How much do you spend on your kids for christmas

[Laureli]

we have 2 / 6yr and 9yrs

starting from our next paycheck till November paycheck me and my partner are putting away 50£ each, every month - this should give us 350 for each child

About £70, maybe less. 3 kids under 10 so this'll probably get more expensive when they become teens and want fancy things!

Same as us. We have 3DCs

They each get 20 presents if that helps, all varying costs.

On average we spend about £1200 all together, we save up every year for it and do not get into any debt. If our budget changes or our affordability we would adapt the spend to lower.

Around £250 - £300 each, though at the moment while the total spend has been along those lines the split is not always completely even as ours are little too. This year at Christmas ours will be (almost) 4, 6 and 8 so I expect the budget might be a little more evenly split.

I save some child benefit throughout the year in a scheme which gives me the vast bulk of that budget and then we spend around £150 - £200 extra from our wages in November and December.

Thanks for the thread. I just wrote down a list for DS. He's a tween. First of all, I calculated all the stocking stuff (just ideas at the moment!) and it came to £180. I am in shock - everything is so expensive at the moment.

Traditionally we spend £200 per child including stocking and mains. But this year it'll be £250 (but hopefully as close to 200 as possible!!)

I aim for £100 per DD (they're 6 and 4) plus £25 for stocking fillers but if it creeps up to £150 each then I don't worry too much.

DH and I have large extend families so £300 max on DDs is more than enough when we also buy for lots of nieces and nephews, grandparents etc.

In addition to the Christmas presents we also always do a visit to Father Christmas and a trip to the panto. Panto is our favourite outing of the year!

Roughly £200 on each child for presents I would guess (DS and DD still in KS1) but on top of that there’s the panto, Christmas PJs, and all those other festive bits that add up.

In previous years we’ve kept it smaller because a) they were little and b) I was determined not to set the bar really high with mountains of gifts, putting ourselves under pressure to maintain that every year.
Now they’re a little older and we’re back to being a 2 income family, we can spend a little more. I much prefer the experiences of the festive season (Christingle, Christmas lights, panto, parties etc) than piles of presents that they’ll get bored of opening halfway through.

I appreciate it will probably get more expensive as they get older.

I have 3 children who will be 6 nearly 4 and 1 at Christmas. I aim for £100 each which will include tree gifts, stockings and "tree up day" boxes (as opposed to Christmas eve boxes which seem too short lived to me!) which will have their Christmas jumpers and PJ's in. I get the PJ's and jumpers in the sales so these are already stashed away and in some cases are second hand/hand me down if appropriate. I expect we will go a little over budget this year as things have gone up but on the plus side we have agreed to buy for only kids in our wider family so our shopping list has gone down by 13 people!!! I have a few bits already from sales which I know my kids will love (Playmobil, Lego, board games) but my son's have winter birthdays so I can always swap bits between events if needed to even it up and will leave wiggle room for new "must haves' which will crop up. I'm feeling pretty please so far to be honest.

£250 is the baseline (around that, if a toy tips it slightly over I won’t take something away).
Then another £50 or so is put aside for their stocking, Christmas pjs and any other little bits.

With the cost of everything rising it might end up being around £300 this year per child.

That being said, we save money on other things. Eg our Christmas food shop doesn’t cost much as I receive vouchers for a supermarket from my place of employment as part of my Christmas bonus. We don’t tend to host Christmas and our families aren’t overly into extensive gift giving.

We spend about £400-500 each child they'll be 1 & 2 by Christmas, that includes, main present, Santa sacks, Christmas Eve boxes and an outfit each for Christmas Day.

It depends. This year we've booked to go to butlins for the week before Christmas so we will be spending less on actual presents.
I have a 6 year old and 1 year old.
The just turned 6 year old has asked for a nintendo switch but we're holding off, it's a lot of money and I don't want to get him a game console yet as we already limit gaming/screen time and want him to play with toys for as long as possible!

He had also already asked for a playmobile castle with knights and I've already managed to get a bundle from FB marketplace for £20 that I'm over the moon with and just know he will love. I've also got him a gooey loey board game on eBay brand new for £5.

Our one year old doesn't need much but we will get him a few bits (more so for the sake of our 6 year old) we'll maybe spend £50 in total on him including his stocking.
Perhaps £100 in total maximum for our 6 year old. I don't want to spend money for the sake of it but I'd also rather get presents I know they will like and not just cheap tat to buy purely because it's a cheap way to get a big looking pile of presents.

It varies. On average I'd say £150 including presents and stocking, but this year we will probably get DS2 a Switch, so his budget will be nearer £350. DS1 probably won't have that much spent, but he just had nearly double his normal birthday budget spent on a new bike.

Similar ages to you. Usually around £200 each on presents, plus £50 each on stocking. I find bargains (supermarket toy sales, Black Friday deals etc), so it always looks a lot more.

£150 each child x 3 children
£30 INLAWS
£15 nephews and neices x 4
£100 Grandchild of which £50 goes into bank account for essentials
£30 MISC presents
£150 Food and drink
£200 DP ( Which is from personal fund )
The budgets are pretty spot on to be honest every year.

I budget £200 but don't usually spend that much. That includes stockings, any new pjs etc.

About £250-£300 per child. But I do like them to have decent presents, which aren’t cheap

£200 cash each..they're young adults.

We have 6 children, save £125 each month so they each get £250 including xmas eve box.

It varies from year to year. Past few years DS's requests have been quite modest so about £150 including stocking. This year we are buying him Nintendo Switch which ups the ante quite significantly.

My daughter is being bullied by another girl the same age at school, they are both 12, I have been up the school to report it three times but the girl just carries on, I decided to message her mum, was very polite didn't play the blame game choosing instead to say the girls aren't getting along can we get them together and sort it out, well she is absolutely insane, started making stuff up calling me names and telling me I am making things difficult for her daughter by reporting her to the school! She started picking on my daughters appearennce and calling me a slag saying her big gypsy family are goinh to come to my house and beat me and my daughter if I report any of this to the police! I am in shock she also said some really horrid things directly to my daughter she actually phoned her, I cannot even repeat what she said on here, what do I do!

@Leasa83 you need to start your own thread or you won't get many replies. Never contact the parent directly, it very rarely ends well. Most parents become defensive. Always go through the school. If they have threatened you then you could report that to the police.

Are there any other schools locally. If it were my daughter I would be removing her and finding a new school.

Thank you, just realised I had written this on the bottom of a Christmas thread 🤦🏼‍♀️ I think I am going to remove her from the school and try to get a move from the council out of the area, it always seems the victim loses no matter what 😞

£300 for DS15
£250 for dd11. Hers will go up when she’s 13 and DS will be. 18 so his w8ll be reduced so technically they’ve both had the same spent on them for the first 18 years.
this includes Christmas Eve box, stocking and main prezzies. Advents are separate.