How much do you spend on christmas presents each year?

Copper_pipe

Do you go all out trying to please the people you know in the month of December or are you a cost effective type of person?

El Guapo!

Bout tree fiddy

Fromthetrees

20 past 1.

ThePower11

€69

woodoo

About €300 max

Mike 1972

Dean09 wrote: »

Bout tree fiddy

Damn beaten to it !

Kerrigooney

too fcuking much...

LETHAL LADY

Its the thought that counts but then again I am a cheap bastard.

Latchy

Mounts the leg of this thread ...

Kojak

I spend about 1 billion Zimbabwean Dollars on presents.

In other words, about €3.50

Abi

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Do you go all out trying to please the people you know in the month of December or are you a cost effective type of person?

I'll always try to buy something I think they'll like. Some are very hard to buy for, then only then will I buy a voucher so they can decide themselves.


In terms of how much, depends on how they're related to me. I spend more on anyone close to me.

cofy

Abi wrote: »

I'll always try to buy something I think they'll like. Some are very hard to buy for, then only then will I buy a voucher so they can decide themselves.


In terms of how much, depends on how they're related to me. I spend more on anyone close to me.

I tend to buy them things that they would by for themselves if it was not the most expensive time of the year and they not so busy looking after everyone else.

Chuck Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91ISfcuzDw

strobe

I'm a fucking nightmare to myself. Way too much.

(Worth every cent though.)

DEFTLEFTHAND

I spoil my parents because I love them, My siblings get jacksh1t, I love them too but they never get me anything nice.:(

chucken1

woodoo wrote: »

About €300 max

Each????? :eek:

I'm messing. Theres a lot to be said on the 10e christmas thread.
Ive got all 5 adults and 1 12 yr old, in my case,pressies they want for about 200.
Done online since October

Broads.ie

Ok well all responses so far are taking the piss... so I'll be the first to answer truthfully.

About 15 euro for each family member, shur the best part is the dinner and bottles of beer/wine.

Sugar Free

Six presents this year (mother, father, sister, girlfriend and two others) cost me 220E so 35-40E each on average.

ibarelycare

Way too much Buy for 3 nephews, 3 siblings, 2 siblings-in-law, 2 friends, mother, stepdad and stepbrother. Will be spending about €550/600. Luckily I just broke up with my boyfriend a few weeks ago or that'd be another few hundred!

chucken1

Broads.ie wrote: »

Ok well all responses so far are taking the piss... so I'll be the first to answer truthfully.

About 15 euro for each family member, shur the best part is the dinner and bottles of beer/wine.

Im not taking the piss

hondasam

Broads.ie wrote: »

Ok well all responses so far are taking the piss... so I'll be the first to answer truthfully.

About 15 euro for each family member, shur the best part is the dinner and bottles of beer/wine.

who is taking the piss, I spend €15 on kris kindle for work.

ibarelycare wrote: »

Way too much Buy for 3 nephews, 3 siblings, 2 siblings-in-law, 2 friends, mother, stepdad and stepbrother. Will be spending about €550/600. Luckily I just broke up with my boyfriend a few weeks ago or that'd be another few hundred!

You should have waited until after Christmas and got a decent present of him.

alwaysadub

We do Kris Kindle so I used to only have to buy two presents in total, worked out about 100euro. Now i have a boyfriend and his family to buy for too. So I'd say I'm gonna spend 300-400.

ibarelycare

hondasam wrote: »

You should have waited until after Christmas and got a decent present of him.

Actually he broke up with me *sniff*

But feck it, I couldn't have afforded his present!

hondasam

ibarelycare wrote: »

Actually he broke up with me *sniff*

But feck it, I couldn't have afforded his present!

He did not deserve you anyway, he is a fool.:)
Thank god you had not bought his present.

chucken1

alwaysadub wrote: »

We do Kris Kindle so I used to only have to buy two presents in total, worked out about 100euro. Now i have a boyfriend and his family to buy for too. So I'd say I'm gonna spend 300-400.

motherofjesus. Where did this Kris Kringle come from In Ireland???

Get a grip of yer selves folks.

hondasam

chucken1 wrote: »

motherofjesus. Where did this Kris Kringle come from In Ireland???

Get a grip of yer selves folks.

What are you on about? it's here for years.

alwaysadub

chucken1 wrote: »

motherofjesus. Where did this Kris Kringle come from In Ireland???

Get a grip of yer selves folks.

There is 18 people in total in my family. So we decided instead of getting a sh1t load of cheap presents, we'd get one decent present instead . Works out great for us. So I do "have a grip".

Broads.ie

hondasam wrote: »

who is taking the piss, I spend €15 on kris kindle for work.

