and today we're talking about holiday
shopping you know the stores are busy
and joining us to talk about this are
four of our friends or three of our
friends Jason hall with ride Detroit be
that gentleman right hey Blane Fowler
the host of the Blaine Fowler morning
show on 96 3 DVD Vanessa : that's what
the jingle sounds like own a community
insurance advocate and her son's were on
Chicago Fire good morning to all three
of you boy okay so we were just talking
about how you guys all have children yep
so this will be come in handy for this
question because we're talking about
gift-giving around the holidays and I
was wondering do you get your kids
everything that they asked for right at
me you have two young ones okay so I
learned with younger ones is quantity
older ones it's quality so the 14 year
old wants the best of whatever he gets
so it could be the minimum but the
younger ones wants to just open a lot of
presents yeah it's more about coming
downstairs and seeing that Christmas
tree with all of the gifts younger ones
you could probably get away with giving
them like boxes of air they like to open
stuff right I mean like that's that's
their favorite that's what the whole
unboxing thing yeah you do bizzle about
right the kinder eggs and all that yeah
sure it doesn't really matter well you
said that your daughter was having a
great time this weekend with the Fox
we're renovating the house so we have a
bunch of empty cardboard boxes that
stuff is coming in in one giant box
I made into the body of the robot
costume in a smaller box is the helmet
on the head with the eyes cut out today
she spent the weekend playing this robot
costume that's not get enough of it free
entertainment I put it under the tree
she can have that meat the fingerling I
bought last Christmas I play for I think
one day and I don't even know where it
went
yeah so box you're a better dad than
mine I'm going to just cut it open and
said dance on it hey no it's not bad you
guys keep track of how many gifts you're
getting heard yes yes account at our
house there and my wife does most of the
shopping and she'll be like right now
Collins kind of in the lead and we need
to kind of balance it out I'm like you
know what I don't think the kids are
comparing price tags on the
the presence but I mean she's she's more
concerned about that than I am I'm like
whatever it's close enough and and
you're right too I think the older they
get the more about the quality they get
you know you know they're spoiled so
they're doing all right I have twins
they get the same stuff for something
big then then I'm gonna get two of the
big things unless it's like a video game
or something like that but then the
older kids I'm not gonna lie they all
get the same thing so so everybody gets
the same outfits different colors maybe
if you get a game now you got to get
again you know so I just I do keep it
even but I will say when Donovan who's
the 14 year old when he was probably
about three I had $100 to go Christmas
shopping that was it I went to the
dollar store and cleaned up and to this
day he still says that was his best
Christmas and I'm like why cuz he had
like I remember when I was a kid like 10
11 12 the big present was the one the
Intellivision the Atari for the bedroom
I don't remember what else I got
I remember those Big Easy Bake Oven
really oh the light bright aircraft
aircraft carrier when you got that the
GI Joe boy I got a Kawasaki bicycle but
but it looked like a motorcycle and I'm
like seven or eight years old and it had
shocks on it are you kidding me what you
can write it like did you write in the
winter
heck yes I got my Mongoose I was right
out in the snow exactly so what about
the trend to limiting gifts maybe a
little more close to the vest a little
more austere something you want
something unique something you wear
something you read like this okay you
agree with that that I do I actually
learned that a couple years from this
show and I like the concept of it
because it makes the children think
about what they want and I asked them I
said give me a list of things under each
of these categories right so down the
aisle like I need it no really because
before I would go down I like deals like
that don't like that yeah don't like
that and he gets to the register you
like put that back
all right let's bring Michelle Oliver
onto the set with our social media
reaction where are they staying on the
alive and the D Facebook page
so Amanda has a very similar principle
to you she says our girls love our five
gift system sometimes they something
they want something they need something
to wear something to read and something
from Santa they added the one from Santa
Monica says we decide to limit what we
get them they have so many toys we end
up donating half of them anyways did you
guys ever do that donate yeah we clean
house probably about a year ago they
gave away everything except there's
their action figures and their race cars
and so we cleaned the house now they
thought they were supposed to replenish
what I call the toy museum in our
basement my wife will not unload because
you know at some point there's going to
be grandbabies something for them to
play with and we want them to come to
the house so we'll we're hanging on to
their old toys my bank account limits
everything I'm like it's Christmas
the check was this big bob says I think
that's a decision best left for the
parents and then Katrina says we are
doing three gifts in the next year we're
asking for experiences from grandparents
that's not do like experience keep it
right there out of time they're
hollering at us in the control room good
information guys thank you so much