A pampered toddler will have 100 presents worth thousands of pounds to open this Christmas including holidays and designer clothes. Mum Kasey Akram, 33, started buying gifts for two-year-old Jareem Akram in May.
Presents this year will include a Burberry tracksuit, a trip to the Canary Islands and a ride-on train. Kasey, from Sheffield, said: "Things are expensive but I start getting presents in May. I do it bit by bit. I have a saving system.
“I’m spending about £2,500 in total. I’m spending about £1,000 and his dad is doing the rest. His dad says, ‘Why are you buying this stuff in May’ and I say, 'You’ve got to think ahead because times are hard'.
"I’m hoping he’s going to have 100 presents to open on the day. I like the floor filled."
Kasey, who is on benefits, has bought a family visit to Santa’s Sleepover at Alton Towers for £475, and designer threads including a Burberry tracksuit coming in at £350. She even told her son’s dad, who is not being named, not to buy her anything for her birthday and instead put the money towards their son's Christmas fund.
“A lot of my family don’t celebrate Christmas so it’s just for Jareem really," she said. “He’s got 33 stocking fillers and then I've got plenty of presents.
"He said he wanted a dolphin which I can't buy, so instead I'm taking him to the Canary Islands in the summer - we're going to a water park where you can see dolphins. It's about £1,300 and it's his main present and his first holiday - he'll be two-and-half when we go.
“I want to get him something to wear for Christmas Day or Eve - I like Burberry so I want to get him a Burberry two piece. He wants a ride-on train that you sit on and ride around – you stick the track together and then ride around on it.
“I thought I’d put it around the Christmas tree and put it up on the night before. I’m also trying to get a snow machine.
“Jareem has a Christmas tree, it’s a little three-foot one and then he’s going to have a six-foot one is his bedroom and I’m ordering a seven-foot one for the living room. When he wakes up, he’ll have his presents under there and then more downstairs."
Other gifts Jareem will receive this year include a six-foot dinosaur toy, a gold bracelet, an ET plush toy, a bike and a robotic cat. Kasey previously told how she splashed out on designer gear for Jareem, including gold Versace jewellery, a solid gold dummy, and Kenzo and DKNY threads.
The mum revealed she regularly went without so she could pamper her son - and said she even bathed him in milk and honey. But Kasey says she wants Jareem to know the value of money so she's taking him out to donate gifts to those struggling in her area.
“We give out scarves, socks, soaps, we wrap the empty shoe boxes up and give them out to the homeless people outside the shops," she said. "He's also picked a present to give away to Cash for Kids - they give a present to local hostels and charities, to help people on low incomes get gifts.
“We do what we do every year where we make Christmas cupcakes and mince pies and make Christmas boxes and take them around. We take a sack and Jareem in his pram – he can’t be thinking you don’t give back.”
