Nephew's 11th Birthday. How Much?

I'd go with a bottle of good scotch, personally, it's never too early to start educating their taste in booze.
 
£20 to £30 I tend to buy them stuff now like airfix kits get there little heads going.
 
Regardless of what you choose it'll be too much / too little for what the OCUK lot consider correct and they'll bitch about it and the effect it's going to have on the child into adulthood.
 
Chocolate selection always says "great uncle". I often told mine to forget the usual £15 cheque and just get me a selection box for a few quid. He never listened and niow I have to suffer the Aunt's M&S tosh :p
 
lakitu said:
We are very close so I'll give him £20. He's a really good kid. Yes still doing watches, have 7 people working for me now, very busy :)
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I seem to remember helping you with writing your blurb when you were starting out? Well done indeed, sir! Always good to see OcUKers getting on. :)
 
It's got to be a personal choice, surely? No one on here knows how much you can afford, or the kid and how he would react.
 
We give our nieces and nephews a tenner for birthdays and a card. It's only because we have 8 or 9 of them - I forget how many there are now. All on my wife's side.

Edit: It's 9.
 
My best present as a child came from my uncle who bought me a remote controlled car. My parents always failed me. I wanted a nintendo 8 bit they got me a computer chess. I wanted a sega mega drive, they got me a 8 bit nintendo disguise as a sega mega drive.
 
Well I ended up giving him £20. He didn't even say thank you. I couldn't be bothered to ask for my thanks and his mum didn't prompt him. I don't have kids but when I do, damn they will say thank you!

He seemed happy enough though. BTW he got an iphone 6.
 
lakitu said:
Well I ended up giving him £20. He didn't even say thank you. I couldn't be bothered to ask for my thanks and his mum didn't prompt him. I don't have kids but when I do, damn they will say thank you!

He seemed happy enough though. BTW he got an iphone 6.
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Wow at 11. I purchased my first cell a Nokia 3300 when I was 27.
 
Yeah it's ridiculous, and when I was having a conversation to his dad away from him her overheard there was a 6S coming out and he wanted that instead. This is what happens when you spoil them. Rant over :P
 
It was my eldest's 12th birthday yesterday. He got £20 off my folks (on a Post Office gift card). He was over the moon, and said thanks without being prompted when they rang him up.

Little beggar got spoiled properly this year, me and the BOH got him a (second hand) laptop, the mother-in-law and father-in-law bought a sack of second hand Skylanders and his uncles gave him their old PS3 and about 10 games (they've upgraded to a PS4).
 
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