My wife finished our holiday spending. Our combined spending has hit about $500. We bought yearly National Geographic subscriptions for 3 gifts at ($15 for 12 issues bought from their online store). Other gifts include: a coach wallet for $80 (was $150), a 8gb ipod nano for $179 (was $199), 3 t-shirts for $15 ea., gloves for $18, 12 heirloom veg. seedlings for $6 ea. and a $25 gift certificate. I would have liked to have spent less than $500 but I think we did ok considering we're not really part of a non-spending family anyway. Besides, the ipod doubles as a birthday gift as well. Best of all, even with buying the holiday gifts, we still spent less than any month this year. It must be that we have everything we want!