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!

More than usual. I don't know yet.

DS1:

£20 Lego eGift card

DD2:

£37 GT Live hoody
£12 joggers
£35 Pokemon Ultra Moon

DS2:

£37 Preston Playz hoody
£8 joggers
£8 Spiderman Illumi-mate
£11 Stretch Monster

About £1300 on presents, this covered our boys and we buy for the whole family including parents, siblings and their partners and children, grandparents (3 sets) and each other Then about £300 further on food and £200 on tickets to different Christmas events. Then we’ve spent around £100 on some new decorations. We’ll probably spend another £300 on meals out too.

I start buying presents around August though and buying tickets around that time too so it isn’t one big expenditure.

Now I’ve typed it down though I’m shocked we spent that much!

4DC, lots of niece and nephews, three sisters, two BILs, two sets of divorced parents, so 8 'parents' to buy for instead of 4.
I budget 2k. I come in just under budget usually, but that's because I shop all year round to get everything as cheap as possible, (I only buy things that I think will be wanted and appreciated... why assume its thoughtless crap?!)
I also end up hosting most of the family get togethers, so my weekly shop doubles in December, and I'm a good cook/baker so end up giving out a lot of mince pies and the like over the season. Love it, don't begrudge a penny of it.
Conversely, I hate flying and my worst nightmare is a summer holiday in the sun - I prefer to trudge around old castles in England in the damp :) So what I don't spend on 'nice' holidays, I get to spend on Christmas. :)

I don't have children so buy for D parents , D step parents, 3 dsiblings, DP, DP parents and 2 secret Santa's. Probably spend about £100 because I get a lot of things for free (incredible perk of my job).

This year I budgeted £100 each for mum, dad and 2 siblings. Probably spent about £150 on DD. Then small presents for brothers' gfs and a couple of other friends. Don't buy presents for wider family

Zero or as little as possible..

£500 total but trying to cut it down. 2 kids, husband, extended family. Xmas at ours this year. Children getting one gift from us each plus stocking. Trying to do more fun stuff - mince pies, carols, see Santa, show in London instead.
Am a bit over the endless buying. It irritates me as I think it spoils the best part of the festive season really.

For those asking how some of us with £100 or lower budgets for children do it, and avoid big price tag gifts. For us it really was start as we mean to go on.

We decided that if we just simply made Christmas from the beginning what we want it to be it would stop car crashes in later years. Especially if we added a sibling to the mix.

Father Christmas brings one present, this tends to cost no more than about £20/£25. The rest is from us mum and dad, aunties, uncles and so on and are clearly labelled/presented as from "X"

Birthdays however are far more celebrated as in the budget is not as fixed. Could be £30 could be £300.

The key to my nit needing to spend too much is partly because my kids don’t see adverts on tv etc so they have not much of an idea what is out there 👍🤣🤣

I don't think it's helpful to say 'I spend £x'.

Well yes it is when that's what the question in the OP was.

Nobody on this thread has said that 'Christmas is about how much you spend'. Nobody has suggested that if you don't spend much you're not doing it properly. They've just answered the OP's question. The OP was interested in what people's budgets were. It wasn't a moral judgement.

"Father Christmas brings one present, this tends to cost no more than about £20/£25. The rest is from us mum and dad, aunties, uncles and so on and are clearly labelled/presented as from "X""

This is how we do it in our house but my budget is still massive as I feel obliged to buy for everyone who buys for the kids.
Some years we attempt to economise by making jam or wine or bathbombs but once we've bought the ingredients, jars,wrapping etc I'm not convinced we save a lot.