Mine hasn't changed much from when I first replied. We still spend around $700 on the older kids, and last year we spent about $400 on DS2. This year we're going to get about $400 worth of stuff for the older kids, and then give them $300 each to go shopping with in the after sales to get clothes, shoes etc for themselves. Not sure how much we will spend on DS2 this year as he has so much already. I'd like to upgrade his drumkit though and we want more outdoor stuff for him.
We won't be spending much on Anelise this year as she will be 3 months old and already has so much, but we're going to buy her some little things and some summer clothes.
We don't have a set budget, but having said that it's been about the $300 mark each of DD's Xmas's ... This year in July we put DD's Xmas presents (that were on special) at a total of $210 on what's called a ** TOY LAYBY at Kmart ** where the layby has a condition that it can't be picked up before the 1st of December but must be picked up by Xmas Eve
... we like to get DD one big item so one item on the layby was $88.
25% of the balance is due by beginning of Oct !!
It has worked wonders for us knowing we had her Xmas shopping all over and done with in July and that we had a long duration to pay it off
We have also bought her some other gifts for Xmas that we couldn't get in Kmart, about another $50-$60.
Last Xmas we spent about the same, approx $300 (that year she got a $182 huge trampoline on special from BigW, that was on layby too then).
............. If we had more than one child we certainly ' wouldn't ' be able to afford to spend as much on each child !!
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