To ask how much you would normally spend on christmas per child?

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Back when money was ok I would spend around £300 each on my children at christmas. 70% of the stuff they would never bother with again after christmas day and another 10% of what was left would be broken/bits missing within 6 months. But yet I felt I had to spend a lot because it was christmas.

Then money got shit. I had to dramatically reduce how much I spent on them for around 2 years and it came down to around £100 each.

Now money is good(ish) again and I'm left wondering how much SHOULD you spend for christmas??

Already I have spent £120 each and it seems I havn't got much. £70 of that is just two tiny xbox games.

How much do you spent on yours and if you could spend more, would you?

My dd has never really had the eyes light up at presents thing.

We love Christmas and personally think the best thing is just the excitement of Christmas, such as putting the tree up, fairy lights all over the house, christmas food shopping and prep, and the coke advert . I think presents are just a nice extra (and dd will not have anything to open this year as the moped is already in the garage, but she does have a stocking every year, always with a satsuma and a handful of nuts with the smellies and chocolate).