How much are you planning to spend on Christmas gifts this year?

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How much are you planning to spend on Christmas gifts this year?
Can you afford it?
Who are you buying for?

So far I have a few little gifts for my little one, pjs, a little toy and a book for his Christmas eve box and 5 things for his stocking.

I've bought 1 gift and part of another for my boyfriend and a little thing for his stocking.

I have a little present for my boyfriends mum and my friend but other than that I still need everything else for them and everyone else :/

Probably around £100 per DC. Theyre very little so 100 is fine. 50 for MIL and 25 each for my DGP. DP and I are discussing no presents for eachother. So with food for the day added in about 350. Both of the DC and my DPs birthdays are just before Christmas so that limits the budget more than anything else

Parent no real budget but usually around £30, around £20 for DSis, £50 per child each x 3 plus 2 spouses same spend
6x £25 for grandchildren
I tend to buy things for DH as I see them

Told DP yesterday no Xmas gifts this year.
DC1 - nothing
DC2 - nothing
Two friends - £40 each
Dad £50
Niece £30
Niece £30

I’m cutting back on Xmas presents, I always stretch myself and it’s not worth it, DS barely
touches any of his presents after Boxing Day.

so my budget this year is
DS £150 (already spend £48 on tickets for a show)
dp £50 (we normally spend a lot more than that but we are going on holiday so cutting down)
parents £30 each
family secret Santa £20

so £250ish in total on gifts. I don’t really buy any extra food, we go to my mums for dinner and I’m working Christmas Eve and Boxing Day

BUT I have spent a bit on activities so we’ve got a steam train booked, 2 pantos and local light show.

Probably £1200 all in. £175 for my teenager. £50 each for my 3 adult kids. £150 for my grand kids. £75 for my nephews. £50 for my sister. £100 for my DH. £150 for the food bank. The rest will be food and drink as we tend to do a lot of entertaining over Christmas and we also host dinner on the big day.

As little as possible, I have a house that needs essentials and doing up.

Around £300 which includes my teen dd, my 5 nieces and nephews and my parents...

It will be tight.

Nothing for your kids?

Like nothing?

How old are they?

Can I ask why nothing for your DC, but gifts for nieces? Not being judgmental, just nosey!

I don't know in total but over £1k for gifts. We can afford it. I put £75 away a month for family gifts/bdays and £80 a month for my kids Christmas/bday although sometimes I spend outwith that too.

Going to try and not go as mad as normal for the kids as they have so much and our family are very generous too. I'm constantly trying to get rid of stuff. I'll need a big clear out again before next bday and Christmas.

Eldest dd wants Barbie dream house 🙈 so there goes £200-£300 so she won't be getting loads after that. Well I'll try reign myself in this year! So maybe £350ish

Youngest I won't spend as much maybe about £200 her bday very close to Christmas too.

Nieces and nephews about £50-55 each.

Parents about £70-80 each and our siblings about £40 each.

Also buy for a couple of aunts and a friend but only about £10-£15 each just a little something.

Me and dh spend about £100-£130 on each other.

God it's so much money when you write it all out! I'd like to cut out siblings but dh wasn't happy about that as he doesn't have a lot of family to buy for.

I don’t include amounts as it’s all relative to income and we’re lucky to not have to budget.
I buy for;
4 DC
DH
parents
in laws
1 niece
1 nephew
BIL

We agreed a couple of years ago with my sister & BIL and BIL & SIL just to buy for the children as their household incomes both dropped a fair bit during & following covid.

@SatInTheCorner how old are your children? Why are you spending £80 on 2 friends instead of on your 2 children?

£200-£250 each for ds14 & dd10
£50 for my mum
£50 for sis
£120 for DP
£20 each for my bro and his gf + a nandos gift card to share
£15 each for my 2 little brothers and sister
£10 each of step mum, dad and step bro
something to share for my uncle and his husband
and prezzies for the dogs in the family.

been saving since January.
Child benefit gets saved every month to pay for dc Christmas and birthday. It’s for them so may as well save it for that.

