Gift Amounts
What to give, for the occasion you are actually going to
Every guide to this subject ends in a range. A range is not an answer when you are standing in a card aisle with a pen in your hand, so these tools end in a number — and then show you which bills that is.
Each one starts from a published average we name and link to, then moves it for the things that genuinely change the figure: how close you are, whether you are bringing someone, whether getting there cost you a flight. Every adjustment is labelled either sourced or house judgment, so you can see exactly where our opinion begins.
What to give at a wedding, from a cited baseline for how well you know the couple — adjusted for a plus-one, the wedding party, and the flights and hotel you are paying for.
Open tool →What to spend on a baby shower gift — first child or later, sprinkle or full shower, coworker or close friend, and what a group pool changes.
What a teacher gift costs, per child and as a class-wide group share — against the gift-value cap the district actually publishes, which is the part nobody checks.