To ask what you usually spend on nieces and nephews. Birthdays and Christmas?

[jeffreeshart]

Interested to know what the "normal" amount is, I'm starting to budget for Christmas our wider family seems to be extending drastically and I'm currently under redundancy consultation so slightly bricking it, as my payout will be bugger all if it does go ahead.

I do around about 25 for birthdays and 15 / 20 for Christmas. Do a bit less at Christmas as they all get ruined anyway so more a token gift really.

Thank you all for your replies, very helpful! I'm thinking to wait and see how my job situation goes and take it from there but I like the idea of slightly less for Christmas and more for their birthdays.

I have a difficult sibling who only wants cash for her dc and only gives cash so would hit the roof if I don't give her the exact amount to the penny for hers. She's a bit of a twat ott about it and keeps a log of who spends what.

I don't feel so mean now though! I enjoy picking out presents and feel a bit stupid giving a baby/small child cash so I'll stick to buying a gift for now, even if there's uproar

We buy nothing because we aren't made of fucking money.
8 nieces + nephews on DH's side, 12 on mine. Plus the odd godchild. No, we don't have a tenner each to spend on them, in one month. But birthdays are obviously more spread out, so they get birthday gifts, birthdays are imvho more special.

We're not all Rockerfuckigfellers

I do like the Secret Santa idea

About £30 each at birthdays and £20 at christmas. It started as bigger at birthdays as a birthday is a day all about them rather than a shared celebration- plus you can spread the cost throughout the year of birthdays- but my family obviously REALLY celebrate valentine's day as out of 3 nephews and 3 nieces- 4 are born in November

I do a secret santa with brothers and their partners. We use a website and all register and put some interests or wish lists and that picks who's got who, all done electronically. It's great. Thinks it's called draw a name.