re: Online Secret Santa Generator

I have this argument every year with my wife's family.

I'm the youngest child in my family. Everyone is grown with kids. I have a niece that is a high school junior. On this side of the family, we buy for the kids and our parents. Everyone gets my parents something and everyone gets my kids something and we get the nieces and nephew something.

I don't need to buy my two brothers and sisters in laws things. They can buy things on their own.

This has morphed from a few years ago, when we did the "draw names" method among the adults.

Now my wife is the oldest sibling in her family, and our kids are the only grandkids. Completely different world. My mother in law insists that everyone buys for everyone. Even extended family. We had a "frick this shite" moment two years ago - and my mother in law came unglued and it basically ruined Christmas. My wife and I have determined that the best course of action is to wait until her younger siblings are married with kids and two sides of families so we can go in together and convince my mother in law its stupid.

But we end up spending a couple hundred bucks of random crap that we give people that we see once a year and it puts me in a bitter mood. No lie, one of these extended family members came in a few years ago and got everyone a small something except for my wife. And then said "I didn't know she was going to be here." The weird thing was that he got me something and didn't even know my name.

Yes, my wife's family is complete trash.