Anyone want to post their Christmas budget?

[Torran]

This seems an obvious one at this time of year, so if there is already a thread up and running let me know!

I'm putting together my Christmas budget just now and wondered what mustachian antics there might be going on with the Christmas budgets on this forum. Dumpster diving, anyone? ;) I'm going to post mine and then I'll update after Christmas whether I managed to stick to it. If you'd like to join me, please do :)

Presents:
£270
I need to buy for 9 adults and 2 kids.
Approx £30 each for 6 family members; £30 for the boyfriend (I suggested we agree on a limit to avoid insanely-expensive-romantic-gift pressure); £15 each for 3 friends, £10 for work secret-santa, £5 for a token prezzie for my grandmother, sent by post.

Cards/wrapping paper:
£10
I've spent £7.50, home-making cards (got craft paper for 50p in a sale) spent a ridiculous £7 on lots of matching wrapping paper and bows.

Travel:
£120.
£60 return train tickets up North. £60 return flights to London. People to see, places to go.

Total of £400.
I've already spent £100 (bought flights, some prezzies).
Maybe I should go dumpster diving (or, raking in the bin, as people would say where I live).

[lbmustache]

Travel: Zero. My family comes to visit me.
Gifts: <$75. My parents don't ask for anything, I usually don't get my brother anything (we just do birthdays), and I usually do not exchange gifts with friends (we do some years, but most years we don't to save $). I get my dog a treat or two, and sometimes spend money for the admins at my work. May get a few items at DAISO (Japanese dollar store) for 2 of my cousins.
Wrapping paper for presents: $10 or less; I buy the $1 bags and paper at Target if I need them.
Charity: ~$100. Donate to a bunch of stuff to animal shelters + toys for kids.

I am anticipating about $150 total for this holiday season, and the bulk of that is for charity.

I actually LOVE the holidays and my mustachian weakness is that I love spending money!!! I have made a conscious effort to cut back, though my family situation helps.

[Zikoris]

The local orchestra puts on a really nice Christmas symphony every year, so that will be $30 for the two of us. There's also the local Bach choir that puts on a fantastic holiday show, and we go to the Nutcracker sometimes.

Oh, you probably meant gifts, etc. We stopped participating in any of that.

[music lover]

$0.00

[Davids]

$0.00, I am Jewish. And in case you are wondering this is also my Hanukkah budget.

[kimmarg]

$600

Presents $50 x 8 = $400

Cards $50

Wrapping paper, decorations $20

Tree $30

Food (baked goods to gift and splurges) $100

[kudy]

I'll probably get my girlfriend a gift (under $100), and that's about it!

[Hotstreak]

$40 - Christmas Eve bar tab
$10 - Cab ride home


I do plan on walking to the bar, which is my Mustacian effort for the evening!

[Dicey]

No budget. DH and I don't exchange gifts, and I stockpile baking supplies all year. We give very few gifts to family members. We give to charity, but don't wait until the end of the year to do so. So basically, if I need, hell, want anything, I just buy it, knowing that there's plenty of room left due to our un-spendy lifestyle.

[HPstache]

We have $480 saved up in our sinking Christmas fund... so that's all we get!  About $100 of that is for Christmas cards to friends & family across the country.  Presents break down as follows:

Gifts to each other: $50ea
Her side of the family (Mom, Dad, Brother, Friend, Grandma: $30ea
My side of the family (Mom, Dad, exchange gift 1 & 2): $30ea

[Squirrel away]

We are spending more this year as we have had very frugal years before this. I am buying a real tree and some decorations but also making some decorations myself. I will probably spend about £200 on presents but about £350 altogether with the tree and food for dinner. I know this is MMM but I want to spend some money this year.:P The presents I buy for hubbie will be mostly practical which will be used all year and longer, clothes and kitchen gadgets etc... My siblings get a small gift each.

[2lazy2retire]

This seems an obvious one at this time of year, so if there is already a thread up and running let me know!

I'm putting together my Christmas budget just now and wondered what mustachian antics there might be going on with the Christmas budgets on this forum. Dumpster diving, anyone? ;) I'm going to post mine and then I'll update after Christmas whether I managed to stick to it. If you'd like to join me, please do :)

Presents:
£270
I need to buy for 9 adults and 2 kids.
Approx £30 each for 6 family members; £30 for the boyfriend (I suggested we agree on a limit to avoid insanely-expensive-romantic-gift pressure); £15 each for 3 friends, £10 for work secret-santa, £5 for a token prezzie for my grandmother, sent by post.