I assume your children are adults but it seems strange not to give them anything but to buy for other people like friends.

I havent bought xmas gifts for friends since I was in school.

Fuck me your house sounds a joy at Christmas!

I can't fathom any reason why you'd not get anything for your own DC but buy for nieces/nephews & friends unless you're NC but then you'd just leave them off the list altogether surely 🤷🏼‍♀️

About £200 on family gifts including my parents, siblings and several niblings. Kids get something around £25-30 each; my parents around £40; siblings get token gifts of food, chocs etc. by agreement.

Probably £150-200 on DD (10) and another £50-100 on assorted presents for DP, a couple of close friends, teacher gifts, etc. So about £500 on presents in total at the most, but hopefully a bit less — iI can keep it down to £400 I will. DP and I only really get each other token gifts, and I usually buy books for friends and wine or chocolates for teacher gifts.

Then around £100 on the Christmas food shop and £30-50 on extra alcohol for the season, and maybe £150 on Christmas treat events like the theatre and a winter lights trip. DD doesn’t need a new Christmas outfit this year and already has so much stuff, I’m trying to cut down all the advent and Christmas Eve stuff to the bare minimum.

I’m aiming to keep it all under £800 for the entire thing if possible including all presents, food, outings, etc. — I buy in sales and ahead of time as well, use discontinued codes etc. to stretch things a bit further. So I’ve bought most of this year’s stuff already. I may well cut back more next year I think. Time for Christmas to become a bit less lavish, and why not! — we all have so much stuff these days!

Discount codes not discontinued codes 😂

Only really spend on DS, but probably about £1k between Christmas and his (6th) birthday.

Token gifts for my parents and a bunch of flowers for my grandma, so £100 or so.

£20/30 on my cousins baby.

Couple of hundred on food and drink.

Dh and I don't buy for each other but will have a takeaway and a bottle of fizzy shit at some point.

@DayOfTheTentacle fizzy shit made me laugh 😂😂

About £150 per dc and about £30 on DP. We don't really do big presents for each other. Just food and drink really.

I'll do secret santa for a couple of friendship and family groups so about £40 on those altogether.

So that's <£400 total I think, which I have saved for.

DD £150
DD £150
my parents £50
PIL £50
3 niece/nephew £60
DH £50
Santa visit £24
charity £50
teacher gifts £10
club volunteers/after school £30
Gift family friend £8ish

Adds up to more than I thought £640ish

£500 on gifts, which includes £100 per DC (2 of them). The rest is split amongst close family, token gifts for friends children etc - total of 23 people

however I challenged myself to spend significantly less on people this year so have been really using the bargains thread and shopping sales throughout the year e.g WHSmith had a great sale on puzzles months ago so managed to quite big ones up for £4 each. So for people like my grandfather/friends children that’s them done!

Our budget includes our 4dc birthday presents as well. (Who's idea was birthdays on top of Christmas 🤦🏼‍♀️)

4dc for Christmas and birthdays.
2 sets grandparents
1 aunt and uncle
2 aunts and uncles who get a token gift as we buy for the children
3 niece/nephew
2 great nans
And each other.

We usually budget 2-2.5k.

Although we have 4 children who have additional needs. 2 youngest have complex needs and sometimes specific SEN toys/equipment can be so expensive. So we tend to save and buy the higher priced items at the end of the year.

What's the point in this thread ???
If you really need to know im spending a billion each on my 2 children . Then because I'm skint just a million on my husband and relatives . It's all I can afford this year 🙄

DC - £250
DH - £350
DMum - £100
FIL & partner £150
Family dogs x4 - £60
Friends x4 - £80
Friends kids x4 - £80
Aunts & uncles x8 - £160
Cousins x2 - £40

Total - £1270