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

abetarrush

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!!!

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

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.

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

kmick

Four farthings and its been worth every shilling Barney.

KTRIC

Nothing

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.

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:

Mossy Monk

spent nothing on presents so far

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!!

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.

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.

biko

About €200

scojones

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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...)

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.

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

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.

Mrs_Doyle

sjones wrote:

Fine Gael sent me a Christmas card this year!

Me too! and I don't even vote for them.

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...

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!

GrumPy

Just on presents for people between €200-250

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

cance

€3000 upwards.

but i did just get engaged too

Ruu_Old

About €80,150* eurons.










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

miamee

cance wrote:

€3000 upwards.

but i did just get engaged too

Congratulations!!

Max_Damage

€0.00

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

R0ot

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

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

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!

iFight

Less than a hundred

Max_Nash

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

scojones

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

qwertplaywert

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

joebhoy1916

Max_Nash wrote:

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

Ha she will leave you before February

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

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

wiredmacker

sjones wrote:

Fine Gael sent me a Christmas card this year!

Me too

Black Swan

It's the thought, not the amount?

Ruu_Old

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

It's the thought, not the amount?

Nah, thats what the tight arshes say.

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.

Ruu_Old

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

joebhoy1916

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

It's the thought, not the amount?

What Ruu said.

Also the day of getting people selection boxes are over.

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!

phantom_lord

0. I haven't got anything yet

robinph

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

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.

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

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

Quackles

DaveMcG wrote:

jayzis, big family! should be a good christmas

Yup, and a long January waiting for the next paycheck