How much has Christmas cost?

[Anotherloverholeinyohead]

And do you think it's worth it/good value for money?

My list

Presents £600 inc family and children
Food shop £150
Out for Christmas Day lunch £300

I don't think it's too bad and good value for money. My adult ish children will be very pleased with their gifts and I'm happy with the cost of food. First ever Christmas Day eating out so I won't know yet if we'll enjoy it or not - I certainly hope so because I'm loving not having to prep a Christmas dinner!

£1500 on presents for 4 kids, husband, in laws, 5x nieces and nephews

£500 on food for entertaining people before Christmas and meals/drinks out before Christmas across Dec

£100 for tree plus £100 for several strings of new lights for tree and outside

£500 for tickets to Christmas theatre show for me and four kids

nothing for food on the day as we are at in laws

I think I've spent about £500 on my two including Santa presents
Another £100-£150 on adult family and friends
£30 ish on a friend's little girl
£80ish on seeing Santa

Food wise we haven't bought much at all as we're off to the parents' houses for Xmas day and boxing day and even a breath of monetary contributions is shut down immediately. Otherwise I think that's it. Always worth it imo, the kids' faces are delightful 🥰

Approx £1.2k for gifts. £500ish on food/drink for the period (no one ever hosts us so it’s down to us every year to pay/cook). £250 on a big day out (today).
Would love to be hosted one year to save us on costs!

Roughly
£250 Santa trips
£150 food for the week inc Christmas dinner
£900 gifts for two kids
£1200 gifts between me and DH
£500 gifts for others.

So.. £3000? Which seems ridiculous and am horrified that I've paid that!

Oh and £3k to jet off on holiday next weekend as we’re always knackered from hosting everyone!

One present for my partner equals £150 and that’s it. We don’t do presents, cards for anyone, don’t do Christmas lunch or decorations so simple! We will go for a walk on Christmas Day, paddle in the sea and have fish fingers, eggs, chips and peas!

I think there is a good chance we've hit £3000 this year which we wouldn't normally do, we bought a lot of new decorations this year. Ordinarily it would be no more than £2500. Around £1200-1400 is presents, spent an embarrassing amount of food/drink tbh considering how few of us there are but it's once a year. We can easily afford it, probably less than 3% of our annual take home salary.

I always spend about 800-1000 which covers presents for 3 children and parents, and a Christmas day out somewhere. This year the children weren't as interested in Santa visits so I've saved a bit there!

No money spent on food as we go out Christmas day to eat and that's covered by parents. We don't host over Christmas because we work strange hours so no extra costs there.

A grand, including food, theatre and gifts.

About £300 on presents (I am very savvy at buying for my 2 young children and we also do secret Santa with family adults!)

We aren’t hosting (still buy food and drink for festive period though).

£80 on Christmas days out.

£650 gifts - there's 5.of us, 3 kids 7 and under
£200 food
£200 alcohol
£250 trips out

So £1300. Mental as that's not shy of the cost of our family holiday!

Around £1400 on gifts (mostly on DS and DD around £500 each).
£500 food and drinks.
£400 Christmas event.

Hosting costs more than I’d like it too!

Interesting thread! And special thanks to those adding context (how many people, roughly where the money went).

We've spent about £1200 on the five of us (including three teenagers). Kids presents including stockings were £180 each. Rest of the money mostly spent on gifts for other family and friends. I'm also only including the "extra" spend on grocery shopping (so we usually spend about £150 per week, but this week £50 extra).

I haven’t counted up but will be upwards of £1000 for sure this year.

However amongst that are- gifts for DD, which are toys and clothes and other little items I’d have liked to get her anyway, just saved up for Christmas.

Then it’s gifts for everyone else and food and drinks, but we’ll get (usually) useful and considered gifts in return, and we enjoy eating the food. We spend upwards of £200 on food and drinks but very little is wasted, I can live on leftovers for a few days. Also a Santa experience that was actually really magical, the look on DD’s face was pretty priceless.

I do also spend about £100 on gifts for charity but I want to give to charity anyway.

Is it good value? Not sure but we enjoy it. We could also do it on a much smaller budget if we had to.

Presents: £400
Food: well, some munchies for home and some bottles and cans to tske to my brother's house: about £100.
Train fare: £55 plus bus fare at the other end.
No Christmas party this year.
That's about it. I'm a total Grinch.

I don't even want to think about it

I aim for £1000 and think I’m about £1100 this year. Sounds ridiculous but seems ok compared to some of these numbers!

that's presents and stockings for 3 kids (including 2 teens), family, food, Xmas tree and decorations etc. And very accurate as I use YNAB and classify all my transactions. Hoping for less next year as am in a new house and bought some new decorations and homewares.

Agree hosting is very expensive. I’m hosting 14 but am very grateful others are bringing stuff like booze and the meat.

Don’t ask!

Hosting for 20 not once but twice! Husband’s family and then mine

Dread to think of total cost as we have around 45 people to buy pressies for!

£1100 here. Usually budget about £1000 per year.

Presents for two teens 15 and 13 £300
Presents for each other £200
Tree and decs, paper, cards £100
Xmas food and drink budget£150
Presents for 15 family members £350

£200 food
£400 presents (DCs are small so presents aren’t too expensive yet)
£150 Christmas experiences
Probably £100 extras

Imagine how wonderful it would be to turn up at someone’s house with a cake/ wine contribution, no cleaning or host organisation needed!

Genuinely can’t imagine it!

30 quid for the tree
20 on extra decorations
40 on DD7 present (we also celebrated St Nicholas earlier this month where she got more presents, about 120 worth)
40 each on presents for DH and me (but this came out of our pocket money and not family money)
240 for presents for the wider family
100 extra on the food shop
100 total for tickets, travel and concessions for the Nutcracker ballet for me and DD
30 on ice skating DD and DH

So about 600 pounds. Can't think of anything I forgot here.

£940 on gifts, which is about £200 more than usual.
£200 on event tickets
£150 event spending
£200 on food/drink for 9 people for 2 days

So, around £1500. I've been saving all year though plus the food has all been covered by Tesco vouchers or my Tesco "round up" acct which has helped.

It feels like a lot, but spread over several months has taken away a lot of pressure.