How much do you honestly spend on Christmas each year?

[MrsTxx]

As a family of 3 I’d say we spend around £300 on DS including clothes
Around £200 on eachother each
£200 on food (we host the family) and nice bits
£100 on alcohol
£400 on gifts for family (large family both sides)
So about £1200 in total, which we save up for throughout the year.
Interested in other peoples budgets and how they spend at Christmas

Never thought to add it up before!

Santa experience £70
Christmas party £100
Christmas eve lunch out -£100
Gifts for DC1 approx £200 (DC2 will be weeks old this Christmas so unlikely to get anything!)
Gifts for DH approx £200, he probably spends similar on me
Stockings/Christmas PJs for DC £100
Gifts for family/friends £300ish? We only buy for friends kids/kids in the family other than DP/DPIL
Christmas shop £300-400, includes food for hosting Christmas dinner, the rest of Christmas week and all booze
Christmas tree and ad hoc decs £70ish
Panto tickets £100
Then days out/events- depends what's on!

Seems a terrifying amount when writing ut all out I do bloody love Christmas though

I save £100 per month into a savings account, start in January and buy things over the year. If I have anything left it goes towards Christmas meals and days out.

So never more that £1200, usually less.

Gosh, not very much compared to others.

DCs around £100 each (£200)
Present for DH £70
Xmas dinner and treat foods and drinks £70
Presents for family (7 people) £170
Panto is about another £50
£560 in total

An added expense is actually travel, if we go to visit family it's never less than £250.

@BigGreen

Gosh, not very much compared to others.

DCs around £100 each (£200)
Present for DH £70
Xmas dinner and treat foods and drinks £70
Presents for family (7 people) £170
Panto is about another £50
£560 in total

An added expense is actually travel, if we go to visit family it's never less than £250.

Your pretty much on par with me so your not alone

That's my big budget COVID Christmas too @mam0918, so I had thought it was loads. Anyway I don't have a big enough house to store £1000 worth of toys!

I've 14 nieces and nephews €340
Parents €100 each
Two Kris kindles €80
Friends €70
I have 2 DC's finished my DD spent €165
My D's is getting a switch that's about €340 have bought other bits cost €60

For stockings I just do sweets. I do Christmas Eve box's with PJ's toothbrush and sweets have that done got PJ's for €5.
This year my DH and I are having a hotel break after Christmas it's a Christmas present to each other. I also have 10 birthdays from October till December 4 of which are in December.

Probably around £500

£150 each on 2 kids
£30 for DH
About £20 each for mum, dad, brother, SIL, MIL and FIL

In previous years we have spent £25 on each of DHs 5 nieces. However I've decided to stop that this year because a) they never say thank you b) we have seen them once in 12 months even though they live 3 miles away and c) they forgot both my kids birthdays

I love Christmas and usually start buying in January the kids get about £600-£1000 each x3 depending on what they ask for 500 x2 for mine and the husbands presents £50 per parent (x3) £50 per niece/nephew x5 then £100 on chocolate and gift cards for close friends and £300 on food/pop/alcohol and goodies we probably end up spending about £1000 (and then some) between November and January on Christmas days out Fares markets and eating out .

We didn't celebrate Christmas when I was a kid as my mum hated it so just pretended it wasn't happening. So I try and make Christmas as magical for my kids as I can .

About £200 for the day for food and presents. Another £100 or so doing stuff to enjoy the season.

My eyes are watering 😂 my partner and I have a £50 budget for one another. And for our immediate family (parents and GP, we don’t buy to other members of the family) £30 pp.

Christmas isn’t about gifts for us.

This year? SFA, as down to one wage (thanks covid) and a newborn.

We don't have friends or family so only buy for each other (so that's me, DH and DD24, who still lives at home). My gifts to DH and vice versa come from the same Christmas pot which we save throughout the year. So it's something like this -

My gift(s) to DH, usually a main thing (last year it was a £600 guitar but that's exceptional) and then some smaller stuff, like books, beer hamper, whiskey, etc - about £200

His gifts to me - about £200

DD's gifts - also about £200

New clothes for Christmas Day - £100

Outings (meals/theatre/carol service/days out/cocktails etc). Obviously we saved a fortune on this last year! - about £300

Food and drink, including takeaways and cocktail ingredients/alcohol - about £400

So about £1500ish.

Oh and about £150 on Christmas Day food - we always host (our choice, love doing it) so there’s about 12 of us. Everyone brings a bottle of their choices.

Around 2k. A lot is on food & drink.