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How much are you spending on Xmas gifts?
I'm just curious. DH and I did not set a budget...then again, we are both pretty conservative when it comes to spending. ?We still have a few more gifts to get so I'm guessing that we will have spent about $1,000 but no more than $1,200 by the time we're through shopping.?
Three beautiful girls!
DD#1 8-23-01
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Re: How much are you spending on Xmas gifts?
DH and I set a limit of $100 each, plus stocking stuffers
I spent about $60 on my in laws
$60 on my parents
and about $50 on each of my two neices and I nephew (150 total)
Other than that I baked fancy breads and bought fancy coffees for work people and DH's boss ) cost maybe $50 total for coffee and baking supplies
so between $600 to $650 total as a family - we don't buy for our are brothers and sisters just their kids
DH and I don't have a budget for each other. For everyone else:
Immediate family- $60 a person (about $600)
SIL's family - $20 a person ($80)
Friends - $30 a couple
Friends' children - $10 a child ($60)
200 total DH and I dont do gifts.
Brother/SIL: 50
SIL/BIL: 50
SIL: 0 -(no gifts with her this year, since she lived with me)
IL's: 50
Rents: 50
This year we limited it to only couple gifts which included, my ILs, my parents my brother and his two sisters. After that we cut the list. It was getting too out of control.
MIL/FIL- $100
SIL, 2 BILS- $150
DH- $50 (he will spend the same or less on me)
DoggyBooster- $50
My parents $100
My sister *gulps* $300
We do $200 for each other + $50 for stocking stuffers.
Parents: $100-150
Siblings: $50
Kids: $30
Friends: $20
About $100 each
$50 per parent
$50 per sibling
$50 for grandparents
$30 for my cousins
$50 combined for two close friends
About $750 total.
74 books read in 2011
We do $20 a person. We buy for nephews ($10/each), siblings, in-laws, parents.
We know $20 isn't much, but I LOVE shopping each year and seeing all the awesome deals I can get for that price. It's such a rush (for me) when they open TONS of great gifts, on their list, that I found for under $20 total. I even have all the ladies in the family nice, Vera Bradley stuff. I got it all on sale early this year. I Christmas shop all year round. DH's brother-in-law and Dad are getting some sweet Columbia shell jackets, originally $50 that we got for $25 each. (yes, went over the budget on them...ha) So yes, $20 isn't much, but we make it work and would never spend more becuase of the success we have with it. If you told people that was our budget, they wouldn't believe you becuase of the gifts we get for great deals. I'm a firm believer in sales and getting great deals and NEVER paying full price - it's not needed!
Also, we do stocking stuffers and spend about $5 each on everybody's stuffers. (We do things like socks, Bath and Body Work goodies, candy, etc)
What DH and I spend on each other, depends. Last year we spent about $100 on 4 sets of bed sheets at TJ Maxx and this year we're just going to a nice dinner because we're building a new house.
Too much. We didn't set a budget, but this is about how it worked out:
Children: $500 each (2 kids)
Parents: $75 each (4)
Siblings: $30 each (5)
Nephews: $30 each (2)
Friends: $20 (5)
Babysitter & her family: $100 (they are very good to our kids)
Aunt & Uncle: $20 each (2)
Coworkers: $30 total
Teacher gift from child: $20
School party favors/gifts from DD: $10 total
DH bought me a laptop that was $850. He insisted that I not buy him anything, but I ended up buying him a round of golf for two at a new course he's been wanting to play and a few other things from the girls totaling about $325.
So, roughly our grand total is about $3,000.00
I've got more issues than a magazine
I am really in the minority here!
My parents : $40/each
Nephews: $25/each
My son: $2 (not the budget, but what we actually spent on him)
DH: No specific limit but I think it will come out to about $60 for both
Childcare workers: $4.00 total
Total: $221ish
Not sure if I want to figure this out.
My parents - $60
FIL - $30 + stocking stuffers
MIL - $50
SFIL - $40 + $30 for his birthday (Christmas Day)
BIL - $40
SIL - $50 + stocking stuffers
Nephew - $45 + stocking stuffers
Niece - $45 + stocking stuffers
Nephew - $50 (half for gift exchange/half from DD as my sister watches DD while I work so they spend a lot of time together)
BIL - $30
Brother - $30
(for my family we do a $30 gift exchange)
DD - $120
DH - $30 (stocking stuffers only - we're heading to the Dominican in February so that's our Christmas gift)
Grandparents - $80 in total?
Other gift exchanges with friends, extended families - $130
Sister - $150 (includes a gift for her as DD's daycare provider)
So grand total of $1010. And that doesn't include stocking stuffers which I tend to go a little overboard with. Acckk. This has got to change.