How much do you spend per child for Christmas gifts? (parent, clothes)

[Ginge McFantaPants]

This year: spent about $100 apiece on the younger two, and about $175 on the oldest

[Metaphysique]

This year, a lot. Typical year, $200-300 per kid. Somewhere between $800-900 each for my older two (some are joint gifts), and $600-700 for the younger ones. But between the four of them I spent roughly $500 on books/educational stuff alone. My older two are voracious readers, so I bought several book sets.

I'm pretty stoked about their gifts.

[CGab]

I have 2 children and this year I spent about $250 each. It varies year to year as others have said. It just depends on how we are financially.

[ovi8]

Our kids aren't even 10 yet, so obviously $400 is overkill. Like $50-$100. But what's the point? All they like to do is flip water bottles to see if it lands correctly. I should try to sell them on the idea of rocks and grass.

[elliedeee]

We spend $200.00 on each grandchild. There are 12 of them now..

and we spend $50.00 on each of our 7 adult children and $50. each on their 5 spouses.


jeeze, that looks like an awful lot of money when I write it down like that..

I'm actually afraid to total it up.

[elliedeee]

Originally Posted by ovi8

Our kids aren't even 10 yet, so obviously $400 is overkill. Like $50-$100. But what's the point? All they like to do is flip water bottles to see if it lands correctly. I should try to sell them on the idea of rocks and grass.

You go through that too?!? That sound drives me nuts.

My grandson does that constantly with any bottle he finds.. he's even started doing that with the toilet plunger.

[chiluvr1228]

I spent about $125-$150 for my two adult sons and about $150 on my granddaughter so far.

[MKB0925]

I have 2 kids, 14 and 10. We spent about $250 each or so...

[Mnseca]

We are middle-income and we budgeted 700 for all of Christmas, including gifts for everyone we get gifts for. We spent most of that, but only about 200 was on our child. However, relatives bought him presents that totaled about another 300-400 in value. Had I known how much everyone else was going to buy him, I might have spent less.

[convextech]

$100 per