"How to spend it well at xmas"

[Duemarch2021]

Just watching this now on TV and some people spend almost £700 on their table decorations!?!?!!!! How much do you spend on decorating your table at xmas inclusing crackers, centerpiece, glasses cutlery etc etc???

£10 max on crackers. Never had a centrepiece or bought new glassware or cutlery.

Ummm crackers that’s it. Any more seems crackers to me

We spent £16 on place mats & £8 on crackers. Haha

Er, I whip out a white table cloth once a year, put a red candle I have and a bit of Holly and crackers on the table. That's it.

£700 for table decorations? Is there gold nuggets in the crackers or something?

Obviously they haven't inherited any.
Don't most people just get out the family silver (or brass)

We spend £0. Every year we make our own crackers.

Crackers £7.50 this year. That's literally all I spent on decor 😂

Who really cares? One day for the insta, tik tok, fb people. Very soon forgotten.

Will just provide nice grub, clean cutlery, and a few Christmas Crackers,

Don't believe everything you hear when it comes to how much people spend. In reality a tiny percentage of the super rich spend that ... the "Instagram" generation on the other hand, it's all fake, or gifted!!

Me personally, I have a fabric tablecloth that's been washed and reused for years, proper placemats that have lasted - literally - decades.
Same cutlery as every day. Bought some nice wine glasses in IKEA last year for £1 each and I have a frosted tree thing that I use as a centrepiece that, again, has lasted years! Crackers are the only thing I buy every year and I buy mid range good ones for about £20.

Crackers £6

Home bargains candle £4

Done.

I'm using left over crackers from last year, total spend zero. (I bet they don't go bang though)

I did spend £20 on a new cake stand/centrepiece this year but I expect it to outlive me and become an heirloom

£15 on a bottle of M&S Snowglobe Gin (the one that lights up) to use as a centre piece for the table. I don't even like Gin but DH does and it looks so pretty 🤩
Forgot about crackers 😬

This year I spent about £50 adding to my collection of candle holders, which I can use at other times. Crackers I have from last year, napkins are reused every year.
But it's not like they are burning the money- they are paying for items that people earn a living from making.

I bought a table cloth around 15 years ago and some nice festive placemats which come out. Other than that I have a couple of candles from the range and my normal wine glasses.

Crackers, maybe some candles. No more than £20 in total

Crackers - haven't bought yet, waiting to get a last minute discount
Holly and Christmas tree branches - free
Pinecones - free
Two brass deer - £4 each from charity shop
Candlesticks , charger plates, napkins, napkin rings etc all already have
Have enough dinner candles left from last year too

If imagine if people totted up the cost of all the crockery , glassware , serving dishes , table cloth , candle sticks , ornaments , flowers , place mats etc it would easily be a couple of hundred pound - I very much doubt they mean people spend £700 every year

Well I've never had Christmas dinner at home before (always gone to DP/MIL's) so I have bought new this year:

• a white tablecloth
• a table runner
• cloth napkins
• Christmas chair covers

Will use the normal cutlery/ glassware but I'm thinking of getting "Granny's" bone china plates out (except it's a pink rose design) and I'll buy some fresh flowers to do a centrepiece. All in? Less than £50.

I have a very old linen tablecloth that has been handed down in the family - it is around 80 years old I think. That comes out every year at Christmas and on Easter Sunday. Placemats were from Wilkinsons about 15 years ago.

Crackers £7.50 - that's it. I think there's some old paper napkins or serviettes knocking about somewhere.

I got a new table cloth this year, tenner from b&m. Then £6 crackers

@inquietant

We spend £0. Every year we make our own crackers.

But...what do you put in the crackers?

We have a red table cloth with a holly pattern on we’ve had for years, a candle holder we got for £2.50 in a charity shop last year as my daughter decided it was beautiful (it isn’t but she likes it and it’s not hideous). We have silverware and plates I inherited from grandparents as my mum already had her own. This year we’ve bought some Santa cutlery holders, crackers and posh chocolates. I wanted to get table confetti to double up as crafting supplies but totally forgot. Maybe I can pick some up later this week. Anyway it might come to £30 total and half of that is reusable. I can’t imagine spending £700 unless it was for a gorgeous dinner service we’d keep indefinitely

Yes they included plates and dishes etc too as well as placemats and glasses.. there was a centerpiece for almost £200 .. philip schofield was comparing a more expensive table to a "cheaper" table which cost just under £200 to decorate (with plates etc) persoanlly id just use my usual plates and glasses and probably pick pine cones from the woods, get a few candles from asda lol x

Over the years I have probably spent a max of £50, but it's all stuff I reuse yearly now. I spend up to a tenner on crackers and that's that.
I can't understand what's costing £700 haha.