How much did you spend on your kids Christmas (or other holiday tradition)?

[P938LVR]

I'm just curious as to how much you spent on your child or children for Christmas (or other holiday traditions)?

[FiguringItOut]

$120 per kid. And what I realize now after posting this forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/entitlement-in-kids-and-how-to-deal-with-it/ $120 was too low. live and learn.

[P938LVR]

I spend $94 but everything was on sale and retail value was actually $250.

[MayDay]

Mine are 4 and 7, and we spent about 50-75 each (I don't have exact numbers in front of me).

It was quite low, lower than usual, because:

1. They wanted the same thing from Santa and it was only 35$ joint gift.
2. My mom had given me a ton of art supplies that I used for DD's gift.
3. My MIL gave us cash and asked us to shop for the kids, so we got some things off their lists, rather than the usual junk MIL buys.

I am planning for this spending to go up quite a bit over the next decade. They'll be wanting more expensive things pretty soon. But I'm going to enjoy these years when their favorite present is 5 rolls of scotch tape!

[Neustache]

60 a piece - two kids so $120 total.  But my kids are still little (2 and 6) and that amount goes pretty far.  We don't get them a whole lot, but between our gifts and all the family gifts, they end up with a ton.  There's that pull to go overboard, and I do my best to resist every year. 

[RelaxedGal]

1 kid, almost 4 years old, $200. 

6" Kindle Fire Kids Edition, Fire Tuck, doll clothes, stocking stuffers.

[CommonCents]

There's another thread on this already.  BRB, will find it.

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