June 2009 Weddings
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Re: Holiday Budget
We didnt really budget for holidays this year, I had a basic idea of what I wanted to spend on each family member. DH and I discussed and decided our limit for each other was $200 a piece. (For the past 2 years its been $100 and we've never managed to stick to it but stayed fairly close.) Despite all this I've been telling DH I wanted a DSLR camera for months. So he bought it and spent about $600. So far I've spent about $350 on him (I'm getting the camera for my birthday which is 4 days before xmas and xmas so I dont feel like I have to spend $600 and I dont think I should just to make it equal.) Either way we completely blew the budget already and now we're planning to spend about $1500 total on everything including gas money to get to my parents for xmas.
ETA: I evidently pushed the wrong button on the poll, should be in the $1000+ category.
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This year his family on his mom and dad's side decided not to draw names. Instead we are donating money to a family in need to buy them presents. This cut down our budget by about $200.
We also draw names with both families instead of getting every sibbling and spouse a gift. We buy anyone age 18 and under a present. We also have our own christmas with his little bro. We don't go over the top for gifts for eachother. I got him a table saw this year.
money's tight this year. we're giving the parents both wedding albums, and besides that i am cutting back, keeping gifts for my siblings around $20-25 each.
I'm not sure if K and I are giving eachother gifts or not yet.
I clicked $500-$1000 but I think I should have done the $1000+ because I didn't count H buying my present(s).
We were extra spendy with my mom this year ($260ish) for a Kindle...will prob get my dad a $100 giftcard to one of his fave outdoor stores. For H's parents we went halvsies on a new plasma TV with H's brother/sis-in-law...I think that was in the $400-500 range per couple. I'll be spending $200-250 on H...and he'll probably spend close to the same on me.
Oh crap...I also forgot what we'll spend on H's brother's kids...probably $50-100 each...and his younger brother. For H's older brother, we decided not to swap gifts this year and just use that money towards going out while we're up there.
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For some reason it won't let me vote on the clicky poll. We would be in the under $100 category. We are sticking with our normal tradition of just opening stockings on christmas. Our budget is $50 max to spend on stocking stuffers (last year it was $30). Also, we are running our first half-marathon this Sunday, and we said that was our xmas gift to each other.
We aren't exchanging gifts with any of our family members. I am very untraditional when it comes to christmas. Honestly, I despise gift giving. Not because I don't like treating loved ones with nice gifts but I am not a fan of the 'commercialized christmas'. We try to focus on the real meaning of christmas, for us (and no we are not religious at all), and give to the less fortunate. I am not trying to be all preach-y but Christmas buying is out of control. I will never understand people sinking themselves into debt just to spend the whole next year paying it off, and then do it again (I know so many people that do this!). However, I am glad ya'll are stimulating the economy.
I voted $200-300, but that does not include include gifts for myself or DH.
We buy gifts for over 20 people so what we do is whenever we see something one of them will like, we just buy it when it's on sale and put it in our "gift closet". It's worked great for us since we never really have to budget for Christmas gifts this way. That and the fact that I hate shopping during the holidays since the mall is ridiculous, I hate crowds.
I voted in the $1000+ category for the sole expense of B and my gift to one another - our new mattress, boxspring and frame. Ridiculously expensive, but so, so, SOOOO worth it.
We're also doing a lot for my mom this year given her situation (being in a new place, raising my sister alone, loss of an income, etc), which will probably be in the $500 range. I know we're getting her new throw rugs and stuff for her new house that she wouldn't buy otherwise. We're also paying for a month of my little sister's tuition to her HS (catholic prep school) which will be several $$.
For everyone else, it'll be $50-75 a person between B's sisters and parents and my bro. Plus $100 at work for various bosses.
In C's fam, only his parents give gifts and we're obviously not exchanging gifts with EvSIL and her spawn. In my family, we all decided that we don't want to exchange gifts because it's too expensive with 10 of us (and even then, we always had a $20 limit) and money is tight for all of us.
I'll get a couple of little things (probably food-related) for my 2 nephews which will probably be under $10 total. I think my siblings and I are all getting tickets for my parents for a show (we'll each put in $30). And then I'll get something for C which might be a combo Hanukah/bday gift and I might splurge on ($50 - 75).
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