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Buying gifts for family
I am curious about who in your family you exchange birthday and Christmas/Hanukkah gifts with. DH comes from a large family. There are his parents, plus he has 2 siblings who are both married and have 6 children combined. As long as I've known DH, we have exchanged Christmas and birthday presents with every single one of them. I think its completely over the top and unnecessary. What do you think? Do you exchange gifts with everyone in the family?
I should also mention - they all live out of town. The "gifts" are usually just gift cards, which means all we are doing is exchanging cash, really. Its not anything personal or meaningful.
Re: Buying gifts for family
I would have many gifts to buy, but no i buy for H... my brothers and I pitch in for a gift for my parents and H husband an I do for his as well ... as for siblings we pick a name out of a hat on thanks giving and thats who we buy for, one brother and his family. I buy toys for all the kids, because thats what christmas is really for. we budget about 2000 for christmas.
im the baby of 5 and everyone is married with kids (no kids here yet) before kids came we drew names from hat at thanksgiving & set a min/max $ amount on gift so everyone got something nice. now we just buy for kids. sibs bdays we just do cards. parents bdays we do something small (photo & frame or something of the nature) we'd go broke if we bought for everyone all the time.
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Ha ha. Love it.
i'm pretty sure if she was put in a situation where some crazed criminal was like "tell us hayley's birthday or we'll kill you"....she'd die.
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This year (I hope) we are just going to buy for DH's parents and 3 nieces. Last year we drew names among the 6 "kids" for Secret Santa. We'll buy gifts for my parents, and I'll buy something for my brother since there is just one of him and no wife/kids/girlfriend.
For birthdays, we send a token gift to the nieces or give his brothers $25 to buy something with since they know what the kids need.DH buys his mom something small and just gets his dad a card (his dad could care less). My parents just want a phone call, so my gift to my mom is one whole hour of uninterrupted phone time to listen to every piece of family gossip I could care less about. I also send her a card. We just can't afford to buy stuff for everyone all the time.
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Well for birthdays and Christmas, I have always gotten gifts for my immediate family (Mom, Stepdad and brother). I usually get something small for my Stepmom as well. Now that FI are together, we also get something for his Dad. I always set a spending limit on birthdays.
For Christmas, it's a little tricky! We exchange gifts with my immediate family (Mom, Stepdad and brother) and then usually get his Dad something. And now that my Dad is gone, I'll probably get my Stepmom something small (I used to always give her and my Dad a joint gift).
My extended family, which isn't huge (12 total including myself and FI) gets together and does an exchange. We used to draw names at Thanksgiving and had a $25-30 spending cap. But the last couple of years, we've done a white elephant with gift cards....each of us buys a $25 gift card (restaurants, stores, etc.) and we put them in a basket when we arrive at my Grandma's. Then we all draw numbers to determine the order of who is drawing and when and we go from there with swapping with others, keeping the card, etc. (just like you'd do with a white elephant).
And then we now just get some things for FI's niece and nephews on his side...it's really only about the kids in his family!
this is such a cute idea!
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Our immediate families are pretty small and there are no kids at all. DH is an only now, so we exchange gifts with his parents. We also exchange gifts with my parents and give a joint gift to one of my brothers and his FI.
Seriously, it is SO much fun! We always have a blast with it because there are always some good cards that everyone wants so it becomes a big (but fun) war! All of the grandkids are older now (all but me are now in college) and it was so difficult to get any ideas from the, which is why we changed how we did things and it really is a good time!