how much do you spend on your kids at christmas?

kerry13238

hi thought i would start this feel free to tell me off if there is one going but i cant find it

age mine are 11 and 9


i spend about £150 each

sammy_kaye18

I spend about £150 - £200 on my son but he does get clothes and we do the Xmas eve box too so some of that is included there. I do pick up a lot in the sales too though and freebie/cheap bits for stockings etc too.

I do get him new PJs and some clothes out of that money too.

bluestarrz

This year I am spending about £200-£250 on DD which includes a pink nintendo DS at £105 and some playsets and books, a baking set and some clothes I got in the sales. I was adding up the real prices of each thing I've got her so far (got loads in sales) and it would be about £350-£400 if I'd paid full price which always makes me think I'm perhaps giving too much? But it's only once a year I suppose..
DS will probably get the same but with less gifts as his are more expensive.

chaosweddings

Hi,
i normally spend about £150-£200 on my ds but this year he has asked for a laptop, so the deal is if he can save up £100 by christmas he can have one ! so far he has about £68 as he has gone through his room and sold a lot of games ect on ebay .....

so this year he is having a bit more spent on him , clothes, dvds, xbox 360 games and a few bits and bobs.

i spread the cost for xmas by putting money on my post office christmas club card which activates on nov 1st and i can use it in lots of places .... and i also have the park vouchers.

MummyYummy

Around £150 here, if I had paid full price for items then maybe £200-250! Luckily I got a lot in various sales. My mum also spends £100 on him - but this year its just going into his savings along with money from other family member (he has too much already!)

But to be honest- it wouldn't matter if I just spent £10, I know I'd make it a magical time no matter how much I spent.

busiscoming2

Ususally between £100 -£150 each and that includes the stocking presents as well, which usually cost about £10 -£15.
I worked with a woman once who spent £500 on each of her two boys!!!!

Alikay

About £60 on a main present (or cash towards if it they're saving for something expensive) and then a stocking which probably comes to another £10 or £15. They only get 2 or 3 other presents in total from other family members which are token gifts of £5-£10.

Seems stingy compared to some but they genuinely seem happy with it and always have done (age 15,18 and 20 now!). We always go and see a show, go out for a meal, play board games and watch films together and it's those things which are more a feature of our christmases than presents anyway.

MummyYummy

busiscoming2 wrote: »

Ususally between £100 -£150 each and that includes the stocking presents as well, which usually cost about £10 -£15.
I worked with a woman once who spent £500 on each of her two boys!!!!

My mum spends £300 each on my three teenage sisters :eek: realistically its more like £450-500 though once she's added in Christmas day outfit, new pj's, stocking fillers etc!

space_rider

I have 4 ages between 22 and 9. It depends on what they need and how much money I have. So far no one needs anything so I think it will be around £100 each.

mrcow

Mine will be aged 2, 4 and 8.

I will be spending between £20 and £50 on each of them. But I'm quite smart with money and plan ahead well and get good deals on what I'm looking for.

Any more than that would be ridiculous. Just buying stuff for the sake of buying stuff - which I hate. And it's not what Christmas is about in my household.

whitewing

I get gifts to the value of approx 100 pounds (so may spend less, if I can get good deals on things on his list). However, he rarely gets anything spent on him by us through the year apart from clothes, school trips etc and doesn't get pocket money.