How many people do you buy Christmas presents for?

[pinkksugarmouse]

I only have DH & DD to buy for plus DD’s 20th birthday on the 29th of November. And I know this sounds mad but I actually got presents for my hamster Lucy too.

I have heard of people buying for cousins, a dozen nursery or school staff, the postman/woman, binmen…sounds like a lot of work. No judgement on here please stay nice! 🤞

I have bought an advent calendar for the bunnies 🐇🐇🐇🐇

15 children
9 adults

DP
2 x DC
2x Parents
7x siblings/In laws
4× neices/nephews
5 x grand neice/nephews
The dog

2 x DC
3 x niece and nephew
DH
2 x teachers
4 x beaver volunteers/piano teacher
2 x teacher
1 box of chocolates for wrap around staff
4 x parents/ parents in law

19!

Then I have yo help the DC buy for each other, help parents and PIL with what to buy the kids and adults.

We dont buy for siblings or adult nieces and nephews. No parents/grandparents anymore. So we now only buy for ds, 2 teen nieces we put money in a card for and one younger nephew.

Far too many thanks to large families / split families but I wouldn't change it. I can't cut it back

DD
Partner
Parents x 2 (I do mine and partner does his),
Sister
Gran
1 close friend (but it's just something small)
3 adults with special needs I used to work for and the families became friends- I know they will get me/my dd something. But that's shared with my sister.
1 little cousin in America but also shared with my sister.
1 of my dd little friends who is moving from foster care to a permanent home so we won't see any more, so budget is bigger than I would normally spend on a non family child.

12 but 4 shared with my sister.

And then my partner does his parents and 2 sets of aunts and uncles.
So he has to sort but it's all joint money so I guess you could say 16

44

1 partner,
11 people across the family,
1 secret santa at work
1 close work colleague
30 small gifts for the child in my class

As a family, so not just my responsibility:
Two children and husband.
Parents and in laws (6)
Nephew/nieces (7)
Older nephews - token gift (2)
Siblings and partners (4)

Total: 22

As the niblings become adults they just get some beer or something. No idea what they'd want otherwise!

Shit you reminded me I need to think about teacher gifts!! I don’t even know the TA’s names in DS2’s class 😬 (reception with no class WhatsApp/FBpage)

We buy for:
5 Nieces and nephews (sorted last night, found lots of lovely stuff on Kidly)
3 kids of our own
DH
MIL & FIL
My mum and dad

That’s it!

We always have different post people who always come at different times of the day, and where would I put the pressie for them to see and collect? I know my mum always left biscuits for the bin/post/milkman but I think she was home to hand over personally. I think these days I’d get a weird look doing that 😄

MIL, FIL and my parents are impossible to buy for. Said to siblings we will only buy for their kids this year. May end up buying for a few friends’ kids but probably not.

About a dozen - husband, one niece, couple of godchildren , various friends, cleaner. It has dropped dramatically in recent years as nephew & other godchildren have grown up & so come off the list at 21! Also, agreed with brother in law & his wife to ditch presents and meet up for dinner in a restaurant instead - so much better.

My 2 sons, DH, my mum & sister, 2 dogs and cat.
So 8 in total. The animals only get a £10 budget though.

Think I've got it to 22 between me and DH. We've both got large extended families.

DH (obviously I'm on his list)
2× our kids
3x parents
My brother
2x sibling secret santa on his side
6x nieces/nephews on his side
6x nieces/nephews my side
Godson
2x Godmothers (both elderly aunts who wouldn't get a present elsewise)

May go to 23 us our newly single friend joins us on the day. We only buy for friends if they're visiting at Christmas. Normally our group prefers to not buy presents but save the money for days out/weekends away together.

Husband, children, grandparents, and token gift for ex in-laws and exdh from the older children

Dh, ds and Dd
My mum and mil
2 of our aunties
6 nieces and nephews
3 children of friends
One family friend
Local charity appeal

2x DC
2x parents
2x step-parents
2 x Grandparents
6 x niblings

But one 'set' of parents is usually a bottle of something to share. The niblings usually less than £5 each. Grandparents are just a box of choccies. So nothing expensive. I spend less than £100 on each dc too.

Oh god I haven't counted this out really but I bet I'll be horrified by the answer!

DH
DD
My mum and dad
MIL and DH's step dad
FIL
My sister
3x DNs
SIL and BIL
2 DGM
My 2 best friends

So 17 people. I choose presents for my family and DH chooses presents for his family

8 close family
1 token gift for dhs friend
1 secret santa
4 pets in the family
Bigger tip for my lovely hairdresser

Dh
dd+partner
ds
dsis
bro in law
niece + partner
work secret santa

No parents or in-laws left unfortunately

Two DS - one present each plus stocking
DSs presents to each other although they can do that themselves this year
DH
My mum, dad and two sisters
Three nephews and two nieces, and this year one nephews girlfriend
Three friends
Possibly up to three other friends if I’m seeing them
DH does - or doesn’t - his side of the family
So that’s 15 this year
I also have two family birthdays and two close friend birthdays between 17 and 21 December.

Between us
27 ‘proper’ adult presents including Godchildren.
26 staff type presents - wine, chocolates, biscuits, Christmas bauble type thing.
14 children (from 0-17 years).
9 Family type presents for neighbours and friends - tins of biscuits etc.
3 older folk hampers for elderly neighbours.

Plus Christmas boxes for dustman, gardener, cleaners, log boy, hairdresser, priest and this year only, the builders.

I had never heard the word nibling before this thread so I Googled it. It’s definitely a concept there was a space for, and I can see the etymology, but it’s going to take me a while to stop recoiling.
Honestly without Mumsnet I would be so left behind on language!

8 adults (DH, mum, dad, brother, SIL, MIL, FIL, best friend)
6 kids (2 of my own, 4 nieces)

I expect we will get a couple of little presents for DD5's school friends as well.