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Title: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: BIGTOUGHGUY on December 19, 2014, 08:44:24 PM
1500 for my partner and 750 dollars for my daughter. Maybe it's excessive but I feel both are justified.  What are you all spending on individual people?
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: catracho on December 19, 2014, 08:55:13 PM
$150 spa gift card for the wife, and some other stuff.  Got the kids a few things each.
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: Henda on December 19, 2014, 09:17:40 PM
You'd sooner spend double on your partner than your daughter?
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: James28 on December 19, 2014, 09:19:01 PM
1500 for my partner and 750 dollars for my daughter. Maybe it's excessive but I feel both are justified.  What are you all spending on individual people?

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I don't have a set amount. Nor am I going to waste my time shopping for her. I'll only get it wrong or pick the wrong fucking color or something so I'm not bothering with that pointless exercise anymore. Besides, I'd be stabbed in the neck before going shopping for gifts. I gave her my card and carte blanche to buy what she likes. That's for the big gifts. Then we're also doing stockings with loads of little things.

I swear, gifts and shopping are the curse of my life. I never seem to get a good long run of a few years where I don't have to bother with gifts
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: SF1900 on December 19, 2014, 09:21:13 PM
You'd sooner spend double on your partner than your daughter?

yes, that is very strange. with my parents, they always brought a lot more for me and my sibling than each other.

I know once you have kids, your wife or husband is no longer the most important person to you. Your kids are.

But after so many years of marriage, why still spend extraordinary amounts of money on each other? I mean, I can see where it would be nice, but as my parents got older, they are just happy to be together. My pops does not have to buy my mom expensive stuff after 35-40 years of marriage. He'd sooner spend it on his kids.

I am not married but this is what I have heard and seen from other couples.

Is this true for anyone else?
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: Henda on December 19, 2014, 09:26:27 PM
yes, that is very strange. with my parents, they always brought a lot more for me and my sibling than each other.

I know once you have kids, your wife or husband is no longer the most important person to you. Your kids are.

But after so many years of marriage, why still spend extraordinary amounts of money on each other? I mean, I can see where it would be nice, but as my parents got older, they are just happy to be together. My pops does not have to buy my mom expensive stuff after 35-40 years of marriage. He'd sooner spend it on his kids.

I am not married but this is what I have heard and seen from other couples.

Is this true for anyone else?

Agreed, I spent around 5x more on each of my kids than I did on partner, and always will. Would feel an utter cu nt if I did any different
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: SF1900 on December 19, 2014, 09:33:34 PM
Agreed, I spent around 5x more on each of my kids than I did on partner, and always will. Would feel an utter cu nt if I did any different

Ive heard parents say that they love their children more than they love their significant other.

Would you say you love your kids more than your wife?
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: catracho on December 19, 2014, 10:12:44 PM
Ive heard parents say that they love their children more than they love their significant other.

Would you say you love your kids more than your wife?
I know the question was for someone else, but the love you feel for your children is different than the love for your spouse, in my case at least.  Wives/partners can come and go, but a real man loves his children forever and would give his life for them in a second.
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: SF1900 on December 19, 2014, 10:14:54 PM
I know the question was for someone else, but the love you feel for your children is different than the love for your spouse, in my case at least.  Wives/partners can come and go, but a real man loves his children forever and would give his life for them in a second.

yeah, that sounds like what I was referring to and what i have heard others say.
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: Coach is Back! on December 19, 2014, 10:33:39 PM
Got my son his lettermens jacket and a go pro. $550 for the jacket and $300 for the go pro....fuck!
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: Henda on December 19, 2014, 10:44:56 PM
Ive heard parents say that they love their children more than they love their significant other.

Would you say you love your kids more than your wife?

