October 12, 2025 • 11 mins
Are birthday parties breaking the bank in Adelaide? This eye-opening episode dives into the shocking reality of children's birthday gift expectations, where $50-100 presents have somehow become the norm. Hayley and Max share their disbelief at the financial burden parents now face, with some families spending thousands annually just on other kids' birthday gifts. Between school policies requiring whole-class invitations and the social pressure to match expensive gifts received, parents are resorting to making excuses to avoid parties altogether.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I heard podcasts here more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Happy Birthday two. I want to talk about birthday parties.
They're becoming a joke in Adelaide. Max. As a parent,
I am just jaw on the floor at the amount
of money that we're spending on birthday presents for our kids.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Friends had ten and thirteen year old.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, we get this, So we're talking. I used to
be presents when they were little, like their friends were little.
Now we're at the stage where it's vouchers. It's always
just like a rebel voucher or a visa card or whatever. Right,
it's just easy. There's so many birthday parties that happen
that it's just the easiest thing. Voucher card done. And
we do a homemade card because it saves like six bucks. Right,
(00:59):
But I get this. I'm talking to my friend who
is a mum at one of the really expensive fancy
schools in Adelaide, and I was talking about how much
they spend on birthday parties and I was like, oh,
I'm more like, I don't know. It used to be thirty.
Now it's like forty because everybody else does. Most people
are around fifty fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So do you feel guilty trying to match these people?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, because you have to kind of if you get
an expensive present from another parent, then you have to
kind of regif that back to them. But this woman
said that at their year level, year six, they're all
doing one hundred dollars out Just what one hundred dollars?
Do you know how many kids' birthday parties they go
to as well? Where we're actually at the point and
(01:42):
our kids don't know this, but we'll say, oh, we've
got an excuse of why we can't go because it's like,
I don't even know you, my kid never talks about you.
I'm not going to go and spend fifty bucks on
a birthday present. So we say, we're busy, we've got sport,
we can't go.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
What's the protocol? They're inviting everyone in their class.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
So some schools have that rule, which is another thing
where it's like far out that's like thirty kids depending
on the school.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
If you're spending not even a hund because no one
really is doing. If you're spending fifty, that's like so
much cash so much.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Thousands of dollars a year if you've got to like
twenty parties across the year, yeah, shame.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And like I used to do the present thing, so
you wouldn't know how much you're spending. But kids know,
they talk, and then they don't want to be like, mom,
is that all we're getting? My mate got this for them,
Like they got a basketball guernsey. I'm like, that's eighty
five bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Don't they do vouchers now as well?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But then you know exactly how much I know.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But so now you're kind of going with somebody else.
It's just got to a point where I'm like, I
just wish there was a rule where like in every school,
the prince will be like, if you go to a party,
it's thirty bucks, no more. Like even thirty dollars is
a lot. And that's when you think about all the
presents you get for a kid. Thirty dollars is heaps.
One hundred dollars is what I pay for someone's wedding,
(02:56):
not a seven year old birthday party.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, most of this stuff that the kids are getting,
they're just like gonna go out get sick of in
two weeks anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
One hundred. It's just literally just like burning money. I'd
love to know, Like, if you're a mom or a
dad or a Karra grandparent, whatever, do you agree is
it getting out of hand? And how much are you
spending on a birthday pressy?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, other kids?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Because I think we should like come up with an
idea of like a number that we should all just spend.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, I mean if we're all on board with the
same number, then we don't have to worry about that
fancy kid at the fantasy school.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
He's like, well, that's right, I'm just doing what everyone
else is doing.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, the fancy kids should be the same as the
other kids.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, okay, yeah, thirty one h two three, give us
a ring. How much money should we be spending on
these kids' presence? And are you losing your mind and
pulling your hair out because of it?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Like Hayley, we love when kids have a birthday. It's
beautiful and you deserve all the love in the world,
But we're just as parents. It's getting really at a
hand with how much we're having to spend on birthday parties,
especially if you've got the silly rule that everyone has
to come to a birthday party.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The presents are getting out of it just like yeah,
And it turns out you're all trying to outdo each
other all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It used to be when I was growing up. I
remember spending it was fifteen bucks. And I know that
there's inflation, and I grew up a long time ago,
but fifteen dollars was like enough to get some sports
girl shorts back in the day. Now it's like thirty
forty fifty and one school is one hundred dollars. They
all spend one hundred dollars on each other. Guys, don't
do that. That's such a waste of money.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's gross behavior. We want to know from you on
thirty one oh two three. Do you agree with this?
