How much do you spend/ how many presents do you buy?

[LaylaandSethsmum]

For you kids at christmas? I'm sure this has been done before but am at a bit of a loss as to what to get the kids for xmas.
DD 5 wants a tamagotchi ( which one I've no idea) and i've got her opeartion game so far. Will probably get DS 2 a little scooter but don't know what else to get.
Have got DH a Wii and a ratatouille game which i will probably wrap for DD aswell.
Help!!

Have 7 nephews na dneices and spend a tenner on each of them
£15 - £20 approx on mum and the same on dad
husband about £50
kids - stockings - about £20, maybe £30 sometimes
main present - well ds is getting a tricycle, probably about £30 and dd is only 15 months so probably about £20 on something she doesn't need just to please ds

Have to buy for 7 children in my family/friends- around £10 each and around £25 on ds.
Then around £15 on Mum, Dad, Nan etc.
Me and Dh usually treat ourselves to something we need for the house or something we fancy rather than buying presents for each other.

kids- budget for 'tree' pressies £100,
stockings £20ish,
family treat usually £500 (weekend away etc)
pil & parents £50,
neices nephews etc £10-20,
friends £10ish
DH far more than anyone else as he's having a new car
we don't spoil the kids too much but spend the whole of the christmas break enjoying ourselves as a family, pantos, good food (usually good wine as well ) and visiting family and friends.

Don't buy for hubby and doesn't for me and have discussed with family and friends that we would just buy for the children-it gets so silly and we arent in the position to make ourselves skint..children get a main present (undecided on that *arghhh) and little bits for their stocking plus a couple books and some new clothes.

Doesn't want to think about it yet...

Far too many! I've done all mine due to imminent arrival of baby. We buy for friends' children etc and neices and nephews. This year dd has a dolls house (joiuint xmas and birthday). We buy what they want and don't bother evening up - if one wants a toy worth a tenner and one wants 50 quids' worth I'm going with that. Stockings - Santa puts the same number of presents in each.

DCs have £100 worth of presents each (there are 3 dcs)

This year ds1 has a hand held leapfrog computer thing, a monster truck remote control thing and some bits. (he is 5)

dss has got power ranger toys mostly.

ds2 has got ELC scaletrix type thing, thomas tracks and bits. (he is just 3)

we spend about £200 on everyone else inclusive (both parents, siblings, aunties, etc).

This year we are going away just before xmas too

We've decided that as both Dc's have birthdays near xmas, their birthdays will be the day they get something good.
For xmas we want to make it about the family, ratehr than the presents, so each dc (we have 2 atm) will get three medium presents (between £15-£30) one from their sibling, one from me, and one from dp. Plus their stocking, which has around £10-£15 spent on it, the usual colouring books, pencils, chocolate buttons,satsumas,nuts,a couple of small reading books.
Then we will all sit round the tree and swap rpesents, I will also buy a msall one for dp from each child, as he will for me,t hat way everyone gives each other a present, and it gives a better message than the commercial tack that companys try to make us buy into.
Same goes for PIL, they will buy a medium present for each child, and recieve one from each child.

Very similar to Fio.

Children - about £40/50 each
Dh and I - either nothing or up to about £20

Other relatives (siblings, nieces/nephews, parents) about £5- £10 each. Have to keep the presents small and light for the NZ lot as it can cost a fortune in postage.

Have one DD, age 5 - will spend about £150-£200 I guess. About £100-£150 on DH.

Then spend about £30-£40 on other immediate family members - parents and siblings. About £30 on our niece. About £20 on our grandparents.

Then about £10 each on family's friend's children.

In total = I daren't add it up! But we don't spend what we don't have, which is what really matters.