Cards/wrapping paper:
£10
I've spent £7.50, home-making cards (got craft paper for 50p in a sale) spent a ridiculous £7 on lots of matching wrapping paper and bows.

Travel:
£120.
£60 return train tickets up North. £60 return flights to London. People to see, places to go.

Total of £400.
I've already spent £100 (bought flights, some prezzies).
Maybe I should go dumpster diving (or, raking in the bin, as people would say where I live).

Where can you go in a train north of Scotland ;)

[pachnik]

Probably about $250 for presents including something for my husband, cash for my niece and nephew and taking my parents out after Christmas for lunch or dinner instead of a gift.  We are hosting Christmas Day dinner and my mom buys us the turkey from her grocery store points so that is free.  I'll buy some wine to go with dinner.  Everyone brings something so it is more of an organized pot luck.

I work in a small office and everyone there is very good to me so I think I will do some baking for my colleagues.  I only exchange gifts with one friend and I have already found something for her.  So maybe about $350 in all including baking supplies and the veggies tray I take to Christmas Eve with my husband's family.  Oh, and then a donation to the local soup kitchen.

[Torran]

This seems an obvious one at this time of year, so if there is already a thread up and running let me know!

I'm putting together my Christmas budget just now and wondered what mustachian antics there might be going on with the Christmas budgets on this forum. Dumpster diving, anyone? ;) I'm going to post mine and then I'll update after Christmas whether I managed to stick to it. If you'd like to join me, please do :)

Presents:
£270
I need to buy for 9 adults and 2 kids.
Approx £30 each for 6 family members; £30 for the boyfriend (I suggested we agree on a limit to avoid insanely-expensive-romantic-gift pressure); £15 each for 3 friends, £10 for work secret-santa, £5 for a token prezzie for my grandmother, sent by post.

Cards/wrapping paper:
£10
I've spent £7.50, home-making cards (got craft paper for 50p in a sale) spent a ridiculous £7 on lots of matching wrapping paper and bows.

Travel:
£120.
£60 return train tickets up North. £60 return flights to London. People to see, places to go.

Total of £400.
I've already spent £100 (bought flights, some prezzies).
Maybe I should go dumpster diving (or, raking in the bin, as people would say where I live).

Where can you go in a train north of Scotland ;)

Hahaha. To the Great Wilderness Beyond. Not on official maps. Obviously.

Loving so many people putting '0' for their budget.

And all the charity donations! What a lovely bunch. I now feel the glaring omission of charity in my list. Hmm.

[druth]

If niece and nephew are coming to town they get something small to share - 25$?  They honestly don't need more things, their parents agree.

Another 25$ for food based gifts for everybody else.  Celophane bag of cookies or similar.

50$ plus gas to family and possibly a shared food dish of some sort.

[iknowiyam]

$900 plane tickets for 1400 mi trip (it's our turn to fly this year)
$5 or so holiday cards from Goodwill - you would be surprised. I guess no one wants to use their leftovers in the packs
$50 gifts for 1 adult, 2 kids. No spouse gift exchange, doesn't happen every year.

Let's round up to $1000* so we know everything is covered... geez, and I'm not even a big holiday person...



*Our December charitable gifts are not considered holiday giving. It's an end-of-year thing.

[asauer]

Gifts: $350
decoration/trimmings/paper/cards: $50- I have my kids draw a holiday photo and then run them on card stock at home!
Food (much of which doubles as neighbor gifts): $50

[Lady Fordragon]

Gifts (for the 13 kids in my family):  ~$350
Flight home:  $256
Food for family potluck:  ~$25

[andy85]

$390

$15 gets taken off the top of each paycheck and put in a credit union savings account before it even hits my checking account...multiplied by 26 paychecks...and abracadabra - Christmas fund.

[Dollar Slice]

I never know what to do for Chanukah... I only exchange gifts with my immediate family (brother, SIL, nephew, and my parents) but they are all dual-income households and very well-off. They spend tons of money on me - I can't even come close to reciprocating, and it makes me feel bad... I usually spend somewhere in the $75 range per person, but it was higher than that last year. There was some talk of scaling down the gift-giving (I think because my mom noticed how stressed out I was) but it didn't really go anywhere.

[Eric]

I'm going to buy a tree, so maybe $30-40?  No gifts exchanged.

