lots or little at xmas?

Becles

I tend to buy people a main present, then two or three smaller things to go with it.

Hope this doesn't make me sound ungrateful, but a relative used to make up a "Santy bag" each year, which was a gift bag filled with what I can only describe as random festive tat! Things like cheap stinky bubble bath in a ceramic bath tub, festive soap on a rope, cheap chocolate festive shapes, novelty pens that you can't write properly with etc. I know she meant well, but most of the time the stuff sat around gathering dust until it got donated to the school fair or chucked out. I'd have been happier with a bottle of Radox, a bar of Cadburys and a packet of Bic biros. Not very festive, but at least I'd get use out of the stuff.

Baileys_Babe

We don't have a set way of doing it, just depends what we decide to give each person. It may be 1 present or a pile of presents. We always do a stocking for DS (& nephews when they lived with us) This year I have also sorted surprise stockings for parents, Grandma & DP. Some years DP gets lots of presents from me (with in budget) other years I buy him nothing as we both feel their is no point in buying something for the sake of it. Last year he happily bought himself something. This year he thinks I've been my usual unimaginative self to asked if he could buy X from me, which he ordered and will wrap but in fact I have bought 2 presents (on my Dads cc so DP doesn't spot the mystery transactions) and filled him a stocking - when inspiration hits it does it big time.

Mrs_Ihenetu

It's going to be my son's (8 months old) first christmas and he has lots of presents to open. 2 big ones from me and his daddy, another big one from his godmother and lots of smaller presents under the tree as well as a stocking full of toys.

I guess i just want to spoil him on his first christmas, plus with the amount of presents he's getting he won't need any more things until next christmas.

As a child i also used to get lots of little presents.

princesspoppypop

I think its got to be lots of presents - my family get really excited at Christmas and my Mum spoils hubby and me and my sis and her boyf, we get a huge sack of presents and a stocking each! Hubby`s family don`t get excited really, they get us lovely things tho! When I have children I want them to have sackfuls of gifts and toys all over - as I did when I was a child. My sister and I were lucky when we were little we had lots of lovely things but my Mum worked hard and still does for everything she has.
I`m a real softy when it comes to my sis, I want to buy her the world!

candygirl

I sued to get the whole family loads of stuff, but due to being out of work this year have just got a few things.DD is having a baby in March so i've bought the pram and some furniture for her flat that she needed.:D