Money Spent on Christmas

[ashleyfm]

Do you have a total budget? I know some who shop all year and still stay within a total budget. My friend will spend 1k total for everyone they have to buy for, not a penny more. How about you?

[Luvmybooskies]

We just go with the flow. I got all my nieces (there's 4 of them) and nephew a 5 dollar movie, a cute popcorn container that only cost a dollar , and I'm going to put a bag of popcorn in each, which is free because I already have it. I guess it's bad that we don't make a set budget, but we just go with common sense. I know what I'm willing and not willing to spend on particular items. Same goes for toys, I think about whether or not my girls are really going to play with it, or if it's going to end up at the bottom of their basket after a few weeks.

[momkaribg]

We don't have a set budget.

[Klynn-whitlow]

I don't have a Christmas budget. I buy all year though, and shop sales when i can. I don't buy a certain number of things either. I make a mental list of the things i want to get for them, and get as many of them as i can. If i don't get them all in time for Christmas, they go on the list for the next year... and i start collecting all over again after the new year!

[becky.riley]

My husband and I set a budget of 1K for Christmas. Everyone's gifts come out of that.  

[kgmmw]

We dont set a budget. We make sure we get what we need to get and try not too spend an outrageous amount of money.

[Bncholbert]

We dont have a set budget really

[Bncholbert]

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Quoting kgmmw:

We dont set a budget. We make sure we get what we need to get and try not too spend an outrageous amount of money.

[mamivon2]

no budget here

[ceciliam]

I make a budget and stick to it.

[Mrs.Pool2Be]

We don't set a budget.  We just get what we need too.