1josh Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I did some calculations this morning and realized I have spent about $800 for Christmas... and we are only a family of four with only 2 nephews and 2 nieces to give to:eyepoppin:eyepoppin:eyepoppin No more shopping for me!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreaInNC Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I'd rather not think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elena_398 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 My husband's TV was $600 so including that- around $2000. I have two kids and 3 dogs. I also buy for my 3 nieces and nephew, sister, MIL, BIL, and my parents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illinoismom Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I have not much to spend so I have maintained my budget I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjunea Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I've spent about $1200, but I'm almost done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakj98 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I spent $1500.00 on black Friday alone. Spent about $400.00 yesterday (Cyber Monday). I had bought my DD15 tons of clothes from Aeropastale before all of that. Bought DD6 an American girl doll before that and some games and such for the other kids. So I would say about $2400.00 so far, but I am not done yet. I still need to get a laptop for my mom. I would like to get DS a netbook. And I need to get DS9 somethings still. The only thing I have bought him so far is a TV. I have four kids. Then we have 2 GODdaughters, 8 nephews and 3 neices that we buy for too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyreejames Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I'm @ $1260.00 but still have to get another TV and a computer. Also possibly an iPOD touch and a shuffle. Haven't gotten toys for any of DH's nieces/nephews or mine. They usually each get a toy and an outfit. I have gotten all of their outfits but still have to find toys. We also haven't done any clothes shopping for our 3 kids. We don't even include what we spend on each other... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
civiclover88 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Hmmm...estimating I would say about $800. However, unlike years past, I have NOT once touched the CCs for this x-mas. WOOHOO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmck Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 So far I have stayed on budget so I am happy. However I keep thinking of things I liked to get my kids and I am done money wise. I hope I can continue to keep the budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuggaD Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 The damage so far is $3500. Bought presents for myself, mom, sister, sister-in-law, DD10, secret santa, and 2 Salvation Army "Angels." Still need to buy for DD's 7 teachers and coaches, monetary gift for mailman, and stocking stuffers for DD and mom. I really thought I'd spend less than last year, but I thought wrong. I have no self control. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missyjane Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Hmmm...estimating I would say about $800. However, unlike years past, I have NOT once touched the CCs for this x-mas. WOOHOO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momof3luvs1 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I'm not finished yet but I am going to ROUGHLY say about 2000. Which of course was over my budget but I got carried away on black friday and spent ( 1125.00).....I just cant help myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jendeere Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I've spent a little over 2 grand so far but am nearly done, except for the $12,000 we are spending on DH's Rhino. In addition to DH and DD, I buy for 4 nephews and 2 nieces, my parents, his parents, my sisters and brother and their spouses, my grandma, Secret Santa, 4 good friends, and also the 2 little boys we are providing Christmas for this year. Instead of taking names off the angel tree this year we are buying for 2 kids we know personally who otherwise wouldn't have much of a Christmas. I've already spent over $200 a piece just on those 2 kids. A friend was telling me last night they have set a budget of $150 per child, but they have 6 kids. I was telling DH we should try something like that next year and his reply was "why"? Men!!! LOL Oh, and I don't use the credit card unless its a big purchase to get the rewards points but then come home and pay it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redraccoon Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 About $1300 ... and saved an equal amount if not more. BUT - that is for a large extended family with lots of kids. And I budgeted for it - so I'm actually still $200 under! And I am done shopping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tntsmomie Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 About $1600 total for kids, DH, in-laws, my family.... We've been smart about what we've purchased. And it's been fun this year b/c we've had the money to spend more than past years. We didn't go too overboard for the kids, and were able to get nice gifts for our family members. Now to ship it all out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elena_398 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 spent another $300 today on my son. Went to Kohls 2 day sale. He wanted some College stuff and more Nike shirts/hoodies. Funny as I made my mom meet me there- she gets a 20% senior discount on Tuesdays. LOL. She is used to it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momof3luvs1 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 spent another $300 today on my son. Went to Kohls 2 day sale. He wanted some College stuff and more Nike shirts/hoodies. Funny as I made my mom meet me there- she gets a 20% senior discount on Tuesdays. LOL. She is used to it now.I didnt now that Kohls has a senior discount. Is that every tuesday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christina97 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I have spent way too much this year so we are breaking Christmas stuff down and saving some for birthdays that are in the summer! DH will be happy come birthday time when we don't have to buy anything but a few small items :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerfan Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I have probably spent between $600 and that is including getting an Ipod touch, and Ipod nano and a DSI. I also got some awesome deals at Aeropostale, Hollister and American Eagle. After adding up the actual cost of things it was about $1,000 but I got tons