Mother-of-22 Sue Radford has revealed her plans to do a ‘no spend January’ after admitting to spending as much as £7,000 on Christmas presents for her children in previous years.
Earlier this week, the matriarch of ‘UK’s biggest family’ shared her plans for 2023 with her 496,000 Instagram followers.
Before asking to hear her fans’ New Year’s Resolutions, the 47-year-old, from Morecambe, Lancashire, pledged to start using her new pool every morning.
Sharing a photo of herself enjoying a glass of fizz, the mother said: ‘My New Year’s Resolution are to get up at 6:30am to do a swim in this.
A mother of 22 children – who is along with her husband is reported to spend a whopping £5,000 on Christmas gifts – has revealed her plans to do a ‘no spend January’. The family pictured in a post from Christmas Eve
‘And to care less about what other people think about us because as long as we are happy nothing else matters.
‘And to do no-spend January, which funnily enough, everyone think is hilarious.’
Giving an update on her progress so far, the mother revealed that she has already spent £30 on petrol to visit her mother nearby.
In 2021, Sue told The Daily Mail that her and husband Noel, 52, spend up to £7,000 on Christmas presents for their supersized family.
The past few months have seen the Radfords’ Instagram and TikTok accounts show off the family’s buzzing festive season, including an ‘Elf breakfast’ in November (pictured)
Taking to Instagram stories to hear followers’ New Year’s Resolutions, Sue Radford shared her own plans for 2023
On average, they roughly 300 presents, aiming to spend between £100 and £200 for each main present, ‘then bits and bobs’. The kids write lists of what they want, but they don’t always get their dream items.
Two years ago, when shops are struggling with supply, they certainly haven’t got them. Sue and Noel have spent hours trying to source a particular Barbie doll’s house, a PS5 and a Scalextric set.
‘We have had to give up on the PS5 and we got the doll’s house eventually, but the cost was disgusting. It is supposed to be £240 but one site was offering it for over £700.’
The mother-of-22 can get through some 70 rolls of wrapping paper each year, with the food bill estimated to be around a whopping £300.
On top of this, the family had three Christmas trees – decorated with personalised baubles for the children – this year and stockings for every family member.
Answering a fan’s question, Sue also expressed her relief that no one in the family has upcoming birthdays in January or February
The Radfords’ social media has featured their festive celebrations, including an ornate Christmas tree (pictured)
The past few months have seen the Radfords’ Instagram and TikTok accounts show off the family’s buzzing festive season, including an ‘Elf breakfast’ in November, an ornate Christmas tree and a December getaway to the Big Apple.
In September, Sue revealed how she treated her six of her daughters to a Disney Princess experience in Florida – costing her well over £1,000.
What’s more, the mother gushed that she was ‘incredibly lucky’ after Noel gave her a new £30,000 Land Rover for her 46th birthday in March 2021.
Sue and her husband Noel are parents to Chris, 32, Sophie, 27, Chloe, 26, Jack, 24, Daniel, 22, Luke, 21, Millie, 20, Katie, 19, James, 18, Ellie, 16, Aimee, 15, Josh, 14, Max, 12, Tillie, 11, Oscar, 10, Casper, nine, Hallie, six, Phoebe, five, Archie, four, Bonnie, three, and Heidie, one.
Sadly the couple’s 17th child Alfie was still born on 6th July 2014.
Sue and her husband Noel have in past been known to spend between £100 – £250 on each of their children. Some of the family pictured in a festive post
Sue and Nick are also grandparents to over 10 grandchildren.
The Radfords caught the public’s attention as Britain’s biggest family in 2012 on a Channel 4 documentary 15 Kids and Counting, which followed their lives at home, getting through mountains of washing and food shopping.
Many new series on the family have aired since then, and the most recent was 22 Kids and Counting, which aired in May this year.
The large family does not rely on benefits and support themselves financially with their pie shop, which saw a boom of business over lockdown.
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