[Money Mouse]

$475 gifts (14 people)
$180 Charity (I love shopping for Angel trees and my employer always has a drive for a local women's shelter)
$30 Xmas cards and postage (includes shipping gifts to out-of-state family)
$80 for decorations, gift wrap, and craft projects for my 3 year old (gingerbread house and such)

So $765, not counting the extra in December's grocery budget for Xmas dinner. But hey, I never claimed to be a badass!

[Mr. Green]

About $800 spread across parents, grandparents, and siblings for both my wife and I. We have a couple friends we may or may not get gifts. My wife and I usually don't give each other gifts.

[CryingInThePool]

$40 Present for Family Gift Exchange
$40 Charity Tree at the Office
$50 Present for Parents (Xmas & NY Anniversary rolled into 1)
$500 for Nieces College Fund
$100 Extra in Food budget for making cookies, bottles of wine for hostess gifts,  etc.
$100 Extra in Entertainment Budget for my 2 weeks off which covers NY.
So I guess $830 Total which actually sounds like a lot now that I've written it out.  Maybe I can do better this year. 

In YNAB I only budget $500 for Xmas as the rest is reallocated by changes in spending related to being on vacation; low driving, more cooking/shared meals, etc. 

[Jack]

$0.

I'll probably spend something on Christmas, but not enough to notice beyond my normal budget volatility.

(One of these years I'm going to go full Griswold in terms of exterior Christmas lights -- DIY strands of individually-addressable RGB LEDs, Light-O-Rama, the works -- but I'll need to do a lot of planning and construction, so it won't be this year. Antimustachian, yes, I know, but I still want to do it. Maybe by the time I get around to it I'll be FIRE'd.)

[partgypsy]

No, because people would throw things at me.

[justajane]

About $800 spread across parents, grandparents, and siblings for both my wife and I. We have a couple friends we may or may not get gifts. My wife and I usually don't give each other gifts.

I'd say we spend close to that too, obviously way more than the average Mustachian. Here's how it breaks down:

$250 - for our three kids (aged 1,5,7)
$150 on parents
$100 on nieces and nephews
$100 on teachers, daycare workers, speech therapists, etc.
$75 on each other for stocking exchange (you'd be surprised how stockings add up, but it's all mostly practical stuff!)
$100 charity

Last year we spent about $75 on bottles of wine for our neighbors, but I don't think we'll do that every year. We just felt bad because they usually give us something homemade every year and we had never reciprocated. 

[Chrissy]

My take home pay from my bonus last year was $2,035, and I have a policy about saving 50%, and using the rest for Christmas.

My Christmas budget from 2014:  $1,020

Plane ticket:  $350 budgeted /$258 spent
Sister's Xmas birthday:  $100/$108
Sister:  $200/$195
Mother:  $300/$256
Father:  $300/$243
Wrapping, cards, shipping:  $100/$161

Total spent:  $1,221

However, this year, I'm married, and my sister and I are both having our first babies, so my parents are coming to us.  We've decided to do token gifts only. 

Christmas budget 2015:  $400

1/4 of parents' plane tickets:  $150
Sister:  $30
Mom:  $30
Dad:  $30
Husband:  $10
Letters to Santa:  $100
Wrapping & cards:  $50

[sunshine]

$1850

$800 gifts for family and friends

$150 cards, hosting two Christmas dinners

$900 shopping for  the families we sponsor and buying gift cards for an unmet needs program for local teenagers. We have done this all our now young adult children's lives. It has taught them a lot. The amount grew as we grew. My kids were just stunned some years to see what basics other kids wanted as gifts. It has been a great family experience the last 22 years.

Face punch away. I budget for it all year, and love every minute of it. That $900 picking out gifts for the less fortunate makes me ridiculously happy.

This is high being our income in in the 60's. However we save plenty and own everything free and clear including our home and the rental.

[Dollar Slice]

That $900 picking out gifts for the less fortunate makes me ridiculously happy.

I used to do Toys for Tots every year when my office had a collection point and I worked 2 blocks from a nice (good quality) toy store. It really is a great feeling to buy stuff for needy kids. I haven't done it since I moved, last year was so nuts I wasn't thinking about anything but getting through the holidays without losing my mind. I will look around for something to do in my new neighborhood this year.

[lifejoy]

$100 for my inlaws (two parents and three kids), $100 for my parents, and DH and I each get $100 to spend on each other. Total is $400. Hmm. Maybe I can spend only $50 on my parents.


