to ask how much you spend on DCs christmas presents?

[Splatt34]

Just that really.

DD is 2 & have finally decided what to get her. Adds up to around £70 in total.

how about the rest of you?

[Theicingontop]

It's going to be very different next year in our house. OH has essentially cancelled Christmas and moved it to New Year because he has more time off then. And everything related to Christmas will be a quarter of the price

[MamaBear17]

I have spent about £70 on my dd this year. She is one. I seem to have got a lot for my money too, she has about 6 parcels to open. The grandparents have both gone completely ott with presents so I figured 'Santa' wouldnt have too. I have also decided that if she gets a stupid amount of gifts I shall put some upstairs to bring out throughout the year rather than give them her all at once.

[notwoo]

Probably about £100 per child including stocking and new outfit.

I don't really like the 'pile of presents' mentality that a lot of people seem to have. I think it can over face children and also encourages parents to either spend too much or waste money on cheap crap to bulk up the pile.

Ours have a decent stocking from FC and a couple of other presents from us plus presents from close family and it still seems like an obscene amount of gifts.


But each to their own.

[Gillyweed001]

DS will be 3 months old at Christmas. We are going to buy him a few bits (using tesco vouchers!). probably about £20 odd quid.

[floatyjosmum]

Mine are prob on the £300 mark each but at 8 and 12 the presents are getting smaller but more expensive. Also dd needs a new bike which was about 180, ds wanted Lego and 2 boxes were nearly the same price.

Have to say though nobody buys from my side and dh is an only child so only 1 set of grandparents!

Next Xmas we will have an 8 month old but won't get as much as the other two in money!

I also don't buy all year round so Xmas and bdays are the only chance they get for new things

[littlestressy]

My DS is 1 this December, we got him two presents at the village Christmas sale yesterday; a grand total of £1.00!! Lovely toys though. I'll probably get him a book aswell so birthday and Christmas will probably total about £10.00.

[MarianneM]

Ha ha!

I found DD1 (age 4) an old vintage doll's pram from an antique/bric a brac shop for £5 - will restore it myself and that will be her only present from us.

DD2 (age 2) - got her a £15 porcelain toy teaset from John Lewis. That's it.

They will both get more presents from grandparents etc, although I have set a strict limit of 1 present per child from grandparents.

[Fifis25StottieCakes]

Laptop why dont you get an R4/R4I card for ds, illegal i know but £30ish on FB for 35 games. The games are very expensive.

[FionaJT]

About £50 (dd is nearly 8). £30 on main present, this year a secondhand DSi (which is also from my Mum and my Gran to get enough cash together), and about £20 on stocking presents (including pants & other useful items). Could afford a bit more, but honestly think it is unnecessary, she has so much stuff, especially as dd's birthday is early January. I'd rather spend the money on trips to the panto/nice days out over the holidays etc.

[YoHoHoAndABottleOfSherry]

Just added it all up now - about £100 on 5 yr old - roughly £12 on Playmobil advent calendar, £25 on present from us, £40 on stocking, £10 on pantomime ticket, £10 on present from her sister to her.

Similar for 1 year old, spent less on her present from us (£10) but slightly more on her stocking .

Of course, we have also bought panto tickets for ourselves, which we wouldn't have got if we weren't taking the DC, so suppose we are actually spending another £50 on that

[nocakeformeplease]

About £80 on DS 3.10 and about £45 on DD who will be 8 months at Christmas.

This excludes new outfits, pj's etc though. And DS seems to get quite a few bits during the year so doesn't do badly.

I can see how it gets a lot more expensive though as they get older but am though at the poster spending £350 on a 10 month old.

[nocakeformeplease]

No idea why I wrote though three times in that post!

