Are you planning on spending more money on Christmas gifts this year, or less, or the same?

It sounds stress free, that can be nice.

definately more, i have two familys to buy for, and my best girl friends,and then im buying alot of goodies to donate to the veterans on christmas day.

Thats alot. Its really nice of you to donate stuff to help others.

yeah i believe they deserve it most, they fought for our freedom.

We will be spending more this year, weve already exceeded what we spent last year and its only the beginning of December. We’re fortunate enough this year to be in a better place financially and we’ve been able to buy more presents for people we care about and our family. Plus, the older our son gets the more expensive the toys are.

We’ll be spending more. As the price of things seem to increase a bit each year, I’ve increased the budget/person accordingly. I enjoy the whole experience of purchasing gifts for friends and family, so I really don’t mind spending more money.

More. As I get older and get into better jobs that pay more, I’m more able to buy expensive gifts for people. I don’t have very many people to buy for, but I do spend probably more that I should on my mum and sister.

We’re actually spending less this year. I lost one of my jobs last month and haven’t found a replacement, so we’re missing out on a few hundred dollars a month that we would have otherwise spent on Christmas. My husband and I usually buy gifts for each other, but this year we’ve both decided not to. We still get a lot of gifts from our parents, so we figured it’s kind of a waste anyways, we always get plenty of stuff. Also, we reduced the amount we’re spending on everyone by $20 or so, so we’ll end up saving a good bit of money and avoid excessive credit card debt. We’ll still spend as much as we always do on our 9 year old nephew, though and Christmas is mostly for kids anyways. :)