cost of kids prezzies?

Out of curiosity, what's the going price of a kid's prezzie these days? I think I've been stuck in this old mind-set of around $10 usually gets a prezzie to take along to a party, but you can't get much for $10 these days, and I like to give something that isn't useless quality. So what do people usually spend on these things?

Oh yes, Christmas is an entirely different story - we don't do individual gifts for the entire family because there's so many of them on DH's side, and they'd all want $30, $50 things, and frankly we can't afford that - we don't even bother buying for each-other because DH isn't into gifts at all, and he chooses the worst when he buys for me (I'm talking vac cleaner bags for my 30th!! Oh, and the potato masher another year, for a woman who hates mashed potatoes! It's so bad it's laughable), so it's best not to bother! He goes and buys the stuff he wants when he needs it and I do the same.

But kids birthday prezzies for friends? I love buying those!

Andie your man is crack up! Did you pretend you liked them? I wouldnt be able to stop laughing!

I havent had to buy presents for other kids yet Noone i know has kids, well they do now.

I spend $25-$30 on birthday presents for Isla's friends. This usually inclused the card/wrapping that I get from the $2 shop!

Edited by Kellz

Bizzy wrote: i like to stockpile things from sales too tho...have a present box in the cupboard for those times i get caught short and have a box of new books under the bed too that i have been working my way thru.

Yep, me too. You can get some really cheap deals on end of line stock from time to time, and so I've got a stash of more 'expensive' presents that I've got at a reduced price.

I try and do about $10 too and think most of my friends do the same (people from coffee group etc) I have a present box and try to get things on sale when I see them during the year. For people who are not super super good friends I sometimes get crayons or coloured pads of paper or puzzles etc from the $2 shop (not things that look super cheap and nasty though!!!!) but that can be put with something else and look ok.

I probably spend more on birthdays than xmas for my friends kids, about 25 bucks i guess. But I always ask first if they want anything inparticular.

We had a run of parties earlier this month and I had a budget of $20 per child, that including card and wrapping paper which I got from the $2 shop.

It does depend on who the present is for as to how much I spend and what it is I am getting. I got my friends boy a snake from Oz Zoo for his birthday this year and that only cost $9 but that was something he loves to play with at my house, and his mum was really happy for me to get that.

It is usually something to the value of $15 (but I try to get a present on sale).

i aim not to go over $20 including card etc. easy for little girls as alot of the time barbies are available for about $15, or books are easy, dress up dolls, art sets.   there is heaps.

My neice thought i was so kewl cos i got her a bead set, a book and a set of elastics for her 9th birthday for under $20.   So that's our limit and often i do scope out who has toy sales on and i usually know a few weeks in advance so one is bound to come up around that time.