Do you like spending that amount of money or do
you have a limit you put on yourself? Pat in
Burnside's called in Pat. What message have you got for
Haley Pearson?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah, I'm just going to say to Hayley, you're lucky
you don't have girls, because I'm spending at Mecca fifty
and sixty bucks up pop and I never shopped at Mecca.
I was the kind of person going to Mecca and
put on the creams, like the five hundred dollars greens
for free, and then leave and now we're doing I'm
now a level three member thanks to a teenage daughter.
And that's just in the last two years. It started
(04:58):
a little bit in years six and then exploded in
year seven and eight.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, you go into Mecca and it's literally like one thousand,
thirteen fourteen fifteen year olds, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, it's it's nuts and they're buying this body spray
called Salsi Genera. That's forty eight dollars apart. Now when
I was going up Hailey, it's a dollar.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
But it's true.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Some links Africa for all the boys.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's times of change. I agree. I've actually thought of
that too. It is it is expensive having girls. We
would love to know. Actually, while we've got your pat
what do you think the rules should be for birthday
like birthday presents? How much did you spend.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Part Like definitely under fifty Like thirty forty dollars is sufficient. Yeah,
if you're hosting the party, it just becomes ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, I like, yeah, I've just heard from one of
our producers who is also in the Mecca beauty loop
that has probably spent over twelve hundred dollars a year
to get to level three. A.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Yeah, it's over.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It is ridiculous, pat But how good is Mecca? At
the same time, the.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Only the only upside is they do beautiful packagings. You
don't have to pay for the paper.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Love those little pink bags you walk away.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
One of the best things you can get for Chris Kringle.
If you get a female in your family, meccha, it's
perfectly wrap for you. Thirty one, O two three, give
us a ring. How much are you paying for kids presents?
How much should you be paying? Let's put a limit
on this, all right?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We have decided that birthday parties again.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Wondered what that was?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I asked for birthday music and this wasn't what I wanted.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But that's okay, you asked with one second left of
the song. Might be a friend job.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
To get the birthday music.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeahthday.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
We're talking about how much parents are having to spend
on their kids friends' birthday parties. And it is a joke.
It's like it's used to be twenty, now it's thirty. Well,
I spend thirty but then I'm best friends. It's fifty.
But then some people in fancy schools are spending one
hundred dollars on a kid on their birthday.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's absolutely it's absurd.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Give us ring thirty one oh two three, Claire and
Mitcham has done just that. Claire, do you hate spending
all this cash on kid's birthdays?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
No?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
I love it. I absolutely love it. As a mum
of kids who play sports, they do gymnastics, they do soccer,
they do all the things. I invite everyone for the
parties because you know what, those vouchers aren't just good
for the kids, they're good for the mums.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
What do you mean for the mums? See stealing from
your children?
Speaker 7 (07:25):
I'm not stealing. It's just really handy when you need
to get presents of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So, Claire, can you paint this picture for us?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
You've invited everyone by the sounds because you want all
of the gifts, and they've rocked up with a whole
bunch of different vouchers and whatnot. Do some of those
not find their way into your child's hands.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
They do in some way, but not always directly.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
No, Hang on, Claire, Claire, Claire, Claire, you're taking these
vouchers and buying them Christmas presents with somebody else's birthday voucher.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Yeah, and also buying presents for other people's birthdays and
other things. The kids get so many gifts, they honestly
don't even know what they get, and so it's easy
just to snag at you.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But as a mom, how do you feel about your
kid being invited to all these parties and then you
have to do the same thing and get expensive.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Cass free gifting.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh wait, you get the voucher and then you give
it to another kid.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Honestly, we invited over sixty people to my son's birthday party.
