In a video posted on social media, a mother reveals a controversial trick she uses to save on her children’s Christmas presents.
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Parents well know how challenging it is to fulfill all the gift requests made by children during the Christmas season. Parents also know how kids accumulate toys and trinkets they receive throughout the year. However, an idea posted by a mother on TikTok may help address both of these issues.
In fact, the TikToker wasn’t sure whether people would find the idea fantastic or if she would be criticized for being stingy: “I’m doing something super controversial for my kids’ birthdays and Christmas this year,” she says in a post that has already garnered over 1.5 million views. “Half of me thinks, ‘You’re a terrible person, you’re crossing boundaries,’ and the other half thinks, ‘This is literally genius.'”
She explains that her daughter received many gifts at her last birthday party from friends, parents, and relatives. After the little girl saw everything she had received, the mother took half of the items and hid them in a box in the basement. In the same box were toys that the parents had been buying throughout the year to be given as presents at some point.
Now, with all the gifts mixed in the same place, the parents no longer knew which toys they had bought for their daughter and which were from her birthday. “I don’t remember,” admits the mother. “I’ll wrap a gift and put ‘from mom and dad’ on it, and it may not be ours.”
She then explains that her decision is a way to avoid giving too many presents to her children: “My kids are spoiled; they get everything; they have too many gifts,” she says. “I’m trying to do less this year and at the same time make it a magical Christmas.”
Internet users fully supported the idea, and some commented that they had been doing the same thing for some time; “I think if she didn’t ask where something is, then she doesn’t remember,” wrote one person. “My husband and I do the same thing. Our girl is 7 years old and has never remembered seeing one of the presents before,” commented another.
