the "how much" thread

[krissie1234uk]

I've spent about £115 on Dylan and I thought I'd gone a bit mad! Now I feel cruel! Need to spend another £20 max on him and he's sorted. God knows about everyone else, I've spent £25 each on my niece and nephew and we're not buying for my sister and vice versa. So that leaves parent and grandparents and we're probably only spending £10 on each and OH who will probably get about £50.

 

[Jchihuahua]

So far I have spent £400 on presents for Hallie & her Christmas day outfit is £304.. I want to get her a few more disney shop bits & a stocking but sorting out OH first and whatever I can afford afterwards will go on extras for Hallie.

OH will be spent about £300 on but his birthday is on Christmas eve so I am paying for a tattoo for him this month in memory of his grandad. So + whatever that totals.

I got everyone else in my family for £150 using boots 3 for 2 & paypal to buy my nan a dress she wanted!

Oooh, what is her christmas day outfit like?

 

[Amy-Lea]

So far I have spent £400 on presents for Hallie & her Christmas day outfit is £304.. I want to get her a few more disney shop bits & a stocking but sorting out OH first and whatever I can afford afterwards will go on extras for Hallie.

OH will be spent about £300 on but his birthday is on Christmas eve so I am paying for a tattoo for him this month in memory of his grandad. So + whatever that totals.

I got everyone else in my family for £150 using boots 3 for 2 & paypal to buy my nan a dress she wanted!

Oooh, what is her christmas day outfit like?

It's in the outfit thread, it's a little Catimini outfit. Not really much for the price, but I only like Monsoon & Next clothes and have all of the stuff out of the next already for everyday wear & I couldn't see nothing in Monsoon so it was my only option haha

 

[Serene123]

I love Catimini but Rich would KILL me if I brought anything from there

 

[Amy-Lea]

I love Catimini but Rich would KILL me if I brought anything from there

I do, I get special outfits from there like Christmas/Easter/Birthday the boutique by mine takes a deposit and you can pay off it in 4 weeks though, so it's justifiable in bits

 

[spencerbear]

Ive only spent about £50 per child this year but they all had big presents for theirs birthdays. Also OH has just been made redundant so darent spend more.

But ive shopped about and got some great deals

 

[mandy81]

Last year I spend about £500 on each child, there's no way I will be making the same mistake this year lol, we couldn't get into our living room last christmas morning because of the amount of toys they had.

this year i'm saying maybe 250 on each child, in saying that i'm nearly finished my christmas shopping and it's killing me not to buy more lol

 

[Jchihuahua]

So far I have spent £400 on presents for Hallie & her Christmas day outfit is £304.. I want to get her a few more disney shop bits & a stocking but sorting out OH first and whatever I can afford afterwards will go on extras for Hallie.

OH will be spent about £300 on but his birthday is on Christmas eve so I am paying for a tattoo for him this month in memory of his grandad. So + whatever that totals.

I got everyone else in my family for £150 using boots 3 for 2 & paypal to buy my nan a dress she wanted!

Oooh, what is her christmas day outfit like?

It's in the outfit thread, it's a little Catimini outfit. Not really much for the price, but I only like Monsoon & Next clothes and have all of the stuff out of the next already for everyday wear & I couldn't see nothing in Monsoon so it was my only option haha

It sounds lovely. Daisy's christmas day outfit is from Monsoon. I'm off to find the outfit thread !

 

[cuteboots]

Last year when we added up what we spent on the kids it come to nearly £4000 though Dylans presents didn't look like much they were expensive. I had been buying something every week for nearly a year though and tbh, we don't have much family and what we do have dont buy the kids anything.

This year they wont be getting as much as I havent been so organised, plus OH keeps giving lo's some of the things ive bought!

Dylan has had £1150 spent on him so far but it does include a school trip so he'll only be getting one more bigish thing and then little bits to make up his presents.

Ive so far spent £300 each on the two lo's, still deciding on their big presents.

OH hasnt been bought anything so far not sure what he's even after, wont be anywhere near as much as last year.

 

[Dizzy321]

£200 each this year x

 

[lorrilou]

Too much. I had budgeted around £200 each for the boys and £400 on nicole (we've bought her a laptop but started paying for it in january) but last time i worked everything out we were at £400 for callum, £400 for nicole and £150 for charlie and have bought more since

 

[Blah11]

Spent just under 250. Limit was 150

 

[Blah11]

dont even feel bad now, my 250 is nothing compared to some of you

 

[Dizzy321]

I know me too Blah If I had the money (and a bigger house!) I could def spend a few grand on them though

 

[Christine1993]

Ive spent about £350-£400 , but he has no toys and as this is his first proper christmas I thought just to buy loads of toys for his new playroom. Next year it def wont be as much xx

 

[QueenMummyToBe]

We had a budget of £550 for xmas including xmas food, Amelia and OH have both had £100 spent on them, I'll have about £100 spent on me, £150 on family and £100 on food.

Last year we went a bit crazy with it being Amelias first xmas and you couldn't move in our living room

xXx

 

[Mizzy]

Russell has a budget of £150 but i know im about £20-£40 over that already
plus £100 for his birthday which isnt long after christmas me and OH are having about £100 each (im finally getting my links of london bracelet) and about £10-£45 each for the rest of the family

 

[MummyJade]

Maizie has whatever i spent really i dont tend to have a limit!
same with every one else really..xx

 

[xLaurax]

I haven't got a limit, I tend to spend what we can afford, I did start in august though the spread the cost, not got alot left to buy for everyone, I guess I'm at about £500 so far.

 

[princess_bump]

We're just the same as laura, we don't do a budget and spend what we can afford. We started shopping after Florida, so later this year which was a pain. I reckon we'll spend around 1k this year tbh, but that includes everything.