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A lot more than I care to share but atleast what you are at currently. I have 3 younger brothers, an older brother, older sister, a brother-in-law, a niece, a nephew and a newphew on the way. Plus SO, his parents, his sister, her boyfriend, and the person I draw for the family Christmas on his side. It gets overwhelming but I do dearly love Christmas so I try not to get too upset about it.
We spend about $100 on each parent, and $50 each on our siblings, their spouses and my grandma, so we get off pretty easily in terms of how many people we have to buy for.
Usually there's a few hostess gifts or office secret santas thrown in there too, so I'd say just shy of $1000.
i havent even started (yikes!). we keep our gifts to other people between $50 to $100 per person and i have about 12 people to buy for
this year hubby and i are spending approx $20K on ourselves, 2 vacations (1 november and 1 december) and new electronic toys for him :)
Is it Grinch-y of me to say too much?! LOL! I get carried away shopping for DH, I'll totally admit to that. I'd say between him, my parents, sister, BIL, two nephews, my grandparents, MIL, stepson, and miscellaneous little friends gifts, over $1000. I'm really tryinig to scale it back this year though. I also try to bake treats for all our friends and drop them by their houses personally :)
wow! hubby and i dont really buy into the money making aspect of christmas, we are religious so we celebrate it in that way, and we are taking a trip to vegas this weekend which is our gift to each other so ew arent doing physical prsents this year. since his family is big, we do a secret santa and just have to buy for one person with a 75 limit and my work secret santa limit is 10, so i have an easy year this go around!
I spent quite a bit ($500+) on my SO because I'm the only one that gives him good presents. Rest of the family is about $40 or less per person. Friends are about $20 or less per person.
My husband and I already pretty much buy anything we want or need throughout the year, so we try and not waste money by buying presents for the sake of presents at Christmas. We'll do some small silly gifts or do something where we plan a special day for each other - that way we get quality time or an adventure out of it. We've all scaled back gifts between parents and siblings, too - we'd all so much rather see each other ($$$ plane rides) or get something more home made, so it really works out!
We're not Christian, but we do buy holiday presents for our family and closest friends. I generally go with liquor, my fiance with books. I think all told it probably comes to a couple hundred bucks.
I only buy for my niece and nephew so I tend to over indulge with their gift giving, since I am hardly ever home to see them. If I don't get to go home to see them then its more! They are also completely happy with me coming to visit.
Last year, it was close to $2000. This year, we are definetly trying to scale back, since all of the wedding expenses are piling up as well. It is hard, because we really like to go all out for Christmas, especially for each other. This year we have set a budget for each person/couple, and are doing pretty well with it. But, even with that, still over $1,000 when all is said and done.
This year, only probably about $200-$250 because of saving for the wedding. But, on a normal year? Probably more like $400-600. And that's mostly just on two people! lol
From what I can think of... we have 2 girls and we spend $150-$200 on each of them, this year they each get a DSi and a game and one or two toys. We spend $100 on each mother, $150 on each other and about $50 in random gifts. For everyone else we spend about $300-$500 total on Swiss Colony gifts, because of the wedding this year, we got back in touch with a few of our friends and so have more to buy for. I guess all in all, we will spend around $1200-$1500? Which we really cannot afford, but we do it in little bits at a time.
P.S. I voted $500-$1000, I honestly didn't realize we spent this much until I wrote it all out on this message, oops.
Just for FH's immediate family, usually around $700-$800. Can't afford diddly squat this year, though. His parents are paying for us to fly to visit for Christmas, and we're supposedly doing a no-presents holiday this year.
Um....well....DH outdid himself with my Christmas gift this year (we went together) and I got him quite a bit too. However, we have both birthdays and Christmas for his mom, him, and me so we go a little overboard once a year because of the birthdays. So I can't really seperate out just Christmas....
I used to spend $500 on just 2 people, my mom and my brother. When I got pregnant and moved in my FH, I didn't buy any birthday or Christmas presents for anybody. It KILLED me b'cuz Korean culture is all about buying (expensive) gifts to show affection. (Admit it, stereotypical but oh so true lol.) This year FH and I will probably budget $100... and the entire amount will be spent on our daughter. xP
SO and I went a little overboard on each other. As for the rest of the family, we buy for just the kids. No one over 18 (other then your own children). We exchange names at Thanksgiving with SO's siblings& SO's. I could see if i had to buy for each of my siblings, parents and then their kids, it would be more then my mortgage ... EASILY. I try to think about how much I spend like that ... is it less then my mortgage, is it more then a car payment. It helps not to go overboard.
I'm curious, do most people by gifts for their friends? I only really buy for my family and SO, don't think I'll be getting any presents for friends this year. For friends, we'd probably just try and meet up and go for a meal out rather than buy eachother pressiess
Just me? Probably in the 500-600 range. I usually do 200ish for FI, 100-200 for my parents, 100 for my brother/sil, plus little stuff for my grandma and a few friends.
Honestly we don't go overboard. Instead of exchanging gifts with DH's sister and her husband, we go out to a nice dinner with them. We spent under $300 this year for my aunt (scarf), my parents (motorcycle stuff+clothes), DH's mom (dress+gardener's bench) and her boyfriend (hawaiian shirt), and my niece and nephew (flashcards plus a clothing item each). DH and I spend $200 on each other. Really, the list is small and I'm grateful...I shop early so I can get stuff on sale
For my friends, I made mango and pomegranate jams and wrapped them up all pretty =]
Christmas can get SO expensive! Me & my family did a secret santa deal last year where we all exchanged gift cards but it just didn't feel *Christmasy* to me, so this year we all drew names and whoever's name you got - you get to buy them a $30 gift!! And WRAP it, so it does feel more like Christmas! I'm enjoying it. And my nana has already made it into a game, saying she's SURE she knows who got who.