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[Sailor Sam]

Bah. Humbug.

That being said:
$700 x-country plane flight
$500 presents for 10 people. Though some years I rebel, and say my presence is enough of a present for the aduts.
$100 christmas activity. Tore my ACL skiing last year. Yipes! Going to suggest go-karts and Starwars this year
$200 toys for tots, aim for $20/toy.

Reminds me, I need to get the box with my decorations, and my Charlie Brown tree down from the top shelf of the closet.

ETA: Forgot, $100 alcohol. We drink hot butter rum, and it makes all interactions go down smooth.

[Guava]

$150 on gifts for my parents (we pick out things they need together so that the gifts are useful so the amount changes every year)
$0 on my in-laws (use credit card points for restaurant gift cards)
$25 on on the new baby in the family into a 529
$50 on my SO
$25 for family gift exchange
$300 on a sponsored family. (If I don't get emotional and overspend because I have a hard time not buying lots when the mom asks for cleaning supplies and toilet paper as her gift and for underwear and socks for her kids as top priority gifts).

[Eric222]

Christmas budget:
~$25 for a real tree (because real trees are awesome).
$100 for presents for my kids. 
$0 for presents for my parents - I'm going to make them something.  Last year it was homemade vanilla for my mom and I just bought a book for my dad.  I'm still thinking about what to do this year.  They don't need me to buy them things, they still like things that show I care.
$50 total for my 2 nieces.  I have no idea what I'm going to get them.  One is 5 and has everything - she's the only child with two parents who love to spend money on her.  My other niece is 18 months old.  I'll see her at Thanksgiving and see what she'd like.

My siblings and sibling-in-laws have agreed to just give presents to parents and kids in perpetuity.  We all have kids, and we all would rather see our kids get things. 

Travel = $0.  Staying home this year.  We are all getting together for Thanksgiving shortly.  I'll make a special dinner for the kids, we'll have hot cider, and open presents next to the tree that we've decorated with a slew of homemade decorations. 

Total ~= $200. 

Simple Christmas is awesome.

[Kitsune]

Presents: 600CAD

Christmas-related food (baking, and extra meat for the traditional tourtière, cretons, and also booze): 100$

Decorations: 50$, because some of our strings of lights for the tree are no longer working and we want to get some outdoor lights. Other than that, we get our tree (and extra pine boughs) from the forest behind the house, and I'll use those, some lights, and some spools of nice ribbon I got at a church sale (50 cents for a large spool of nice ribbon!) to make decorations for the porch and the buffet.

[Jtrey17]

$1300 total. Breaks down to:

$150 per kid x 4 $600
$100 per kid x 4 Santa $400
$100 bf
$60 bf's kids
$140 real Christmas garland

[galliver]

About $1200. The bulk in travel ($490 flight, $115 car rental, $100 gas) and gifts ($450 for 11 family/close friends, plus 3 small gifts for people at work). This is only my half (bf doubles the travel costs and budgets for gifts independently).

Honestly? I love the winter holidays, I love gift-giving, and I am glad to go see our families while we still have relative freedom to. I don't think I'll want to travel for the holidays every year with kids, and I'm sure work will get in the way of it, too, at some point. So we'll spend a week with each of our parents while we can.

[jorjor]

Our biggest expense is normally travel. $500 ticket each to usually sit cooped up in an airport with delays. Fly to an a couple hours from home where we have to rent a car for several hundred more dollars to get around. That car is either expensive and does crappy in snow or really expensive and does okay in snow. We then drive that car around Iowa to visit our families in precarious conditions.

This year we aren't doing that. We'll be driving from Colorado to Iowa. If traffic is bad when we want to drive, we will delay our trip. We will have a Forester to drive around which does well in the snow. It will be much cheaper and more comfortable.

[galliver]

Our biggest expense is normally travel. $500 ticket each to usually sit cooped up in an airport with delays. Fly to an a couple hours from home where we have to rent a car for several hundred more dollars to get around. That car is either expensive and does crappy in snow or really expensive and does okay in snow. We then drive that car around Iowa to visit our families in precarious conditions.

This year we aren't doing that. We'll be driving from Colorado to Iowa. If traffic is bad when we want to drive, we will delay our trip. We will have a Forester to drive around which does well in the snow. It will be much cheaper and more comfortable.

You'll do great driving. My family used to traverse IL->CA and back during school holidays; IA to CO was one (long) leg of this trip.

