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!

Forgot some gifts - around £100 and Christmas tree plus collecton and wreath £100

I’ve probably forgotten loads more!

Probably £1800 on presents but that does include a tv and a games console...

About 100 on food (including treats)

About €2000 on gifts
Christmas food shopping €400
Meal out Christmas Eve €150
New Decorations €300
VIP family Theatre Trip €400
Misc gifts/tips for Milkman/Postman/Charity donations €200

Didn't anybody buy a new sofa for Christmas!?😂Can't believe DFS still run those ads!

£1800 I'd say on presents for my husband and two (older) children and the food

Probably about 1k on presents and spent £170 at Sainsbury’s this morning. An extortionate amount baring in mind we aren't here for Christmas dinner!

Our 3 Kids presents about £1200 (they got a playstation 5 to dhare to) so it was a bigger expense his year.

DH and myself about £250 between us both again bigger expense than normal but it's stuff we need and want which will last all year (new pjs, perfume etc for me).
Pjs/jumpers etc £25

Family gifts £55

Christmas Food and drinks -easy £250

Panto tickets £56 plus £15 ice creams etc whilst there. (Small local theatre or would have been £150 elsewhere)

Santa visits £ 90

Car charity food donation £18

Plus extras we have easily spent £2k but don't this often. We certainly won't be next year. There is also no debt on any of it as i save up. Next year I am not planning spending more than £1k including everything

£100 for under tree gifts £25 on stocking dd
£100 for under tree gifts £25 on stocking ds
£100 for under tree £25 on stocking dh (I like to keep things equal!)
Food shop tomorrow but about £300, that will last for two weeks, so not much more than my average weekly shop.
£5 for 🐕
Christmas tree free this year as we bought a potted one a few years back and dig it up every year, it's grown well though, so this is its last house Christmas!
£10 on a wreath as I ran out of time to make one.
I purchased crackers in the sales last year. We've decided to go away next Christmas for winter sunshine, so won't have all the hassle!

Are these people not contributing even in the sense of bring a dish and bottle? That's a huge expense if not.

I honestly have no idea and don’t want to know. I managed £300 in Sainsbury’s this morning & that wasn’t even the main Christmas Day meal. We can afford it so it’s no bother but I probably would feel quite embarrassed if I actually added it all up because value for money it most definitely is not!

I have spent roughly £2000 (maybe more) on gifts for 21 year old son and £500 in gifts for my father and my aunt.
Food shop M&S plus Ocado has been £300 (but no booze as no one drinks and that just covers Christmas day/boxing day as have normal weekly shop coming on 28th).
So in total around £2800.

I’m going to guess £4k

That’s presents for the kids and wider family, and token gifts for people like teachers, delivery drivers, etc (I don’t do these every year).
Cash gifts for nieces and nephews.

New outfits

Food shop

Christmas party/drinks

A Christmas meal/night out for my mum and sister, which I paid for as their gift

New Christmas decorations

Not sure if I should include these, but beauty treatments: nails, brows, hair, new makeup

Advent Calendars

@MyStylish40s yeah I'd reckon about that

About £1.7k I think, which when I add up, is fairly horrific.

£400 on DC's presents (3DC aged 10 - 15)
£350 on presents for family/ friends
£500 on food (we are hosting 23 - 26 Dec)
£200 on booze
£250 on decorations/ tree etc

And that doesn't include any activities, shows, days out etc. Other than possibly decorations (I bought an expensive wreath this year which has died already!) I don't think any of our spending categories are that excessive, but when you add it all up!!

About £1400 including presents and food, we can afford it, but it's a lot for one day!

About 1.2k on gifts for DP , 4 siblings , 2 mums, 1 nan, 1 grandad , 1 step dad

£200 on all the food and drinks

Usually £2500. DH got a bonus exceeding that every year,So it didn’t really make any difference.
Now he’s retired I think it’s too much.

About £800 on presents for my teens, but it's not pointless stuff, it's more everyday stuff like replacing electronics, clothes, coat, trainers, nice bedroom/unj stuff.

About £200 on food but it's also my annual leave, so we'd spend more anyway. Probably add about £100 for a couple of takeaways and a couple of coffee shop treats.

Used to always buy tickets for a light trail and a panto but they're not bothered anymore.

£450 on presents (3x kids, DH and family)

£30 on Christmas dinner (I don't count the rest as we buy what we want/need as we always do in the weekly shop)

£50 pantomime

£50 Christmas photos

£10 on assorted things like crackers, family board game, advent calanders etc...

So about £600.

I’ve spent £2352
I know this as I save £200 a month into a savings account that we use for Christmas and have £38 left in it.
This covers all gifts, food, decorations and parties/outings. I stick rigidly to only using this money and it means Christmas doesn’t feel stressful money wise.

£2500-3000 for everything - all food, presents, drinks, festive days out, etc

I put £250 a month away from January to cover it

£1,730 - presents, tree, food, one meal out. Maybe another £200 on extra bits of Christmas food, booze and magazines added to normal grocery shops since October.

About the same as last year but last year I overspent by £700 and this year I have not overspent. This is due to a combination of paying as I went for some presents in Aug-Oct and being more disciplined about saving up over the year.

Probably around 3k but that's a guess. Pantomimes, meals out, christmas village and a couple of gigs, gifts, food and drink soft and alcohol. For us xmas is not just the one day but events leading up to it and right up to new year hence the costs.

Presents around £700 (2DS, girlfriend of DS and her DC, 8 nephews/nieces) but we've agreed no adult pressies this year.

Food and drink around £400

Wow, so much when you look at it all written down!

Around £500, all in, given I'd buy food ordinarily and even some alcohol.

£350 on presents for kids and secret santa.

£150 on food and drink I wouldn't buy ordinarily.