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I am a cheapy I give the kids and Grandkids 25 dollar each cash.I get the great grandbabies $100.00 savings bond and a couple of outfits each.I have cut down a whole lot as the family has grown. We don't buy for anyone else. Oh wait our 1 nabor we buy a box of candy helikes. We also tell everyone not to buy us anything,Not that we are bah Hum Buggy. But they have enough to buy for with their own families. We don't need anything and I hate getting stuff that I would never buy myself. If I want something I buy it.Now my daughter and Granddaughter every year get me somekind of M & M dispenser. Well they are cute and I keep them all out. But heck they never buy M & M's to keep them full. They cost alot too. LOL. If they buy us anything I tell them if it makes them feel better to buy something. Buy us a $1.00 scratch off lottery ticket. I make it easy on them.Oh yes Iwe use to go crazy with our kids and grandkids. But then as they get older they are to darn exspensive for me.

Jeanette my grandma in Ohio gave all the grandkids 25 dollars too for christmas.
Only my envlope was always empty lol I not care not like money..

My grandma hall my b mothers mother was realy great she give all grandkids 50 dollars and a gift card from favorite store for 50 dollrs..

I loved that grandma not because of the stuff she give but because she realy cared and love me..

I always get what I ask for christmas but I think mom and dad give me what I ask for because what happed in Ohio..

But I know they truly love me all year around and that the greatest gift of all...

I bought my son a little silver plated gift set with a rattle and two boxes to hold his first tooth and his first lock of hair. It's his first Christmas and sadly I won't be able to spend it with him. Instead of buying him even more toys that he won't play with but a month or more clothes he'll out grow in a week I'm going to buy him a $1000 Certficate of Deposit and start him a college fund. I'm going to get him one every year until he's old eough to know what to do with the money and then I'm going to give it to him. Harp, the last thing you said in your post makes me hope that my son turns out as good hearted as you are.

$700.00 on the kids is very easy to do. With 5 kids, I can see it happening, maybe more, but it sure isn't all on toys!
The original question was, "How much are you spending per kid this year?"
I know a lot of families buy all the kids a certain number (the same amount) of gifts. We used to do that when the kids were younger but now that we have a teenager and preteen, we don't do that anymore as their taste in 'wants' is more expensive. We try to keep it simple but with 5, soon to be 6 kids, gifts always seem to creep up the walls.

Good morning!

I have spent about $150 on my two boys this year. I think it will be about that for my two older girls when I finish up this week. On my oldest daughter & her husband about $75 and $50 on my granddaughter.

My kids are 22, 20 and 15. My guess is we spend about $200 each but my wife does most of the shopping so I could be off. She also starts in October so it does not hit all at once.

i hope that for you too for christmas horse, that would be the greatest present of all is for all the soldiers to come home....

i spent about 400.00 a peice on my boys, but the older they get the harder to buy for.. and my daughter in law, about 200, and the grandbabies are easy, but everyday is christmas for them