A grandmother who refuses to buy gifts for her grandchildren was told she 'must hate them' - but insists she has a good reason.
Tammie Kelton, 50, told her grown-up children that when she became a grandmother, she wouldn't buy the children gifts.
Tammie - who is grandmother to four grandchildren aged nine, six, three and eight months - said on their birthdays and holidays, the kids would already get stacks of gifts that she didn't want to add to.
She shared her choice on social media - and was even told "you must hate your grandchildren" by trolls.
But she revealed instead of buying gifts they'll throw away, lose or forget, she puts money in a savings account for each of them.
Tammie Kelton, 50, told her grown-up children that when she became a grandmother, she wouldn't buy the children gifts.
Tammie - who is grandmother to four grandchildren aged nine, six, three and eight months - said on their birthdays and holidays, the kids would already get stacks of gifts that she didn't want to add to.
She shared her choice on social media - and was even told "you must hate your grandchildren" by trolls.
But she revealed instead of buying gifts they'll throw away, lose or forget, she puts money in a savings account for each of them.
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00:00Unpopular opinion. I don't buy gifts for my grandkids. They have, I believe I counted nine
00:09sets of people that give them gifts for their birthdays and for Christmas.
00:14They don't miss mine at all. That doesn't mean like for Christmas I'll get them like a little
00:20$20 gift or whatever, but I put money in an Edward Jones account for them.
00:25They're never going to remember that teacup or that toy tractor that they broke 24 hours after
00:33they got it, but when they're adults and I hand them a solid start to investing in their future,
00:44that they'll remember. I just wonder how many other grandmas do that?
00:49Okay, back to the unpopular opinion. I do not buy my grandkids gifts. They get a ton of gifts from
00:56everybody else. I swear there's like 50 gifts on Christmas morning. They do not miss mine. It's
01:04okay. Some people were like, oh, you know, I love watching them and that's fine. I love watching
01:10them open gifts too. They're just not the gifts for me. The gift for me will come when they're
01:14an adult and they can pay for college, put a down payment on a house, or start their own
01:20retirement plan with my initial investment into their future. They are nine, six, three,
01:27and eight months. When they were born, I got their social security number from their dad.
01:33It takes, you know, a few weeks or whatever. I would go into the bank and they would get $100
01:38for their birth and then $10 per week to that point. So that however long it took to get that
01:45social security number, $10 per week plus that hundred. And that's what I would open their
01:50account with. I started with 529 plans, but then I thought you don't have to go to college to be
01:59successful, you know? So then I didn't want to have it all on a 529 plan. So they still have
02:06their 529 plans, but their money is now being invested into an Edward Jones plan.
02:13The eight-month-old does not have a 529 plan because I started everything over in Edward
02:19Jones. I just remember when my children are younger, all the Legos, all the little Barbie
02:27shoes, and just all the things that just got thrown away. And I would just rather give them
02:34something that will be a gift that can last a lifetime or have a lifelong effect on them.
02:41So yeah, unpopular opinion. There's another one coming too that I do. We'll see what people think
02:49about that. Unpopular opinion. I do not buy gifts for my grandchildren on birthdays or Christmas.
02:56Instead, I invest it for them. All of their Christmas money and birthday money gets invested
03:02as long as a small amount every week. Every week goes into their account to also be invested.
03:08I do spend time with them. I do have experiences with them. I do go to their soccer games and their
03:16t-ball games and their softball games. All of the things. But I will take them to King's Island,
03:22which is a theme park near me. I will take them to a play or a musical or whatever. But as far as
03:30gifts, they don't get Barbies and teddy bears from Mimi. No, no, no, no. We're going to put
03:38that money into an account to invest. And I hope that when they're adults, they use it wisely
03:46because I never had that. I wish I would have had that. I wish somebody would have done that
03:50for my children. And that's why I'm doing it for my grandchildren. I'm hoping to change a legacy here.