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Giving too much
Does anyone else have this problem? I give too much of myself and too many gifts on the holidays. I just keep seeing things that I think so and so would like and "oh...so and so will be so happy to get this thing they mentioned they wanted!"
So my goal this year was 1-2 gifts per person for a grand total of 8 adults would be 12 gifts and 6 gifts for 3 kids. I have 19 gifts wrapped and 3 more to wrap and I think I'm a bit uneven for each person.
I got my mom and my sister tickets to see Wicked (pls no facebook mention this....it's a gift). I did not get my sister anything else. But I was covering all my tracks and telling her I had no idea what to get mom blah blah blah. So when she went shopping she found another shirt mom wanted and I kind of had to get it (she picked it up) because I just told her the day before I had nothing. Come to find out...I did buy something else for my mom that I found last night and forgot about hahaha.
For my brother I have 2 thermal shirts from the Gap and 2 sweater/shirts from the Gap and for my SIL I have a sweater and tank top. Their joint gifts are a wedding album I made since they never got one and a big hanging wall frame gallery with pictures from their wedding, family shots etc from the years. But I feel like I need to get her one more small thing.
So now I am thinking my sister needs one thing to open and my SIL needs one more thing. Ugh. I know I have probably gotten enough but for some reason I worry people will notice someone else got more and feel bad even though my family is sooooo not materialistic and like that at all....but I still worry. hahahaha.
Anyone else???
Re: Giving too much
Yeah I usually go overboard. I don't really have the money to do it anymore but I still find myself saying "oh that'd be perfect too" and getting more and more even though I shouldn't. It's one of those, I want to see them get excited over what I got kind of things.
I just found out yesterday that my sisters boyfriend is getting me a gift. Neither him nor my sister are going to be around for Christmas - they'll be in Florida lucky dogs - so I didn't get him anything. I didn't think we were going to exchange gifts (her boyfriend and myself). So now I have to figure out something to get him because I'd feel bad otherwise.