What is Kris Kindle? Sorry I'm not an old person. This sounds like Daniel O Donnell sort of stuff.

hondasam

Broads.ie wrote: »

What is Kris Kindle? Sorry I'm not an old person. This sounds like Daniel O Donnell sort of stuff.

You must be old if you know who Daniel O Donnell is, i had to google him.

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=kris%20kindle&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSecret_Santa&ei=iCfkTsKYOtGWhQf4l_GQCA&usg=AFQjCNEe70342VkgvxpQje9IWnLqAV62yg

chucken1

alwaysadub wrote: »

There is 18 people in total in my family. So we decided instead of getting a sh1t load of cheap presents, we'd get one decent present instead . Works out great for us. So I do "have a grip".

I agree with your thinking...but Kris Kringle?
Totally new to me in Ireland

I celebrated (ish) with my Romanian friends last week,the saint nicolaus day

Great food and fun

Cian92

Got one present bought so far €400, will prob need to get another 5 presents, and I reckon they will be €160 in total.

ROCKMAN

Me , personal ...nothing ,,,, My wife on the other hand.....................:(

Gummy Panda

tbh i try buy stuff that I think they will appreciate rather then going expensive as possible.

wolfmoon87

I don't know if I'm even gonna buy any presents this year.

I don't do all the big hype about christmas and Valentines Day.
Christmas is just like any other day to me.

/Grinch

CamperMan

NOTHING!!

I do not celebrate Christmas

krudler

myself and my sister agreed to spend 20 quid on each other this year, will prob spend 150 in total, its all stuff thats asked for, my family are easy that way. I want this box set, grand, merry christmas. my xmas shopping takes about 20 minutes.

Mink

60-80 on the parents each. Do kris kindle with OH's siblings & their partners & limit is 30. 30-40 on each of my 6 nieces & nephews, 30 on each of my sisters & their partners. So about 500-550 euros in total. This is aside from all the other Christmas sh1t we have to buy like extra food, tree, decorations etc. This is the first year in 5-6yrs we haven't had to get a loan, I've been setting it aside for months!

If we still have a bit of money left over we might get each other something but very often make do with a 20 euro "token" present to open Christmas morning.

Teyla Emmagan

Let me see. Only have 4 to buy for and made a christmas cake and a pudding for another 2. And a couple of small gifts. Still reckon I'm at 350/400 though.

Horrific money really. But I started in July so the bigger gifts were paid for months ago.

Richard Hillman

€0.00. I buy nobody presents and they are encouraged not to get me anything.

emeraldstar

alwaysadub wrote: »

We do Kris Kindle so I used to only have to buy two presents in total, worked out about 100euro. Now i have a boyfriend and his family to buy for too. So I'd say I'm gonna spend 300-400.

Seriously?

Lady von Purple

About €400 this year, I think. Have a lot of people to buy for, so some people get smaller presents than others. But I'll never buy a present for someone unless I think they'll really like it. Cheap or expensive!

biko

More than a thou, but less than a thousand.

Siuin

Probably something like 150e, which tbh is more than enough for a student with no job. Got presents for my parents, sibling, boyfriend and two aunts- job done!

westendgirlie

Around 1500 euro

eth0

Just over 2k. What recession?

kfallon

Niece and nephews are easy to buy for, family are nightmares cos, like me, we don't really care about presents but we buy each other stuff anyway.

I buy something I know they'll like, sometimes I might ask brothers and sisters is there anything they want cos no point in buying something that a) they won't like or b) they already have.

How much each present costs doesn't come into it tbh, I'm not a tightarse (may have something to do with my late night self fingering tho :pac:)

ringadingding

There will be 18 of us for xmas day this year.
Kris Kindle here too, one decent gift with a max of 100 per person, names out of a hat.

But theres 3 kids who will get a small gift from everyone I think.

I estimate we spent 3-400 on my daughter, but a chunk of that was getting a 3ds, yeah I know, i'm spoiling her. But shes a good kid.

Siuin

Whoah, I'm really surprised by how much people are spending on Christmas presents :S Recession anyone...?

eth0

Siuin wrote: »

Whoah, I'm really surprised by how much people are spending on Christmas presents :S Recession anyone...?

I saw you posted, I was expecting a story about one of your ex boyfriends who got you a sh1te present and how you got the better of him by letting everyone know how bad he was in bed or similar. You must have a good story about this

Siuin

eth0 wrote: »

I saw you posted, I was expecting a story about one of your ex boyfriends who got you a sh1te present and how you got the better of him by letting everyone know how bad he was in bed or similar. You must have a good story about this

Uh, no?

Spread

Just for my wife. She does all the presents .......... I find I get a migraine just thinking about it. But she goes a bit gaga as she loves the whole hype . I don't ask but would safely say about a grand.