Who handles the gifts for the kids at your house?

[thinkofthesoldiers]

This poll brought to you by my not wanting to go to Target for the rest of the shit for the kids' Easter baskets and resenting my H for not offering to do it (even though he would go if I asked, but I would have to give him a detailed list which defeats the purpose IMO).

[jinkies]

I normally handle everything. This year i had the bright idea to drag H to target with me. Never again.

He kept saying that the baskets should be candy only (maybe for the 5 year old, but he wanted candy for the 17 month old too), and wouldn't let me buy much of even that. I think we came home with one mini-box of goldfish crackers for each kid, a bag of jelly beans and some gummies. I had to go back out without him later.

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Me. Natch.

[litebright]

I voted that we both do it equally, but I definitely do more, even though he always contributes. Then again, he knows I like to shop!

DH picks out a few things on his own, but I tend to view those more as icing on the top than "that's all, folks." He tends to have firmer ideas about birthdays and often does a big chunk of the shopping for that, even if it just means placing an amazon order.

I'd say it's about 70/30 for minor holiday treats, and closer to 60/40 or 50/50 for birthdays and Christmas.

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I come up with more ideas than SO but we choose the big stuff together, most of the time, and then we both buy small things for DS as the urges strike.

[iamgrace]

I buy books, art supplies, music stuff and clothes. He buys toy cars, trucks, bikes, etc, etc.

[moolarkey]

ff I left it up to H either nothing would get bought or it would be weird stuff they would never want. Only rarely has he ever had a good gift idea for them.

[jenna]

I pick out the majority of presents. H did start an Amazon wish list for the boys last Christmas - and he picked out 70% of those items.

I also have an influence on what my Mom gets the boys. I let her know what the boys have (so they don't get duplicates) and what is on their/my wish list.

I also get all the art supplies, and about 90-95% of the clothing. 

[stephm0188]

I answered me, because for the first 4.5 years of my little person's life, it has been me. And he's all like "Yeah yeah whatever, buy whatever, don't spend too much."

But now the small fry is a little older and more into big kid toys, so my husband is like "BUY ALL THE RIDICULOUSLY OVERPRICED STAR WARS LEGO SETS I NEVER HAD AS A KID!" They're all sitting in the guest room closet for his birthday and Christmas and I am a sad panda because there's nothing left to buy for the rest of the year.

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Me, always.

[thinkofthesoldiers]

I'm glad to see I'm not alone. I did point out to him that holidays don't just happen around here. That I spend time and effort looking into gifts and pricing them and figuring out how to make the day special and how to create some kind of tradition. I also pointed out that this is how date nights go down (as in I handle getting everything together, etc and he just shows up), how vacations happen, how we do stuff on the weekends, how we end up getting together with friends, how we see the family, etc. I love that man, but he sometimes doesn't realize that shit doesn't just happen around here. He is great with a lot of other things, but I could use a hand in getting this shit together sometimes.

[Dumbledork]

I voted equal, but I think I do a little more planning and such than he does. He does like to help, but he'd never go do it without me and would be upset if I did it without him. I figured I'd do the Christmas shopping alone one year while he watched the kid and he was genuinely offended that I hadn't planned on letting him help pick stuff out.

[mommylikestattoos]

SO - he's the shopper in the family. Although I did do the Easter baskets this year.

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My husband does actually. I think it's because he's mostly buying stuff for the boys right now and he finds that enjoyable. He just drove off to Target to get them Legos and Nerf guns for Easter tomorrow