me she buys presents that are cheap so that people can just throw them away once done and they won’t feel bad about it or think they’ll have to hold onto it for a long time like they would with things that cost more?! I honestly don’t get the reasoning behind that!!!!!!!
I would rather a thoughtful gift that can be passed on or donated so it doesn’t just end up as another piece of dumped rubbish.

For babies I would say no stuffed toys as it seems everyone purchased one and we had stuffed toys coming out our ears before my eldest was a year old.

Necklace makers. They always drop them on the floor.

Anything they got was exclaimed over. They knew anything they got was bought with a lot of thought.

I was disappointed that my mum bought my baby his first teddy, I did not even have time to look for one, although he ended up being loved a lot and is still with us 18 years later.
A friend bought the biggest noisiest horrible truck for my son before he was interested in cars, it drove me crazy and I had to get rid of it for my sanity.
Slinkys the ones made of plastic and they play with them up and down the stairs, what a useless time consuming toy.
Anything that makes repetitive noises is always disturbing too.

The slime oh not the slime its impossible to keep off furniture and it dries up 5 mins later

I try to teach my kids indeed that if someone put thought and money into a gift we should be grateful. It’s not about the gift, but about the heart of the giver. Of course we all get sometimes a gift we don’t need. Then we set it aside and re-give it or give it to a charity, no big deal.

Makeup for children under 10. They are in a beautiful time of life where perfection can’t be better, and then the parents (not just mothers) want to exceed perfection

I think anything that is just needless stuff. Kids seem to have wayyy too much these days.

Slime and even playdoh gets annoying and hard to clean. Any of those squishy things too.

Anything noisy especially with a high pitched recorded voice.

I’ll agree I don’t like guns, so those get put away, oh and slime.

Anything ridiculously noisy that will drive everyone up the wall haha.

Cabbage dolls – they were never appreciated in our house.

LOL Dolls. Man I hate those things. Just plastic garbage that contributes to landfill and poor self esteem for tweens.

My boys would sometimes get the same present from a couple of their friends. They just thanked their friends for the gift and never mentioned they had already got the same gift from someone else.

I can understand some parents not being keen on Lego. Kids leave little bits of it around and you end up missing seeing it and treading on it. It hurts your feet. Not safe if you have little ones around who put it in their mouths….or the older child puts in the little ones’ ear or nose and thinks it’s funny.

I am not a fan of slime, too messy.

Slime for sure. I hate that stuff!

Definitely the thought that counts not so much what it is.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 22 Mar 2019 , 5:37 am

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  I agree -a decision can always be made once a gift is received.