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A year of simchas,
one envelope a month.

How many weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, brissim, sheva brachos, upsherins and l’chaims you expect this year, by how close you are, and the amount you choose to give at each. Then one number to put aside every month.

Six kinds of simcha · Family, close friends, acquaintances · Babysitter, travel and clothing if you want them

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Set aside each month

$283

A year

$3,392

Simchas

44

Every envelope this year FamilyClose friendsAcquaintances

Each mark is one gift. The amounts are the ones on this page: examples until you change them, not a recommendation.

Weddings you expect this year

Weddings are usually the biggest line. Count the ones you will give a gift for.

Fine-tune Other simchas, your amounts, attending costs

Other simchas this year

How many of each, by how close you are.

Bar and bat mitzvahs
Brissim and kiddushim
Sheva brachos
Upsherins
L’chaims and vorts

What you give

The amount you choose for each. These start as illustrations, not a recommendation: customs differ by community and family, and many give in multiples of 18.

Weddings
$
$
$
Bar and bat mitzvahs
$
$
$
Brissim and kiddushim
$
$
$
Sheva brachos
$
$
$
Upsherins
$
$
$
L’chaims and vorts
$
$
$

Attending costs

Your year of gifts

Set aside each month

$283

$3,392 a year

An illustration. Every amount is your own choice; the starting figures are examples, not a recommendation, and customs vary by community and family. Your entries stay in this browser.

Figures checked November 2026. Sources: none needed; this tool uses no outside figures, only the counts and amounts you enter.

How the number is built.

Count, then multiply

  • By how close you are. A cousin’s wedding and a neighbour’s are different gifts, so each kind of simcha has three rows.
  • Your amounts. Each count times the gift you choose for it, added up for the year.

One envelope a month

  • The year divided by twelve. Put it aside on payday and a busy wedding season stops landing on the credit card.
  • Attending costs, if you want them. Babysitters, travel and clothes often cost as much as the gifts.

What it leaves out

  • Your own simchas. Plan those in the simcha planner and the simcha savings timeline.
  • Maaser. Whether a simcha gift may come from maaser money is a question for your rav.