How far should you go?

Just how far is reasonable in the quest to please your child on their birthday? Or christmas for that matter!! I have never bought Georgia the toy of the year.....you know the one that has waiting lists as long as a new channel handbag. The type of toy that can be bought but only on e-bay and only at a price!!

The pink Nintendo DS has been the "it" present for at least 12 months, well it's been on Georgias list for 12 months but I refused to buy it for her last year saying she was too young. This year I have run out of excuses, she has been patient. I keep on telling her that she may not get a pink one and she should be very grateful for any DS that she get considering how expensive they are.She is well aware of this and I don't for a minute think she would complain at the colour, but I still wanted to give it my best shot!!
So I have been scouring the net for the best deals, eg: 2 games and a case, 3 games no case you know the type. This is the way it works. Toys r Us have 5 games but hardly any available as all good games sold out!! Asda can give me 10% off but no pink ones on-line and only in store on a blue moon.
Argos have 5 different packages and 10% cash back this week only and they have pink ones yipee!!!!! (But no accessories packs in stock which you need to make them work!! I think?) Oh and you can't collect half of your deal and then wait for the accessories pack to come in it doesn't work that way!! The till would charge you full price for each item. So I was told reserve the package on Wednesday as it will all be in store on Friday and you can pay and collect. However on the net and couldn't find the deal I wanted this morning, they have changed them since yesterday so I thought I'll try in town they can't have changed their catalogues in the store. Sure enough deal was still available phew!! However no pink ones left now in Grimsby. What about York I enquired seeing as we are going there on Saturday .....4 available at various locations......20 minutes later and a personal phone call from the Grimsby store to get the reserve period extended till then and voila I have a piece of paper with a reserve number on it!! Now it's not a receipt just a scrappy bit of paper so chances are I'll get to York and it won't be reserved or someone who works there will have been bribed into selling it to their best mate!!

Tune in to find out the result on Monday...................

Love Ruth et al xxx