How Much Do You Spend on Christmas?

[CS Garth]

Discussing with my wife and it dawned on me that I don't actually know what we spend on Christmas.

Food, drink, presents etc - chuck in having some friends over for drinks a couple of times plus various Christmas parties/nights out and the number is a lot higher than I thought.

I'm in a fortunate position and some may obviously have it nailed down to a budget by necessity but roughly what do you spend?

[CS Garth]

I don't mind the money personally so much but I'd rather give one quality gift of whatever value than multiple small gifts which will be forgetten about within 2 weeks (hours?). My wife got my a Gransfors axe last year, about £80 and the best and most used gift I've ever had.

I will however spend on some decent wine as i normally do. My rule for 2018 was that I wasn't going to spend over £10 a bottle for wine to be consumed at home and I have stuck to this having had some great wines over the year for not a lot of money. My reward for this is a few decent St Juliens to take the edge off proceedings....

[CS Garth]

toon10 said:

Being a nerd with a spreadsheet for such matters, I've spent £701.46 on presents. Add some booze, food and bits and bobs and that will rise to about £850 - £900. Sounds excessive when you list it out like that but I'm creating memories with my kids. We're having my parents over for dinner and I'm hosting a couple of nights in the house for friends and one for the neighbours. The kids love a good run around while Daddy plays his music and sups trappist beers.

Well done that man - nice spreadsheet use.

If I’m honest I was hopeful there would more precision folks out there to shame my useless approach.