To ask how much you spend on DC at Christmas?

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My DC are 5 and 2 and, my DD has a huge list which adds up to about £400, just wondering how much you spent, although I’m guessing it varies depending on what they want.

Probably about 300 each child

We make it clear Santa only brings one present the rest is from us and family so prevents a long list scenario.

We give them the big present, Santa does the stockings, even now they are all teens.

Totally agree with this. These threads should be zapped.

The amount we spend on DC is totally reliant on household income so you are either gonna get the people who can spend £100 or less and then feel like shit for it or the people spending £1000 and showing off to make everyone else feel completely inadequate.

Please people stop posting these threads!

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About £500 each, but we're talking teen and early twenties. When mine were little, we took full advantage of them not knowing how much anything cost. They got plenty from family and friends.

And Santa has only ever been the delivery guy, all the kids knew that presents were from the people who had gifted them.

This Christmas, probably £200 as DS 16 is getting his first new tablet. More like £100 the last few years. When he was little his main present was a lego set, similar to ones that are now £30, and things like new character pyjamas, some chocolate, coloured pencils or felt tips and a book.

I don't let my daughter think that Santa brings the bigger/more expensive things. Primarily because I don't want her going to school and saying that Santa brought her something really cool when other children may only get something small from Santa and wonder why. She still gets a good gift from Santa, as obviously I don't want my child to feel like that either but not only that, I don't feel like it's fair for parents to not get the credit for the most expensive gift! You can call me selfish for that by all means

For me it's tricky as DD's birthday is mid Jan & crucially, within the same pay period as Christmas! So I just 'buy loads' then split between Christmas & birthday. Unfortunately this always means I end up taking 'buy loads' a bit too literally!
This year I've spent in excess of £600 inc birthday gifts. No doubt she'll end up with extra little things added on by the time it gets to mid Jan too.

1 DC aged 7, £150-200 depending on what they ask for or what I can afford. That includes Santa presents though

Wow lucky 20 somethings! My parents had long since reduced us down to a £40-50 gift each by then!

Now get a chocolate orange & socks.

Thanks for the parenting lecture

Spent 460 this year on ds he wanted a pc upgrade and its joint with his bday but normally 150 max

About £1200-£1300 on each of my 3

My DC are in their 20’s and 30’s, I’ve spent £160 on each of them. Over the years we’ve had plenty of Xbox, PlayStation, new phone, TV etc Christmases. Once they got to around 19 we reigned in the spending.

When the kids were little I spent £50 max and bought a lot of their presents in charity shops, because little kids really don't know any better and i could then redonate 6 months later without guilt (it wasn't a financial thing, I just didn't see the point when we already had a house full of toys). These days I spend quite a bit more (around £250) but that's because they get presents I know they'll really get good out of (e.g. a bike). They only get big presents at Xmas (even birthdays tends to be smaller). I really try to avoid buying throwaway stuff for the sake of it.

Nothing, we're not hard up at all and they have more than enough during the year. We just have a great holiday season together, sometimes visiting family in the UK but as for buying tat, we don't do it.

What we can afford. There’s been years they’ve had less and years they’ve had more but we always try to shop savvy, if they want something that’s above a budget we look for discounts, deals or second hand to try and get them what they want. They’re 17, 15 and 6 now and we’ve always told them that we send the gifts to Santa (obviously the big ones know there’s no Santa now 😂) but that way it means they’ve always understood why there may be limitations and why I shop for everyone else

We're high earners and I could spend a fortune on gifts for the kids but choose not to. I spend a lot of my money on fun family activities throughout the year and try to avoid focus on "stuff". I love Christmas but HATE excess and waste, and really don't want my kids to be spoiled, so we really focus on who we spend the time with (people we love) and enjoying that family time together. So at Christmas I spend more on the food than the gifts - they get small things, often second hand from charity shop or local sell & swap groups, plus their favourite chocolate cereal, little sweet treats to enjoy over the holidays.

Our kids are still small (primary school) so not too demanding but I hope to continue this approach in the future.

We spend £100 on each child, there are four of them . Then they have £40 for birthday, three of them are Nov, Dec and one in July. If grandparents, extended family buy lots of gifts then we usually put the remaining money from our budget into their bank account.

Our kids are still small (primary school) so not too demanding but I hope to continue this approach in the future it does get harder once DC are teens to do this.

I'd say £200-£250 this year for DD. She's an only but also has a December birthday for which she's having a party.

I normally spend about £350-£400 but, this year, I am trying to be more careful about what I buy and have bought alot in the sales and second hand stuff, so I've probably spent about £250 each. Both tweens.

I've just added up the DCs list and it's just shy of £100 each. I know every family is different but I can't imagine spending much more than that. They are fairly young though, I imagine it gets more expensive as they get older.

I don't really set a budget obviously nothing crazy like 1000 but if there's something they want and I can afford it then they'll get it. I've 3 kids from a teen to 3 year old so it's different for each. 3 year old would be happy to get a banana and teen would absolutely die of embarrassment if she got anything that wasn't on her list