How much do your parents spend on YOU

[CarmerKharma]

Just curious really, how much do your parents spend on you now that you're an adult with your own children etc?

How much do they spend on your children?

My Mother - £25 between DP and I, £25 each for the DDs, can't be bothered buyinmg presents just bungs money in a card.

My Dad - about £25 on DDs on presents I tell him to buy (he asks me) and probably £25 on DP and I each.

MIL - £50 each for all of us plus loads of little presents like PJs for the DDs/chocolates etc

my dad usually gives me £60 to spend on the 3 dc's.
mum and stepdad probably spend about £50 each on the 5 of us.
MIL spends about £20 each on the children and buys us something for the house last year, a tumble dryer, year before that a garden shed.
I would actually prefer it if they all just bought for the grandchildren now and just a token £5-10 gesture for adults.

MIL gives us £40-50 in cash each and gets a few bits to unwrap - usually smellies and slippers in the wrong size

She gives me £100 to spend on DS and she wraps it and gets one surprise as shes not keen on shopping and doesnt see him often enough to know what he is or isnt into.

Nothing on me, DH's parents buy me presents my own stopped when we were 16, same with birthdays.
The kids get £20 each because there's sooooo many of them ie 3

about £25 on each of us - me, dh, and 2 dcs

Mil a bit more I think

on me, 10 quid max (and very unimaginitive gifts too )

on my kids, if a gift for ds (8) about 30 quid

if giving money eg. to teenage dd, usually 50 quid

KatieDD - that's a bit harsh!!

£150

about £20 for each of the 4 dcs

About £30 - £50 I think.

mum asks what I want - usually in the £20-£40 range, and gets me a few bits aswell. She used to spend about £25 oh ex.
On the kids usually upto around £20 each on a single present.

His parents spent more £40-£60, but on things they thought we should like usually, most years from M&S, and we both returned them and got vouchers. Guess I won't have that this year!
Also spend more on the kids, around £50 mark, often buying more than one thing (one year brough ds1 something not unsubstantial to play with while his main present was put together - it was his birthday ffs, he had LOADS of things to play with).

£20 per head per family member. If it comes under they make it up with something else (I dont quite know why they do that but the thought is lovely)

MIL sent us a cheque for £100 last year, think she will be sending us nowt this year and forevr more. Ho hum.

my mum, nothing. Rich in-laws...£25 to share between the 5 of us.

Oh, god - its coming rpund to that time again, when I have to tell my parents to PLEEEEEEASE not spend money on us.... The thing is, they feel they have to buy a present for the sake of it, even if we don't want anything. FINALLY.. we now agree that we will give subscriptions to magazines, and everyone is happy because we get somthing that we actually enjoy - all year round - and don't fill the house up with even more unnecessary crap...

That's why they're rich NMC LOL- they keep their cash!

My sister (also quite well off) got s1 and ds2 inflatable spiders one year..... £1.99 reduced to 20p because they had HOLES IN

PMSL

she also got ds1 aged 5 fake snow marked poisonous for children but I didn;t pmsl about that. Dad gave her a right talking to I believe

More than she should and probably more than she did when I was at home - about £50-60. I spend more on her though. I usually spend the most on her (and DH's mum). They deserve it.

Last year she bought us a great gift, National Trust membership for the year. Have enjoyed it all year round.

my mum and step dad prob spend £50 on joint presents for me and dh (house things)then £50 on me and £50 on dh, last year was dd's first christmas and they prob spent nearly £200 on her (crazy people)

my dad and step mum about £80 ona joint present for me and dh then a small token individual gift for each of us and about £50 on DD

Inlaws dont buy me and dh a gift as we dont get them one and spend around £10 on dd ( i think this really upsets dh)

My mum - around £30/£35 for the children, around £25 for me and nothing for dh ...not quite sure why, she does like him, honest

MIL around £20 on each of us, me, dh and the 3 kids.

My mum spends about £50 on me, about £25 on DH

MIL spends LOADS! Like £200 on each of us!
I suppose she can afford it, but still!

That might have come out wrong. I don't mean that I spend more on my mum than anyone else does on her. I meant that out of the presents I buy, I spend the most on hers.

Phew.

My mum buys crazy things for me that I couldnt even guess the price of, probably £30ish, and she always gets dp a jumper or gloves! As for my dad well, he doesnt do pressies, I see him very rarely so when i do he slips me a £50 and makes some insult about getting my hair done properly! I think once we get older a card and a choccie orange is good enough.

My Mum spends about the same amount on us all £25 x 4

MIL spends about the same amount on us all again but probably closer to £100 each, but she has already bought mine, going to a ball next week and she bought me a lovely cocktail dress to wear, made her promise not to get me a christmas present aswell, mind you she has more money than sense. Really wish she would think more about what she buys though, tends to be £100 of silly crappy presents, whereas my Mum thinks really hard about what to spend her £25 and its normally something you really appreciate.

£100 on each of the grandchildren (I have 2 my sister has 2). Around £80-100 on my sister and myself each, and £50ish on both sons-in-law.

Nothing. I asked them not to, or to give some money to charity if it bothered them. Seemed silly them spending money on things I don't really want or need when they haven't got much money.

MIL will buy dh and I a crate of wine.

posted before I'd finished,

Parents will spend about £10-15 on ds1. Not sure if they'll bother with ds2 (less favoured 2nd grandchild).

MIL won't necessarily buy anything for the dcs (reckons they don't need anything). She'll spend about £25 each on all the other grandchildren though.