About he's just about to turn our eleven, so we've
got another birthday coming up.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Doesn't have no sixty people in his wedding.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
The sports teams, it's the school class. Like the classes
like thirty kids each, So there's thirty kids being invited
and we just had a lot of people there. We
went to a park and yeah, there was more gifts
than he could even look at.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I agree with Claire, there's nothing worse than when they
give you a present that can only be used by
your child. I love a voucher that you can benefit
from as well.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Kidding me, No selfish pig, it's for your child.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Selfish parenting is not selfish.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Make you deserve some sort of payback.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
The payback is in the looks in their eyes, mate,
when they look up at you and they say that
up day with you today?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
What do you do with the rebel voucher bed?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Buy some sports shoes wearing them?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
All right? Thank you so much for you called Jared
and Salisbury East. What are you thinking about this?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Look? Not all, not all families can afford anything. I mean,
do you remember what you got gifted when you were
ten eleven? I mean I don't, But do you remember
who was there at your birthday party?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yes? Yes, the memory of Jared.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Memories may it's all about creating those memories. They last
a lifetime. Presidents and gifts, Yeah, you don't even receive
them like the first lalland.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's literally like burning money. That's so true, Jared, You've
got us onto something with I'd like to make a
rule that people should spend a certain amount of money
at birthdays. And we're all on the same page for this.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Tony and Strathalban, what do you think that limit should
be oh.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
At least thirty dollars.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
We don't really spend anymore.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
And again, when going.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Back to the couple of people that spoke before, kids
don't really pay attention to all what they get.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
They look at a lot of the time the amount,
like my seven year old is over the moon when
he gets minecraft pajamas.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And all the cheap lego.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
And realistically, you won't spend any more than thirty dollars
if you shop around.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, and I reckon anything under thirty is hard to
buy an actual present for because you can't find anything
these days.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Absolutely, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Tony, let's lock it in.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, all right, Tony's given me a bit of an idea.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So what I'm going to do is give Tony, how
would you like a double pass to events, cinemas, Gold
Class and the three hundred dollars se Koya Lodge vows.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Really yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Oh wow?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That would be amazing. Don Tony, You're also in the
running for the major prize, Haley Max's Golden Tokeet, which
includes an overnight stay and dinner at Sekoya Lodge for
two people.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Can I just say? Those are outdoor spars and pools
are unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
And say that because Tony hopefully is going there either way,
that prize is yours, Tony and Joy. Because I've got
a bit of an idea from this, I reckon yea.
I think that we can set a limit. I think
that people have given us a pretty good idea of
what the limit should be. I think we should make
Adelaide take a pledge. Yeah, we're change makers together. I
think you, all of the parents around Adelaide, all the
(11:22):
people that go to children's birthday parties, maybe your little
cousin's having a birthday party, get invited.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
My hands up already, I'm ready to pledge.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We should set a limit, yeah, and get everyone to pledge,
because if everyone's doing it, you won't feel left out.
That person won't rock up with one hundred dollars gift
to make you feel bad.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It's the rule, the universal rule of how much you
should spend at birthday parties.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
We have that pledge limit set. We need pledges thirty
one oh two three. Give us a ring right now
if you would like to join this pledge, join this movement.
It's going to be Adelaide wide and now, from this
day forth, we will have an exact official amount that
you don't have to spend any more than
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Happy Birthday two. I want to talk about birthday parties.
They're becoming a joke in Adelaide. Max. As a parent,
I am just jaw on the floor at the amount
of money that we're spending on birthday presents for our kids.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Friends had ten and thirteen year old.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, we get this, So we're talking. I used to
be presents when they were little, like their friends were little.
Now we're at the stage where it's vouchers. It's always
just like a rebel voucher or a visa card or whatever. Right,
it's just easy. There's so many birthday parties that happen
that it's just the easiest thing. Voucher card done. And
we do a homemade card because it saves like six bucks. Right,
(00:59):
But I get this. I'm talking to my friend who
is a mum at one of the really expensive fancy
schools in Adelaide, and I was talking about how much
they spend on birthday parties and I was like, oh,
I'm more like, I don't know. It used to be thirty.
Now it's like forty because everybody else does. Most people
are around fifty fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So do you feel guilty trying to match these people?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, because you have to kind of if you get
an expensive present from another parent, then you have to
kind of regif that back to them. But this woman
said that at their year level, year six, they're all
doing one hundred dollars out Just what one hundred dollars?
Do you know how many kids' birthday parties they go
to as well? Where we're actually at the point and
(01:42):
our kids don't know this, but we'll say, oh, we've
got an excuse of why we can't go because it's like,
I don't even know you, my kid never talks about you.
I'm not going to go and spend fifty bucks on
a birthday present. So we say, we're busy, we've got sport,
we can't go.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
What's the protocol? They're inviting everyone in their class.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
So some schools have that rule, which is another thing
where it's like far out that's like thirty kids depending
on the school.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
If you're spending not even a hund because no one
really is doing. If you're spending fifty, that's like so
much cash so much.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Thousands of dollars a year if you've got to like
twenty parties across the year, yeah, shame.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And like I used to do the present thing, so
you wouldn't know how much you're spending. But kids know,
they talk, and then they don't want to be like, mom,
is that all we're getting? My mate got this for them,
Like they got a basketball guernsey. I'm like, that's eighty
five bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Don't they do vouchers now as well?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But then you know exactly how much I know.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But so now you're kind of going with somebody else.
