$100 was a high toy budget for millennials, but inflation and increased brand markup will bump that up to $200 today. Regardless of budget, I think it's important that a well-behaved kid gets something they want, and make sure no relatives are stressed over gifts.
I was deliberately excluding long-term purchases like game consoles, but game discs/cartridges slipped my mind. $20-50 games would swiftly eat up that $100 budget. Without nephews or nieces, I don't know what kids want these days. The websites for toysrus, target, and amazon(worst) are much shittier than the 90's/00's catalogs. So, I don't really know if all cool toys have premium price tags, but I remember why I gave up on legos before high-school.
For young kids $20 is usually fine. Unless you want a house full of trash.
Most of the stuff my kids want is in the $5-10 range, and if they get 2-3 things they are super happy. Plus the grandparents give them 3x the amount of stuff.
Isn't $100 too high? Maybe I come from a different culture but Christmas isn't an excuse to get whatever the kid wants.
$100 was a high toy budget for millennials, but inflation and increased brand markup will bump that up to $200 today. Regardless of budget, I think it's important that a well-behaved kid gets something they want, and make sure no relatives are stressed over gifts.
The PS2 was all of 300, and that was a big Christmas item.
They also sold it to parents as a DVD player since most of those were 600 dollars.
And in less than a year, everyone would learn what a terrible idea that was.
Why what was wrong with it? Lack of HDMI/HCP?
I was deliberately excluding long-term purchases like game consoles, but game discs/cartridges slipped my mind. $20-50 games would swiftly eat up that $100 budget. Without nephews or nieces, I don't know what kids want these days. The websites for toysrus, target, and amazon(worst) are much shittier than the 90's/00's catalogs. So, I don't really know if all cool toys have premium price tags, but I remember why I gave up on legos before high-school.
Fortnite Epic bucks
For young kids $20 is usually fine. Unless you want a house full of trash.
Most of the stuff my kids want is in the $5-10 range, and if they get 2-3 things they are super happy. Plus the grandparents give them 3x the amount of stuff.
That's one mortal kombat plus some dlcs