Christmas Budget

[Timothy]

Do you guys have a Christmas budget laid out yet? My wife and I have been talking, and because she took a pay cut earlier this year, we are working with a tight budget. No one in our family will be getting 1,000 dollar TVs from us this year!!

 

[Don]

We set the budget several months ago with the intention of putting some aside each week to pay for Christmas. It hasn't quite worked out the way I had hoped, but we aren't far off from our goal.

 

[BigPapa]

We actually shop all year long so it doesn't hit us so hard in December. It makes budgeting for gifts a whole lot easier that is for sure. That being said out budget is never very large because we use coupons and hit sales.

 

[Mel]

We don't really make a big deal of Christmas. The few extras that we indulge in during the holiday season are well within our regular budget.

 

[Timothy]

Yeah, we've never been a family to make a big deal out of Christmas either, but some of our extended family and friends all make a big fuss over it, so it seems like it's hard for them to understand where we're coming from when we say we're not going in debt over it.

 

[Endalia]

We are doing well to afford to buy anything extra so the kids are happy with small gifts. I would rather buy one gift of quality rather than a ton of small things.

 

[Salazar]

We never go into debt over Christmas, but we don't really make a budget either. My wife usually starts shopping over the summer and she'll take a (loosely) set amount out of each paycheck for buying presents.