How much do you spend on your friends at Christmas ?

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This is always my worry if I'm spending too little/much.
Friend 1.a dressing gown,slippers,chocolates and just a costume jewellery watch £50 ish

Friend 2.pjs,slippers,bath bomb,chocolates,festive socks £40 ish

What's your limit ?

About £50 on my two closest friends. The things they buy for me are the nicest presents I get at Christmas - more thoughtful than anything dh buys me sadly (or rather, he buys me something nice because I tell him exactly what to buy!)

I will add also, that I dont buy for my 3 siblings either, between 3 of us we have 9 kids (I have 4) , we dont buy for the kids either- we usually just take them to the local park followed by a treat (Icecream/chocolate)
I only buy for my DH- £ 30 is limit, my parents & inlaws £30 limit each and then just our kids

We don’t do friends presents but if I did I’d prefer quality over quantity

A dressing gown,slippers,chocolates and just a costume jewellery watch all for £50 sounds like trying to hard to me

Too

I've sent my friend in USA a present. Prob about £40.

I've bought another one a RBG tree decoration.

I usually spend around £10-20 on 4 of my closest friends, and I just buy their DCs a selection box.

Nothing with friends. If they were hosting something I'd bring a token jar of homemade chutney and a bottle.

Only buying for one friend and his wife, about £100, which is more than normal but I had no idea what to get, so we had a chat and decided to buy each other gig tickets for the end of next year, plus some fancy chocs from DD as they are very generous to her. The other friend I usually buy for has agreed that rather than buying each other gifts we’ll have a day out together and do something fun instead, so same situation as friend 1 really but less formalised!

I have never bought presents for friends.

Two older ‘aunts’ (ie my mothers friends who are aunts to me) - £6ish on anthropology coffee mugs in the sale that match their personalities.
Best friend from school - always send her a gap tee- She lives in Switzerland and they don’t have gap! £10
Closest mum friend - made her a Xmas decoration.

I don't do friends either. It was stopped years ago when when we were passing Next vouchers around.

I only regularly buy for family, £10-15 for adults, more for children (only mine and one other). I occasionally buy for friends, but only if I see something they would love, and then only small gifts.

*Under £15 if I do buy for friends.

Zero. But obviously if they come for dinner, I make something special

I spend about £30 each on friends. I think it depends what they get you, you'd want it to be about the same so no-one feels like they haven't spent enough.

I bought lots of nice, deepish cereal bowls from the supermarket in October. Filled each with a hyacinth bulb and compost. They’ve been in the garage since, covered by bin bags and have had a weekly watering. Brought them out yesterday. All peeping through! Will add a red bow, pine cone and name tag. All friends and colleagues will get one to watch grow and enjoy the smell. Approx £2 per gift.

I'd love that 123fushia

I spend about £30 each on friends. I think it depends what they get you, you'd want it to be about the same so no-one feels like they haven't spent enough
Definitely this. What started off as a £10-20 gift has now evolved into a £40-50 one as we have got older, more sophisticated tastes, better paid jobs etc. If circumstances changed for any of us we'd just set a lower limit.

Only got one friend who I exchange with and we do our kids each. Approx £10 a person. Thats about my budget for all presents bar my dh and dc and pil.