how many people do you buy gifts for at christmas?

the wolf

decides2dream wrote:

wolf - that's a whole lotta gifts! wowza!
we don't even buy gifts for the dogs anymore. :P i mean, they are spoiled fucking rotten EVERY day, and sure, we give em extra treats on christmas, but honestly...i just no longer feel the need to buy them some overpriced stocking filled with dogtreats. regular treats suffice. now, we normally stuff their old marrow bones with peanut butter or pumkin filling, and they are MORE than happy. apparently, chloe and igby don't give a shit about a santa shaped dogchew.

yeah, all in all we spend about 2 thousand at Christmas. 500 on each family, and 500 each ( give or take ) for each other.
last year, rocked ! I had so many great ideas for my GF and got so many great deals that i still had 100 bucks left a few days before christmas , so i just went out and bought her all kinds of really cool small things. that was so much fun for me.

the dogs, we spend about 100 bucks a dog. we wrap the treats up and let them rip them open !! but then we put the treats in their treat bin, and they last long into the year.

this will be our first Christmas with just the one dog. Gonna miss the big bozo on christmas morning because he would get so excited when we would throw all their "presents" down on the floor and just let them tear into them.

I think we maybe getting a new pup for christmas this year.

decides2dream

the wolf wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

wolf - that's a whole lotta gifts! wowza!
we don't even buy gifts for the dogs anymore. :P i mean, they are spoiled fucking rotten EVERY day, and sure, we give em extra treats on christmas, but honestly...i just no longer feel the need to buy them some overpriced stocking filled with dogtreats. regular treats suffice. now, we normally stuff their old marrow bones with peanut butter or pumkin filling, and they are MORE than happy. apparently, chloe and igby don't give a shit about a santa shaped dogchew.

yeah, all in all we spend about 2 thousand at Christmas. 500 on each family, and 500 each ( give or take ) for each other.
last year, rocked ! I had so many great ideas for my GF and got so many great deals that i still had 100 bucks left a few days before christmas , so i just went out and bought her all kinds of really cool small things. that was so much fun for me.

the dogs, we spend about 100 bucks a dog. we wrap the treats up and let them rip them open !! but then we put the treats in their treat bin, and they last long into the year.

this will be our first Christmas with just the one dog. Gonna miss the big bozo on christmas morning because he would get so excited when we would throw all their "presents" down on the floor and just let them tear into them.

I think we maybe getting a new pup for christmas this year.

yikes.
we used to spend that kinda cash as well when we bought for everyone.
we just bought a new imac for ourselves, and while in the store we said 'merry christmas to us!'
we don't normally spend anywhere near that amount on gifts anymore. i find that especially when you are buying only for adults, there really is not much point spedning too much. we pend, at most $100 per person, so roughly, $300. of course, for each other....depending what we want to do/give, it all varies wildly. this year, we'll just give sexual favors to each other i think. hahahaha. best. christmas. ever.

chime

20-25 people but I don't find it stressful :oops: ... usually a couple of 3-4 hour shopping trips done on weekdays in November.

This year I am all done and the gifts wrapped. Went to the post office and sent the overseas gifts last Saturday.

I always aim to get it done in November to avoid the chaos and then enjoy the run up to x-mas and look forward to watching people open their gifts.

decides2dream

chime wrote:

20-25 people but I don't find it stressful :oops: ... usually a couple of 3-4 hour shopping trips done on weekdays in November.

This year I am all done and the gifts wrapped. Went to the post office and sent the overseas gifts last Saturday.

I always aim to get it done in November to avoid the chaos and then enjoy the run up to x-mas and look forward to watching people open their gifts.

you sound like me...10 years ago.
i used to have all my shopping done, wrapped, cards written out and ready to be sent, all before thanskgiving. that was my cutoff date. nowadays, b/c there's so little to do, we now take the first week of december off together, have some fun, and do all our christmas stuff.

i'm starting to get into the whole spirit of the holidays - one more day - woooohooo!

libragirl

I buy gifts for too many people. It totally stresses me out. I buy for my immediate family..mom. dad, sis, bro-in-law. I don't mind that at all. But it's the buying gifts for friends/coworkers that stresses me out.

Heatherj43

When I was still raising my kids, I had to be santa for them, plus I bought for 32 other people! I quit it all. It was hard cuz people was buying for me. Not all of them and mostly little cheap things, but I held my ground and they stopped finally.
I would buy these 32 people the cheapest, but nicest thing I could. Even if I found good deals, it was costly. I ended up hating Christmas.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't have anything to do with it, but my bf loves the decorations. Its funny. Its almost like he never had them as a kid. He acts like a kid.
So, I do decorate for him, but no gifts, even to each other.

peacegirl

this year the family decided to draw names instead of buying gifts for everyone so I only have five people to shop for this year

1. family member
2. best friend
3/4. co-workers..I buy for the 2 people I work with in my dept.
5. co-worker in name drawing

the office usually gets gifts for the partners but I only have to worry about putting in my share of the money, someone else does the shopping

and I have the get a b-day gift for my sister whose b-day is right after christmas

milarso

Parents
Sister
Girlfriend
--Or- if while I'm shopping I see something that I think is really cool that reminds me of a friend or relative, I'll pick it up. Those seem to always be the coolest gifts anyway.

tinkerbell

milarso wrote:

Parents
Sister
Girlfriend
--Or- if while I'm shopping I see something that I think is really cool that reminds me of a friend or relative, I'll pick it up. Those seem to always be the coolest gifts anyway.

Just wait til next year and you'll have a baby to spoil too!!!

haffajappa

I'm broke this year so my christmas list is short.
I tried to stretch it last year but it just felt like some people didn't appreciate it or me.

So it makes it easier this year,
best friend, boy friend, mom and dad, brother, dog,
and of course maybe some little prezzies for some other friends.