I can't help but wonder if buying each of them something like this or like this would be a better investment for long-term use and teach them some creativity in the kitchen with ingredients at hand, flavor combinations and the like, to boot.
Nah. They might thank me years from now, but I can imagine the disappointment on this Christmas day.
Argh!
I guess it's going to be Barbies and FurReal Pets this year. They'll get more real play time with those than with a Rube Goldberg contraption that spins gold into candy or ice cream dots.
I hate being a grumpy Scrooge of an auntie!
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I have a Cake Bakery in my closet as we speak. Drives me nuts as we have a well-stocked and furnished kitchen. I also have the Panda FurReal Pet in a box in the closet. It scared the crap out of my daughter when she was three and still seems to spark a Pavlovian reaction when she sees it.
Aunts' "jobs" are for gifting what a parent would never consider; and the memories still alive many years later are worth the wasted money. Give them what they want, if it's within reason.
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