It's just got to a point where I'm like, I
just wish there was a rule where like in every school,
the prince will be like, if you go to a party,
it's thirty bucks, no more. Like even thirty dollars is
a lot. And that's when you think about all the
presents you get for a kid. Thirty dollars is heaps.
One hundred dollars is what I pay for someone's wedding,
(02:56):
not a seven year old birthday party.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, most of this stuff that the kids are getting,
they're just like gonna go out get sick of in
two weeks anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
One hundred. It's just literally just like burning money. I'd
love to know, Like, if you're a mom or a
dad or a Karra grandparent, whatever, do you agree is
it getting out of hand? And how much are you
spending on a birthday pressy?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, other kids?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Because I think we should like come up with an
idea of like a number that we should all just spend.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, I mean if we're all on board with the
same number, then we don't have to worry about that
fancy kid at the fantasy school.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
He's like, well, that's right, I'm just doing what everyone
else is doing.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, the fancy kids should be the same as the
other kids.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, okay, yeah, thirty one h two three, give us
a ring. How much money should we be spending on
these kids' presence? And are you losing your mind and
pulling your hair out because of it?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Like Hayley, we love when kids have a birthday. It's
beautiful and you deserve all the love in the world,
But we're just as parents. It's getting really at a
hand with how much we're having to spend on birthday parties,
especially if you've got the silly rule that everyone has
to come to a birthday party.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The presents are getting out of it just like yeah,
And it turns out you're all trying to outdo each
other all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It used to be when I was growing up. I
remember spending it was fifteen bucks. And I know that
there's inflation, and I grew up a long time ago,
but fifteen dollars was like enough to get some sports
girl shorts back in the day. Now it's like thirty
forty fifty and one school is one hundred dollars. They
all spend one hundred dollars on each other. Guys, don't
do that. That's such a waste of money.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's gross behavior. We want to know from you on
thirty one oh two three. Do you agree with this?
Do you like spending that amount of money or do
you have a limit you put on yourself? Pat in
Burnside's called in Pat. What message have you got for
Haley Pearson?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah, I'm just going to say to Hayley, you're lucky
you don't have girls, because I'm spending at Mecca fifty
and sixty bucks up pop and I never shopped at Mecca.
I was the kind of person going to Mecca and
put on the creams, like the five hundred dollars greens
for free, and then leave and now we're doing I'm
now a level three member thanks to a teenage daughter.
And that's just in the last two years. It started
(04:58):
a little bit in years six and then exploded in
year seven and eight.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, you go into Mecca and it's literally like one thousand,
thirteen fourteen fifteen year olds, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, it's it's nuts and they're buying this body spray
called Salsi Genera. That's forty eight dollars apart. Now when
I was going up Hailey, it's a dollar.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
But it's true.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Some links Africa for all the boys.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's times of change. I agree. I've actually thought of
that too. It is it is expensive having girls. We
would love to know. Actually, while we've got your pat
what do you think the rules should be for birthday
like birthday presents? How much did you spend.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Part Like definitely under fifty Like thirty forty dollars is sufficient. Yeah,
if you're hosting the party, it just becomes ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, I like, yeah, I've just heard from one of
our producers who is also in the Mecca beauty loop
that has probably spent over twelve hundred dollars a year
to get to level three. A.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Yeah, it's over.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It is ridiculous, pat But how good is Mecca? At
the same time, the.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Only the only upside is they do beautiful packagings. You
don't have to pay for the paper.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Love those little pink bags you walk away.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
One of the best things you can get for Chris Kringle.
If you get a female in your family, meccha, it's
perfectly wrap for you. Thirty one, O two three, give
us a ring. How much are you paying for kids presents?
How much should you be paying? Let's put a limit
on this, all right?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We have decided that birthday parties again.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Wondered what that was?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I asked for birthday music and this wasn't what I wanted.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But that's okay, you asked with one second left of
the song. Might be a friend job.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
To get the birthday music.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeahthday.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
We're talking about how much parents are having to spend
on their kids friends' birthday parties. And it is a joke.
It's like it's used to be twenty, now it's thirty. Well,
I spend thirty but then I'm best friends. It's fifty.