[ThePathanKhansWitch]

So far i,ve bought a wooden castle, brand new a bargain off ebay about £50
Big bundle of papo figures to with it, second hand also off ebay, about £45.
Shopping list and crazy chefs, also a bingo game, about £20 from amazon.
Brave dvd and i need to get some music, one of my brothers has bought her a cd player.
Will buy some bits and bobs for a stocking.
My family are very generous, i hate to be dictatorial with family but i have asked them not to go mad, it was her birthday a few weeks ago, so it can get a bit much.
My mum has bought her clothes and junior scrabble.
Tbf all she has asked for is a torch to go with the metal detector she got for her birthday.
I see redhouse have free del before 5th dec, buying books for nieces/nephews so will get her a few books.
Dh family are muslim and tend to buy her for eid, so i think she does more than well all in all.Hope you all have a lovely xmas when it gets here.

[mrsEbruce]

*nocakeforme it was easily enough done we bought what we felt was sufficient and what we could afford though after reading this thread dh has rained it in for her birthday in febuary. We actually thought what we spent was average lol

[fluffypillow]

We've got 2 boys, 15yrs and 10yrs, and a girl who is nearly 2yrs.

we've spent about £250 each on them for under the tree, and £75 each for their stockings.

The boys gifts are expensive, but small, so we tend to spend more on extras. I have spent this much on DDs gifts as I like her to have plenty of toys to 'grow into' throughout the year and I can't resist pink sparkly, glittery stuff after having two boys

We don't spend what we can't afford, and we love to spoil the kids at christmas

[FunnysInLaJardin]

we will spend about £100 on each child. We have 2 DC. We will also spend about £100 each on each other

[dinkybinky]

Twins ... mac books
DD..... I phone 5
DS..... I phone 5

[Fluffy1234]

Ds1 is grown up and works full time so about £150
Ds2 £450 age 15


Ds3 £450 age 12
We haven't spent this amount before but ds3 has had a really rough year and been diagnosed with epilepsy and his brothers have been so kind and supportive. We are not getting into debt and they don't get presents from anyone else.

[bubby64]

I have had to spend more this yr as my 2 are both 12 and started High School, and they both wanted laptops!! Although I have got them reconditioned ones, they are still costing me £130 each, I have got them a few smellies and little bits for their stockings (about £10 total) and a pair of trainers each very much reduced in sports direct (£15), which they need anyway, as they have outgrown their last pair. Last year I got away with only spending about £40 each on them, and, TBH they have not had a lot for their birthday (today) as they understood I would be spending more on christmas presents. If I had had my Christmas club money earlier, it would have been the other way round, more on birthday, less on Christmas, like last year, but the way finances have worked out this year, it has had to be like this.

[bellechristmas]

£100 each and not gone into debt.

[Marzipanface]

I posted on another thread about this. It's a popular topic! My DD is 2 turning three straight after Christmas. We have spent roughly £25. My family never spent a huge amount at Christmas, we mainly went for quantity. Birthdays were always the big ticket presents.

I have cheated a little as some of the presents were bought earlier in the year and have been stashed away and I can't remember the price. We could spend more if we wanted but don't think it's necessary at this age, plus we are trying to save cash at the moment.

Big bundle of craft/card and glue etc...
A lovely wooden ride on train for pennies via ebay
Some toys from the nearest poundshop
Slippers
Electric toothbrush that she can decorate with stickers and fancy glittery toothpaste
A money box
A variety of books from The Book People.

She will also get presents from other family members but I have told them not to go mad. She will be happy with a packet of felt pens!

She will also have a stocking with bubbles, crayons and sweeties.

[MegBusset]

About £100 each on mine, including stockings. No "big" presents this year so just a good selection of smaller bits (not tat though), the most expensive present was £17.50. The pile of stuff will probably look much bigger than the budget!

[MegBusset]

Also mine get hardly anything from other family - just a small gift or two from GPs.

[nocakeformeplease]

It wasn't meant as a criticism mrsEbruce. Its just that I'm really struggling to find things that I think DD would really want or need at this age. Mind you, that's partly because we still have so many baby toys from DS and also because her favourite 'toy' at the moment seems to be a packet of baby wipes!