How much do you spend on each child?

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I have five DC. At Christmas they'll be 11, 8, 7, 3 and nearly 6 months.

Just wondering how much people spend? Thanks :)

I have 4 DC and they write a list and we pick 4 things. If they ask for say a toy garage we would also buy accessories to match. Some years we have spent £50 a child other years much more.

I buy what ever is on the list and then stockings, pjs, books and clothes.

Usually about 300 for my 5 year old and anywhere up to a 1000 for my teen dependant on the list. I budget 1000- 1500 this includes activities over the christmas and without extended families presents.

I'm thinking somewhere between 100-150 on my son.

Around 3 to 5 hundred for DD. Not including stocking, Christmas Eve box, new Christmas Day outfit. It sounds a lot but when you see the presents wrapped up it doesn’t look OTT

We do under tree gifts for each DC (one main present then a book and other bits and pieces) plus stockings, Xmas pyjamas (I make them all match 😁), and a trip to the panto.

We have 3 dc and spend around 1% of our annual (net) income.

We stick to around 150£ per child. Have 2 dds. We never buy the kids clothers or books for Christmas, I see these things as essentials and are bought troughout the year. We get child tax credit in October, around 800£, so that covers gifts, food ect for Christmas and new yeae

We must be really tight! We spend around £2-300 on the kids combined (2). Ours are almost 3 (December birthday) and 1 though so I’m sure this will increase over time.
That includes Xmas eve box, presents and stocking.
Last year we got ten a wooden toy each from Aldi (£40 each ish) as their main present and then just a few little bits to go with it.

About £40-50. We are getting my 2 year old a joint present with my parents and grandmother and then I will get her a couple of little extras. Budget for most other people is £5-15. My mum asked for a pastry brush - we don’t do big gifts!

We don’t have a budget per child. We work more on them having an equal number of presents.

Currently ds1’s have come to $50 more than ds2’s but last year after everything was bought ds2 was about $120 more than ds1 but they had the same amount as each other to open.

What we spend each year in total really just depends on what they’ve asked for and how much we have to spare that year.

Last year I budgeted £100 per child (both primary age) - previously had been £150 but I've tried to cut back.
I work on the basis of a main present, another present, and a stocking of 7 items. So I have 9 slots to fill, and that's it, once the slots are full, if I see something else, something will have to get bumped of the list.
The budget's not set in stone, I'd go about 20% over, or happily go
under.

We spend £50 each child I’m a big bargain hunter so everything is normally 50% off.

I absolutely love everything Christmas,especially buying for my nearest and dearest. We only have the one daughter who is 13. Presents definitely get more expensive as they grow up but such is life. I don't set a budget as such but by the time we have got everything we would probably have spent about £1000.

This year her main present is Apple AirPods. I have already bought her some Vans trainers and some Nike Air Max 97 as they all seem to be into these and she asked for a particular pair which I've got. Some Pandora earrings.Also a Tommy Hilfiger hoodie,Levi's t shirt,Chloe perfume (she's called Chloe), Gucci perfume. Gift cards for H&M and JD Sports,ITunes voucher,and she has asked for a Xbox gift card. Still need to get lots of stocking presents for her Santa sack.At her age now she loves getting the bus into town with her friends and going shopping,cinema,getting lunch etc.

Its so easy to keep going and going as you just can keep seeing things that they would like. I spend around £500 on my husband. £250 on my mum. We haven't always been able to spend like we can now. I appreciate that everyone has a right to choose whatever budget they like and it's really no one else's business. It's easier to spend say £100 for a toddler/baby,but £100 for a teenager doesn't get you much at all nowadays. I like Christmas to be special,yes it's materialistic but that's a huge part of it. Watch a family film together on Christmas Eve 🎄🎅🏼,give them there New pjs or nightie,play a game. Then excitedly send them to bed,and the next morning they awake to lots of beautifully wrapped presents under the Christmas tree. The rest of the day is spending it with family eating and getting very merry whilst they play/look through their presents. 🤗ooh I'm getting excited now. 🤗👍

We have three kids and last year spent around £750 in total. To be honest once everything was wrapped it looked ridiculously OTT. Interesting observation that a PP made about the lower the income often meaning a higher Christmas spend. Our annual income is £400k+ so our spend was considerably less than 1%. We don't spend a lot on random toys throughout the year but we do buy the kids books on a pretty frequent basis.

