Do you and your dh/dp get each other Christmas gifts ?

[LardLizard]

We don’t really, as we would rather have the money for other things like nights out meals out holidays weekends away

But a lot of friends and family seem to find this quite odd

I'd be majorly pissed off if someone close to me didn't get me a present because it was too time consuming. I'd assume I was not considered a priority.

We see not giving to each other as giving each other the gift of one less thing to have to think about at a busy time of year!

Each to their own but it really isn't too much effort or time to buy a loved one a gift. Especially as you're probably buying other people presents.....

See and that's why we do make the effort. I don't think my dh should be at the bottom of a list of all the other things that's needs to come or thought about.

Needs to be done and thought about

I don't know how that auto corrected!

And it's not about expense before o get accused of being materialistic. One of my favourite gifts off DH was a bookmark and some stationery. I was mid PhD and he'd already finished his so bought me things he knew I'd find useful. The pencils are so pretty and I still use them now when marking.... They cost about £5 but it was such a thoughtful present

No, we don’t buy for each other. We are 28, no kids, decent jobs and anything we want for ourselves, we buy. Our flat is crammed full of ‘stuff’ so I don’t want any more.

We go on lots of holidays so we’d both rather have the money for that.

The "big" things are generally practical stuff that we'd be buying anyway (me - new trainers, good bread knife; him - new coat, work shirt). We do spend always spend few quid on nice luxuries like decent booze/chocolate/bath oil that you wouldn't buy yourself though.

Yes and I actually find it the other way round. Someone I know always makes a big point about it "you will get to the point where you don't want to anymore" like it's childish and weird. We would just buy the household stuff or trip away anyway, but I can see how this would be different if it was a choice between the two.

Yes, we buy each other loads of presents. This year he bought me the following:

Perfume
Hotel chocolat gift box
Aromatherapy diffuser
Essential oils
Handbag
Book
Gift voucher for a yoga retreat
L'occitane gift box
Reese's chocolate

It's a good time of year to spoil each other and we save for it.

Lots of our gifts are consumables or upgrades though, so this year a really decent pair of headphones, nice bath bits, good quality shoes and clothes - I suppose we could buy this ourselves but it feels frivolous during the year for some reason.

For Christmas dh buys me flowers and I buy him whiskey. I don't like wrapped presents for me.

I got a half share in a boiler...

We normally only do a token gift, we have enough to buy what we want during the year, boilers excepted.

I spent £100 on my fiance and my fiance spent around £140 on me. I got jewellery, perfume a dress and a retro games console. I got him a watch, bracelet other bits.

No.

We used to try. But we both realised we were buying stuff for the sake of it.

So now we don't bother. We do go to Waterstones and spend an hour or so on the top floor, looking at history books. Then we make a joint decision about which ones we will buy. That's our Christmas present to each other

We tend to buy a small gift for each other and a family present, ie one year we bought a nintendo switch, another a new tv for tbe sitting room, this year a ps4 for us all to use

We did first year then stopped for 9 years as we share money anyway and buy what we want. But last year we decided to do 3 presents totalling £30 and it's been really fun having something to open! And we both know each other really well now so we choose great stuff.

We do, but usually nicer versions of everyday stuff He bought Hotel chocolat, Another joules harbour top for my collection! and a Radley coin purse I bought him his favourite scent, some boot socks and a box of chocolate Brazil's We don't share finances or live together though

I get dp something well within my tiny budget, I don't usually get anything from him. I just think it's nice to have something to unwrap at Christmas.