Christmas - How much are you spending?

[Churchill]

We're sticking to £50-ish and then going on holiday when we get a chance in the new year... well, thats the plan anyway

What CM didn't tell you is that we're doing "Secret Santa" with the family - I buy for CM, CM buys for CM's sister and CM's Mother buys for me...

£50? Oh yeah... We know that's a

[SantaClaus]

Christmas is overrated, I prefer Chanukah

[BoredBloke]

so far a big bottle of smelly stuff which was 70.
Harrods christmas bear 20
Harrods stief christmas bear 120 ish i think
Slanket 30
A garlic grinder thing from manchester christmas markets 10

still to get

a dog 500

[Bumfluff]

Usually, the more you spend, the less you get. I hope you got your money's worth!!

[Bumfluff]

200, but £120 was underwear of my choice / picking can't wait for xmas now

[AtW]

I'm spending £1000 less that I planned.

Think of it for a moment - the person who took your grand probably will spend a few mils from his bonus

[RichardCranium]

"Honey, I've bought you an experience."

"Oh wow! What is it? Let me guess. A spa weekend? A helicopter ride? Driving a pink Cadillac?"

"Err, not quite, dear..."

I'm spending £1000 less that I planned.

£1k's worth of experience...

[TheFaQQer]

My how the crunch has hit - just found the 2007 survey.

Options were

• Nothing - I'm so tight my butt cheeks are numb!!!!
• Less Than £500 - I'm a Support Monkey, what do you expect!!!
• Less Than £1000 - Meh.
• Less Than £2000
• More Than £2000 - I have more than one woman on the go!!!!!
• I am AndyW

[DimPrawn]

I'm spending £1000 less that I planned.

[TheFaQQer]

Our budget this year was £20 plus £5 for presents from the girls.

I think that I'm about £27 in total.

[conned tractor]

By the time you've bought a few small things you've already gone over £100.

So far:

nice PJ's from monsoon £40
Slippers from accessorize £15
Estee lauder stuff £25 (I think - can't remember)
Hair curler things (not expensive brand) £25
Book £7
DVD £12

So thats £124, and I still need to get a couple of stocking fillers.

[RichardCranium]

The Missus & I have been carrying around £35 worth of book vouchers for about 18 months.

So we went in to Borders the other night to spend them. We were going to give each other nothing; instead we thought we may as well use up the vouchers.

So we gathered up a load of stuff ('cos they had loads of offers on) and went to the till. What we though was going to be £38 came out at something like £28 because they had even more offers on at the till because of their financial state.

I handed over the vouchers: "Sorry, we don't take them any more". I considered 'going into one', the Missus calmed things down by saying we'll just pay cash.

While I was fuming and muttering things like "You could put a bloody sign up", the supervisor said: "I'm really sorry. We got the notice about an hour ago that we no longer to take any kind of vouchers or credit cards. They reckon they'll be able to tell us how many days notice we get in the morning."



"Sorry. Merry Christmas."

So the answer was £0 but became about £15 each. (For about £80 worth of stuff, BTW)

Great innit? This happened same time last year when I went into Woollies. Are there any business you want to go bust just before Xmas next year?

[cailin maith]

We're sticking to £50-ish and then going on holiday when we get a chance in the new year... well, thats the plan anyway

[TheFaQQer]

Having read earlier today that some consider a £48 gift set from Molton Brown an "inexpensive stocking filler", how much are you spending on your partner / spouse / significant other?

Poll options to follow.