We are doing almost exactly what you detailed in P1 except we have only one family in IA to visit. Unfortunately, we don't have viable alternatives right now. :/

[sunshine]

That $900 picking out gifts for the less fortunate makes me ridiculously happy.

I used to do Toys for Tots every year when my office had a collection point and I worked 2 blocks from a nice (good quality) toy store. It really is a great feeling to buy stuff for needy kids. I haven't done it since I moved, last year was so nuts I wasn't thinking about anything but getting through the holidays without losing my mind. I will look around for something to do in my new neighborhood this year.

I hope you find a good program to support. Lots of people needing some kindness and cheer.  The program we do with kids and family gives you sex, age and wishlist. A friend started one for senior citizens last year. That just broke my heart to see the need.  Sure is a reality check.

[Emilyngh]

Eh, let's see.   I had a budget that was lower, but now that I've planned actual items I've bumped things and here we are:

$200 ea x 3 kids= $600
$100 ea x DH and me=$200
$20 ea x 5 for DH's siblings and niece=$100
$50 = secret santa my siblings=$50
$100 ea x 2 for his parents and mine=$200
$50 ea DD's teachers x2=$100 (I know this may seem high, but she goes to a wonderful preschool with wonderful teachers and they under charge)

So, it looks like $1250.

I love christmas and really don't mind spending this much, as long as it's not on crap.   I'm trying to focus on getting fewer, nicer things that people can really use.   We also really don't buy much throughout the year, so for example, xmas and her birthday our my DD's only real chance to get a toys.

[jorjor]

Our biggest expense is normally travel. $500 ticket each to usually sit cooped up in an airport with delays. Fly to an a couple hours from home where we have to rent a car for several hundred more dollars to get around. That car is either expensive and does crappy in snow or really expensive and does okay in snow. We then drive that car around Iowa to visit our families in precarious conditions.

This year we aren't doing that. We'll be driving from Colorado to Iowa. If traffic is bad when we want to drive, we will delay our trip. We will have a Forester to drive around which does well in the snow. It will be much cheaper and more comfortable.

You'll do great driving. My family used to traverse IL->CA and back during school holidays; IA to CO was one (long) leg of this trip.

We are doing almost exactly what you detailed in P1 except we have only one family in IA to visit. Unfortunately, we don't have viable alternatives right now. :/

Yeah, we've made the trip about once a year but always during the summer. My family and her family are about 3 hours apart in good weather, and her grandma is now in a care facility in La Crosse, WI a couple hours from either family.

Two years ago we were making the drive on Christmas evening from my family to hers in the crappy rental car, and it rained a bit in the afternoon which turned to ice and it got very cold. Road spray was freezing on our windshield, and the windshield wiper/sprayer stopped working. We were stopping every 5-10 miles to wipe off the windshield with paper towels and a jug of windshield washer fluid we grabbed at a gas station. The last 20 miles or so were on a windy road along the Mississippi River, and I was driving with hardly any visibility at alll. We decided "screw this" during that drive and visited her sister in Sacramento last year instead. We decided we couldn't skip going home for Christmas two years in a row, so back we go but in our car this time. Hopefully that's better.

[galliver]

Our biggest expense is normally travel. $500 ticket each to usually sit cooped up in an airport with delays. Fly to an a couple hours from home where we have to rent a car for several hundred more dollars to get around. That car is either expensive and does crappy in snow or really expensive and does okay in snow. We then drive that car around Iowa to visit our families in precarious conditions.

This year we aren't doing that. We'll be driving from Colorado to Iowa. If traffic is bad when we want to drive, we will delay our trip. We will have a Forester to drive around which does well in the snow. It will be much cheaper and more comfortable.

You'll do great driving. My family used to traverse IL->CA and back during school holidays; IA to CO was one (long) leg of this trip.

We are doing almost exactly what you detailed in P1 except we have only one family in IA to visit. Unfortunately, we don't have viable alternatives right now. :/

Yeah, we've made the trip about once a year but always during the summer. My family and her family are about 3 hours apart in good weather, and her grandma is now in a care facility in La Crosse, WI a couple hours from either family.

