How much do you spend on Xmas in total?

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Inspired by the MSE poll I thought it would be interesting to see how much the forum spends on Xmas.

As a bonus.. Epeen is available here

I'm guessing there's gonna be a lot who spend not much at all and loads who spend hardly anything.
I've included the MSE poll

This includes everything. From food to travel to Presents.

For me it's 200-300 with travel costs being the biggest


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sx_turbo said:
We're in the £1000+ mark,

It's actually ludicrous how much we spend, but things have to be done a certain way and we've got to feed a load of people I don't actually like etc etc
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It really grinds me this having to do x, y, D at Xmas. I have the same but it's time not cash. Leave house on 24th then it's driving (nearly every day) ticking people off the "to see" list until get back on 28th/29th. Only had one Xmas at home. Covid year
 
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Not validation.
More just interested in demographic type stuff.
And wondering if as life gets more expensive more people are making Christmas about quality time vs money.
 
Journey said:
Bit of a pointless poll, as you could be from a family with 15 siblings and spend a fortune just a on bottle and a card for each of them, equally you could be alone and have no family or friends and spend nothing.

Would be better of asking how many people spend beyond their means at Christmas just because it is Christmas.
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I don't think it matters about size of family.
You could have 1 kid and spend 1k on a games console setup or something. Or 10 kids and get them a few small presents.
 
Journey said:
Erm... yeah because feeding more people doesn't cost more, nor does a drink, or a card.

Just rethink what you wrote, and come back to me when its sunk in.
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No one has to spend that.
If you are feeding 10 people you are choosing to spend that amount.
Not everyone chooses to put on a really expensive dinner.
There will be people with big families not spending loads on food because they can't.
 
Journey said:
Are you being deliberately obtuse?

It doesn't need to be fancy to be more expensive if you are feeding more people. If I have two adults and two kids it costs less than 4 adults and 3 kids. Its called maths.
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It does to be significantly more expensive.
Its still a choice. How many people HAVE to feed 10 people? If you're. Doing that you've chosen to.
And thus you're choosing to spend it.

Obviously if you have a bigger family you're gonna spend a bit more. But it doesn't have to rocket you to 1000.

It most likely down to mindset, attitude towards money and household income.
 
I believe we are going to a pub for Xmas dinner with my Gfs dad as he doesn't want to. Cook. Apparently it's 90 pounds a head.
I was blown away as its just pub food.
Unfortunately I don't even like any of the starters and not keen on the dessert either.

Having never been out for Xmas I was shocked.
 
Nutty667 said:
We did the Christmas lunch at a pub once, for something different. It was alright, nice atmosphere in the pub. But it did feel a bit rushed, like they wanted it over so they could shut up and go home.
You're paying for people to work on Christmas day, it's never going to be cheap.
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It blows my mind personally. I absolutely would not choose it! But it's not my choice. I just made sure I wasn't paying for it.
 
200sols said:
Paying £90 a head for a roast dinner. Yes, it's a soul destroying experience, my family call me scrooge for refusing it. This year the family are all staying in a lodge in Cornwall so I've been bent over the alter of Christmas expenditure in other ways.
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I'd almost understand if it was special. But it's bog standard. There's nothing special about any of the courses.
Is a nice pub but again, not special

I've never been sort to appreciate fancy food. But at least if you're paying a lot you expect something special.

Each mouthful will be about 5-10 pounds!
Or could be a over a weeks worth of shopping for both of us.
 
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Demon said:
We did the Xmas lunch at the pub a couple of years running.. the first was simply that we had no kitchen due to building delays over COVID, it was quite good and convenient, sure it was more expensive by some margin but the convenience was great, only 5 mins walk from the house, and no cooking/washing up.

I think it was only £45/head though.. normal fayre, perfectly OK, about the same we'd do ourselves, so no real complaints, we went back a second year and the quality nose dived.. now it's been taken over by Greene King and they are asking £43 with an OK menu, so again, not that bad!
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Yeah 45 is absolutely fine especially for Xmas. No real issue with that. 90 is a different ball park.

I guess if they can charge that.. Why not
 
Jono8 said:
Not a lot. I've massively lost interest in it.

Completely given up on doing cards as well. Not just for Christmas either. They are such an antiquated load of nonsense that make zero sense in the modern world. One of those things humans stupidly cling onto, even though they are largely irrelevant.
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Yeah cards are weird. It's nice to send very personal cards. But generic cards to people you think about, but don't care enough to see? Nah!
 
Foghorn Leghorn said:
We fixed that issue when we had kids.

No driving up and down the country visiting people over Christmas, dragging the kids around, if anyone wants to visit us that's fine, but we're going nowhere :D
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Yeah this is why we get lumbered with travel. Even when none of us have kids.

None of our (me, sisters) houses are big enough to host. But would be nice if parents came down even once.
 
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Foghorn Leghorn said:
How about going on holiday for a week or two over Christmas? Do that for a few years to break the cycle.
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My parter feels she needs to be at her dad's for support as he's lonely. So can't really get out of it. And if I'm all the way over there I may as well see my parents too.

I treat Christmas as "for everyone else" so I now just use it to see family et and write it off. Sometimes it's better than I expect sometimes worse. With the care for dog it's probably going to be worse this year. More stressful.

Managing to come back here on 29th this year so I actually have some time off.
But I will be driving every day from 24th to the 29th. It's quite tiring mentally by time I'm done.

I've never been keen on Christmas since the family issues. So I try not to think about it much until the week of it.

I also hate November and December as they are so grey, wet and cold.

Looking firsts forward to January though as its hopefully colder and brighter and spring is coming

But yes.. I'd love to go away for Xmas.. But paying for a dog sitter would also be extortionate over Xmas!
 
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