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I saw this poll whike lurking on the parenting board. How much do you spend for your nieces and nephews on Christmas presents?

I have 3 nieces and 1 nephew. I have always bought them all a ton for Christmas and actually birthdays too. For Christmas they each get a big gift, last year was a bike, a power wheels quad, a train table and a step 2 vanity. And then a bunch of clothes and other toys and also I make them each a stocking. I have to say I really brgain shop and find the best prices for what I want to buy. But even with that I usually end up spending about $250-$300 a kid.

From what I read on the parenting survey this is way more than what most people but for their nieces and nephews. Average seemed to be about $30 a kid.

So my question is how much do you spend per kid?

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I don't have any nieces or nephews, but if I did I'd spend on them about what I spend on every other person 20-40 depending on what I feel like getting them that year.

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prob depends on how many you have to buy for... but we have 3 and usually end up spending around $50-75

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usually about 100-150...but now that our extended family is growing, i might need to scale that back since we have other expenses.....

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I spend alot. One is my god daughter but i dont like to spend mor eon one then teh other. I definitely usually spend 100 or more. Mostly more cause i always like to be the one to buy the hottest newest toy they want really bad. So one year i bought them wii with a bunch of games etc. You get what i mean

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i have 8 right now with the 9th coming in 2 weeks... we dont buy individually anymore... its just too much for everyone to do.... so we do a kris kringle... each adult gets 1 kid

ETA: $75 ish

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In the past I've spent somewhere between $75 and $100 and I feel like it's a waste. Last year we bought DH's nephew a bike (SIL asked for it for him) and it was $150!!!!! I'm not doing that again. Especially now that we'll have our own child to support. I'm going to try to keep it to under $50 pp this year. And it'll be gifts from both of us instead of us each giving them gifts like in the past. It's just too much.

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I only have one so I spend over 200 on him but then again I dont buy him things during the year. Well except his B-day.

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i have 8 nieces and nephews so we spend about 75 each kid..we start shopping in sept

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I have 2 and they are both little so I buy them a bunch of toys and probably spend close to $50 on each.

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I have 5 nephews ranging from 16 - 3, the 16 I just give cash to now but the other 4 are under 10 and still enjoy gifts, I usually spend around $75.

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Well when DH and i were just dating his brother was the only one that had a kid! so we spoiled the crap out of him! ride on thomas the train, big boucny blow up things, drum sets, anything loud and big! lol we were also living at home with no crazy bills...
then came my brother who has his first and we did the same thing for him! but as much as i wanna get the world for all of them there is just going to be too many of them!! and now we have a house so its going to be soo hard that im going to have to cut back!!
my brother just had another one, and my BIL is expecting one in december!!!

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we only have 2 kids to shop for and we spend about 100 on each of them

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i don't have any blood-nieces or nephews, but DH has one of each .... we spend about $40 on each one for the holidays.

if it was my brother's children though, it'd probably be a little more that that

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I have 2 nieces & 1 nephew. We do not have a set budget, we spend what we can. DH & I do a lot with the kids during the year & don't think a material gift is as important as spending time with them.