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!

I think some of the people saying “about £000” might be shocked if they tracked every single thing, I know I was!

Presents: £500
Food: £250 for the day and Boxing Day (turkey alone was £75, then pork roast was £45).
Not doing Xmas activities as such as kids are 19 and 21.

£1600 on presents (£1k between 2 DC, the rest are incidentals)
£250 on food & drink but that's mainly cheese and chocolate & wine.
We go to my mums for 3-4 days over Xmas so she gets all the food in. It must cost her a fucking bomb but she won't accept any help (I take a couple of bottles of spirits, pick up bits and bobs when I'm at the supermarket if she needs it)

I've not tracked, but not gone in to debt with it, so I'm happy.

I think I’m on about £900. I’m not hosting this year so didn’t have to cover food or drink which would have pushed it well over a grand. So it covers presents for DD7, DP, 6 family members and a couple of small bits for friends. Christmas Eve box with pajamas, book and some chocolate. A Christmas lights trail, and meal out with friends.

I’m slightly horrified by how much I’ve spent, but actually in the grand scheme of things I don’t think it’s too extravagant

Only have one DS who's 2.5 and I've definitely spent way too much this year. Roughtly:

DS - £500
Other friends/family - £500
Food and alcohol -£600
Events/eating out etc £500

So about £2k in total. We aren't well off but I put money aside from my small bonus as it's our first one hosting/at home and it means a lot to me

Was it worth it? If my DS has a great day it's worth every penny

I track presents, because I have a pre-set budget of £120 per child. Secret Santa was £12.50.

Food - £10 for the bird, £50 on sweets including advent calendar stuff (I use refillable ones), £50 on alcohol, £20 on bits and bobs I don't normally buy, like pigs in blankets, shortcrust pastry, dried plums and a nice cheese. I got given sweets and more alcohol from work, cards didn't cost me a thing this year as I make them myself and had lots leftover from last year, so didn't buy anything new. I hand-delivered those. One new bauble, £14.

So around £500.

£100 on presents - only buy for parents.
£30 on food - only two of us for Xmas day. It's just a normal roast Lamb dinner with a few nibbles.

As you can tell I'm not heavily invested in Christmas 😃

£950 on gifts
£115 on santa train/ festive light trail
£100 - extra decorations
£90 - christmas food
£50 - charity donations and school non uniform stuff

So in total £1305 and that's with cutting back and agreeing not to buy gifts for siblings and booking lots to do which I found exhausting last year

Gosh, I feel really mean. I've spent about £250 on everything. I have a large family so we stop with presents once children reach 18, apart from our own children. Cards and stamps.

My contribution to our Christmas Day meal is a pudding, not the Christmas type. We don't all fit in one place so it's only nine of us on the day and we all take something. We don't eat meat. I don't drink so taking lots of the soft sort.

Presents for my team at work I guess I should add ... definitely no more than £300 overall.

Just over £2,000 on gifts, which sounds ridiculous but £1,500 of that is immediate family and includes presents that are essentials which we'd have to buy anyway (new bed for example, £400 just on that). I start early and have spread that across 5 months, nothing on credit.

Nothing on food, I save all my Tesco clubcard points all year and use those for my big Christmas shop.

Nothing on events or outings, we just do free things such as walks, board games, home movie nights etc.

We also don't spend big on birthdays (typically £50 or so) so I don't mind a bigger spend at Christmas, we've only a few more years with all the kids still at home and I enjoy spoiling them a little.

Presents- around £300 but we don't buy big gifts- kids are both disabled and not that interested and we do smallish gifts for family.

Food- about £200 for our contribution to family meals and extra treats.

Activities- about £200 as the kids enjoy these over gifts.

Ignorance is bliss, I have no idea. I would probably throw up.

Christmas, food, days out, Nye party food and drink presents... probably about £1.5k?

£400 food and drink
£500 experiences, days out, etc
£1800 presents

Pretty similar to last year, so I'm not too horrified as had saved accordingly.

£200 in total.

Made it clear that we aren't doing an " adult" Christmas this year as we've bought a house, new car and has a baby! So it's all about him. We have handmade gifts from the baby to family and bought small things for close members. We've bought the baby a few teethings things and age appropriate toys but he's more interested in the paper. Christmas dinner is at my parents we bought a meat joint and some stuffing.

£260 and we're from a culture that doesn't traditionally celebrate Christmas.
We only do food and a few gifts for friends who do celebrate and I like to do a stocking only for dc.

£250 on presents
£150 on food and drink
2 adults, 1 kid

For Xmas and NYE

£1500 ish on presents (dp, dc 19 and 24, mum and dad) and £500 on food shop. Still have New Year's Eve food shop to go!

Oh and forgot that includes presents for dc's girlfriend and MIl) there will be 5 of us for Christmas dinner (if dm still comes)

1200 presents
300 food & drink
50 light trail
72 cat feeder while we're away

Presents - approx. £1,000
Pre-Christmas Socialising - £500
Decorations - £100
Food and Drink - £400

So approx. £2k which is ridiculous really.

Presents have cost an insane amount with 5 children mainly taking up a lot. DH and I just buy one nice present each for each other as a surprise. Then with the rest of our family, we have now decided to do a Secret Santa thing each year to make it a bit easier!!

Must have been about £3000 in total but we save every month and put money to the side.

Presents £600 for 2 DC, 2 nephews and secret Santa and stockings.

£50 extra for food this week
£200 on a new tree and a few new decorations

Christmas family day out including Santa visit £140

So nearly £1k

I dare not say .
Some will think I'm showing off.. but honestly l wouldn't be .
I want to spoil my daughters and Grandkids while l can be here to see them enjoy everything.
Yes l am a millionaire.. ( big payout due to disability.. attempted murder).
But I'd give it all back not to be like this.
Anyhow...

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE.
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