But then some people in fancy schools are spending one
hundred dollars on a kid on their birthday.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's absolutely it's absurd.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Give us ring thirty one oh two three, Claire and
Mitcham has done just that. Claire, do you hate spending
all this cash on kid's birthdays?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
No?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
I love it. I absolutely love it. As a mum
of kids who play sports, they do gymnastics, they do soccer,
they do all the things. I invite everyone for the
parties because you know what, those vouchers aren't just good
for the kids, they're good for the mums.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
What do you mean for the mums? See stealing from
your children?
Speaker 7 (07:25):
I'm not stealing. It's just really handy when you need
to get presents of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So, Claire, can you paint this picture for us?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
You've invited everyone by the sounds because you want all
of the gifts, and they've rocked up with a whole
bunch of different vouchers and whatnot. Do some of those
not find their way into your child's hands.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
They do in some way, but not always directly.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
No, Hang on, Claire, Claire, Claire, Claire, you're taking these
vouchers and buying them Christmas presents with somebody else's birthday voucher.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Yeah, and also buying presents for other people's birthdays and
other things. The kids get so many gifts, they honestly
don't even know what they get, and so it's easy
just to snag at you.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But as a mom, how do you feel about your
kid being invited to all these parties and then you
have to do the same thing and get expensive.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Cass free gifting.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh wait, you get the voucher and then you give
it to another kid.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Honestly, we invited over sixty people to my son's birthday party.
About he's just about to turn our eleven, so we've
got another birthday coming up.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Doesn't have no sixty people in his wedding.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
The sports teams, it's the school class. Like the classes
like thirty kids each, So there's thirty kids being invited
and we just had a lot of people there. We
went to a park and yeah, there was more gifts
than he could even look at.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I agree with Claire, there's nothing worse than when they
give you a present that can only be used by
your child. I love a voucher that you can benefit
from as well.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Kidding me, No selfish pig, it's for your child.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Selfish parenting is not selfish.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Make you deserve some sort of payback.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
The payback is in the looks in their eyes, mate,
when they look up at you and they say that
up day with you today?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
What do you do with the rebel voucher bed?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Buy some sports shoes wearing them?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
All right? Thank you so much for you called Jared
and Salisbury East. What are you thinking about this?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Look? Not all, not all families can afford anything. I mean,
do you remember what you got gifted when you were
ten eleven? I mean I don't, But do you remember
who was there at your birthday party?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yes? Yes, the memory of Jared.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Memories may it's all about creating those memories. They last
a lifetime. Presidents and gifts, Yeah, you don't even receive
them like the first lalland.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's literally like burning money. That's so true, Jared, You've
got us onto something with I'd like to make a
rule that people should spend a certain amount of money
at birthdays. And we're all on the same page for this.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Tony and Strathalban, what do you think that limit should
be oh.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
At least thirty dollars.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
We don't really spend anymore.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
And again, when going.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Back to the couple of people that spoke before, kids
don't really pay attention to all what they get.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
They look at a lot of the time the amount,
like my seven year old is over the moon when
he gets minecraft pajamas.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And all the cheap lego.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
And realistically, you won't spend any more than thirty dollars
if you shop around.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, and I reckon anything under thirty is hard to
buy an actual present for because you can't find anything
these days.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Absolutely, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Tony, let's lock it in.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, all right, Tony's given me a bit of an idea.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So what I'm going to do is give Tony, how
would you like a double pass to events, cinemas, Gold
Class and the three hundred dollars se Koya Lodge vows.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Really yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Oh wow?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That would be amazing. Don Tony, You're also in the
running for the major prize, Haley Max's Golden Tokeet, which
includes an overnight stay and dinner at Sekoya Lodge for
two people.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Can I just say? Those are outdoor spars and pools
are unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
And say that because Tony hopefully is going there either way,
that prize is yours, Tony and Joy. Because I've got
a bit of an idea from this, I reckon yea.
I think that we can set a limit. I think
that people have given us a pretty good idea of
what the limit should be. I think we should make
Adelaide take a pledge. Yeah, we're change makers together. I
think you, all of the parents around Adelaide, all the
(11:22):
people that go to children's birthday parties, maybe your little
cousin's having a birthday party, get invited.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
My hands up already, I'm ready to pledge.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We should set a limit, yeah, and get everyone to pledge,
because if everyone's doing it, you won't feel left out.
That person won't rock up with one hundred dollars gift
to make you feel bad.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It's the rule, the universal rule of how much you
should spend at birthday parties.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
We have that pledge limit set. We need pledges thirty
one oh two three. Give us a ring right now
if you would like to join this pledge, join this movement.
It's going to be Adelaide wide and now, from this
day forth, we will have an exact official amount that
you don't have to spend any more than
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