How much to spend on each child.

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We have 4 children two teens and and 8 and 12yr old.
I'd say we've always gone a bit overboard and I've explained this year that we will be cutting back (more the older ones), but can I just ask, how much do people generally spend per child for Xmas?

Not at all, I was replying to leatherchaps · Yesterday 18:11

"We've reigned it in massively this year and only spent around £5,000 on our 16 month old."

Which I took as amusing sarcasm. 😂 😉

Ah, my misunderstanding

I was replying to leatherchaps who posted Yesterday at 18:11

"We've reigned it in massively this year and only spent around £5,000 on our 16 month old."

So no, it wasn't poor form. They were being sarcastic.

Our kids are aged 9-15 and we spend around £2-300 on each of them. I actually think it's excessive and every year I think we should reduce it. Though their Christmas gifts are somewhat modest in terms of what we could afford to buy. My weakness is books - I could easily drop £100 on books for each of them!

I’ve gone a bit mad this year because one of mine really wanted a ps5 and the other a dyson air wrap hair curler so along with other bits we’ve probably spent around £900 per child.

What people spend at Christmas doesn’t tell the full story though does it - some people spend £100 at Christmas but spend hundreds during the year on extra treats whilst some people might spend £2k but don’t buy treats for the rest of the year.

Ultimately people spend what they can afford or are comfortable with spending and any parent doing the best they can for their child whatever the monetary value is doing a good job as far as I’m concerned.

I aim for €200 ish. But I would spend more and have done if he’s getting a large ticket item ie we bought a climbing frame last year which was more, this year it’s a Tonie as main so cheaper. When hes at laptop/ phone/ game console age it will be more.

We can afford it, but I wouldn’t spend loads for the sake of it. So a phone at €300 for 1 item I would be fine with, or a €300 climbing frame, but I wouldn’t just buy lots of €20 items to make it up to €200-300.

Nobody else buys him anything really either, so that’s total spend, not including gifts from others that many get