How much $$$ do you spend for Christmas presents?

[newfiemountiewife]

We spend a lot. But Tony and I tend to buy each other expensive techie things for Christmas, like I got Tony a Speedlight and a lens for his camera...those two things were over 1000 bucks alone. That's not even the kids stuff. It gets expensive here, and I try to even out what I spend on the kids $$ wise.

 

[rach3975]

We get off pretty cheaply. We spend about $100 on each of the kids, then I do photo calendars and other photo-type gifts for all the grandparents, great grandparents, and aunts and uncles (8 people). All of that comes to about $350 or so including the kids.

Some years DH and I exchange small gifts, and other years we wait and get something larger together when we get our income tax return. This year we just bought some baby stuff and will be busy with the new baby, so we'll probably wait. (Poor DD--I didn't buy her anything for the holidays. One day of Hanukkah can be her new room decorations, another can be the new car seat, the monitor, the outfits, etc. If I have time I'll probably get her one or two new toys, but she'll be too young to know or care and the truth is that we have plenty of newborn toys already. Luckily her grandparents and aunt and uncle will probably spoil her for her first Hanukkah!)

 

[nesser1981]

I guess we spend about $1200 in all.

My brothers, parents, inlaws and sil we spend like $25 each, this year it was more like $50 each for my inlaws because we exchanged gifts early when they were here last month.

The kids I spend $300 each, but I also save $50 every two weeks, usually about $100 of that is clothes, but Keira didn't get clothes this year because I sold a ton of her baby clothes on Craig's list and bought early for her.

Sean and I set a $200 each limit, but we also have to get our stocking stuffers and x-mas pj's out of that too, and we try to pick a gift for each other that counts as something from Keira & Cooper.

 

[SeattleSheri]

I honestly have no idea. I never pay attention, lol.

 

[EveRecinella]

I think we pretty much spent about 900 dollars (did the conversion), that is basically just for the kids since we don't really do presents for each other or family.....

 

[pbumbaca]

I spend too much!

I tend to spend around $300 on DH and he'll spend the same on me, $500 on the kids, about $200 on my mom, $100 on the inlaws, another $150 on nieces and nephews, then there are other family and friends I buy for and I would guess maybe another $250 total on them so I guess I should have chosen the $1750 or more but I picked the $1250-1750 cause I hadn't added it up before I voted. Now that I have I think I need to cut back on my spending!

 

[lovely1m]

I spent about $150 on my son, $40 on each set of parents (3 since I have steps), $15 on my grandparents, my 5 nieces and dh's niece and nephew and 1 cousin that are still under 18, $130 on my brother (I usually spend $50, but I put his birthday present in with it and a bit extra for the extra help he gave me last year when I needed it), $50 on my sister, $25 each on my 3 step-sisters and their husbands, $50 on my cousin/best friend, $25 on my other friend and then $15 on their 3 kids. About $100 on my dh. I have no idea what he is spending cause he better be spending more than my $100, he owes me. I guess that's about $900. Opps, I thought it was a lot less and clicked the one right below that. I start shopping in like July, so it totally gets spread out and I never realize how much I spend.

 

[AnnieBananie]

We spend differently each year depending on what we have. Last year we spent about $600 (total) and this year will only be about $200. We only buy for our kids, my baby sister, and my step-niece though. We bought for eachother last year but it actually doesn't look like we'll be doing that this year. C'est la vie.