Originally Posted by
PZMommy
... However my husbands family asks what they want, and instead buy cheap junk from the 99 cents store. For what they get, they could have given my kid $5 and my kid could have used that towards something vs the junk that will go straight in the trash.
This is my dad's ex - somehow, $20 worth of "it-breaks-immediately-so-I-end-up-throwing-it-out" sh!t from The Christmas Tree Shoppe or wherever is preferable to a single $20 toy or set of books on DD's WishList, which I keep updated because it's easier to send a link to family who want to know specific things than it is to remember who got which chunk of what list when ...
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Liz
DD (3/2010)
"Make mistakes! Get messy!" - Miss Frizzle