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How much has Christmas cost you? [so far!...]

  • 21-12-2006 11:33am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭


    I spent about €70 on my Sister and her Husband, but got them loads of deadly stuff.

    Givin my bro 3 nice tops I never wore
    [Ha, how stingey is that! But they're all new and tagged, so there]

    Bought my Dad Brain Training for the NDS, but the DS is MINE! muahahaha. Ill also get him about €100 worth of clothes


    thats it for now

    Share peoples!!!

    How much have you spent on Presents already??? 99 votes

    Less than €100
    0% 0 votes
    €100 to €500
    26% 26 votes
    €500 to €1000
    51% 51 votes
    €1000+
    22% 22 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,308 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Roughly ...

    Fiancee - €200
    Fiancee's family - €100
    Mam - €85
    Dad - €40
    Brother 1 - €40
    Brother 2 - €40

    So,... yeah... over €500... along with being more generous to myself than usual (new printer, clothes, DVD's... etc.)

    Glad the fiancee doesn't read this site ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    About €450 in total on random stuff for me, gifts for my better half and my Kris Kindle*. Probably end up close to €600 by the end of today.


    * We do a family Kris Kindle whereby instead of getting 5 x €50 presents from each person, we just each spend €250 on one person. Makes life much easier and the pressies better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭Busterpuss


    €650/700 on the OH, €80 on my mam, €50 on my dad, €90 on the 3 bro's, €150 on 3 mates, €15 on a work thing, and thats not including clothes and goin out etc, also bout €100 on the oh's parents


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭kmick


    Four farthings and its been worth every shilling Barney.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,348 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Nothing :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    The only thing I've bought so far is the present for the boards secret santa deely..

    Haven't done any other xmas shopping yet.

    I might pick up some stuff to bring into my staff in work later as they're still in work while I'm at home in bed right now.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    I'd probably forget half the presents if I tried to write a list of what I have bought but I reckon its deffo over the €200-€300 mark anyway. And I still have Daddy dearest to buy for :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    spent nothing on presents so far


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    About 700blips so far. That includes 150 on a holiday with the g/f after xmas (did it instead of buying presents). 200 on my folks, and the rest is scattered around between my siblings and nephews..

    I have to take a moritorium from my mortgage to afford Christmas, but I don't mind one bit. Christmas is great fun.. and I love giving pressies. Ho ho ho!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,905 ✭✭✭User45701


    i havent done any shopping yet its best to do it all on x-mass eve.
    you hear so many stories about how bad it is but you will be surprised how easy it is to shop on x-mass eve because all the people believe the stories about how bad it is so less people wait till then.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭Mrs_Doyle


    Its crazy, I started shopping early this year, so didn't realise how much I had spent, but on presents alone I have spent about €850!
    I buy for my parents, my brother, 2 sisters, 2 friends and my boyfriend, and I also bought a few small little presents for the people in work.
    I honestly didn't think I had gone over board this year, thought I had been sensible, but nope, spent just as much as ever, just over a longer period of time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    About €200


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    Haven't started getting Christmas presents yet. Will do on Saturday!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,518 ✭✭✭matrim


    It's going to cost me about 300 - 400 euro on presents. Most other years have been less money but unfortunately I set the bar fairly high this year when I told everyone that I wanted a Wii for christmas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    What the crap... Over 600! Just counted it up. I was much happier before you asked that question OP!

    Also this doesnt include the €307 I spent on an Xbox360 for my self :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    about €150 or so.
    *waits for netwhizzkid to come in and tell us all he spent €20,000 on presents for fine gael members.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    julep wrote:
    *waits for netwhizzkid to come in and tell us all he spent €20,000 on presents for fine gael members.

    Fine Gael sent me a Christmas card this year!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭exCrumlinBoyo


    $1000 bucks to date. It includes presents for my two kids, my wife, my mum, dad, brother and sister. My mother and father inlaw, brother inlaw, my wifes grandmother, uncle, aunt and uncle...

