I live in Champaign and need help with getting Christmas for my 3 yr old son. I am unable to work and draw a SSI check and can not afford much at all for my son.
By jenny73 from Champaign, IL
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First a three year old is young enough that he shouldn't expect much. One or two small, inexpensive gifts should be enough. The Salvation Army does help with things like this, as well as some other charities. In a lot of the country, all of these organizations band together at Christmas time and form one large organization. Call 211 and ask which organizations provide Christmas help.
211 is a nationwide Helpline organization that keeps a list of various organizations that provide different types of help for people. The age your son is he should be satisfied with one or two gifts from a dollar store. Even a color book wrapped in one package and a 8-count box of crayons wrapped as another package. When my kids were young were weren't well-to-do by any means, but we knew how to budget, but still our girls only ever got one package each from us. When they were really little(newborn to maybe three years of age) they got the dress that they wore to candle light Christmas Eve services and then after they were in bed I wrapped the dresses and that is what they opened on Christmas Day.
Even now, with my daughters grown and four grandchildren that range in age from 15 to 25, I couldn't afford to buy them each a gift if I didn't start my shopping in January. I have been done for at least a month and I have a limit of $20.00 for each person. If I find a $20.00 item on sale for $10-15.00, I still count it as a $20.00 item. When the girls were young and we had more close family members they also received one gift each from each set of grandparents and aunts and uncles. You must have some family members that give gifts to you and your son. No matter the age of the kid, there isn't a kid alive that needs one or all of the expensive things that they see on TV.
3 year olds love crafts. Look up how to make homemade play dough, lots of fun. Cut pics from old magazines glue in a notebook for a scrap book. Download coloring pages on the back of junk mail. Staple together for a coloring book. Make sock puppets from old socks and pieces of old clothes.
I now but my son has been very spoiled up till a few months ago me and his father split up. and hes not getting everything like he was b4. It's horrible, cause I now there are a lot of children out there that have nothing at all. i just wanna be able to give him a half way decent Christmas. its been hard on him cause his daddy is in TX and I have not been around much been in and out of hospital a lot so hes been with his aunt and uncle a lot. thank you!
Time to teach your child the meaning of Christmas about the birth of Christ not about how many gifts you gave not trying to be ignorant but just a couple gifts is better than nothing
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