Christmas budget-am I.tight?

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Christmas- I spend £100-150 each on my DH, DD & DS everyone else regardless of who you are £20-25 and that’s it.
Reciprocal gifts from family and friends are usually around the £20 mark.
Are we a tight family or is this ‘normal’?

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No, I spend more than that, but I don’t buy for friends- just family.

I think it's normal. DD will have about 150 spend on her and DH and I will spend about 50 on eachother. We spend about 25 on everyone else too. My family do secret Santa which is great.

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Very normal imo not to spend as much on non- immediate family.
I spend around £10 on Aunt's, Cousins etc.

Normal for adults but children get so much now its ridiculous

That’s pretty much exactly how my budget pans out, except my mum gets £35 as my dad is rubbish at presents.

Normal for me and if it’s normal for you that’s fine. I spend what I’m comfortable with and can afford. Other people might spend thousands but that’s up to them.

I think it depends upon how old your kids are. £150 will go a long way with little ones, but not with teenagers.

I think that’s a really sensible budget. I spend far too much on my children which I plan to reduce next year.

Normal!
Nieces and nephews average £10 each.

Normal IMO

We spend usually spend £150ish in DS1 (9) he understands that his presents cost more so it looks like he has less but he’s happy with that!

We spend around £50 each on DS2 (3) and DD (2) but tbh they only get a small collection of gifts because we already have lots of toys from pasta birthday and Xmas or passed down from their big brother so there isn’t much they want or need. I’m sure when they’re older they’ll make specific requests

Family we spend 10-20 per niece and nephew ( we have 4) and DHs family
Do secret Santa so only 1 adult gift to get.

My brother and I don’t give each other gifts never have really so that’s normal for us and I spend 20-30 each on my mum / stepdad

Normal is whatever is normal for you. Don't get yourself into trouble, enjoy the season and the joy of giving gifts. Doesn't matter a jot what other posters do or don't do.

I'd imagine the food I eat, the places I holiday, the way I dress, the books I read, the very thoughts I think, are all in some way unique to me. But I'm happy and Christmas and my relationship with it, is no different.

Same as you for DD and DH then £100 for each parent set (usually a joint gift, posh hamper set). Only buy for x 1 adult relative couple (they've no kids but are always buy for us ) so £25 each there.

Nieces and nephew (BILs kids) £20 each which makes me feel tight as every time as they probably spend £50 on DD but there are 4 of them. Still feel tight though.

We stopped years ago this silly merry go round of gifts for extended family and friends .
It is a huge waste of money and time (especially between adults).
We just buy gifts for our child and a little treat for myself and husband,everyone else get a card and maybe some chocolate.
So going back to your original question OP, normal (actually way more generous than me)

Normal. I spend £10/15 on adults (if we are doing present), around £20/25 on their kids.

DH £100 and kids £150.

Immediate family (our parents and siblings) get a lot more, probably £100 per couple but they all support us a lot with childcare for dc and are incredibly generous to both them and us.

Sounds about normal and roughly what I spend. My DC might get a bit mor if there's a big ticket item like a bike, for example.
We spend slightly more on MIL because she's on her own and she deserves to be treated.

It all depends on your circumstances as well, spend what you can afford. I refuse to get into debt for Xmas.

It’s normal to me. I don’t have parents/siblings/kids - I spend £25 each on 3 godchildren, £50 on my niece (she lost her dad, my brother, so I spend more on her), we have a family secret Santa with a limit of £30, and boyfriend gets between £150-£250 depending on what it is. Last year it was an expensive sleeping bag which we’ve used so much camping this year - no idea what to get him yet for this year! Four friends are all into gardening so we tend to spend £15 each and get a variety of seeds, plants, pots, secateurs, gardening gloves etc.

That's normal. We spend £80-100 on the kids, but only £20 on each other (we dont need anything so have a £20 stocking budget each, which I think is fun!). £25 on close family members, £10 on God children and close friends kids, and £5 for token gifts for a few cousins and aunts. Even so our total budget is nearing £800.

I aim to reciprocate what people spend on us, your budget sounds totally fine to me.

Very normal. I would say I spend slightly more...£30ish for nieces/nephews/sisters and £50 each on my parents. I live abroad so don't see them very often so don't spend other money on them throughout the year. I have 2 DC, both very young and have been wondering about budgets for them so keen to see what others say...I was thinking around £150ish

I spend a lot more than that on close family and on my kids too. I don’t think there’s a ‘normal,’ it’s just what you can afford and what’s normal to your family, isn’t it. I’d rather get a thoughtful gift like a book that the person had thought out and seen that I would like, than expensive items that aren’t ‘me.’

We only spend more though as £100 just doesn’t get a lot now. If we got them a bike that would already be way over that budget. However, some people would buy things like new bikes during the year, so it probably evens out throughout the year. And spending little is better than too much, I couldn’t be spending all year paying off last year’s Christmas.

We spend about £100 - £150 on our DS (he is 20 now ... never see why teenagers 'have' to have so much spent on them ... the year he wanted an expensive PS or whatever he understood he had to contribute half towards it).

DH & I don't bother to exchange gifts ... I usually give my DM a charity goat type gift - £25 - she genuinely likes that rather than any more 'stuff' in her life.

We only give to under 18s in our family ... only one left now and that is £20 cash.

A secret Santa gift £5 ... I do have one friend who I tend to buy something around the £25 budget ... and that's it. I don't look at it as being 'mean' just sensible and prefer to give to charities that I support rather than buying endless 'stuff'.