how much $ for baptism gift?

SallyAnneS · April 2014

How much do you usually spend on a baptism gift? Or if to give money how much?
I need to figure out what i am doing for my twin nephews baptism next month.

sschwege · April 2014

For nephews probably $50 for education fund, plus a $25ish gift.

If it was cousins' kids I would probably do more like $25 cash or gift.

spring_time · April 2014

My sisters gave $200/300 plus gifts for baptism. I think it is outside the norm, though. They both have very well paying jobs and are not married. It makes a difference.

I would think $100 for nieces/nephews would be an appropriate amount, or $50/75 with another gift I give $50 for close friends and my cousins' kids. Most everyone else gets $25

AimeeL85 · April 2014

We've always given $100 but the only baptisms we've been to have been my nephew's, and my very best friends' kids. I would probably do $50 if it was someone I wasn't very close with.

dmartin726 · April 2014

One of my sisters gave DD $500. She is not married and no children and absolutely has the means to give gifts like that. My other sister gave $50. Didn't matter one bit to me. I would do what you can afford. I would probably give my niece/nephew $200.

LegallyBlonde217 · April 2014

Aunts and Uncles all gave my twins $100 each + personalized wood jewelry boxes (those were the Godparent gifts).

SallyAnneS · April 2014

Holy crap! Okay i was thinking $20 per kid. Same as we would spend on other gift giving occasions like birthdays and Christmas. Lol.

lexusolsen · April 2014

SallyAnneS said:
Holy crap! Okay i was thinking $20 per kid. Same as we would spend on other gift giving occasions like birthdays and Christmas. Lol.

Spend what you can afford. No one expects you to break your budget by giving hundreds of dollars.

notkateanymore · April 2014

Spend what you can afford. I don't give $ so I would buy something silver, like a julep cup and would spend around $100 probably.

SallyAnneS · April 2014

Dh wants to get them engraved pocket knives.

AimeeL85 · April 2014

lexusolsen said:

Holy crap! Okay i was thinking $20 per kid. Same as we would spend on other gift giving occasions like birthdays and Christmas. Lol.
Spend what you can afford. No one expects you to break your budget by giving hundreds of dollars.

Absolutely. We received some smaller gifts like $20 at both kids baptisms and I would never side-eye that; everyone gives what they can and we appreciate everything.

spring_time · April 2014

lexusolsen said:

Holy crap! Okay i was thinking $20 per kid. Same as we would spend on other gift giving occasions like birthdays and Christmas. Lol.
Spend what you can afford. No one expects you to break your budget by giving hundreds of dollars.

Agreed. It also totally depends on your family.

lexusolsen · April 2014

spring_time said:

lexusolsen said:

SallyAnneS said:
Holy crap! Okay i was thinking $20 per kid. Same as we would spend on other gift giving occasions like birthdays and Christmas. Lol.
Spend what you can afford. No one expects you to break your budget by giving hundreds of dollars.

Agreed. It also totally depends on your family.
I think the most we received for dd's baptism was $100 and it was from my grandparents. We usually give $20 to my cousins or their kids when they are baptized, make their first communion or graduate. But I have thirty something first cousins (Irish Catholics) so I'm not spending thousands of dollars a year on them.

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