spinoff - how much do you spend on your children's b-day parties

not the first b-day, but 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc

I am looking at spending about 400-450 on miki's 3rd b-day, my friend said I was nuts

I explained that it is right after I get my annual work bonus so that makes it alot easier to spend more

if it was any other time during the year, I think my cut off would have been 200

So, what have you spent on parties for your kids?

Re: spinoff - how much do you spend on your children's b-day parties

Well Kaydyn's 2nd birthday is coming up next month. We're just having our family over for pizza and cake. So all together we'll prob spend about $100.

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for jack's second birthday - we just had family - which is about 60 adults and 20 kids. i want to say I spent about 1000.00 overral. Maybe 800.

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we don't have a party where we invite people, but we take him some place fun every year.

last year was a night in the mountains, polar express, cec with his bff and pizza.

this year we are heading to the mountains for tubing/sledding...then coming home for pizza/cake. so we will probably do breakfast and lunch at the lodge...with some family, so it will add up quick

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our DD's first bdays we spent $$$$$$ over 4k easy for 2nd around 1200 for her 3rd in 3 weeks who knows- I have 32 kids at once upon a tree top AND a family party same day at house of 50 people. cant imagine prob close to 2k.
with large families there isnt an escape and thats cutting cousins too

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We have only done small family parties with just a cake and dinner up unti this year. I was going to spend about $350 on DD party when I realized she is too little even remember it. I decided to do a Chuck E Cheese party and it was so affordable. I think it should run me around $200 depending on how many kids come.

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we did DDs 3rd at My Gym and spent about $450.

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I'm not a fan of spending $$ on kids birthday prties esp when they are too young to really remember them. However, since KJ was just born and at three you kinda remember and enjoy stuff a bit more, I would totally go for it.

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usually about $300-550 for just the kiddie party

this is for my older DD she is 8

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Re: spinoff - how much do you spend on your children's b-day parties

Since we do both together anywhere from 500-1200.00

Re: spinoff - how much do you spend on your children's b-day parties

For her 2nd birthday we did not spend a lot like her first but we did spend more than we intended to. I think we spend over $600.