I'm gobsmacked by some of the spending on here. Beats headphones, a MacBook and Harry Potter LEGO for a 10 year old? Madness.

God I dread to think. It’s an anomaly, because we’re not materialistic in any other way (no £600 handbags, designer clothes, etc.) and DD9 won’t even write a Christmas list as she finds it too stressful. Previous requests for main presents have been a stapler and a ball of string.

However it just seems to add up. Last year I probably spent c£600, not including Nutcracker tickets for her and a friend (£200 quid with accompanying adults) and tickets for a sleepover in the Natural History Museum which I think were about £120. That’s nearly a grand! I always seem to pick things up here and there and not really add it up. Plus she’s the only grandchild on both sides so has two doting grandmas. This year I think I’m going steer her towards experiences/days out. We went to New York a couple of years ago and she had a stocking and a few travel-related presents, and in all honesty I think she enjoyed that more.

I’m really going to try to cut back this year. We can afford it, though we’re not loaded, prob £100k joint, but tiny mortgage and not many outgoings, but it’s just so much unnecessary stuff! I suppose now she’s getting older she’ll probably want fewer items but if a higher value.

About £70 each dc which includes main gift and stocking.
they get gifts from family too

DD- 2.5- about £500
DS- 3mo (will be 7 by Xmas)- maybe £150 but will include a set of clothes from Jojo Maman Bebe

We're not well off at all but I save all year so I can spoil them at Christmas.

When they were little...Not much! Mainly from charity shops.
They are now early 20s and get a cheque for £300.

I have two children aged 6 and 9, I set a maximum budget of £250 each and try and spend as little as possible. To do this I get things when they are on offer, damaged box items with Amazon Warehouse and secondhand things.
This year they have seven toys and a book each. The estimated cost for my older son's is £212.94 (the most I have ever spent on him) and the estimated cost for my younger son is £139.55.

£100 each. Parents spend what they can afford.

I aim to spend £250 per year on toys for my 2 year DD, spread over 3 present occasions (birthday, St Nicholas and Christmas). Then she'll have items like pyjamas to bulk it out. I make my own clothes and toys for her too so that saves some money.

This year she's getting a wooden train set (half price from TK maxx) for her birthday, a wooden drum (real instrument) from St Nick, and a type of marble run called Hubelino that fits on to Duplo from Santa.

About £300 - £400 each.

2 kids

@omafiet it’s extremely insulting and snobby to suggest that the lower the income the higher the Christmas spend. It’s clearly my post you’re referencing and I can assure you, we are not a low income family! Nothing is bought on credit and I’d rather spend more on decent things that won’t break easily. DS needed a laptop for homework and he’s about to do the 11+ so he has been using it for preparation. It will last him well into secondary school. No he didn’t NEED the Beats headphones but we got a voucher with the MacBook and he kept breaking his wired ones by twisting the wires. If Harry Potter Lego isn’t meant for 10 year olds then who on earth is it meant for?? 😂

@LoonyLunaLoo ,I too had laughed to myself over the Lego comment 🤣🤦‍♀️. I think you buy/spend what you want and it's no one else's business 👍❤️

Prob around £100 each. Got two dd 4 & 3. One has a bday directly after Christmas and we have a lot of family so the house gets overwhelmed with stuff and they already have loads! we earn six figures. So it's not the money it's just I hate all the stuff, they seem to play with one thing and the rest is left.

I try to spend more on days out, weekends away, holidays etc as they get so much joy out of them

No set amount and I do same number if gifts rather than same amount so 1 child could have £500 and 1 £100.

Oldest is only 9 so they don't understand that one gift was this much they just see the piles and compare them.