Two years ago we were making the drive on Christmas evening from my family to hers in the crappy rental car, and it rained a bit in the afternoon which turned to ice and it got very cold. Road spray was freezing on our windshield, and the windshield wiper/sprayer stopped working. We were stopping every 5-10 miles to wipe off the windshield with paper towels and a jug of windshield washer fluid we grabbed at a gas station. The last 20 miles or so were on a windy road along the Mississippi River, and I was driving with hardly any visibility at alll. We decided "screw this" during that drive and visited her sister in Sacramento last year instead. We decided we couldn't skip going home for Christmas two years in a row, so back we go but in our car this time. Hopefully that's better.

Hopefully! That experience sounds part terrifying and part incredibly annoying! We took that IL->CA drive at least 5/8 years (maybe 6/8), and we got stuck just once. We knowingly tried to beat an incoming storm and got stuck in Nebraska for 3 days. It was basically white-out conditions and no one could see in front of their bumper. And they didn't close the highway for another few hours...it takes a lot, apparently. The other years weather was beautiful. This was all 2004-2012.

Bf's family lives ~3hrs from 4 international airports in NW Iowa. 3hrs seems to be the magic Iowa number... Luckily the past couple years his sister could give us a ride from one of the cities we could get to. But now she's moved so we're on our own.

[Verdandi]

My christmas account is currently at 60€. I will put in another 40€ in December.

- Cards were 3€, I bought them some weeks ago during a sale at a supermarket.
- Gifts are under 100€. I started giving homemade stuff some years ago, and my family seems to love it. As I don't want to contribute to even more unused stuff sitting around in everyones houses, most of my presents are to be eaten. My chocolate crunch granola has been a hit, also apple and banana chips, canned antipasti, risotto mixes, muffins and the like. My grandmothers love calendars for the next year with pictures of their grandchildren in it, which costs about 10€ each. I usually sit down for one evening in December to surf the web for good gift ideas, then one afternoon the weekend before christmas is spent preparing and cooking everything :-)
- The bf and I usually don't give christmas gifts to each other, as we both have enough to do to come up with ideas for the families. We will visit a concert together in December, which will be both our presents :-)

[choppingwood]

My take home pay from my bonus last year was $2,035, and I have a policy about saving 50%, and using the rest for Christmas.

My Christmas budget from 2014:  $1,020

Plane ticket:  $350 budgeted /$258 spent
Sister's Xmas birthday:  $100/$108
Sister:  $200/$195
Mother:  $300/$256
Father:  $300/$243
Wrapping, cards, shipping:  $100/$161

Total spent:  $1,221

However, this year, I'm married, and my sister and I are both having our first babies, so my parents are coming to us.  We've decided to do token gifts only. 

Christmas budget 2015:  $400

1/4 of parents' plane tickets:  $150
Sister:  $30
Mom:  $30
Dad:  $30
Husband:  $10
Letters to Santa:  $100
Wrapping & cards:  $50

This is a family that knows that time together is more important than gifts. I like that you are contributing to your parents' plane tickets.

[zinethstache]

We host Christmas for DHs family, it is a large one. Gifts are to immediate family only  plus one extended family member child.

Everyone brings something but we provide the main food, which is buffet style.

My family gets mostly hand made gifts as I am crafty and the materials are part of my side gig inventory I have on hand year around.

I do have a $300 budget set aside for all Christmas expenses. We probably hit or go over a little when factoring in decorating, food and gifts.

Once FIREd we will not have the big house and plan to be RV traveling at least a couple of years. We will also be on a fixed income. I haven't removed this from our FIRE budget yet because we will want to give far away family members fun mementos from our travels, likely in the guise of a christmas gift:)

[Kaspian]

I told my family years ago not to buy me any stuff, just bring some food for a Christmas Eve thing. 

~$10 - Ingredients for big pot of borscht (cabbage, beets, onion, beef broth)
~$40 - Ingredients for big pot of mulled wine (two bottles of wine, 1 bottle brandy, spices, fruits)

And probably:
~$20 - Random friend who will show up to visit parents in town and want to hang out for a night and go out for a meal.

[reader2580]

My budget for Christmas gifts is zero.  I also ask everyone I know not to buy me gifts.  I don't need random junk to clutter my house.

I do set aside $100 for the holidays for little expenses that pop up as part of the holidays.  I often don't spend a lot of it.

[Cookie78]

Likely just $125 for travel costs. Any gifts I give will be either home made or nearly-new things from my declutter pile.

Plus maybe a $5 dog toy for my aunts dog since my dog destroyed her toy last weekend.

[Astro Camper]

$700 for 2 week trip out west and back sleeping in the van.