show us yer stocking

marleyboy

I would say about a grand, but this has been spread out through the Year as we started buying this Years gifts last January.

elantan

I reckon approx £100 .. £25 for each person ....

mwpt

Some of my gifts involved tickets and outings which meant buying for myself too. In total about £200.

The nephews got books, because they've got far too many toys already.

Mistermeaner

elantan wrote: »

I reckon approx £100 .. £25 for each person ....

Maybe you are Scottish after all

michaels

Surely of more interest would be percent change from last year?

I suspect similar for us.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Surely of more interest would be percent change from last year?

I suspect similar for us.

That only works if you're buying for the same/similar. Some people are buying for new people, or not buying for people that used to be around.

First orphan Xmas = less presents to buy.

System

£500 maybe. My wife just broke the news she's spunked close to £100 on our one year old... I love buying gifts for people but not when I'm forced to, a gift is 1000x better when it's a surprise and has a meaning or joke behind it.

elantan

Mistermeaner wrote: »

Maybe you are Scottish after all

Lol ... tbh I don't do Xmas and would rather just ignore it, oh and I don't buy each other anything ... we get his parents something as they go in a huff if we don't and it's less of a pain just to spend £25 on them... we get son something for £25 as well as if we don't in laws moan as well and he now has a GF so we get her something also

But they are all just mindings nothing big ...

We get all year round so buy as and when we want to, I don't feel the need to participate in expected norms of society so try and much as I can to avoid it ( but it's not worth the headache of the in laws of we do totally ignore it)


I have worked every Xmas day for the last 15 years, I'm off this year and dreading it already

kinger101

Joeskeppi wrote: »

£500 maybe. My wife just broke the news she's spunked close to £100 on our one year old... I love buying gifts for people but not when I'm forced to, a gift is 1000x better when it's a surprise and has a meaning or joke behind it.

I'm with you on the surprise or having meaning, but anything bought as a joke !!!!es me off endlessly. We got away without doing the secret santa at work this year. But it isn't, and has never been, remotely funny to waste time and money buying tat that will end up as landfill. But I guess that gets back to your original point of being forced to buy someone something.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

That only works if you're buying for the same/similar. Some people are buying for new people, or not buying for people that used to be around.

First orphan Xmas = less presents to buy.

Yes, that's the same situation for DH, so fewer presents here. It is a far bigger hole than the reduction in spend would suggest.