What is the average SO/spouse buget for big annual gifts in your relationship?

[diamondseeker2006]

This varies widely for us. Normally we give small gifts unless there is something big one of us wants (and that would normally be me!). Maybe once a year I think of a jewelry item for him to get me, and that usually costs more than I would be spending on him. Other times we might do cards, dinner, maybe flowers. I just have no desire for more stuff at this point. But when I find something I really love, then he buys it!

 

[April20]

For anniversaries, we typically spend about $300 on each other. I bought DH a really nice ipod and accessories last year. He bought me new sheets with monogrammed pillowcases (I love me some monogramming) and a storm door I had been bugging him for months about. It was the kind where it's all glass and the screen is in a cassette in the top, but I digress. (Too bad we sold that house four months later!)

This year we had an agreement, or so I thought, that we wouldn't buy gifts for each other due to how much we spent remodeling our new house. So I got him nothing. He got me a Kindle 2. I'm supposed to buy him some Echo trimmer/edger thingy for the yard to make up for it.

 

[mayachel]

I think mine keeps going up each year, ''cause I''m trying to top the previous year. DF seems to just do what he likes with regard to gifts for me. I don''t know that he''ll ever top the engagement ring though. That was a pretty big purchase.

 

[Haven]

We don't exchange gifts for birthdays or holidays, instead we write handwritten letters to each other. Best. Gifts. Ever.
I have every letter DH has written me in the five years we've been together, and so does he. I like to read through them and see the progression of our relationship--can't imagine how fun that will be thirty years from now!

One of us will occasionally find something that is one-of-a-kind and *really* great for the other, so we'll splurge and buy it. We don't wait for an occasion, though, we just gift each other as soon as possible!

 

[LtlFirecracker]

It varies, but I $200-500 has been the typical range for both of us until BF lost his job. Now he spends less. I will probably continue giving him gifts in the same price range I had previously.

 

[mayachel]

Date: 5/14/2009 8:58:55 PM
Author: Haven
We don''t exchange gifts for birthdays or holidays, instead we write handwritten letters to each other. Best. Gifts. Ever.

I have every letter DH has written me in the five years we''ve been together, and so does he. I like to read through them and see the progression of our relationship--can''t imagine how fun that will be thirty years from now!


One of us will occasionally find something that is one-of-a-kind and *really* great for the other, so we''ll splurge and buy it. We don''t wait for an occasion, though, we just gift each other as soon as possible!

This is really sweet Haven. Did he have to be "talked into" it to start or a letter writer to begin with?