    Not a penny spent on myself.... its all about the giving.... (me bollix...)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Judt


    Family, friends and last minute - last minute is people who give me presents and I jump into "Uhoh" mode, get them something and cleverly pretend I had it all along. About €300+ at this point.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,698 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Not much, about €110 and I'm finished. I've no brothers or sisters and no girlfriend. I also don't send cards. So it works out fairly cheap for me :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    sjones wrote:
    Fine Gael sent me a Christmas card this year!
    the bastards never send me one. all i ever get is a generic one from Emmet Stagg and that is addressed to my dead father, whose funeal was attended by stagg (he even sent a wreath).
    never anything from fine gael for this voter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭Mrs_Doyle


    sjones wrote:
    Fine Gael sent me a Christmas card this year!
    Me too! and I don't even vote for them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,907 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    So far, Christmas has cost me €0 EUR (seriously!). But that's because I'm broke. Getting paid tonight so will probably be spending around €500 EUR in the next couple of days...

    I hate Christmas... :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭MonkeyWrench


    About 125 on presents for my bro, secret santa for work etc..the real money drain for me will be flights home from the UK and getting pished over xmas! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭GrumPy


    Just on presents for people between €200-250

    But if I include all the clothes and my wii which I bought myself €1000+

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    €3000 upwards.

    but i did just get engaged too :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    About €80,150* eurons.










    *€80,000 being a house for ourselves and €150 for pressies for the wifeh. :)


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    cance wrote:
    €3000 upwards.

    but i did just get engaged too :)
    Congratulations!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    €0.00 ;)

    I don't do the whole Christmas thing at all.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


    thank the world for little sisters, presents bought all i needed was the money :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    150 - mother
    40 - dad
    65 - bro
    30 - nephew 1
    25 - nephew 2
    75 - sister 1
    80 - sister 2

    And no idea how much i've spent on me, but I'd imagine far more than the rest combined haha! ;P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭qwertplaywert


    for me....
    Mam-8.95
    Dad-12.95
    brother-5

    god im such a cheapskate.........got mam and dad books..........and brother a poster


    and yet i have 280 euro at home.................but thats for saving for a hd tv!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭iFight


    Less than a hundred


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33 Max_Nash


    About €5,000 getting a boob job for my girl friend


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    24 cans of Heineken, 2 bottles of Bombay Saphire Gin, 94 fuccking euro. Thank god for Dunnes Stores vouchers from work! \o/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭qwertplaywert


    real nice........sounds like you bought her a stero,the way you phrased it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭joebhoy1916


    Max_Nash wrote:
    About €5,000 getting a boob job for my girl friend

    Ha she will leave you before February :D

    So far cost me €900, still have 3 present's to get :(

    Oh I can also get 24 cans of Heineken/Budweiser €30 :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 wiredmacker


    sjones wrote:
    Fine Gael sent me a Christmas card this year!


    Me too :D


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    It's the thought, not the amount?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    It's the thought, not the amount?

    Nah, thats what the tight arshes say. :)


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  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,172 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Ruu wrote:
    About €80,150* eurons.










    *€80,000 being a house for ourselves and €150 for pressies for the wifeh. :)
    €80k for a house? not bad at all!

    I've spent about €400 on pressies, and another €250 or so on myself as I build my hi-fi system.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    ^In the US, I wouldn't get a shack for that praghas in Ireland. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭joebhoy1916


    It's the thought, not the amount?

    What Ruu said.

    Also the day of getting people selection boxes are over.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Backtoblack


    Dad - 40
    sister - 40
    mother - 60
    brother - 30
    nephew - 20
    niece - 60
    other nephew - 70
    total= €320

    Will probably get more bits before xmas eve too.

    Got myself waaaaay too much.. and i've the sales to look forward to too!
    :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,895 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    0. I haven't got anything yet :o


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Well I've probably spent more than €500 on myself already.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Around €150 -- that's the limit for the Kris Kindle we're doing in my family this year. Don't think there's anyone else I've to buy for. Handy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Quackles


    Nieces/nephews: ~100 (There's five of them @20 each)
    brothers and sisters: around 30 each (there's 8 of us)
    PC for hubby: 1700, but in my defense, it was needed
    son: 150-200 (lots of little things dating back to October, can't remember)
    Inlaws: 100
    My parents: 100

    for everything else, there's mastercard :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Quackles wrote:
    Nieces/nephews: ~100 (There's five of them @20 each)
    brothers and sisters: around 30 each (there's 8 of us)
    PC for hubby: 1700, but in my defense, it was needed
    son: 150-200 (lots of little things dating back to October, can't remember)
    Inlaws: 100
    My parents: 100

    for everything else, there's mastercard :)
    jayzis, big family! should be a good christmas :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Quackles


    DaveMcG wrote:
    jayzis, big family! should be a good christmas :)

    Yup, and a long January waiting for the next paycheck ;)


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