What’s your Christmas budget?

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I’m interested, having read the thread by the poster who is sad that she is limiting herself to £200 per (adult) child.
We’re pretty well off but I wouldn’t spend more than that on my young kids each. Am I a total miser??

Its different year to year dependant on what they want i always ask what main present they want and then bulk it out with smaller bits. This year will be more expensive as one of my sons wants a ps5 and thats nearly £500 for that but last year he wanted trainers that where £80 so it depends.my 2 little ones I don't spend so much on as they're still at toy age so maybe about £200 each for them

Id love it if my daughter asked for this

Apologies...it did sound a bit rude from me 🙂
If that's what she wants and you can afford it - then go for it.

I’m actually quite embarrassed to say I spend about £3000 split between 4 kids. I’m embarrassed cos it kills me every year, it’s a huge struggle but I enjoy spilling them, I swear I’m not going to do the same thing each year and then I do it anyway. 3 of them are late teens now, one is still young so I’m going to start cutting down the older ones and focus on youngest until she reaches that age as well x

We don’t have a budget per head for the kids, we just give them what they want/need within reason. We do have an overall budget though - £2000 to cover pressies for me, Dh, our 4 dc, pils, my parents, and dbil/sil and their kids. Also covers Xmas clothes for the kids, food (though dm buys the turkey), and any decorations etc that we buy.

Everyone normally gets about £50 spent on them.
Buy for all adults who are spending Xmas Day together (usually 8 adults) and then...
5 Nieces and nephews are normally £50-£100 each i buy for them regardless if i will see them on Xmas Day or not

Not well off at all but i start buying midway through the year

Exactly

How the did you manage that? Do you mean Disney Paris?

£150 each on stockings (X3)
£200 each or thereabouts on main presents under tree (X3)
£100 on Dh and him on me
£80ish on my parents (DH’s parents no longer with us)
£100 nieces and nephews
£200 food
£1500 or thereabouts in total

We normally do around £100-£150 for each child (I say child but they’re 21 and 17 now but both live at home), £100 on each other (sometimes go over this though), £50 each for my parents and around £30-40 each on my brother and SIL. It just depends what people want and how our budget is each year though.

This year we’re getting a Switch 2 for the kids to share so a bit over our normal budget but we’ve come into a bit of money recently (not a lot but enough to do a little more than usual for Christmas) and it’ll just be the Switch, a game each and stockings for the kids. We know it’ll get plenty of use though and I might even get to borrow it myself at times. 😁

Over £1K this year 😱😭 as buying DH a big one-off thing.

We have 12 family members to buy for, including 5 younger kids plus biscuits/chocolates for MIL's care home staff.

700 each for 3dc
200 on xmas pjs and xmas eve box
200 for dh
700 on xmas food and xmas eve/ boxing day activities

Good deal on Very for ps5 with 2 of the latest games 😉 plus go through Topcashback.

We go somewhere abroad for a week/bit more for Christmas, DD and I, this year it's French Riviera. I cover all that, activities, food, souvenirs, etc. That's a couple of grand or so. So I don't buy her a separate present as such. Unless I see something nice, up to a 100ish.

The day before Christmas we fly to my parents /family and celebrate together. All adults, we don't exchange presents between us. They spoil DD though and she gets presents from them.

Christmas food/drinks about 700ish maybe. 4 adults and DD 13.

When DD was littler, we spent Christmas at home. Used to be 200-300 for presents for her, and 300-400ish for food/drinks (2 adults and DD)

I spend too much, I can't help it, I love treating my family 😊
X2 DD's will have about £150 each of presents plus £150 cash to go shopping with.
X9 nieces/nephews will each have £30 of toys or cash/gift card for the older teens
Stepson will have £150 cash plus smellies & chocs
Baby dgd will have about £60 of presents
M&D £100 joint or individual gifts
Token gifts for DH, just something off the kids about £20 worth, smellies/socks etc.
Then I host xmas dinner for between 6-10 family members and have all of the inlaws over on boxing day, so spend about £350 on xmas food and drinks plus snacks.... so about £1500, gulp!

I’m skint trying to work more but so far :
DD and DS £50 each
both are adults (18 and 30)
food wise we are having a good think x

£50 for food? The turkey costs more than that

We don't have a turkey.
No one wants one.

Ok, £50 for food? The Pringles and quality street cost more than that 😀

I did realise that I probably spend about £20 or so on the snacks and treats so it's probably nearer £70 in total.
But for the actual Christmas dinner it's around £50 (husband is in charge of that).
I personally cannot stand roast dinners so I don't have it but it's just a regular meal of chicken, roasties, veg, stuffing and gravy. Oh and pigs in blankets - which I do like and sometimes eat 😂.
He doesn't buy a full chicken. Just a crown (?).

This year probably:
£150 on each dc (now adults)
£20 mum
£20 dad
£100 dp
£20 on MIL

I've been known to spend £kkk at Christmas in the past. But this year no one wants anything as they all buy when they want something, and with the COL I simply can't afford it and I refuse to get into debt for it .

My 13 year old son is getting some Formula 1 merch (around £200), specific trainers (£80), Lego (£200), other specific clothes (£100) and a vinyl record player (£70). Then on top of this there are some smaller bits plus a new tennis bag.

This year we're spending more than usual on my (only child) DC: about £45 in total. A soft toy, a doll, some clip on earrings, chocolate coins and a camera with a built in printer. Mostly second hand. £10-20 on all other family, one item each, including my husband. Thankfully most of my side don't do presents anymore and the adults on my husband's side do secret santa. I don't see the point of spending loads of money on stuff that will be forgotten about by next Christmas, we have a small house already full of stuff, and I prefer to spend our hard earned money on days out and holidays!

My DH and I used to limit it to £50 on each other. Four kids between us and probably about £200 on each? Of course when little it was less and peaked during their teens. Now I think it’s more like £150 each and I make them some thing (I crochet) like a beanie and scarf or throw if favourite football team colours. I give a token to my FIL, about £50 on each step grandkids (since they had children I don’t give gifts to my stepsons).

Up to 700 per child! (Or did you mean 800? It's not totally clear.)

Wow!!!!