One big thing, multiple small cheaper things and full the stocking with treats

As many as possible.

Bro my family celebrated twelve days of Christmas 🤣 got a big gift Christmas and smaller gifts for eleven days after Christmas.

It’s definitely fun to get a bunch of gifts, but they don’t all have to be huge ones.

I would always do multiple gifts for my son to open! Is so beautiful just seeing the surprise on their faces. It’s not spoiling kids, spoilt kids are the ones without respect or kindness. Go for it, they’re only little once, and time goes way too quickly so create loads of memories whilst you can!

Multiple presents. As long as they’re grateful and use what they get etc. totally worth it. I get a lot of joy about finding little things that I know he’ll be thrilled to open. Enjoy sir!

One?

Do me a favor... take your phone to you your wife and let her read this reply;

STOP BEING THE GRINCH and give the kid a proper damn Christmas!

Your kids are only this young, once!

One main gift but allow them smaller gifts so they have something to open up

Getting one gift each from multiple people makes sense. So if there are fewer people, naturally there'd be fewer presents.

Maybe one from you and one from your wife, 2 presents.

Go to the middle. 2 is boring but 10 is too much. Anyways the experiences are what matters. Get somebody to play Santa. That's important.

One year we told our daughter that we would only be able to get her one gift. That one gift was huge (size) and full of many individual wrapped gifts for her to open. She remembers that Christmas to this day. This seems like it may be the perfect “compromise” with the misses.🤪

One gift for a spouse or family member and spoil the kids it’s fun to see there excitement opening gifts.

There is a threshold where it turns into “OMG just let me rip open the next gift. And the next one. And the next one…”

But yeah one gift is no fun.

1 big one that is the win, a couple small fun ones and then a couple you needed to get them anyway. Some socks or jeans or whatever. And def a stocking to find first thing with some simple candies and a tiny toy. Make it fun. You only get 15 or so christmases with them as youngsters.

As a kid my family didnt do Christmas. But I would usually get something from my grandma, and occasionally from an aunt. I didnt look forward to the holidays or the aftermath because inevitably return to school was all the kids showing off what new toy they got, or shoes, a bracelet, talk of the new gaming system, etc. The best gift I ever got for Christmas from my grandma was one of those electronic project kits. But what I remember most was the family eating at multiple tables pushed together, and my grandma carving the turkey every year with one of those electric knives. I enjoyed that so much that I bought an electric knife to use when hosting Thanksgiving a few years back.

So from my perspective, Id say spoil with quantity without getting Dudley Dursley crazy, but do what you can to provide experiences they'll remember. If you can swing for some super item then thats definitely cool.

Let siblings get each other gifts. You cover the costs, they come up with thoughtful ideas. Could be a nice bonding experience with them.

In the Netherlands we celebrate Sinterklaas… it’s the OG Santa.

Our kids get a (small) present in their shoe every week for 3 weeks leading up to Sinterklaas’ birthday on December 5th.

On his birthday they get loads of presents from us, their grandparents, uncle’s etc. We try to limit it to giving 3 presents or 30 Euros per family (so we give 3 to each kid, my parent’s give 3 max per kid etc.)

Each kid will end up with about 15 presents or more because somehow the the rules don’t apply to grandparents…

TLDR; spoil them as much as you can!

I think one per kid is the right amount 🎁

My kids get already 3 to 5 presents from the family, I was also thinking that it's too much so we choose to gift one more only. I prefer 2-3 good, durable, gift, than a lot of crap.

My wife usually agree first but then last minute she feel gulty to restrict their gift and buy additional stuff. On top of the multiple advent calendars with not only chocolate but also Lego, gadgets, socks, toy cars and shit.

I always complain that it's too much and then all year long you pay the price as the rooms are huge mess with all these crappy toys and of course they refuse to get rid on any of them.

As a kid I suppose I was getting many present but probably not more than 5 and I remember only the nicest one, so I would say stick to nice ones first, add a couple more if you can but only if it will be enjoyed.

But in then end, do as you can and in your budget. I don't think you can really get wrong.

We had a budget for each child. We got them however many gifts we wanted to as long as we stayed under the budget.

Wife’s family has a saying, ‘something they want and something they need.’

Also Santa never would bring the most expensive gift b/c it’s not fair that Johnny got an Xbox and Sam got socks.

If you want the best for the child, don't overwhelm them with possessions.

As a kid kid, i got a ton of stuff. Like 5-10 toys. Once i was into preteen-teen years, it was one big gift (think like xbox, bb gun, iphone) plus maybe socks, new pajama pants, or a hat, or a robe. Then a stocking with candies and deoderant and such.

Now my family has changed and grown a lot (and we’re older) and we do white elephant because it makes it simpler for everyone. We do like $100 budget for that.

more is better but starve them of gifts leading up to it

we always go all out for the kids on christmas. well, my wife does. she goes nuts 😂 this year they're getting a florida keys christmas vacation. i figured spending several thousand dollars was a hell of a gift! we'll get them a couple small gifts so that they can open something on christmas day from us too. when i told the kids this, our daughter asked if we could have christmas at home next year so she could get more larger presents. spoiled! 💜