Christmas spending 2018

[Snowman78]

I am just curious what is everyone?s budget for X-mass. We are buying gifts for:
My mom and dad
my wife’s mother (her dad has passed away)
my brother and sister in law
her brother and sister
two niece and one nephew
our 4 kids (boy 2 years old, girl 8 years old, boy 15 years old, girl 18 years old)
2 of my wife?s friends
and if we have any money left over gifts for each other :)
our budget is $1,200.00 (I save $100 per month for the year to pay cash for X-mass)

[Irving]

That's a good plan to 1) save all year for Christmas, and 2) have an actual fixed budget. Well done.

[Snowman78]

Thanks, What is your Budget Irving? I believe you have a wife and 2 children and extended family?

[Snowman78]

My wife is not happy with the budget and she may be right- it is tough to get everything we need...

[Irving]

I can't rightly say. I'm very good at budgeting, as long as it is necessary because I'm broke. I've found that any other time everything I've learned over the years goes out the window. Plus I let my wife shop for everyone and I just figure out how to pay for it. I won't be very helpful for this thread. :(

[Eric P]

$0.00 for adult relatives. Mutual gift giving ban.

$50 to $100 for 2 young nefews.

Grew up with this, so it wont change. I'll get what I want, when I want it. Always disliked gifts I never wanted, nor have any use for.

Call me Scrooge, but Christmas is about spending time with family, not spending money on disposable junk.

[ray1970]

We don't have many people to buy for. My parents, the wife's parents, and our two grown kids and their significant others is pretty much it. The wife and I don't even get things for each other since we pretty much get what we want all throughout the year anyways. We don't spend much on the parents as they are older and pretty much don't really need anything anyways. The kids usually just get cash. Typically a couple hundred for each of them. I imagine we only spend maybe a thousand or so on all of our gift buying.

[DFBrews]

400 dollars max the GF is getting a harbor freight tool box for her tools I am teaching her to use parents a souvenir type thing from a vacation this year. niece and nephew some avenger and Winnie the Pooh toys and 50 dollars in cards and postage for extended family The little ones are the best they love presents and appreciate them the most. I would rather have adult gifts minimal besides significant other and have it be put torwards traveling home or away and a good heart felt meal with good drink and remembering old stories that have been told a dozen times It makes me feel closer than any psychical gift ever could.

[Hummer]

We're going conservatively this year and our budget is spent. Mrs.Hummer will get some silk and merino wool longies, and she says I'm not getting anything since I keep buying gun and hunting stuff. We're saving for a 3 week, 5 country adventure through Europe next summer including a Viking cruise down the Rhine River. It's beans and moose meat for the next few months. That'll keep us warm. :o

[brutal]

This isn't helpful but here goes:

I'm impossible to shop for because I buy what I need when I need it (no new cars or anything), wife will never let on what she wants so it's minimal, some clothes, usually sweaters (I have a good eye for the gals' stuff and she likes warm clothes) and a piece of jewelry or new watch maybe every other year or 3 - nothing extravagant. The bulk of the spend was once for the kids, now is towards the grandkids. Hard to put a price on it.

It IS about family and friends, but the little ones need surprises under the tree. For us, it's always about the kids.

That said, we never went into debt for any gift giving, spend within your means. Good on you for saving for it.

[Great-Kazoo]

ZILCH. Until the garage gets built nary a penny. I'll probably give the wife a Christmas card with $3-400. Our daughter got another revolver for her b-day so she's set.




Everyone else. I'm a mean one Mr. Grinch.

[ray1970]

I'll probably give the wife a Christmas card with $3-400.

What? Being married to you isn?t already the best gift ever?

[hurley842002]

Whatever the overtimes I've worked will get, it's been a tight one this year.

[Bailey Guns]

I'm not a Christmas kinda guy. As a matter of fact, I really hate it. Not the holiday or the meaning, just what it's become. Wife and I will probably exchange some little thing or another that we know the other wants/needs, cards for everyone else...and she does all of those. I just sign some of them.

The only holidays I get excited over are Independence Day and Thanksgiving.

