so my kids 5th birthday is coming up on june 15th and im honestly losing my mind. everyone keeps texting me asking what he wants and i just keep repeating the same three things over and over and then i worry that two people are gonna buy the same giant lego set and then ill have to deal with returns which sounds like a total nightmare. im sorry if this is a really basic thing to ask but i have zero clue how people handle this stuff. i was thinking maybe i should just tell people to go to amazon? but my mom hates amazon and wants to buy stuff from the local toy shop here in chicago so then my logic was like okay maybe i make a google doc?

but then how do people mark things as bought without seeing what everyone else got? i dont want my kid to see the list either because he can kinda read now and it would spoil everything. i tried looking at some websites but they all look so complicated and ask for like registries and i thought those were only for babies or weddings? i feel so stupid even asking this but is there like a simple site where i can just dump links from different stores and people can just check them off? i dont want anything fancy or hard to set up because i barely have time to breathe right now between work and soccer practice.

i tried a few things already:

• a notes app list but nobody could see the updates
• texting people individually which took way too long
• a group chat but everyone started arguing about who was bringing what

i looked at one called elfster but that seemed like it was for secret santa and another one wanted me to pay a subscription fee which seems crazy just to make a list. i just want one place where i can put the link to the toy and people can click it and say they got it. my brain is just fried trying to coordinate this with 15 different parents and relatives and i feel like im failing at being a party mom already. does anyone know a site that is actually easy for someone who isnt tech savvy at all? i just want the texts to stop...