Caporegime
I got an N64 for Christmas 1997 with 1 game and a memory card. That is nearly £650 altogether in today's money. 1 game was £70!
Your BBC micro from 1986 is 1.2k in today's money!
How much do you spend on Xmas in total?
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I got an N64 for Christmas 1997 with 1 game and a memory card. That is nearly £650 altogether in today's money. 1 game was £70!
Your BBC micro from 1986 is 1.2k in today's money!
Soldato
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.
Would be better of asking how many people spend beyond their means at Christmas just because it is Christmas.
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Probably £200/300. I think if my sister wasn't obsessed with presents then i'd get away with not having to really buy much for the family. I don't care for opening stuff myself. The odd gift is nice, but the dedicated present buying is just a hassle i don't want. All about family and food imho
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.
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Isn't that literally his point, and that's exactly why it matters and that the number alone means basically nothing?
Normally well over £1,000 and i don't even have any kids of my own.
But my sister has 4 kids and her daughter has 5 kids
Plus all the other family members presents and food/drink etc
But am hoping to cut down to a far less out lay this year
But my sister has 4 kids and her daughter has 5 kids
Plus all the other family members presents and food/drink etc
But am hoping to cut down to a far less out lay this year
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A fortune..but that's normally on house things that have decided to break before Christmas !
Seems the elves like to sneak in and break everything and take my money.
Don't spend too much on presents really probably 200 absolute tops for everyone's presents
Seems the elves like to sneak in and break everything and take my money.
Don't spend too much on presents really probably 200 absolute tops for everyone's presents
Yeah I agree, a lot of people posting already are also only talking about presents, not the entire day itself. Or is it even just the day itself - depending on families Christmas can stretch across several days with each day racking up the costs.
For our family, I think we've spent a few hundred on presents - both parents, brother/sister-in-law, daughter (probably most of that budget as it's our first and first Christmas), and friends.
Food for the day itself isn't too expensive with supermarkets having their yearly veg wars - sub £100 easily for 6/8 people.
Booze and soft drinks probably adds on a few hundred.
Then we have things like travel, eating out when meeting up with friends/family.
Wouldn't surprise me by New Year's Eve that it'll have tipped over a grand.
Bought an over £1,000 coffee machine christmas present for myself last year
Does that count
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Soldato
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.
Over £1000. Much of that is wine: I have a Christmas wine list which I send to a wine merchant and they send a bottle of a decent wine (chosen by me) and a card to everyone on the list. They just send me the bill and a case for local distribution - I live in a small block of flats so all my neighbours get a bottle too.
I assume you're excluding the boxes of Haribo I give to the posties, the binmen, the surgery, etc etc? That's gone up considerably.
Yes. I'm taking my mother out for a Christmas lunch and that's about right for the two of us.
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£150 for the food that's it 
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.
For how many 20.
Soldato
A thread inspired by a poll that isn’t itself a poll.
Mods? MODS?! Poll this thang.
Mods? MODS?! Poll this thang.
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Soldato
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.