Who buys the DC presents in your house?

[hardknocklife123]

This is literally ALL left to me. We both work full time but if I left it to H there wouldn't be a single present for the kids. He doesn't even know what I've bought OR care!

Anyone else? I still have everything to wrap 😡😡😡

I used to do it all. I remember one Christmas dh said he didn’t know what I got dds. Well, why would he? We were wrapping them up and I said I spent £X amount, he was really embarrassed and put the money into my account.
I told him I’m not writing cards for his family and he needed to sort his own family out, even those in Oz and stand in the post office queue like every other human does.
This year he’s done his share.
Mission complete.

@hardknocklife123 100% same here!! And I struggle to get him to be interested at looking what I’ve got of help with the wrapping. He knows the kids won’t miss out which is the frustration of it for me!

DH and I discuss ideas, I do most of the shopping but he often deals with in store collections, I wrap every gift excluding my own.

I do it all. I pay for it (DH pretty much pays for everything else so I really don't mind), buy it, wrap it. I wouldn't have it any other way really. I love doing it.

I plan and buy for everyone, including myself. After 20 years of doing this I don't think I could hand any of the responsibility over to DH now - maybe my he could do my gift, it would be nice to have a surprise, but he does work all hours and the upside to buying them myself means I get exactly what I want.

DH would usually have input, particularly if there's a techy gift etc that he has more idea about. We spend an evening wrapping together and he sorts my gifts from him and dc's.
However this year he is working away so it's all been down to me. Evenings have been rather busy with sorting stuff after work but all sorted now and can enjoy the Christmas break

Me. DH always wants to come but is always in bloody work! I order some online and then buy some in the shops (we're in Oz) and I went today and took THREE HOURS to find various things for two DDs....still have to go back on Monday or Tuesday for food!

Me, though I am a single parent but when I was married I still did it all. I still help ex buy gifts for the dc, often buy thing and he gives me the money as he’s useless at choosing things.

Me. But I love it!
I buy for all the kids Inc his dd. His parents and dns.
I wrap it all.

He literally doesn't know what I get the kids or care.not in a don't give a shit way but doesn't care if I go ott. Or minimal. He just pays for it all haha
When the kids open their gifts he's as surprised as them lol

I do 90% of the gift choosing, buying and wrapping. It doesn’t bother me tbh, he does his fair share in other ways.

Me, but DH does a lot of other stuff, so is definitely pulling his weight. This year he has bought one of our DDs a book.

We've decided that only Santa presents will be wrapped this year, the rest are going in gift bags that we have started to reuse for every family gift event. I hate wrapping and the waste, so think should be a better solution.

We do it together. Normally we take the dds out one day in the stores and they point wishes and we gather ideas. Then we go one day together to buy the gifts. Dh does not like to wrap though but helps when I ask him to do.

I do most of it but dh does some. We both order stuff if we see things they think I’ll like.
I wrap everything.

Doesn’t bother me, he does 100% of all Christmas cooking (and most of the other day to day cooking) which I hate, I really enjoy wrapping.

Just for shit and giggles I asked my DH what he would buy our 3 year old DD if we hadn't sorted her presents together:

A big box of Duplo, a mini hoover because she won't let us hoover in peace, books and a pair of pyjamas.

He's passed the test

Ours are payed for out of the joint account but I choose, research, order and wrap them.

Then he complains That I’ve spent too much / they’ve got too much stuff

I buy everything, including my own. Christmas morning is magical for DH!

This year... He sorted his family (exceptfor teenage neice and some little bits for his mum. He asked me to pick a specific item for his father. But he did most of the thinking). He picked and ordered DDs main gifts after we decided roughly what they were having.
I did smaller gifts for DDs, stockings, and my family.
Dh got all my presents. He also ordered hobby specific stuff for himself

I'm sahm to school age kids. He's a full time very busy 'key worker' (he was working outside the home all year, bit not medical or similar. Covid related though

I do it both for DSD and DS but then I do enjoy the whole experience. DH has his input on what they would like

We are a little bit sad and have a spreadsheet! I decide what we need to buy and then DH buys the gifts - he likes to get a bargain so he'll look for the best deal, top cash back etc.

Once it's arrived to be honest I do most of the wrapping, but I work part time to his very full time job - works for us.

Also wrap as you go along. Makes everything much easier

Whiskey this is my first year doing that and the relief is massive!

I order it all and we wrap together while he repeatedly grunts that I bought too much.

I ignore him.

I do all the buying but in recent years I’ve rebelled against the wrapping, and get DH to do it all.

I do all the ordering presents, wrapping presents, sending cards etc for both our families. DH pays for it all. I'm a SAHM.