Help me settle a debate with my wife about Christmas presents...

[MovingTarget]

<$100 typically. You may go over on occasion, but that is rare.

 

[shortylickens]

Ummm, yeah, uh, I'm not handling your wife for you unless I get the fringe benefits.

 

[Ns1]

I say 400/kid every once in a while is okay (ie a computer, console)

but generally <$100. Hell <$50.

 

[nickbits]

Wife 200
Fam <100
Kids depends how old 50-500

 

[IronWing]

0.33333, 2, and 4? Five bucks a kid at the dollar store and done. Just use lots of wrapping paper and boxes that they can rip into.

 

[nanette1985]

Basically, Christmas wasn't much extra money. It was stuff they would have gotten anyway except that if we would have gotten the stuff in Nov/Dec it got wrapped up and put under the tree. Lots of clothes - makes for lots of festive-looking gift boxes.

The other relatives went nuts on toys and stuff like that. So it didn't matter if we didn't get them toys for Christmas.

The other issue is that with 4 kids, two have birthdays very near Christmas, the others are in March & July. Since my birthday is Dec 19, I tried to be careful and keep things somewhat fair.

 

[JS80]

I promised my niece an iPad last year....damnit.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I promised my niece an iPad last year....damnit.

Unless she's 18, you need to smarten up.

 

[kranky]

10 nieces and nephews: about $35/each, plus one gift for the gift exchange for the adults, limit $50.

Wife and I do not exchange gifts due to already having too much stuff.

 

[JS80]

Unless she's 18, you need to smarten up.

12.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

12.

get her a pad with an I on it.

GETIT?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

12.

It's not too late for your niece, you, on the other hand...

 

[Rage187]

$200 on each kid. Up to $300 on the wife. Sometimes more.

Other family members get $25 max.

 

[Rage187]

12.

Pfft, get her a a kindle Fire. Tell her she'll have more street cred sporty Android.

 

[Turin39789]

When we were kids Mom kept it around $100.

I think I'm going to spend $10 for my 1 year old, and on top of that present she is getting a wrapped box filled with packing paper.

 

[lxskllr]

For a forum full of millionaires, you sure are a bunch of cheap bastards :^D

 

[apac]

12.

There's a maxi pad joke in there somewhere.

 

[SpunkyJones]

we spend about 100 for each, but we do get a large gift once in awhile. I bought my 8 year old a pc last xmas, probably a few hundred just for that.

 

[JS80]

Pfft, get her a a kindle Fire. Tell her she'll have more street cred sporty Android.

lol I have considered this...I just don't want her going Cartman fuck me in the ass on me because I got her a Toshiba Handybook (not that she would, super sweet)

 

[Rage187]

lol I have considered this...I just don't want her going Cartman fuck me in the ass on me because I got her a Toshiba Handybook (not that she would, super sweet)

Yeah, that is the last thing you need someone yelling,

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Now that the kid is a teenager - XMAS is lots more expensive. Laptop, digital camera, North Face Denali, Prom dress, Nike id shoes, IPhone4S -

All items on her list this year.

 

[Wonderful Pork]

I never got really expensive stuff at Christmas (mainly clothes) however my parents would buy me expensive stuff when I asked for or needed it (computer, ice hockey gear, etc) without waiting for a birthday or Christmas so it all evened out.

Last year my brother & parents got me a Nook eink, which was the biggest gift i received in a while.

 

[Rhoxed]

depending on the age, 1yo - 10yo my average was probably $300 per x-mas from my parents. from 10yo to 16yo my average was probably $1000 - 1,300 per kid (had a brother)

and my parent were not wealthy what so ever. (we were just spoiled)

I can't see spending more then $150 on a little kid, and ~400 on a teenager..

 

[Fenixgoon]

We do ~50/person generally for our secret santa. Its not that we couldn't do more (that is entirely up to you) but its more about the thought and bringing the family together.

What the hell do little kids need with hundreds of dollars of stuff?

 

[nageov3t]

parents: $100/each
sister/brother-in-law: $50/each
nieces: $100/each
cousins, sister's sister-in-law: $30/each

roundabouts.

I don't do gift exchanges with my friends... rather, we just go out for a nice meal and the money we spend on dinner would have been about what we'd have spent on each other anyways in a secret santa.

this will probably be my first Christmas with a significant other and I was pretty clear that I don't want him to get me anything... if we do anything at all, my suggestion was going to see a show and eating dinner at a fancy restaurant in Manhattan, but that we split the costs equally.