To only spend £15 on people at Christmas?

[Littlebee76]

I did all my Christmas shopping yesterday online, to get it all out the way. I only have close family to buy for, my parents, grandparents & inlaws but every year in the past I've taken time to carefully select presents yet never seen them being used in fact I bought my mil some expensive perfume and over a year later I'd seen she hadn't even opened it.

So this year I've budgeted myself to spend £15 per person and bought mostly nice scarves. I feel a bit tight and stingy but at least if they don't wear them then I haven't spent a small fortune.
Plus we have IVF bills to pay (4th round!) so it's not as if we have lots of money to spend..

AIBU?

We agreed no Christmas presents for adults. Best thing we ever did!

Impossible for us to say as it depends on your family/friends as to what is expected!

In my family we only spend £5 per adult couple.

I think this is fine. We have NY gifts rather than Xmas (Russian contingent), and I try to stick to £20 per couple / £10 each. If I don't know someone well, I'll go for a consumable gift, like posh chocs or fudge. I figure they're less likely to end up in landfill.

I spend around £15 for adult siblings and their partners as a joint gift, probably slightly more on parents but only marginally, up to about £150 each on my two kids, about £75 on my husband and him same on me then about a £5-10 on my best friend and my husbands best friend who are both more like family and about £5 each on our grandparents (always things reduced from a lot more as they like to think we have spent a lot) who every year openly hate whatever we buy but we know if we were to not buy them anything they would be put out. The elder generation of our family is vile at christmas time to the point of physically trying to see if weve spent enough by looking in shops, except in the past weve spent more than we afford and they still complained! Ive given up trying so they get any old shit

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