How much do you spend on your adult children at Christmas?

AylesburyDuck

Christmas £200 and Birthdays £100
Partners would get around £20-£40

Robisere

Grandbrats 1 to 3 are 18+ and 2 ask for money, they get £100 each and something small but interseting to open. T'other likes presents to open, and one is a gadget that I just know he will love to use on his computer desk. Second for him is clothes, we will take him shopping and fit him out: he is a big lad! Youngest is 11 and she is still easier to buy for atm: probably a tablet to replace the one her friend sat upon, at least £100.

Son is easy: he wants Screwfix vouchers, probably £100 minimum. Daughter - SHOES! and MORE SHOES! (Please!) Probably £100 +

maman

Kim_kim wrote: »

I think Christmas presents should be just for children really.

That's what happens here.


We stopped some years ago buying gifts for adults at Christmas. It was DD1's idea and since then the same thing happens with friends. I think it's because people are fed up with 'stuff'. All I buy now is for my grand daughters (do people really have grandkids and grandbrats?:() and some money to great nieces and nephews (around £20 each).


Both my DDs have birthdays close to Christmas and we give them about £200 unless they've asked for something specific.


DGDs, I'd spend any amount depending on what they want. They're teenagers now. For the younger one we're paying for a school trip to Italy (about £500) but will get a couple of small gifts usually something from Jack Wills! Older one tells me she's emailed a list to her mum (she's at university) so I'll have to consult with DD1. Last year we paid for her iPhone contract which is ongoing.

Knightsuntold

This can be such a tricky area. I spend between £100 - £150 on my stepson. That's usually something he's asked for, plus a few extras, such as a T-shirt, cinema card, a book and chocolate. This year is the first year where he's had a girlfriend at Christmas, but I've only met her briefly a couple of times. She's getting chocolates and that's it.

clairec79

Since I've left home married and had children I do have less (and stocking stopped when I wasn't at home xmas morning - I suspect if I stayed xmas eve they'd do one again)

Normally it's around £30, same for my children, plus something small extra. DH gets slightly less - but thats often because he's picked something smaller - he got told off this year as the present he asked for (a blu ray box set of a series) was only £6, but that's what he wants

Kim_kim

AylesburyDuck wrote: »

Christmas £200 and Birthdays £100
Partners would get around £20-£40

That's something else I'm inclined to do differently - spend more on birthdays & less on Christmas.

After all there is only one to buy for on birthdays - plus they are people's special days.

Dird

74jax wrote: »

DD is 18 and about £800.

Can you adopt me?

74jax

Dird wrote: »

Can you adopt me?

One is enough.:rotfl:

We are off to New York 😃. I'm wrapping her an apple (big apple) and Alicia Keys New York CD, hopefully she'll get it from that :rotfl:

Kim_kim

Spendless wrote: »

I don't. My own family is top heavy with pensioners, made up of my parents grandparents and husbands parents. Age range - late 60s - early 90s, They appreciate items bought that might make their lives a bit more manageable (either financially or practically). I'm not going to stop buying for them when they've bought for us our entire lives. The children in the family are teenagers aged between 13 and 16 and it's them that have the surplus of things and don't need another item.

Mine is made up working grandparents, parents & young children.
Having said that thankfully we as a family have never had the (now departed) older members struggling financially, they've always been comfortable & treated the younger members (I hope I'm that fortunate!!!!).

Kim_kim

I'll be honest I don't add up what I spend on my two grandchildren, I don't make sure I spend the same on both or set a budget.

I just get what I think people (all of the recipients) will like.