How much does christmas cost you?

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How much do you spend on gifts for family and friends, kids . And then christmas food, buffets, christmas decor. How much will you spend in total for everything .

I think we spend around
£100 on my parents, nieces, nephews and grandparents.
£300 on 3 DDs
£300 on DPs family (we still buy for adults on his side)
£200 on me and DP for each other
£100 on food
Plus any Christmas trips, pantos etc so we'll into £1,000... Gosh that's depressing!!! I do love Christmas though!!!

I would guess around £600. Possibly a bit more. I have one dd, DH and then 9 close family members to buy for. We don't really buy much in the way of Christmas food as we will all get chocolate as presents. However, this year I am cooking Christmas dinner so expect to spend a bit more on food. We have a real tree, panto booked and go to Christmas markets and to visit santa. It sounds like a lot, but the way I see it, £1800 of mine and DH'S hard earned salary is spent annually two things that are complete luxuries. One is our annual holiday and the other is Christmas. I save and plan to make the most out of what we can afford to spend and thoroughly enjoy it because I feel that my family and I deserve it.

£1000 on presents, £200 on food/drink £300 on days out, work do, etc. I'm aiming to cut the present buying down this year though by not buying bargains just because they are bargains!

It all relative though isn't it i only have one so i spend that as i can afford it. Some of my friends will say to me they cant believe i spend that they spend £100 tops but then they say in the next breath that their kids are getting Ipads off the GP.

D'you I've never actually kept a tally on the cost.
I try not to spend too much, but off the top of my head.......

DS has a December birthday so I will ignore the cost of that.

We go for a meal in December (so £60)
The main food shop - £0 . No , I don't shop lift the food, I use my Nectar Points but before that, I;m buying food throughout December.

Presents for DD and DS - probably £100 each,
Stocking and Christmas Eve Hampers maybe £50 each

Trips out - Harry Potter for all of us, London Sadlers Wells for DD and I (£90 + £29 for tickets)

Another £150 in Costco

50 euro each for presents - bloke, brother, mother, father. Was totally broke last Christmas, so I stuck to 200 euro. This year I'll have a party, go for drinks & maybe buy a present-to-self in the January sales.

At a guess...

£600 on presents for DD
£150 on presents for rest of the family (lots of aunts/uncles/young cousins etc)
£150 days out
£25 cards/wrap
£100 on food, we eat out Xmas day but like to order our Boxing Day meal from m&s
£50 on decorations or other random things

It's a lot but I thoroughly enjoy a Christmas. I much prefer to spend money on this than a big summer holiday.

About £1000 on my six dc. Then about £200 on presents for dh and family. I re use decorations and tree about £20 on decorations and cards, paper.
On food around £100 I don't go overboard and I don't buy alcohol.

DD's presents come to about £350

DH's come to about £100 (and he spends about that on me)

I save vouchers/stamps/silver and coppers in a jar all year to go towards the main shop, usually I end up getting change! So while it's 'free' at the time it's worth about £150

No other friends/family so no other presents/cards to buy, sadly

No parties or anything (see above ) but we do have a few outings to carol concerts, cinema etc, so about £100 for those

Extra foody/drinky bits, plus our New Year's Day stuff (we do it like Christmas Day but with one small present each - it's a Welsh tradition called Callenig) comes to about another £100

So altogether roughly £800. But I put away £10-£15 a week from January to cover it and start buying presents in the January sales. DD's presents are pretty much all done already.

I spend around 250 on each dc, 200 on family presents, me and dh spend 100 on each other, 50 on new Christmassy bits and a film and about 200 on food and drink. Although this year I'm hoping family presents will be cheaper as I'm making some of them myself.

DS's family £400 isn
My family £150 (only buy for niece and nephews).
DH £100 on books/dvds, he normally does want want anything more (although I did get him a mini iPad for his birthday). He will buy me some Aveda goodies so another £100 isn
DS £200 (not buying as much this year, last year he opened the first thing and has played with that the most all year - it cost around £10!)
DD £100 (she's only 1)
Cards/decs (£40 (new tree last year)
Food extra £150-200
Dress/shoes Christmas party £200
Christmas jumpers for DS & DD £50
= 1500
I thought it was going to be worse..

Around £1500, but that would include DS and DHS inconvenient December birthdays!!

LY I had around £300 M&S credit card loyalty vouchers and £200 boots loyalty points as I saved them up all year which helped

Family Presents £250 (all bought).

DS presents i've budgeted £300 but it might not be as much as that. Depends what he asks for.

I get £100 M&S vouchers from work so that pays for main Christmas meal which I order and collect on Christmas Eve.

I then spend an additional £100 on food and drink for Christmas Eve, Drinks, Boxing Day meal.

My husbands work subsidises most of the cost of a big panto so we're probably only around £50 on days out during that time.

So £750 all in? Not bad I'd say

I didn't count outfits and decorations... Add another £100 to that £750

A rough estimate of what I spend and who/what I spend it on is:

DH - £50
DC about £100 each so - £300
DH family - £60
My family - £130
Pets - £40
DH gift to me - £50
Gifts to me and DH from DC - £30
Food - £30 (Christmas eve party)
Drinks - £65
Decorations - £30 (using last year's but may buy a few extras)
Other - £35 (our contribution to Christmas dinner)

Can't think of anything else at the moment so that's a total of £820

Buy for 60 people - although some are couple sets

Around £500

Then DP £50 DS £50 (MAX)

Christmas "extras" £50