Anyways, on my hubby's side of the family - we all get a couple of gifts for each other, but luckily he doesn't have a huge family so we don't spend a lot. I'd say total we spend about $300-$400 each year on Christmas. Not too shabby!
My husband and I like to spoil each other at Christmas so we each spend about $1,000 per person. I am going above and beyond this year since it's our first year as a married couple and will be buying him the Breitling watch he's been lusting after for years. I am so excited for him to open it!
I spend a maximum of $100 on every other person I'm buying for.
I'm lucky in that we draw names in my family and my husbands family, so that means for like 40 people, we only have to buy 4 gifts @ $50 each.
But I also buy my little sister and twin brothers something at about $50 each, too. They're under 18, so they're excluded from the exchange.
In all, we probably spend about $500. We spend very little giving gifts to each other because our anniversary is on the 31st and we like to go away. It's a much better gift than getting jewelry or electronics!
Oh, and I don't buy presents for friends, but we usually buy small gifts for my husband's foremen.
Ok...here's the dealio. I checked $150-$250 (actually spent about $150)...but...that is for 20 people! I'm handmaking all our gifts this year because of budget constraints. It's been fun, yet challenging!
We spent over $1000. DH and I are each spending $300 on each other and then we spent about $80 each on all other family members - 12 total (my parents, sister, brother, grandparents, 2 people from my family name draw, his parents, sister and 2 people from his family name draw).
SO = around $250 (PSP, a game, and a couple of other small things)
Parents = $500 (haven't purchased)
Friends will be less than $50 a piece but I haven't decided what yet.
I just did a spread sheet on all the gift expenses. Most of the gifts have been purchased except fiancee gift and a gift for his friend (the guy took care of our cat when we were away). If I don't go over the cap for fiancee gift, the total damage would be $2k. If I go over the cap, it will be a few hundreds more.
Note, this is not including the amount fiancee paid for half of the gift for my dad, his parents (I paid the other half) and gift for me. Christmas is expensive!!!! (at least we're supporting the economy by spending. hehehe.)
Maybe around 300-400 this year. Our wedding was at the end of October, so we're still recovering from that...meaning, just trying to not spend so much.
I myself have spent around $550. $200 was for my DH (I really scaled back this year due to buying him an expensive watch for our wedding 2 months ago). The remaining $350 was divided among 10 other people. I usually spend about $75 for each of my parents, $50 on siblings (my sis and his sis), and a couple small grandma gifts. We also do a Secret Santa at work and on DH's extended family side but the limits are only $20. We have never exhanged presents with aunts, cousins, my step-family, etc. Only immediate family and I like it that way. One thing that I did this year which was super easy, was buy wedding photos for some family members (MIL, my dad and grandmas) and frame them. That was pretty cost effective and I know they will love them!
DH probably will spend close to $350 on presents as well. We go in on some gifts together and do separate sometimes too.
Wow I cant believe some of the higher end numbers here... I thought I went way overboard on christmas and we only spent around $600 and thats not including what he spent on me I have no idea what that will add up to. and thats not even buying for everyone. I honestly don't even know how i afforded to spend that much but I stash money back alot for things like this so i can splurge if I want to.
We buy for both sets of parents. We have a daughter. I bought for my husband.2 teenage nephews I am close to. 1 Teenage niece. (we try to keep these gifts under $30 each) I use to like to keep my christmas shopping under $300 but with the addittion of my husbands family it is impossible. He has 6 younger siblings all under the age of 18.
I am about flipped out when my mom told me what her and dad usually spend every year on christmas. Roughly between $2,500-$3,000.
Honestly when i stop and think about how much money this all is it just makes me sad. It just seems like that anymore Christmas means nothing more than presents.
Thankfully I don't have a lot of people to buy for. I stick with my FI and our immediate family (Parents and siblings).
I'm really poor.. Like, really, really poor. I usually spend about $50 on my FI and then $20-$40 on each parent/sibling. I honestly wish I could spend more and buy them nicer things -- my parents and my FI always get me such great gifts. But the sad reality is I just don't have that kinda cash to spend.
It's the thought that counts right?!?!
We did $200 on each other. Then we have two little ones so we did $225 on each of them. Then $50 on SO's mom, dad, brother and sis n law. Plus, $20 on my two brother n laws, $35 on my two sisters. $45 on our three nephews. And then I think so far $75 on my mom. And we still have my gpa, my step dad and dad and my gma. So, right now we've spent $1,300.00 UGH! prob at the end we will be around $1,400 total. I hope! lol
Teddy and I together...about $1000 (we both have divorced and remarried parents with LOTS of children in between.) YIKES
I spend about three hundred gifts. I only by for my b/f mom and aunt, my b/f, my sister and dad and ocassionally his two cousins.
$400 as of now, maybe $450 by the time I'm completely done. Doesn't include what FI has purchased. I buy gifts for my parents with my money and put both our names on it. He buys gifts for his parents and puts both our names on it.
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I went through my Christmas list and receipts tonight and realized that I have already spent a small fortune and still have close to half of my list to get. In total we have approximately 20 people to buy for so it does get pretty pricey.
As it stands right now, we've already spent $700 and have about another $500 left to spend before we're done.
How much will you have spent when your Christmas shopping is complete?