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Christmas Gifts

Do any of you have age cut off's for gifts for nieces and nephews? In my family Aunt's & Uncles did give gifts to us kids, Presents came from Parents and Grandparents only.

Re: Christmas Gifts

  • I don't have any nieces or nephews, but I never got gifts from Aunts and Uncles as a kid.  Is there a reason you're asking? 
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  • Just wondered if it was normal I guess. SIL's are big in giving gives to all the kids which makes me kind of feel like I should too. 
  • We did 18 for TH nieces. On my side we draw names for the cousins and we did it without the 18 year old niece and my sister complained because the niece likes being part of the gift exchange, which is ridiculous because my sister always tells us just to give niece money as gifts and my sister does the shopping, so I don't see how the niece is really part of the gift exchange. 
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  • I actually don't give my nieces or nephews anything  . . . they seem to get spoiled by grandparents so I don't worry about it.
  • We just started drawing names for Jim's nieces and nephews.  Shopping for 7 kids was getting really costly and time consuming. 

    On my side, there are only 2 other kids, so it's pretty easy to manage.

    We're pretty close to our nieces and nephews, and we like to give gifts to them. 

     The kids will get gifts from us until they graduate from HS.

    That's what we do, but I wouldn't feel pressured to give gifts to yours if you're not into it.

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  • DH and I were just talking about this last night. I have 8 nieces and nephews on my side, he has 0. We are thinking the cutoff is 13 because the older ones have become...greedy. I actually got an email from my 15 year old nephew asking how much I am spending on him this year because he wants some expensive gifts. Um, really?! 

    I am close to all my nieces and nephews and started buying gifts for the oldest ones because their mom was a single mom and in financial trouble. DH thinks we should re-think this "tradition". 

  • I have4 biological nieces/nephews. They are the only ones I buy for and usually it's a $10 gift.

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