What would you do if you were me?

Question

I have two kids, a boy and a girl, both 2 years old (not twins, but 10 months apart, one just turned two, the other one will be 3 next month) 
I’m doing Christmas shopping, and I am contemplating just getting them stuff just to share, as opposed to individual gifts.  
My reasoning is they really like the same things.  My son will play with my daughters dolls, while my daughter plays with his trucks.  She prefers the dolls, and he prefers the trucks, but they do go back and forth. I just bought so many things for my daughter, and I’m like eh maybe I should give this to my son, he would actually probably like it more, and Vice versus.  Plus all the toys go in the playroom and they play with everything, and everything is already theres 
Then there’s somethings I know they will both love and will end up fighting over-   Like I bought this little cat on a leash that walks (they are both obsessed with cats) so I bought two of them bc I know they will fight.  So about 4 things I already did buy two of 
Some people think it’s weird I’m doing a “group gift” and they should have things of their own.  I do get that, but at this age, does it really matter? There’s so many things that my son got and my daughter plays with more, and so many things my son got that my daughter plays with more.  I think it’s just easier to get a bunch of stuff that they share.  
So right now I’m just doing a group gifts, and some things two of.  Is that weird?

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I would do it while they're still young but maybe from next year get them individual gifts. They are different, individual children after all, even if they like the same things.

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Do a group gift and a couple small individual ones. We're doing a train table for both kids (2.5 and 1) and then little things for each.

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I’m doing the same thing. My kids are 14 months apart and last year everything I got my daughters became my sons and everything I got my son became my daughters.  Two of somethings to avoid the fighting, everything else is whoever wants it the most.  I can’t figure out who would like what more when they like the same thing, and I can’t get two of everything.  When they are older, I’ll do individual things bht right now, same interests, same presents

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At their ages, for sure get shared gifts. For example, my son loves his kitchen set. All little kids that age love to play pretend.

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I get individual for mine (3 and 4) and they share most things. Some things we have 2 of but I like to buy different but somewhat comparable items  like my kids love blocks so I got one magnetic blocks and I got one some new lego sets. I got one a food playdoh set and the other a dinosaur playdoh set. My daughter got a tent (bigger item) and my sons bigger item is a  play workbench  but I know they will be playing together and swapping toys

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I wish my kids were close enough in age that I could do that 🤣 they ended up being 3 ½ years apart and ones a boy and ones a girl and I have no idea what to get as a combination gift lol I dont think its wierd. Even if you got the combination gift and then if there were accessories that they could each open or something

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When my oldest two were little I would get them different parts of the same set. Like one would get the mom and dad for the dollhouse and one would get the kids. It worked well because they were always playing together. When they got older their interests weren’t the same anymore, but I think it’s great when they are small

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I think that's a great idea. I have two young kids too and in general their gifts end up being for both of them anyways so you may as well!

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I love this idea. My kids are just over 2 years apart and I get them 4 individual gifts and 5 to share gifts like games.

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We sometimes do gifts to share but also try to include things for them to have their own. My girls are 8 and 4. This year they are getting a bunk bed to share but then each a new coat, new pajamas, and one toy of their own. A couple years ago we did one of those battery controlled cars for them to drive around the yard to share then a few toys of their own too.

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