To ask how much you spend

[PixieDustt]

On your children at Christmas?
Of course you don't have to answer!
I have a DS and I feel i could be spending too much then I worry it isn't enough because toys are so expensive now!

Depends what they want or need. Last year dd had a Nintendo switch and a few other bits, that was way more than what I usually spend, this year she doesn’t really want anything so will be spending a lot less, her sister wants a couple Lego sets which will cost around £150.

Usually budget around £150 per child. This year probably up to £200 as we're able to spend a bit more than previously. As they're getting older (10, 12, 17 now) it does mean the present piles are considerably smaller but they're all old enough to understand that we have limits on what we can spend. Grandparents usually spend around £70 on each of them, MIL about £50.

Generally about £250 each on my two - try and keep it the same now they're both teens and try to get lots of smaller things rather than big things so it looks more!

Approx about £300 . 2 DC , their grandparents buy them a present each but no one else does . I come from a large family with lots of nieces and nephews. Me and my siblings all stopped buying for each other’s kids as it was too costly and I would much rather use that money on my kids, especially as they are older and only want a few (expensive ) things .

£200 per child max.
2 DC age 6 and 9.
I expect this may increase when they start asking for tech items but for now this is more than enough.

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Main present from Santa will be a bike so in total with stocking about £150 for DD who is 3. DS who will be 4 months will get about £15 worth of presents.

I'm spending about £30 on tree presents and £10 on stockings for each DC (4 of them). Dh also spends £50 on tree presents. But I'm also buying a nintendo switch this year as a joint gift. Otherwise it is usually £100 each

About £20 at most. Something in the stocking from Father Christmas and something small from us. We prefer to keep gift giving about the thought that counts and buy the bigger/more expensive stuff they want throughout the year as appropriate.

Until now, it’s been around £150 each all in from us. This year, though, they are having bikes and we have just spent nearly £200 on a used Islabike for the eldest. We will also get him a new helmet, some books and a stocking, so I’m assuming we’ll be nearer £250 this year. This will be slightly counteracted by a slightly reduced birthday budget, but no so much that he will miss out so to speak.

£200 give or take a few bob on each. I have 2 so not highly expensive. I know some people that spend £500 on each of their kids and they have 4 😮 We do £200 from ‘santa’ and £20 from us just so it looks like Santa’s still real.

I can afford to spend quite a bit but I'm not because I found a list the other day of what I bought my son last year and it was obscene.

He will have a main present - possibly two (one he wants is a hot wheels thing that's about £35) and a stocking.

New pjs in December and a trip to
Santa.

I reckon max of £150 (which I realise is still a lot of money)

We have a Christmas account we save in throughout the year. Children are 9 and 6 and the budget is up to £400 each max (including stocking and Christmas Eve box). Little family around so they are the nearly only presents they get on the day, and we very rarely buy them anything else throughout the year (toy-wise!). It was much less when they were little, and not equal until school age.

And to add no £500 is too much in my opinion for that age merely because presumably you're just going to end up with a lot of clutter for a toddler? That's a huge amount of toys and too much mess for my liking!!! We spent £200 max in the toddler years (most likely less)

Usually I'd spend about £40 to £50 plus a stocking but this year my dd is getting a laptop as she is in year 9 and needs it for homework and will be starting gcse preparation soon and my son needs a new bike so the budget will be higher this year.

I get stuff we will need anyway eg a trikie as he will use it till he's around 4 and is 1 now so it's 80 quid but we'll spent. 2 or 3 books, clothes as he needs those anyway and maybe 2 toys.
So ye sits 120 quid but 80 of it I'd have spent anyway if not Xmas.
Teens are hellishly. Expensive

€100-150, all gifts.

The Christmas activity fair (indoor kids' activity centre, crafts, bouncy castles, scalextric etc), costs €3 for him, €1 for accompanying adult. We go with some school friends, so quite a decent group of us (and they serve beer ).

There's a big parade for the 3 kings on the night of the 5th January, so we always go to that, there's a small present waiting for us at home that the king's have left. And their camels will have eaten the bread we left them

This year we're flying across Europe to spend Christmas with family, so presents will be portable and less expensive. Plus ds' birthday is early December, so we have the added bonus of spunking out twice in a month

Will be 7yo has £250 on presents. Christmas Eve box with pyjamas, dressing gown, film and snacks are budgeted for separately. And his stocking and advent things are done separately too. I managed to get a tablet free from a family member so that's not included in the total either.

Will be 1yo will have about £200 worth of gifts, his stocking's covered by that too though because I managed to get toot toot vehicles second hand so they've got no packaging which makes them an ideal size! He'll also have pyjamas and dressing gown, they'll share the same film and snacks (which is why Xmas eve box is budgeted for separately!)

Each have about 15 gifts, plus Xmas eve box, advent calendar (fabric one so a small thing each day) and stockings.

Presumably it depends on how you treat things like necessity items. For example laptops for older kids...needed for homework, but I couldn't stomach just handing one out at some point during the year, it would always need to be Christmas or birthday, but that means that the usual limit we set for each child would be massively blown, so we try to see it as one main present (if something like laptop, phone etc) then the usual smaller presents (we also use the want, need, wear, read mantra with laptop falling into the need category).

Not sure hard and fast figures are useful as they get older...

I just make a list of toys they’d like and don’t compare cost. I do shop around though and have been really happy with the bargains I’ve picked up (from Sainsburys toy sale etc).

If I was guess, I’d say £250 on my 4-year old and £150 on my 18-month old. I think I’ll do a spreadsheet to see, as I’d be interested to know now

Impressed by some of the amounts from ppl. I thought we spent quite a lot because the dds only get from my parents and my grandmother besides us. Dh family is crap and don't spent any money (or time) on the kids.
We budget usually 100£ per kid and 25£ for calendar gifts (little thing each day for 24 days)... And I always think they get loads...

£100 on DS, one present from us, one present from father christmas, and a stocking on January 6th because I'm Italian.

Around £250 per child (18 months and almost 5 this year respectively) including a small gift for St Nicholas to bring, some bits for Christmas Eve, their stocking and presents from us.

It will also include family passes for places we go to regularly throughout the year as well as couple of the attractions we visit in the run up to Christmas/between Christmas and New Year. At the moment it's probably around £100 in presents/£150 experiences per child.

Including stockings, Christmas eve pj's ect we spend around £300 all in on each dc.

We've set a budget of £200 for DD2 - it's her birthday in January so we will probably split some of the presents for then.

£60ish per child, unless they ask Santa for something expensive, then I would buy it. But I don't buy things just for the sake of it, they have far too much stuff accumulated already and I'm constantly trying to declutter.