How much did you/will you spend on holiday gifts?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much did you/will you spend on holiday gifts?

$15-20k

Including travel?

No, family lives within an hour drive.

[Anonymous]

Don’t know, probably $400 per teen (x2), spouse and I do token gifts (we are well off so don’t need anything) and another $500 or so across our extended families. We don’t exchange with our siblings, only our parents and nieces/nephews.

I’m of the strong opinion that adults with income don’t need to exchange gifts with other adults with income, save maybe a romantic partner in the early years.

[Anonymous]

The only gifting DH and I do is for each other. (No kids and years ago put the kibosh on adult-sibling gifting that ensured everyone got a scarf they wouldn't wear, a book they wouldn't read, or a gift card they would forget to use.)

Went to Tysons today for my gifts -- it's necessary, left to his own devices DH will come up with nothing. We spent about $700 on stuff for me (a coat, a sweater, and stuff from Lush for my stocking). I had already bought his gifts weeks ago and I spent about $500 on him (an Aspinal wallet with his initials, books, and a knit hat with a light in it for walking the dogs in the dark). He spent more on me, but he makes a lot more than I do. Total, about $1200 or so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:@$3k for us I Didn’t realize we spent this amount . I’ve been buying items since early Nov

23yo son -$300 on dressy sneakers, sweater - it’s sort of become a tradition that every year we get him a new top that he wears to dinner with family
20yo college daughter $1000 (yikes!) on college essentials - boots, sneakers, tote,jewelry, AirPods
DH - solo stove $700 (this isn’t really Xmas budget because DH would’ve bought this himself either way)
Me - $600 I bought myself (and will wrap) a stick vacuum and shoes and DH will prob get me something else from my list
My parents - $400 tickets to NYC broadway show & dinner
My MIL - $250 new iPad (just realizing we’ve bought her all 3 she’s had since 2012)

2 kids in family - $100 each

Just so we're clear:
Jewelry is a college "essential"?
Your MIL went through 3 iPads since 2012?

This stood out to me as well.