To only spend £10 each on presents on my family?

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Hi ladies
Had a tough few months and i can only really afford £10 each for my mum dad nan and grandads presents do you think this is really stingy?

Thanks for that tip jojane. I am going on Amazon in a bit to have a look.

There have been a few £10 xmas threads in the Christmas theme.

TBH a lot of stuff can be bought for that. I was in TK Maxx yesterday and they had packs of Ted Baker socks rrp £24.99 for £8.99 so that would be a great pressie for a blokes as well as calvin Klein pants for £12.99. V posh candles for £5.99 and posh hair stuff for about £12.99 too.

I'm knitting my mum a hot water bottle cover out of some old wool, a hot water bottle for £2.89 and some buttons for 10p each. DP i sgetting some pajama bottoms made out of cheapy fabric and I'm thinking of similar stuff my my sisters.

Charity shops have nice stuff (i'm also planning on getting DP a decanter for around £10 and a second hand book) and fabric too.

Plus a £10 book/itunes voucher is what everyone really wants anyway!

ah TK Maxx xpost with mum47!

That is what we spend on average on family. We tend to get them books on amazon if I haven't managed to find something during the year on clearance. I got a really nice jumper for my MIL from Nordstrom for $1.99 last week. It was reduced from $95. Nothing wrong with it and the assistant told me that it was returned to the store the previous day. A couple of months ago the pharmacy had obsession for men on clearance. It was $20 instead of $54. That was my Dad sorted for Christmas. While it was more than your budget it all averages out.

DH has no idea I spend so little on gifts. I have glue gone and use it to wipe off the clearance labels from the packaging and the jumper has the price cut off it.

Ebay is also a great place to look for gifts.

Thanks everyone your all making me feel less stingy :) Its my dds birthday on the first of november and it was my dps in september so its been an expensive few months! Ive just discovered the magic of the Boots 3for2 so i think im sorted. Thanks again ladies

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Im sure there is but does it really matter as no ones mentioned this until now. I was asking whether i was being unreasonable?

I don't think it's unreasonable at all. As adults they should understand that it's about the children and we can always give for many reasons.

Sheesh, I think I am only going to manage £10 on each of my children this year my life has so spectacularly fucked itself up, so I reckon if they are ungrateful then they deserve a poke in the eye. :(

Aw im sorry to hear that rabbits. Presents dont make christmas, family does. Please remember that

Gee whizz mintyy, forget your love eggs today?

Rabbits, I am laughing at the Christmas eye poke!

Reports Minty for spamming ad infinitum :o

£10 is pretty good for adults.

A new hardback book from Waterstones.

A nice bottle of plonk or cava (or two!)

Something good to eat.

My dad loves homemade gifts, like Christmas cookies, and photos of the DCs or a daft CD they've made of themselves larking around. He knows it denotes an effort having been made, and thought.

I don't know if we'll have a place to live at Christmas, so even just being family is going to be difficult. I have arranged for them to spend Christmas with their dads instead so it won't be spoiled. So yeah, eye pokes for people not happy with their tenner presents, because as I am learning, it can certainly be worse.

I only spend a £5 per adult family member and me and OH buy each other something to unwrap from the £1 shop. Christmas is not about presents.

Aw some nice ideas on here, will be stealing!

Of course not- I still think £5 is a lot! there's so much choice these days that you can make things you buy with £10 look like a LOT.

Shabby nutella fudge sounds amazing!

Nutella fudge recipe for anyone that's interested!

Thanks Shabby, I'll be making that for the DCs for Christmas!

Thank you!
ah it looks so nice, I'll make some to take home during reading week. Or I'll just make it there

thanks Shabby! that'll make a good pressie for FIL x

DH & I usually set a limit of £10 and we find it's actually nicer as you can put more thought into the present rather than just panic buy something big last minute.

We've got loads of lovely things over the years, from calendars by favourite artists, foodie gifts, photos developed up from pcs, that kind of thing. Much prefer it to flashy gifts!

Yanbu-I plan on doing exactly the same this year for adults as i'm skint too.
My dc are getting £100 each, nephews & niece's £20 each.

i think that so long as you're happy (or the recipient is) to get 2nd hand items as gifts, £10 is a great amount because you can put some real thought into the gift and get something that they'll really like, not just getting smellies from Boots.

My sister is getting a child's weaving loom for Christmas and DH is getting some fantastic Four comics as he loved them as a child. Both less than £10 but the recipients should be pleased. Equally, I made my MiL a button tree last year, which she still has on display and my mum is getting a nice glass jar of pickled cabbage this year. Certainly not a gift for everyone but she singlehandedly ate her way through our jar when she came to live with us so it'll raise a smile. Carefully chosen presents don't have to cost fortunes.