How much do you typically spend on your DC

[GingerRH]

Making this post to satisfy my own curiosity.

There is no right or wrong answer - everyone is obviously welcome to spend whatever they wish on their DC, and I don't want anyone to feel shamed.

The reason I ask, is I'm on a FB group for LOL Dolls - SDD is obsessed. And I've seen several posts where children are being brought 100s of pounds worth of LOL's. When I say 100s one picture shared had £850+ worth of LOL merch for one child. Which to be is mind blowing.

So yeah, wanted to see what people typically spent. Wondering if we're being tight with her 😂🤣

About 100 each, probably slightly more including a trip to a slightly pricey grotto.

They aren't old enough to make lists or care if things come in the box so I've got them each a few books, a couple of things they need (new water bottle etc) and second hand toys from ebay.

The most we’ve spent is about £2000 but usually around £500. We only have one DS (10) though and a smallish family. We don’t tend to buy mountains of tar though, the £2000 years have been a motorbike and a MacBook Pro. His “piles” seem tiny compared to people that post on FB but are made up of quality things that will last for years.

I have a 10 month old who will be 1 in Jan... I couldn’t even think of £750 of stuff to buy him if I tried! He mainly likes eating the soil out of the house plants .
I will spend about £100- £125 on my 5 and 4 year olds. Maybe £50 on the baby. We could afford to spend much more but I have absolutely no desire to, that amount buys them plenty, they’re happy with it and it doesn’t clutter up the house too much.
I’m sure the amounts involved will be bigger as they get older though.

Maybe £300? A £100 present from us, a £20 one from the dog, a sack of Christmas presents from FC - books and small gifts under £10, and his St Nicholas present for about £50.

Do the people who spend loads on young children (primary age and younger) spend a lot of time at home? With school, clubs, play dates etc mine barely have time to play with the toys they already have! If I spent £300 on toys the majority would just sit in the playroom barely used I think.

Haven't done Xmas yet.

It's DS birthday this week.

We have spent
£35 on gifts
£80 on an experience gift
£100 on a party
£40 on birthday trip out

It's DD's first Christmas and we'll probably end up spending about 75 quid at most. We've got her one of the Aldi wooden activity cubes and a pull-along unicorn. I'll probably get her a few pop-up books for us to read together and maybe a new bath book and that'll do.

We could afford to spend much more, but she'll only be 10 months so will have no idea and it'd be a bit of a waste and too overwhelming for her to have so many new things at once. And pointless as she loves wrapping paper more than anything anyway! I'd rather put excess money into savings or premium bonds for her at this stage, and I think she'll get some Christmas money from family that'll go into her account.

My teen ds’s, roughly 250 each or so? Then maybe 100/150 on the younger ones and 20 on the baby’s stocking. They don’t get tons, just a couple of decent presents they ask for, maybe a surprise if something catches my eye and a nice stocking. I don’t make ‘piles equal’ or spend exactly to the top of my budget for the sake of it.

My mum and grandma send me £175 to split between the 5 of them, I just give them the cash now tbh.

MIL usually gets them vouchers and a selection box which is perfect.

£100-£150 on each of them if they haven’t asked for anything in particular. We would waiver that if say they asked for one set big thing that happened to be £100 or so more, like a console.

We are comfortable in terms of money but I’d never spend more. £500 just seems obscene I have no idea what they’d even want to that value.

We've also bought DD gifts for the next couple of years in the Aldi wooden toy sale too! We got her a toy kitchen and utensils, train set, Noah's Ark, pirate ship, and the theatre/shop along with wooden food, which will live in the loft until she's old enough. I spent £150 or so on all that including the stuff for this year and it will partly cover at least another two Christmases/birthdays.

I don't really budget. If I see something they would like and I can afford it I just get it.

It's normally around 6-10 gifts each.

Then there is the stocking stuff too.

About £100, for DS (15)

We don’t really celebrate Christmas but I do a stocking worth about £30-40 per dc
And then spend on tickets for theatre or panto, ice skating, a trip to see some Christmas lights somewhere.

@LoonyLunaLoo A motorbike and a MacBook Pro for a 10 year old??!!

I don't really have a set budget in mind. I mainly go from her list and buy things I know she will like. She's a teenager so the presents are more expensive but I don't mind getting good quality items I know she will like. My daughter would like AirPods this year but has been going on and on about a IPhone XR so am probably going to get her that as I know she would be over the moon. Got her other things like perfume,make up, Tommy Hilfiger and Nike tops and gift cards. If we do go down the route of a new phone rather than AirPods then I would have spent easily over a £1000. I don't need to justify it. I don't go into debt and pay for things outright. Like I said I mainly go with what she would like for Christmas rather than say right I'm going to spend £500 and that's it. I am a self confessed Christmas o holic as I absolutely love it. I do my husband and my mum a stocking as well. ☺️. Whatever is right for you is what you or anyone should spend and is no one else's business 😘🎄🎅🏼

I don't really have an amount, it depends what DD wants. This year is a lot because we are getting her a mac book laptop thing (not sure what it is really!), other years have been less. I certainly wouldn't be spending £850 on LOL dolls!

All 3 get 5 gifts from santa each and a stocking and 5 gifts from us.
Max budget is no more than 250 each for everything but as much under that as I can manage.

Around £200 each primary aged dc. No lap tops or play consoles. All the presents have been bargains so total rrp value is higher what I spent.

Less than £80 per child. That includes stocking and tickets to a local experience. They are 3 and 18 months though, so they don’t need loads of things.

I have 2 DC and they have both had 500 each plus gold braclet and ring so about 800 each there 4 and 3

Around 150 € on presents (this includes a couple of small presents for Dia de los Reyes - they basically have Christmas x 2 in Spain) and probably another 25-30€ on the stocking.

£100+ each. Our dc are all grown up and left home with decent jobs.

£350-400 for my only dd (9). I only spend £50-70 on her birthday. As a one off this year she will have her room decorated too but only as we are moving house next month.

Probably around £300 per year for my first. It’s my baby’s first Christmas and she has so much of her sisters I’m finding it hard to know what to get so I’ve done clothes and will get her some wooden toys that are too big now but will last longer and complement existing ones.

About £50 - £100 each for my 3