Comments on: A Cheap Gift for the Kids

By: lydia

lydia — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:42:04 +0000

Love your blog!!

We must be on the same wave length…….my boys are getting a fun box of cereal in their giant Christmas stocking this year, along with a toothbrush………I think I paid .67 cents for the cereal and pennies for the toothbrushes as well and it just tickles them pink!!!

By: Becci

Becci — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:33:47 +0000

HA! My mom was the same way, except she would give my sister and I a box of “sugary cereal” to us on our birthdays with a $20 bill taped to the top, it was the best gift ever!

By: Rhonda Warren

Rhonda Warren — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:55:40 +0000

I think thats a cute idea! Very Cute!!!

By: Liz B

Liz B — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:15:38 +0000

That is hilarious! Since my sister and I were young we always each got a box of what we referred to as “sugar cereal” (we still call it that, actually) under our stockings on Christmas morning; I usually got Lucky Charms and my sister was a big fan of Reese’s Puffs. My mother also bargain shopped and we did not get “sugar cereal” any other time of year, so it was a real treat for us. I am 28, married, my sister is 25 and out on her own as well, but Santa has kept up the tradition of putting at least one box of sugar cereal under the stockings every year!

(Also, we always got underwear in our stockings. Still do…)

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:33:55 +0000

Very funny! My kids call that stuff “dessert cereal”, because on the rare occasions I buy it, they know it’s for dessert, not breakfast. Hey, it’s a sugary snack with vitamins sprayed onto it :0)

By: Somebody's Mimi

Somebody's Mimi — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:52:51 +0000

We have put jars of cherries, catsup, fortune cookies and other interesting “food” in our kids stockings… how about flavored pancake syrup, or flavored syrup for drinks… I do love the cereal idea that’s really special!

By: Lawanda

Lawanda — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:56:44 +0000

hahaha! You sound like me! I give mine candy. Which is about the only time, other than Halloween, that they get candy

And this candy they don’t have to share

I also give them a toothbrush, to balance it all out ya know

By: MNKristy

MNKristy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:07:01 +0000

I do the cool toothbrush in the stocking but I’ve never wrapped up cereal. But that is something that I buy so they wouldn’t be too impressed with that. Although I only buy the Quaker Oats bags or generic and not the “real stuff” so they would probably like that!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:07:18 +0000

Haha! I grew up getting toothbrushes, “cool” toothpaste, neato kids’ soap, etc. in my stocking, along with pens, pencils, and blank notebooks. It’s amazing how well stuff like that is received, even when lines up against bigger gifts. My kid is getting a transformers toothbrush, spiderman toothpaste, and transformers underwear in his stocking!

By: chelle

chelle — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:30:58 +0000

haha good one! My kids do not know sugar cereal exists just yet However I think Twizzlers will be in their stockings since they love them so and never get them!