How much do you spend on Christmas presents?

I spend £50 each on my DDs (sometimes they and their OHs receive a joint present that comes to about £60). Otherwise I spend about £10-£25 on their partners.

GC (7 of them!) get a present valued at about £30.

OH and I usually get something for the house (a stick vacuum this year - how romantic!) . or contribute to a joint present each with the DDs.

Siblings get a poinsettia or similar sent to them.

That's it - I'll just do the maths............... (sounds of brain wheels turning!).....c. £500!!!! I have never worked it out before and am beginning to wish I hadn't!

To my great relief our family now do a Secret Santa for adults, we set an amount and all do a wish list. Cuts my present buying down a whole lot. It wasn't ever about the money but the sheer hell of choosing them all gifts.
I now only have buy the Secret Santa and then half a dozen grands and Grt grandchildren. It also means I can spend more on them but I don't have a budget just what I think they'll like.

If I'm honest? Between £2,000 - £3,000!

I don't have many presents to buy but usually about £50- 100 a head and more for DH- comes to about £750.

As a family we ageeed not to buy ‘proper’ gifts for adults now, although we do give a small gift to any adult we see on Christmas Day, a little more to whoever is hosting. We usually get a small gift from thengrandchildre, often home made. Mr C and I sometimes buy each other a small gift, sometimes nothing, sometimes a joint gift, depends how we feel each year and how the budget looks. Grandchildren have a top budget of £50 each. Only 3 of them. There are two or three friends we exchange a token gift with, usually something daft or edible. Overall it’s usually about £250. Not sure if that makes us mean ?

About £4,000 which includes the Christmas meal as it is a gift to all family members.

I've just consulted the oracle spreadsheet (how sad am I? ). Last year I spent £460 on presents for 22 people, many of them bought on offer, 3 for 2, etc, so the value of said gifts was £690. I'm quite proud of my bargain hunting! DH and I, the DC and DILs do a Secret Santa now and just buy/get one present each for £30, so that's cut down the expense considerably, as well as making present buying much easier. Though I do still make up a stocking for any adults here on Christmas morning, and they can be surprisingly costly!

From what I've got so far, I think I'm going to be spending around £600 this year - we've an extra DGS for starters!

harrigran, ouch! I can only say, in the oft heard words of my DH (Yorkshire through and through) - " 'Ow much?! "

To be honest, I'd be hearing those words if he even got wind of the £600.

My total budget for everything, presents, stockings, food etc is around £750. DH pays for tree and booze (we are not heavy drinkers) and DC supply cheese, nibbles and anything that takes their fancy that they think we should have.

I thought that was quite extravagant, even given that we have a more than comfortable income, but hearing what some are spending and comparing our spend with our income, I now look like a miserly curmudgeon.

We give a main present to the adults. The 2 DGDs get a pillow case of 1 main present plus bits and bobs. Then we have a small afternoon present. Also we give our DD and DSs families a gift of money. All in all about £2500 . That is not including food etc.

Ive never worked it out. Used to spend £30 on children and partners and also grandchildren. That's about £390. Then about £15 on our brothers & sisters and partners plus great nephews and nieces, That's about another £200. So about £600 altogether not counting anything I might buy for DH .

Nowadays we do secret santa for all the adults in the family which has cut it down a lot.

Mind you, to that add panto tickets, all the cards, food, Christmas tree, crackers etc etc and the cost is huge! Makes me feel guilty when I think of all the poverty in the world.

But it does depend on the size of your family, Mine is quite big. I do try not to overspend, but usually fail.

OMG I must be Scrooge's wife. I got fed up looking for presents for friends who have everything from January onwards and never seemingly getting it right so we agreed not to exchange gifts.

I do not have any family alive in this country or Scotland.

I send one cheque! Simples.

With a small family, and our friends all agreeing to the no presents rule, just a card, we don’t, thankfully, spend very much.
However, as another poster says, Christmas food and drinks and panto tickets etc all adds up.
The main thing is that all get a present that they actually want and like, you don’t have to have a big budget for that,

We've agreed this year to small token Christmas presents (up to £10 or so) for the adults in the family. Will give money (£100) towards bicycle for younger GS, and the same in actual notes to older GS (12yrs) who is saving for techy stuff, plus one or two wrapped fun things. DH & I buy the 'festive' meat/veg box (which was ordered today) - another £120 or so. I haven't yet worked out how to post/send a gift to DS2 & partner who are in Australia this year - anyone any tips?

Same as last year, I’m asking friends and family, who would normally give us presents, to spend that money on food for the local Foodbank, and that I would do the same - buy for the Foodbank instead of buying presents. In our area, as in so many other places, things are dire, with much child poverty and fuel poverty.
We have a 7-year-old Gt. grandson and we will probably be buying him football stuff, or whatever his mum thinks he might like. He’s the only wee one in the family now.
DH and I are going to Lindisfarne for Christmas ?, so that’ll do us fine!

Around £700 and there are 10 people to buy for

I spend around £100 on food

Depends on how my finances are. If they're not very healthy then I would spend no more than 50 each on my two grandsons, and 50 on my daughter. If I was better off, I would spend around 100 pounds each. On principle I wouldn't spend much more, even if I could afford it.

teifi I have given up - the postage is extortionate.

You can order stuff or vouchers from Australian websites (a particular jeweller I have used is brilliant (I think they are called Gilletts, and will wrap and deliver promptly) otherwise, money - the postage can cost as much as a gift.

We spend too much. I'm trying to cut down this year (again). We only have about 8 people to buy for but we go our for a family meal sometime over the Christmas period, so that has to be paid for plus taxis. Then the family come here Boxing night and we provide food and drink. The other bits and bobs add up - such as friends saying 'we must meet up for a drink or lunch around Christmas'. Then there are cards, wrapping, postage stamps.

We have 4 offspring, their wives, 6 dgc. That's 14 at about £50 each, = £700
Plus 4 of the dgc all have birthdays within a couple of weeks of Christmas, another 4 x £50 = £200
Plus 3 siblings, plus 4 friends, plus 4 other friends' children = about £200
That us up to £1050. That's just off the top of my head, there's probably a couple I've missed.
Then the Christmas meal, extras.

I do try to buy as I see through the year and today pulled out my 'box' from below the bed to see what I had. e.g. a winter coat from M & S for 1 yr old which was reduced from £40 to £3.99. A p-leather silver biker's jacket for 10 year old dgd from TK Maxx reduced to £16.

The dgc used to get about £100 gift but as they became more, now 6, I've tried to cut down nearer £50.

Gift to each other.
I have tried to suggest to dh about a family adult Secret Santa but he continues to want to do 'proper gifts'.
I think he's not wanting to look cheap !!

Oh dear, I've never worked out how much all the food and booze costs. Perhaps I need a new tab on my spreadsheet, or perhaps I'd feel better not knowing.

I've just wrapped up a little gift to post to my niece in Canada. The main criteria was that it was very light, but I must say I'm quite pleased to have managed to get together a little package of coloured nail buffers, pretty floral nail files and a couple of L'Oreal nail varnishes for £4. Bargain! I just hope they don't have Poundland in Canada.

I daren't add it up but this year we've also paid for my son and family to come over from NZ so it's a lot.