Christmas/Holiday gift giving budgets, how much will you spend?

Christmas/Holiday gift giving budgets, how much will you spend?

My children are all grown up now. My days of budgeting for the Christmas holidays are over! The main thing is to have money to grocery shop and buy the ingredients for the holiday meal. During the season I often receive gift cards for grocery stores and that cuts down on money that I have to spend. The gift card givers are very generous. However, when I did use to budget, based on receiving biweekly paychecks, it so happened that the month of December was usually a 3-paycheck month. That 3rd paycheck went to expenses for the holidays!