How much did Christmas cost you?

[Jbrown76]

And how long will it take to pay it off? Or how long will you be skint for?

It'll be Summer before I'm in the clear 😓

£1k for holiday house to rent
£1500 for gifts
£300 for Tesco order for Xmas
£150 For petrol

Quite a lot

And that's without counting panto, Christmas lights, etc.

But... how?

About 775 but we are fortunate not to go into debt to spend that. I’d have guessed about 6/650 so it’s a bit higher than I’d have liked

About £800-1000. I put a bit aside each month Jan to Nov.

About £1000. I save £200 a month and put it in a Christmas savings pot so no debt.

i don’t add it up but roughly about £2000. It is only me, husband and 3 kids we have no other family. Thats gifts, trips, new decortations, new jumpers, elf antics and our food and drink. Could be slightly less or a bit more though but thats fairly average as as the kids get older things cost more. No debt though i buy bits months in advance and if we couldn’t afford it i wouldn’t spend it and i would never get in debt for it

About £1k all in. Saved throughout the year specifically for it so no debt and a little left over to divert to a different savings pot!

We saved for a few months so only spent what we had which was roughly £650. That's food, presents etc..

Difficult to say because costs were so spread out. I'd say around 800-900 at a guess. My husband has 22 nieces and nephews that we need to buy for and we have our own 2 very young children and our parents to buy for too. We had dinner with my parents this year but we bought the meat and they did the sides. Bought a few new decorations, crackers, Christmas jumpers for kids and things like Christmas hats for family photos.

Didn't really spend anything on activities, our oldest just turned 2 and we have a newborn baby so paid Christmas activities aren't really needed yet. We did see 4 different Santa's but they were all free in shopping centres and such so got some nice photos with them, went to see a lights display and Christmas markets.

I spent about £300.

£'000's but all children are now in double digits. I save up cashback over year to put towards Xmas - that's paid for 10 to go to the pantomime,, some of the Xmas food and one of the youngsters Xmas gifts. We fully host both families over Xmas - this year over 4 different days. Finally, it's so much because one got a new phone and others have asked for experiences (think school trips / holidays) that we would of being paying for anyway if we didn't say they are your main Xmas present. We won't spend much in January on food as freezer full. All paid for by depleting savings / some of the experiences are paid off monthly.

The judgement on here 0_0

Absolutely nothing because we CBA, all we care about right now is buying a house. But when I realised we exceeded our 2023 savings target I spent about £200 on NYE goody bags of booze and snacks and sweets for six local strangers and dropped them all off yesterday and today.

Close to £2k probably (on presents and food mainly).

Easy , I just don't buy anything else .

Around £800 including all food, a Christmas light trail, visit to santa, panto for 2 adults and one child, presents for DH, DD, DM, DF, nephew and token gifts for SIL and BIL x2. Oh and one night in an Airbnb when visiting relatives. No debt to pay off. Made use of tesco cc vouchers (£65) and two of DDs main gifts were from marketplace.

About £1500. Probably take me until feb to pay off the bit I put on credit card.

About £2k. But we save throughout the year.

£600 on presents and food (only have one child but buy for all my family). About another £150ish on socialising with friends throughout December. Didn’t use any credit cards or anything, just money I’d saved but January will definitely be tight now, won’t be doing any socialising and will be eating a lot of jacket potatoes!

Panto £120
Extra food £100
Presents for our 2 kids £400
Other presents £250 only buy for kids in family and parents.
Total £870
I had saved £500 over the year, the panto I paid for with money from swapping our bank account in September. Everything else came out of Decembers money.

We don't do "proper" presents any more as kids are no longer little.
Maybe £150 on nicer food and wine than usual (only feeding four)
£100 donation to food bank
£100 tip for cleaner
£30 wider family Secret Santa x 2 so £60 total
£30 on cards and stamps - only sent a few by post, sent virtual cards to most people
Did splurge £40 on some nice festive flowers to make the house feel lovely, but also did a lot of foraging for festive greenery for the table setting etc

Never a very extravagant time of year for us.

Spent about 2 grand in all. That was presents and food for 7 people, three dogs and one cat!

Ditto

I don't get into debt. Ever. If I can't afford it then I don't have it.

£800- I put money away each week/month for Xmas and the kids birthdays in January.

Around a thousand including food. An unexpected 150 on stupid gifts that suddenly popped up like work secret Santa (previous years we drew names and had one gift each…. This year new boss decided we all had to buy for every team member… this won’t happen again as it pissed every one off). I set aside money every month and spent every penny whereas usually I’d have 60 or so left over. I’m making changes next year. It was too much and a bit stressful.

No idea really. £1k-£1.5k. I don’t tot it up as I’m fortunate not to have to. None of it was put on credit so no need to pay it off. If we didn’t have it to spend we’d rein it in.