How much have you spent on holiday gifts this year?

[singleguymoney30]

I have spent around $150. I plan to spend around $500 max.

[Caoineag]

We spent $260 on actual Christmas gifts. I might spend a little more and get stocking stuffers but that max would be another $40.

[Ima saver]

I have spent around $250. I plan to send out about $300 in checks. we will give big tips to all of our waitresses and I am helping out the same orphan that I helped last year. I also sent a single mom a check to help her out with christmas shopping.

[jasanderson]

This is hard because I am so not in the mood for Christmas this year. I have purchased stuff and keep returning it so I can't figure out yet what I have spent but it isn't much. I am focusing on paying off bills so I am finding it hard tto spend money on presents for people other than my 3 and 6 year old. I did talk to my brothers this year and told them I am not buying presents for anyone but their kids. Last year we all just bought gift certificates and exchanged them so what's the point?? It's about the kids anyways and I only see them once a year because we live 12 hours away.

[My English Castle]

yuck--too much

I'm not sure how I have 36 gfifts to buy, but I do.
I think I've bought 6, so I'd better get busy.
My budget was $500, but I bet I go over!

[MonkeyMama]

$650 on all things christmas. Probably $600 of it is gifts/donations. Every year we do a little less gifts and more donating (a lot as gifts). It's more enjoyable to us. We're just not into the materialism.

[PrincessPerky]

our 3 kids and husband prolly totals 150 or less. (though I still need 2 gifts) The rest of the family...all 23 of them will be more..cause there is 23 of them!

Plus bosses, Sunday school teachers and some friends.. mostly we give them homemade food, which is cheap, but not free. about 15 or 20 of them..I need to start on the fudge!

[nomorecredit]

I spent $0. I told my husband that there's nothing we need to buy for each other (we don't have kids, I should mention) and I've rather have the money, and swallowd our pride and told our families we're not doing x-mas gifts at all this year beacuse we just can't afford it.. I'm hoping they don't buy us stuff anyway because I'll feel really guilty.

The only person I'll be buying something for is my boss (hey, raises come in january ) and I'll probably spend $25.

[m3racer]

$500-$600 on gifts.....

[Fern]

About $165 on 4 people, all adults.

[Lori63]

Probably $800 for 3 kids, 2 adults, 3 Angel Tree, 2 extended family members, 1 cat.

Also includes gifts for two teachers I work with, a wine exchange and a GC exchange.

[FrugalFish]

I've spent about $400, but that is for everything, including many gifts for extended family, postage for cards and boxes, a few ornaments, and a couple other odds and ends that I could justify as Christmas expenses.

About $100 went to buying gifts for a relative with a very large family, but I feel great about this as they have given us 99% of the clothes DD wears (hand me downs)- that saves us a lot of money and Christmas is about the only time I can do something nice for them in return.

[Coleroo]

we've spent about $924 of our $1000 budget. all cash, no credit.. yay! this is our 2nd credit-free christmas and it feels wonderful ...we went all out with gifts for everyone in my family and my husband's family this year because next christmas we will have our baby and this was probably the last year we could afford to bless those we love with truly nice purchased gifts.

another reason we've gone all out this year, everyone has also been sooo good to us since i've gotten pregnant - 3 baby showers are already planned, people have been offering us a multitude of baby stuff to use (cribs, bassinets, etc) for free...i dont think we're going to have to buy anything outside of diapers... so we wanted to return all the love that is being shown to us in some way!

[herm4]

I actually have only "spent" $22. The total amount of my purchases is close to $250, but I had so many gift cards saved from doing surveys and amazon money from more surveys, that Christmas is practically free this year!!

[Pitman]

Around $250 give or take.