DH and I decided because of budget reasons we won't be exchanging gifts with each other this year. We have a lot if kids to buy for and it really adds up! I'm just curious if anyone else will not be exchanging gifts with their SO either.
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We were thinking of trying to come up with an alternative idea, but we don't have any yet!
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It hasn't been discussed but I think we are going to try to stay under $50 for our gifts and under $20 for our stockings.
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We weren't cause we have a lot of major stuff coming up in 2014 but I am a baby and want something to open on Christmas Day. So we are doing a set small amount to spend on each other.
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We never do! More about the time together!
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We are not! Actually we haven't for a few years - at this point in our lives we both work and buy whatever we need when we need/want it - we just focus on the kids.
Although I saw the other post about filling up a stocking - that would be fun!
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I think just stockings this year! Our 10th anniversary (dating, not married) is a few days before Christmas and we will do a bigger gift for that instead!
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I'm thinking about telling DH not to get me anything. We're trying to save money and I know my parents will buy us gifts. There's nothing I really NEED and I'd rather spend the money on a weekend away or something like that.
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We haven't bought presents for each other in years. More like I will buy a purse 2 months before Christmas or my birthday and say "thanks hunny!" lol
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We're not sure yet. DH really loves presents so I don't think he could actually do this
But our budget is super tight.
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We aren't. We decided to sponsor a local family for the holidays instead. We'll be shopping for a single mother and her two young kids.
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DH and I never really do. We tend to pool our holiday money together to buy presents for our family
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My husband and I don't exchange gifts for holidays, birthdays or anniversaries. We figure we work together to get the things we want throughout the year, we don't really need to do gifts on top of that.
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We aren't!
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we don't really do christmas gifts for each other!
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We are. I think it's really important to exchange gifts, even if it's just a coupon for a back rub. We spend so much energy on gifts for others, I want our kids to see us thinking of each other, too.
For birthdays, however, we don't exchange gifts and never have. DH and my birthdays are in the same week, so instead of gifts we sgo somewhere/do something together for our birthdays. More of an experience over a gift you can open. DD's birthday is soon after Christmas, so we are thinking of doing the same thing for her birthdays - gifts for Christmas, an experience for birthdays.
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We aren't. We're taking a trip to Costa Rica at the beginning of January, which is a delayed honeymoon + our Christmas gift to each other. We decided not to spend even more money on gifts. I might suggest we do stockings, though, just to have something to exchange Christmas morning...
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We're not! We're "exchanging" essentials that we both need! Underwear, socks, maybe a box of choco or two
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We each bought a rather expensive gift this year, which was for birthday/anniversary/christmas.
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We have been together for almost 11 years and have almost never given each other Christmas presents. Instead, EVERY year we make each other a handmade card (usually with construction paper and cutouts of photos from the previous year, sometimes a drawing or some graphics from magazines) and a heartfelt message. Same for birthdays and Valentine's Day. We are so fortunate to have everything we need (too much stuff, in fact!) that we made the decision to just give each other a tangible but free display of how we feel about each other, hence the homemade cards.
We love to travel, and we basically consider the trips we take as our gifts to each other.
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We aren't like past years...we just bought a treadmill as our gift to each other. I'll probably still buy him something small (he has his eye on this hat he wants) but that's it.
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@locavore_mama: that is so great!
When baby is older I hope to start a tradition like that or volunteer with her at a shelter or pantry. -
we aren't, but mostly because we've already each gotten a slightly bigger ticket item than usual in the past few months that we're counting as our gift
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@Bao: We're not! It just doesn't fit in our budget this year. It ain't no thing though... we have everything we need.
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We probably won't. Rather save/use it on DS instead.
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We typically do 1 big gift for both of us like a new TV. This year I asked hubby to take a trip!
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Someone posted this a week or so ago and motivated me and hubs to opt out this Christmas. We agreed to stick with stocking stuffers ... but I caved. There's a sale on radio control toys on Amazon and I got him one that's like a UFO. It was too cheap to pass up!
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@locavore_mama: That is an amazing idea!
We never buy each other Christmas gifts, or birthday presents or Valentines. We share money and discuss all purchases so that takes the fun out of it, really. If one of us needs something we will discuss with the other and buy it!!
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DH and I try not to buy for each other. This year we are doing a little better and have paired down who we buy for so we can get each other a little something. In previous years we have just gotten each other stocking stuffers.
But our budget is super tight.
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