To ask how much your spend on Christmas presents?

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Just that.

Amount spent on children, other family, any friends you buy for, any friends’ children, godchildren, teachers/TAs etc, other gifts such as one for the particularly helpful postman etc.

I’ve saved up over the year but the money just seems to have frittered away, despite trying really hard not to spend too much individually. Agh!

Less than £200 on presents (budget of £15 max each but I'm under so far cos I'm making fudge for a few). About £50 on food/drink. I don't have kids so that cuts the cost.

£300 on each child (2)
£20 on nieces/nephews/friends kids (10)
£50 on me (I'm single)

Coach Bombay that is such a great list ( sensible amounts). I love the idea of secret santa for adults etc . It will never happen for us though.

According to my budget I spent £76 last month on Christmas presents, £357 this month and I spent £30 at an NCT sale in September but I'm all done except for teachers so I expect £500 all in which is more than I wanted to spend but I know I have bought thoughtful gifts this year so spending a bit extra was worth it.

I’ve spent about £800 in total this year on my husband, 2 teenage children, parents, 2 siblings and partners, 5 nieces and nephews and a few close friends and their children. It all adds up and doesn’t include all the food, drink, going out etc that will cost a small fortune too!

£150 each for adult DC and DP
Parents £50 each
Friends less than £20 each
Work colleagues £5 each
I budget £1000 total but that also covers food and drink for Xmas, new year etc

So,where in the region of £1200 to £1400

Way too much DD birthday the week after I think I would cry If I calculated it 😂

Total for 10 family members £150.

My nephew's and nieces are all adults now so just cards for them now.I have 7 people to buy for.I spend a bit more on my mum and dd but about £20 on the others.
We are at my sister's this year so I am buying the alcohol as my contribution.
Christmas should not be about spending obscene amounts of money but about being with people you care about and who care about you.

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We do (roughly)
£200 per dc
£100 on dp
£50 on dm and dmil
£25 on dniece and dnephew
£30 on db
£0 on dbil and dsil as we just buy for kids
£10 on a few friend's kids
£10 on work secret santa (mine and dp's)
£5 on dc's best friends

Can I just ask - those of you who spend less than £100 on each DC - what do you do when all they want is something more expensive?

For example, DS2 had a PS4 last year and DD wants a Nintendo Switch this year. Neither asked for anything else and in general they are not "spoilt" children and do appreciate the value of things.

But what would you do with a request like that? Always say no to anything electronic or more expensive?

Wow I’m shocked when I’ve added everything up and we haven’t finished or have any DC yet - little girl on the way though!

My family
DP = £200
Mum = £75
GPs = £60 between them both
Sis = £30
Bro = £30
Cousin = £20 (he’s only 6)
Uncle & Aunt =£20 between them both
Friends = £40
=£445

My DPs
MIL = £100
FIL = £40
Me = £200
BIL/SIL = £0 (only buy for the kids first time this year)
Nieces = £20 each
=£380

£825 how did this happen

A few years ago I just told everyone that we aren't doing presents anymore. I just buy for my kids and niece. Oh and a secret Santa for the adults if seeing dhs family on the day. It just gets to the point where Christmas because too much. I would save for months to buy peoples kids plastic crap, they buy my kids plastic crap, everyone ends up broke.

Dc approx £3-400 each
Dh £75
Mum £50
Mil £20
6 nieces and nephews £150
Godson £15
Neighbours child £10
Auntie £15

I don’t have a budget. I buy what I need.
I spend a fortune on booze, eating out, outfits, parties etc from mid November - this is the irritating outlay as mostly they aren’t great nights out

Budget £70 each for my children
£10-£15 for other family

@SantasLittleMonkeyButler, sadly if the budget doesn’t allow they can’t have it and you just feel tremendously guilty. My children are fab about it. But I still feel crap. It was so much easier when the children were small, I could get a lot more for my money

Can I just ask - those of you who spend less than £100 on each DC - what do you do when all they want is something more expensive*

They don't ask for expensive things for Christmas . If they did we would say no.The teenager has had more expensive things for her birthday on the odd occasion.

Far too much IMO!
3 dc - £200 between them
10 nieces and nephews - £150 between them
Dh - £60
Parents and siblings - £100
Teachers etc - £20
Friends - £50
Misc - £30
£600+ I reckon
That's before all the charity and school donations, parties and events, food etc.
Conservative estimate £1000?
Which I can't afford.

About £10,000 So far on 4 children and husband, plus food for the day, decorations etc

@Woopsimsorry is the extra zero deliberate or accidental! £10,000? Wow that's my salary for the year.

I’ve spent £200 on DP, £100 on DS (12mths), about £30 total on little gifts for 4 friends, £50 on parents, £60 on DSis, DBil and nephews/niece, £20 on Goddaughter and her sisters. So about £460 plus food, wrapping/gift bags and I need to buy some things for DS’s nursery too.
DP spends about the same but has more family to buy for and doesn’t buy for friends/their children.
He also spends a lot more on me as has more disposable income.

@SantasLittleMonkeyButler

I don't have any more than £35 each for them so I would just have to tell them no. None of mine really ask for anything anyway my youngest 8 asked for post it notes this year. He's obviously getting more than that but that's all any of them have asked for. If all three wanted a games console i would talk to family and see if they would like to all chip in towards it but so far they 're happy with the Xbox they got before my ex left.

About £400 each for x2 dc and £100 for adult dc.
£80 dh.
About £15 each on all other family members.
3 day trip to see family will be about £400 ish.