We never got round to getting married but 100% yes, could never feel for a woman a fraction of the love I feel for my kids
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: dr.chimps on December 19, 2014, 11:17:14 PM
Bought a copy of Marilynne Robinson's  'Housekeeping,' for my old Ma. Then, got it signed. I rule!
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: TEH boob on December 20, 2014, 06:06:12 AM
My parents never spent more than $75-100 on any given Christmas gift for me. Spending more than that on a kid is just too much
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: CalvinH on December 20, 2014, 06:12:39 AM
Night at a strip club where all the girls are dressed as sexy little elfs and naughty santas.





....my gift to myself for being good all year...not sure how much it's gonna cost yet :) ;)
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: Henda on December 20, 2014, 06:34:57 AM
My parents never spent more than $75-100 on any given Christmas gift for me. Spending more than that on a kid is just too much

I always said the same till I had kids, but then it all goes out to shit and you can't help yourself and you feel like nothing's ever enough you always wish you did more.

I remember on birthdays getting a gift for around 20 quid and being over the moon with it, on my daughters birthday I let her have one of her gifts the night before and as she was playing happily with it I suddenly felt sad and imagined how shitty it would feel if I could only afford that one little gift for her.
Strange how it works
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: chaos on December 20, 2014, 07:11:31 AM
By "partner" it's safe to assume that the OP means his gay lover.
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: dr.chimps on December 20, 2014, 07:26:38 AM
Night at a strip club where all the girls are dressed as sexy little elfs and naughty santas.





....my gift to myself for being good all year...not sure how much it's gonna cost yet :) ;)
You'll be paying that for years. Trust me.  :-\
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: wes on December 20, 2014, 07:28:24 AM
I`m just gonna` grace people with my presents presence!


PRICELESS !   8)
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: gmflex on December 20, 2014, 07:28:36 AM
Wife spent about $1,000
My son about $400
Parents visa gift cards $300 each
In laws same $300 each
Nephew $ 200 (Xbox one games)
Sisters $100 each
Brother in laws $100 each

Shit ..that's one expensive Xmas..   :'( :'(
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: _aj_ on December 20, 2014, 07:47:13 AM
I bought my son a $500 drone with a gopro. It's gonna be epic.
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: Grape Ape on December 20, 2014, 08:18:36 AM
I bought my son a $500 drone with a gopro. It's gonna be epic.

We've been watching drone videos at work.  Shit's crazy.
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: scottt on December 20, 2014, 08:30:06 AM
Zero. The wife and I retired all holidays, birthdays, anniversary, everything.
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: _aj_ on December 20, 2014, 08:33:58 AM
We've been watching drone videos at work.  Shit's crazy.

The wife accused me of buying it for me! The nerve of that accusation!
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: CalvinH on December 20, 2014, 08:48:49 AM
You'll be paying that for years. Trust me.  :-\


I'm use to it.....I've been getting myself the same gift every Christmas for years now ;)
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: thegamechanger on December 20, 2014, 09:23:16 AM
bought some candy for 10 dollars. dont see myself spending more than that
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: TEH boob on December 20, 2014, 09:23:38 AM
I always said the same till I had kids, but then it all goes out to shit and you can't help yourself and you feel like nothing's ever enough you always wish you did more.

I remember on birthdays getting a gift for around 20 quid and being over the moon with it, on my daughters birthday I let her have one of her gifts the night before and as she was playing happily with it I suddenly felt sad and imagined how shitty it would feel if I could only afford that one little gift for her.
Strange how it works

But see, if she's happy with the little gift. When you raise someone's expectations, it gets harder and harder to be happy with less
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: ritch on December 20, 2014, 09:43:14 AM
$200 and it's the only one I gotta buy.
Fuck going broke just to buy a bunch of dumb gifts nobody wants anyway... I told my family I was tired of gifts I could care less about and to raise the limit and buy for 2 people and get something worth getting.
Title: Re: What's the most you are spending on a Christmas gift this year?
Post by: dr.chimps on December 20, 2014, 10:29:52 AM
bought some candy for 10 dollars. dont see myself spending more than that
Good luck fishing in the schoolyard.