How much do you spend on dc's at Christmas?

[justalittlelemondrizzle]

I spend about £70 - £100 each. They're 8 & 10. But from what I've seen at Christmas time -on facebook- eek other parents spend hundreds.

I was thinking about getting toddler d's a phone. He likes games on it and it might help with speech

I'd imagine talking to them or buying a book on developing language would actually work rather than giving them a phone

£100 max (for gifts from us and FC)
£100 for birthday on 27th Dec.

Try and save some to buy bits during the year as the occasions are so close together

Everybody does Christmas differently. I, like another poster up thread dont give dd clothes, books or things she needs for Christmas. (As she gets older and wants clothes then that's fine) Christmas is about what she WANTS.
Because I buy her everything on her xmas list it doesn't mean I love her any more or any less than people who cant/ dont do that.
I love spoiling my dd, she is not spoilt, she is thankful for everything she gets.
Its not a competition and I think that some people are jelous that others can afford to spend more than they can. It's life.

£100 each

If they want games consoles or iPhones they buy their own by working / saving for them.

As others have said each to their own. We choose not to spend much on Christmas as don’t see the point.

Justalittle- please pay absolutely no mind to the showoffs.
Some people wrap up lots of very cheap gifts. Others few more expensive ones... and i don't agree with all this, giving children huge piles of gifts- all supposedly from Santa, so what Santa likes your child more because you are better off? Well it doesn't seem fair to me.

We always give a separate pile of nice but inexpensive gifts from Santa then the others are from us.
Sorry, I will get back to the point, also, what she gets for Christmas largely differs from year to year. She has had gift piles worth £1000 all the way to about £250. Christmas is always a huge thing in our house.

DD(4) and DS(5)

My budget this year was £100 each.
But then we decided to get them a bike each.

So they’ve got a bike £85 and £100.
Then I think we’ve spent around £80 on other presents.

Started early, so I’ve actually finished for DD.
Just need to pay the rest of DS bike and we’re finished for him.
Starting early also meant that I haven’t got into any debt and could afford to buy everything.

Next year it won’t be as much because we’ll have another child by then. So probably £100 on the bigger ones and £50 on the baby (be 8 months by then)

I don't buy for random relatives or friends either....or over buy food.
That cuts a hell of a lot off the budget.

I believe a family needs a household income of at least £100k to be comfortable

I completely agree.

@openup41

We live in Scotland which admittedly makes a difference from SE England but you didn't mention area so I'm presuming you mean in general. Our household income is 50k. We're comfortable. I suppose it depends what your definition of that is of course but we have a mortgage almost paid off in a nice house, 2 cars, kids do clubs and we go on mainly modest holidays etc and can afford to splurge at Christmas. I'm a sahm so no childcare costs. I guess what I'm saying is that's a hugely sweeping statement because income does not naturally equate to how comfortably offf people are. There are so many factors - area, mortgage or rent, size of house you chose to buy / size of mortgage etc etc etc.

Taking into account a mortgage (modest house), childcare costs for x2 children, commuting costs, pension; I believe a family needs a household income of at least £100k to be comfortable.

Not true for all if the country at all.

Some of us manage on far far less than £100k, to me that's a fortune !

100k in my neck of the woods would make us rich! Very rich!

100K is 4 times our annual salary. 🙈🙈🙈

I spend £60 each, but then I'm not minted.

I spend whatever I can afford to spend at the time. This year DS's presents have come to about £100 (should have been more but I got them part of the 3 for 2 at Argos along with his bday present), last year I only spent £60 because that's all I could afford.

Don't spend time worrying about how much other people spend, if hey can afford that then you can't aspire to spend the same as someone who is in a different financial position, and if they can't afford it then they'll find themselves paying off Christmas for a while and you really don't want to put yourself in that position.

That kind of happened to me louise, I'd bought everything, then I spotted a platform 9 3/4 alarm clock for HP-mad DD, luckily I still had money from DM for DD's Christmas present, so I bought that and a drone with a clear conscience. 😇

This year it’ll be around £150/£200 each, maximum.

I have a tendency to go overboard as we have no family and I feel like I have to compensate for that. But this year I seem to have become a lot more content with the fact, and will be sticking to 7 specific gifts each, all of which have been priced up and I’ll be buying in the next week or so.

I00 k. I've lost count of how many laptops we have This is insane!!! How on earth do the quarter of the UK population who live in poverty manage. Ugg boots? A decent phone? People are actually hungry. Get your heads round that.

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£80-100 per child. We have 3 dc between us (2 together) so keep things equal. They have large extended families and the amount of presents every year is obscene so We don't feel the need to spend huge amounts. We have a joint income just shy of £80k and feel comfortable enough. Particularly as others have said when so many families have to rely on food banks.

I believe a family needs a household income of at least £100k to be comfortable

hahaha. That is just silly AND insulting

WTF

Around 60 per child

Something they want
Something they need
Something they'll wear
Something they'll read

Usually around £400 each and we have 5DC but I never ever post about what I've bought on FB I wouldn't,I'd hate to think that one of my friends may well be really struggling and that a picture or 20(as the case seems to be on FB)of the huge piles of presents at our house could make them feel like crap,that's not what Christmas is about showing off and making other people your supposed to care about feel like crap.

But I am very much in the minority amongst my friends as nearly everyone else seems to do nothing but post pictures of what they've bought for Christmas.I'm sure some people use it as a tool for one upmanship and I hate it!