How much do you spend on gifts for other people's kids?

based on my experiences, kids don't thinka bout the amount, they'll appreciate things they like how cheap or expensive that one is. in giving gifts to kids, kow what they really like- that's it.

hi! till now I haven't been to a birthday party to some kid of a friend of mine, because all my friends are still a little bit young to have a kid or maybe not, but when i go to the birthday party to some of them I usually spend the equal amount as for the others, because I really don't think i must make some differences between them- they all are my friends and i respect them. I usually spend about 20 leva- our currency, which means about $14-15 dollars, and here for those money you ca buy something really cool!

I think that is a good limit, especially since you can say the gift is coming from your daughter. You might also want to take into account how much these parents gave your daughter when it was her birthday (if anything) and bump up the present a little if they gave her something bigger. But overall there are plenty of great toys under $10 and a kid at a birthday party is getting so many things that they don't need anything more than that.

When it comes to gifts for people, I don't really like setting a limit, as long as the person likes the item I am going to get them, and I can comfortable afford it at the time, then it is not an issue.

I don't spend a lot on gifts too. In my country there are a lots of China made toys and they are quite good too. Children don't have an idea if it's an expensive toy or not. For my daughter all the dolls which looks like Barbie are all Barbie for her even if they are not. For them as long as they got something to open and as long as it'a toy they're happy about it.

I think you're being very fair. In fact, I would set the limit lower! I don't think parties for children that young should include gifts--I always specified no gifts because I wanted my boys to think of a party as a time of fun instead of gifts, to enjoy the people and invite them because they liked them, not because of the gifts they would bring. It worked out well, and my now adult sons think that having their friends over is better than any gifts the friends might bring. One time when we had no money to spare, I made cookies with the child's name on them. He loved trucks so that's what they looked like. They were a big hit, they made him feel special. I also think children's parties are overdone these days, too much money spent on them. The simpler things are for children, the more perspective they have on what is important in life. Sorry for the lecture. This is a sore point for me. Hope your daughter has a good time at each party she goes to!

Aw heck, I gave up on buying gifts and now I just get the kids a $10 gift card. The last 2 b-day parties my daughter went to, I even forgot to buy a card, so had to put the $10 into a plain envelope, lol.