[Great-Kazoo]

What? Being married to you isn?t already the best gift ever?

I miss you too, darlin.

[hurley842002]

I'm not a Christmas kinda guy. As a matter of fact, I really hate it. Not the holiday or the meaning, just what it's become. Wife and I will probably exchange some little thing or another that we know the other wants/needs, cards for everyone else...and she does all of those. I just sign some of them.

The only holidays I get excited over are Independence Day and Thanksgiving.I agree with you there, even my wife has been sucked into the materialistic side of it over the last couple of years, I don't even want anyTHING anymore.

[Scanker19]

I’m planning $600 between my two kids. It’s stuff I’d buy them regardless, at least that’s how I justify it to myself without being to materialistic. Plus they’re kids so. Everyone else Bah Humbug!!! They’re lucky if I go to their house or call them.

[sniper7]

No limit put on it for my kids and wife, just whatever is awesome that they can use or want or need plus some cool things too.
We do have to draw names from a hat on my wife’s side because there are just too many adults so we each buy for one person but the kids get something from everyone

[KevDen2005]

$0.00 for adult relatives. Mutual gift giving ban.

$50 to $100 for 2 young nefews.

Grew up with this, so it wont change. I'll get what I want, when I want it. Always disliked gifts I never wanted, nor have any use for.

Call me Scrooge, but Christmas is about spending time with family, not spending money on disposable junk.

I like the no adult relatives. We do two name draws. One for each side of the family and that's fairly limited within like brothers and and sisters and significant others, no cousins aunts, or uncles. One side of the family is a $50 and the other side is $100 limit. My wife gets gifts for our two kids and my niece and nephew and a couple other kids in our lives that have extremely rough childhoods. But no budget.

[StagLefty]

I only have a son and future daughter-in-law that I usually get gift cards anyone else gets a personal StagLefty wood carving (which are usually greatly appreciated). Old man pension income doesn't allow for a large gift budget !!

[ChickNorris]

Not my thing. I'll make cookies for the neighbors & friends.

Nerdy science stuff in their fields of interest for the kiddos.

New Carhartt (s), truck accessories, & rocket gear for the husband.

I insist no xmas gifts for me. Save the hassle. I've got what I need.

[Snowman78]

I guess I should also ask what will everyone spend on Christmas.

[Sawin]

My wife and I will each spend about $800-$1,000 for everyone we're buying gifts for. That includes each other, both of our kids, our parents, siblings, and a few nieces and nephews on my side of the family. This year, however, we may come in on the low side because we're not getting anything for my FIL or BIL, and my wife is happy with two very inexpensive gifts we bought together on black Friday. She's usually the most expensive...

[Irving]

Here's an idea. Christmas budget equals whatever cash back you've managed to acquire over the other 11 months of the year.

[Great-Kazoo]

Here's an idea. Christmas budget equals whatever cash back you've managed to acquire over the other 11 months of the year.

No way will i be spending that much.

[jslo]

3 kids and their spouses, 9 grandkids and a couple close friends. Always go in with a rough budget and almost always blow it away. Thank God Christmas only comes once per year.

[MrPrena]

My sister in law's husband is very G damn extremely materialistic and I hate doing any type of gifts with them.

They are always dissatisfied with whatever I give them.
I gave up and just send them money order now.

Tired of this damn gift bullshit with them.
In fact I dont want to meet their p minded materistic bullshits rub onto my kids philosophy of christmas.

Their biggest brag of their life is they got a 2m loan on a house and live few house next to CEO of Costco. Fucking laughable. [ROFL1]

[Irving]

Buy him a copy of The Millionaire Next Door.

[MrPrena]

Buy him a copy of The Millionaire Next Door.

That would either make him extremely happy or make him extremely mad. It's a win win.

I saw him reading wall st journal once and I kinda laughed at this guy.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I buy throughout the year. Instead buying stuff for people just because it's Christmas and feeling like I have to give everyone something, I find things over the course of the year that I think would be good gifts and give them out at Christmas. That does mean some people get more than others some years but it's not about a budget for everyone, it's about giving them something I think they'd like.