How much do you spend for each dc for xmas presents?

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Around £50 each, usually to include stocking stuff. But I also get PJs and books, so probably another £15 each. Max £200 covers 3 children. They are 7, 10 and 11.

DD will be 2 in feb so in theory wont really understand a huge amount about Christmas and Santa and won’t need a massive amount spent on her. BUT I’ve just totted up how much I’ve already spent and it’s around the 250 mark and that’s without her main present which will be roughly another 70-100.

We can afford it though and I’ve been picking things up for the last month or two as and when I’ve seen things I know she’ll love. Wouldn’t get into debt for it and could easily spend less if I wanted but I don’t.

I imagine it’ll only go up as she gets older and I’m ok with that. She’s destined to be an only and DH and I will only earn more so it’s all relative really isn’t it

We do about £40 or £50 per child including stocking. If after something bigger we group cash from relatives.

We tend to do a few well chosen items and a small amount of quirky edible stuff. Hate all the pointless tat and unused gifts. The best played with gifts have been lego, balance bike, micro scooter, books,

I'm aiming for £50-70.

DS1 (4) has expensive tastes whereas DS2 (2) will be happy with anything dinosaur related. As they both play with each other's toys if I spend more on DS1 it's fine.

Other big ticket items I'll ask family to split between them.

It does get more the older they get and their tastes get more expensive. I've got teens and last year I spent about £250 on each of them. Bed to cut back this year. When they were little it was more about what they wanted/ needed. So if one needed a new bike I wouldn't automatically think I had to spend the same on the other.

Mine are 4 & 6 and are having a joint present that is £75 plus about £100 each in ‘bits’ my M&D spend about £100 each on them and they probably have about another £100 worth combined from other people, so that’s loads!

They’re not at the age yet where they want anything like a laptop/X Box or whatever so I suspect it’ll get more as they get older 🙄

Mine are 2&1 so in theory I shouldn't spend much but in reality I love toys so I get carried away. I'm aiming for £300 between them. The 2yo will be almost 3 and we've decided to get her a children's tablet so that will really eat into the budget but obviously 1yo won't notice.
I know lots on here find it tacky but I love a big pile of wrapped presents.

Mine are teens so about £500 each -maybe more if they want a new phone- but when they were younger and we had less money it was a lot less.

I've spent about £150 on my 4 year old and that includes his main present which was £70. I buy throughout the year apart from main presents which I leave till closer to Christmas. I also spend about £100 on Christmas activities, advent calendar bits and days out. I'm happy with this amount.

£50 each. They are 5 and 2 and get a lot of stuff from relatives.
We probably spend £200 on gifts for the relatives in exchange.

I don't have a set amount but it usually works out around 10 presents. Maybe one for £50-80 and the rest £10-30.

Varies - thankfully, not every year is a new bike or a new PC year.
DD (10) Lego Heartlake Hotel - £70
Jan birthday (11) - Nintendo Switch - £236

DS (13) Nov birthday (14) - Guitar strap - £60. Half price VANS - £40
Xmas - Considering Iphone SE - £300 (and he can pass his iphone 5s to DD so she can have a phone in preparation for secondary school). I'm not prepared to spend more on a phone for them on principle. They can buy it for themselves when they can earn their own money.

DD has never has a new bike - she has always inherited DS's Islabike obviously not for a present.

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Far too much TBH. They both need new phones this year (and do need as their current ones are starting to do the weird things phones do after a few years). We are an apple family and there's no point buying the oldest model available as it will unsupported soonest but they're not getting the newest either, so probably ab iPhone 7for the 18yo and a 6s for the 13 year old.

Then the 18 yo would like make up and the 13 yo has her heart set on a hatchimal...and off you go.

Phones wise my 15 and 16 y/o buy there own from thier Jobs. It’s amazing how much better they’re look after that way. Both have iPhones 📱

I have a spreadsheet, going back years and years now and have always tried to keep to the same budget.

DH and I were both brought up with lots of presents under the tree and a stocking so we do the same. I don't like the idea of 'something you want, need, wear, read' thing. It seems very limiting. And we don't treat our DC randomly through the rest of the year.

So I aim for between £150-£200 inc stocking etc. I try to get it as low as possibly under that and don't view it as a target.

My DC are teens now. They are modest in their wants though. We aren't an iphone family, so they wouldn't ask for something like that and they know it's too expensive. They know they will be able to buy themselves that kind of stuff when they are older or save for it. DD2 recently bought herself a PS4 for example.

This year, they will both have little bits and pieces for them and their rooms etc. And mostly would like cash! So the amount of bits will reduce what cash they can have.

DD2 is having a PS game, a throw for her bed, a hoodie and some other bits and pieces.

About £70 on games/toys/books and then about £30 on new outfit and pjs.
She’s only 1 though so tend to get 1 bigger present (duplo farm), 2 medium presents (some in the night garden stuff) and 3 smaller presents (bubbles, jigsaw etc) plus her stocking. She gets quite a bit from family and was overwhelmed last year. She has a summer birthday so at least presents are spread through the year

Between 200 and 500, last year we bought DD a wiiu with games which came to a fair bit. This year DH wants to buy her a macbook i think it's a ridiculous present for a 7yo

5 and 7 £250 each. £50 on tat for stockings and £200 proper presents from Santa. I have reigned it in this year. There will only be a few presents but all decent ones i.e. Lego, playmobil etc

Probably up to £100 per child (2 and 5). And not usually more than £20-30 on any single item. We don't tend to buy 'character' stuff so avoid expensive 'tat' (for now !). So they'll each get a couple of biggish presents (£20-30), a few smaller things (£5-10), and then stocking fillers. I try not to buy stuff for the sake of it, and we usually buy occasional books/puzzles/craft bits throughout the year, so everything they do get is 'treat' things rather than just wrapping a necessity/things we'd buy anyway. And i enjoy bargain hunting and finding things they'll love!

Plus the amount of toys we have already drives me mad, so i also try to avoid things that we can't easily store or will take up too much space!

Too skint this year. No stockings, I will probably only have about a tenner each to spend on them (dts)

Curly I'm sure they'll still have a lovely time. I think really most of the crap we buy at Christmas is to make ourselves feel better

What would a 7 year old do with a MacBook?

And I'm one who spends a lot so it's not about spending (presuming you can afford it) - and I'd buy a MacBook over a windows laptop - I just don't think a 7 year old needs their own laptop at all. Access to a shared one fair enough.

maybe just me.

We spent about 3k between the 4 kids last year, I have said we aren't going to spend that much this year but I've already gone just under 2k and I want to buy more yet