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Christmas gift ?'s
Okay, so I have 2 questions about gift giving.
#1- For those of you who have kids still in the "Santa" stage, do you give them one present from Santa, or multiple presents? Is it special things you give them or just whatever you stick a tag on. My future stepdaughter is 9 and I know we wouldn't have too many Santa Christmases left.
#2- For my sister and her husband, I was just going to get them a gift card for the 2 of them. Someone said this is wrong and that I should give them each a separate one. They just moved into their first place together and are expecting a baby, so I don't see what the big deat is. I got them each a small gift and I was going to get them a gift card together. Thoughts?
#1- For those of you who have kids still in the "Santa" stage, do you give them one present from Santa, or multiple presents? Is it special things you give them or just whatever you stick a tag on. My future stepdaughter is 9 and I know we wouldn't have too many Santa Christmases left.
#2- For my sister and her husband, I was just going to get them a gift card for the 2 of them. Someone said this is wrong and that I should give them each a separate one. They just moved into their first place together and are expecting a baby, so I don't see what the big deat is. I got them each a small gift and I was going to get them a gift card together. Thoughts?
Re: Christmas gift ?'s
I don't see anything wrong with this. I prefer to get joint gifts for the couples in our families- sometimes we feel like we don't know our family members' spouses well enough to get them something they would really like. We got my MIL and her husband gift cards to their favorite restaurant and the movies. We also got my SIL and her husband a shipment from Omaha steaks. I think the important thing is that you put thought into the gift and get them something they would like. I would also make sure you spend enough to compensate for 2 gifts.
1. Keep in mind, I'm a new mom. But he is getting everything from Santa. I'd do several santa gifts, then 1 or 2 gifts from you for your SD. I'd say toys, books, fun things are all Santa. Clothing and jewelry and gift cards would be from you. Make sense?
2. That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Get them a joint gc. If someone gave us separate gcs to the same place, DH and I would be like, "Eerrrrr, okay...." and he would just give me his to spend on what I want.
1) Santa elves make toys... so all my toys were from Santa. My parents usually just gave me clothes from them.
2) If it's for the same place, I vote joint gc. If you know them well as individuals, then separate gcs would be fine. However, I would not be slighted if DH and I received joint gifts (as we often do)
I don't have kids but I would do fun stuff from Santa and non-fun from you guys. I don't think my mom ever tagged our Christmas presents, I think everything was just from Santa until it was all from her.
I always do joint GCs for couples. Unless you're doing something more gender-oriented like a mani/pedi, I'd say a joint GC is fine.
I think what you're doing in situation number two is perfectly fine. I wouldn't even think twice about it.
For Santa gifts, take my thoughts with a grain of salt. I tend to go way overboard. My kids are getting about five presents each from Santa, possibly one or two more. I haven't fully gone through everything yet decided what will be from who. Then they get about 5-6 presents from us. I try to make Santa a big deal.
When my guys were small, and believed in Santa...all gifts were from santa.
I think giving a GC for a couple is fine...
In our family, (growing up and what I did with my kids) Santa presents were the ones that were not wrapped and were our big toys that we asked for, along with stocking stuffers and some other fun stuff. Parent presents tend to be the less exciting gifts, with a few fun things so that parents aren't boring.lol
My daughter and her DH are a really boring (lazy)Santa....it kind of makes me sad, because I remember how excited she and her sister were with their Santa gifts, and I totally remember how my brother and I felt about our Santa stuff. We were so excited, which probably has something to do with the fact that my brother and I have been doing stocking stuffers for everyone since we grew up.
I think a joint gift is nice, not some big Christmas faux pas.
I don't have kids yet, but growing up, my parents usually did about 75% from Santa and 25% from them. They didn't want to go all Santa because then others in our family got us gifts from themselves, so they didn't want us to think they were the only ones in the family that didn't get us a gift.
That's kind of ridiculous. They are a married couple so when it comes to getting a gift they are like a collective entity
It makes no sense to get two gift cards. If you were giving a tangible item, then sure, maybe something smaller for each of them, but this way they can buy something they need for their new place or they can use a VISA GC to create a memorable experience before their baby arrives (nice dinner, weekend away, etc).
How is it that my BABY is going to be 3?
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We use Santa sacks from PBK and use however many of the gifts that it takes to make them seem full enough. All of their sack gifts are from Santa. We try to give them one nicer gift from us and then pjs, clothes, etc. The more Santa gives them the better because those gifts don't have to be wrapped!
As for couples gifts, I don't see a problem with it at all. Once you're married you can expect gifts as a couple and should appreciate them.
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In our family growing up, and I do the same with DD now, everything is from Santa except a religous gift (at her age it's a veggietales christmas, saints sticker book, etc) which is from me and DH. Santa handles toys, we handle the Jesus part of Christmas.
As far as the gift card I don't see anything wrong with the joint gc.
I like this idea. Wish we'd had it or heard of it 5 years ago.
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