Is around $7 an acceptable amount to spend on friends’ birthday gifts?

[MissSunshine2]

I have about fifteen friends and not much money and I only just recently got myself out of afterpay Christmas debt.

I am buying a supermarket cake for birthdays and chocolates or lollies for Christmas, with the exception of a few friends living further away and my parents, aunt and cousin and getting everyone a $1 birthday card each. For my aunt and cousin, I’m spending mostly up to $100. For my parents, around $150-$200 per parents’ day, birthdays and Xmases. Is this enough?

[live2dance25]

It’s not the dollar amount, but the unconditional friendship and ability to care deeply that really matters in the long run. I don’t even remember the dollar amounts of my previous birthday gifts, only the people who gave them to me.

[msc545]

It is in fact the amount of thought that goes into a gift, rather than the amount you spend on it, that counts.

[msc545]

Thanks for MHO

[Rangers]

It's not about dollar amount, It's about calling back to memories.

Like in a show at a party, people gave expensive gifts like guitars and all, but the MVP was the man who spent a couple dollars to get the same Ramen he and the birthday guy lived off of to call back to how they ate cheap noodles and now his company was worth billions.

Or in a different show, a man's wife was dying and at their wedding, she wanted peonies but had carnations due to cost. He bought peonies and brought them to her as a gift to fulfill his claim that she deserved peonies.

If amounts are an issue, find a way around it

[Tarifa]

Your aunt, cousin and parents sure get valuable gifts.

As for your friends, the intention is what counts. I'd say that the amount you quote feels about right.

[Nikki1989]

The amount doesn't matter if some thought goes into it. Some of the best gifts can cost nothing at all.

[DishLady]

I confess I usually range $10-$20 bc I just take them to lunch, surprising them with a cake/bev that comes with a flaring candle on it.

[Drumlin2001]

Way to much. If your short on cash why waste it? A card will do. Material things don't matter

[LiamS95]

Sure if you csn find something for only $7.00

[dragoblack]

Yes. The amount doesn't matter. The point is the intent & thought behind the gift