of clearance stuff and the big priced items I cashed in my My Points for gift cards to Amazon and made out like a bandit. OOP I probably spent 300 of the $600 the rest were gift cards.:D Plus I can say I AM FINALLY DONE Yippeeeeeeeee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abentley Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I am about 3k so far, but we planned on it being one of those years. New grandbaby on the way so my DD NEEDED a video camera! She is having a baby so she needs a cute new outfit to wear home from the hospital with comfy Uggs! Her DH has gotten accepted into a couple medical schools, so my boys wanted to give him an xbox 360 for when they move. The lil boys are so busy on computers for school, they each get new ones. I will finish up for DS19 this weekend...and everything was paid by CASH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugsette Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 They have the senior discount thru the year..... you might want to ask you store Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reinholt1 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 ooooo...hard to say, I shop through out the year and try to spread it out. Maybe $800 ish. But that includes a $230 round trip ticket for a disabled "foster son/friend" to come visit for the holidays (Agency ran out of $$ and he almost couldn't come.) and $150 for a reference book (a very special gift this year!) Minus those two...leaves about $400 which is just about what I wanted to spend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conj Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 less than 200... until DDs DS - that about doubled things... of course we've been shopping all year. Love ya GD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuggaD Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Just spent another $100+. I felt bad that one of my "angels" had a huge pile, while the other (older one) had a significantly smaller pile so I ordered a few more things for her, and also a few more things for DD that I couldn't resist. I need to hurry up and buy those stocking stuffers and teacher gifts so I can pay off the credit cards and be done with shopping altogether. (always an all cash Christmas, but I use cc's to keep track of my purchases and just pay off the balance once shopping is complete). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queenofshopping Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 A fairly conservative $750 so far; this includes gifts from each of my parents to the other, gifts from them to me (sometimes it's just easier this way), from me to them, and from all of us to (many, many) others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudreyNicole Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I think I have spent about $1300, including DH, 2 sons, a Wii as our family gift, and 15 other people. I have saved SO much money though, and have been shopping since July, so it hasn't been such a big hit. Paid for everything with cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tn20 Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Wow... around here, my spending seems a bit excessive to most people, but compared to most of you here, I'm a cheapskate! I think we are at about $850 for DH, myself, 4 kids, 1 niece, MIL, mom, dad, step-mom, step-dad, sister, BIL, and 2 sets of grandparents, and I am pretty much done. I do need to pick up a few more little things, but we don't exchange expensive gifts with adults (well, my dad and step-mom give us expensive things, but understand that we can't afford to) and most of the gifts for the kids were bought on clearance or great sales, so I would say out of the $500 we spent on our kids and niece, it is at least $1500 retail... probably more (I got TONS of stuff at Target's 75% off sale and a bunch of stuff from WM that was almost 90% off!) My mom's side of the family we do a $5 per person limit gag gift exchange, my dad's side of the family asked for picture gifts, so I bought stuff on sale at Shutterfly for them. MIL asked for DH to install a lighting unit for her house. Didn't cost much money... like $40, it will mostly be time installing it. DH spent $100 on me and I spent $150 on him. We had set a $100 limit on each of us, but I couldn't help it... I found a few good deals on things he would really like and couldn't pass it up. DH only worked 7 days in November and will only work 7 days in December, so things are kind of tight for us. The upside to this is that DH is able to spend a lot of time with the family this holiday season! Plus, its the first Christmas where we are paying cash for everything! I haven't used a credit card once! Oh, wait! I lied. I used my Discover card 1 time to get the $10 off $50 discount on Amazon, but I already paid it back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siczlo Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Spent about $1500 so far. About $1200 more to go. That would be $2700 total. But I have alot of people to buy for.... Me DH ds3 ds10 ds14 Grandma Uncle Nana Nana's dh sister brother siter-in-law 5 nieces 2 nephews my aunt my uncle ds3 teacher ds3 babysitter ds10 teacher ds10 math teacher ds14-7 teachers my 27 kindergarten students my 4 other team teachers the reading specialist 2 school secretaries the principal the assistant principal and the lady who cleans my classroom oh yeah, the 2 neighbor boys Wow! If I did the math right, that is 71 people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm just getting Target giftcards for the people at my work, and I'm working on gift bags for my students...so far a puzzle and a book. Best part, no credit cards. Which can be pretty tempting at times, but I have learned self control! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublehsmom Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 ok so since I was reading what everyone else had spend I did a total on what I have spent and so far im at 1500. I dont know if thats good or bad I have all my kids done except for stocking stuffers and my dh is done as well. But as for the rest of the people I thought that I was way further than what I am I still have a lot of people to buy for but I am hoping to have them done by the weekend. Everything I have bought has been with cash! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deal Grabber Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 I have spent about $1500 on my 2 kids and about $500 on DH family and mine.Need to spend about another $500 on kids and will be done.I also dont use credit cards either so im happy about that.Oh my Mom sends me $300 every year for kids so they will get about $2300 worth under tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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