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re: Adult family members still exchanging gifts
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:12 pm to Tiger Ryno
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:12 pm to Tiger Ryno
I buy gifts for my siblings and parents and mail to them...just mailed them off today 
With my husband's family....it is just his parents, us two, and his sister and her husband and son. So holidays are always small get togethers. So we still buy gifts for each other. Although everyone usually will spend more on gifts for our nephew(he is the only child in the family at the moment so he racks up at Christmas).
I think it really just matters how big of a family you have.
With my husband's family....it is just his parents, us two, and his sister and her husband and son. So holidays are always small get togethers. So we still buy gifts for each other. Although everyone usually will spend more on gifts for our nephew(he is the only child in the family at the moment so he racks up at Christmas).
I think it really just matters how big of a family you have.
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Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:13 pm to Tiger Ryno
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get my wife's family to take the money we spend on buying other adults gifts and pool it to give to a homeless ministry or by a water well in a poor country. No. They want to get gifts.
Same here. Her extended family has a huge family reunion where they draw names. We never see these people outside the reunion, and everyone gets shitty, generic, <$50 gifts that no one uses. But when a group of us suggested just taking up a collection there was outrage.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:13 pm to Tiger Ryno
"She's trying to control our CHRISTMAS and change our traditions!!"
This post was edited on 12/16/15 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:13 pm to BRgetthenet
I usually get a bunch of wine and liquor and candles and candies and smell good stuff and the like. Maybe something more thoughtful for those I care about.
I figure it like this. I could piss away a few hundred dollars on concert tickets or a bottle of scotch or a night out...or I could think about all the people that have supported me throughout my life and are near and dear to me and share that bounty with them.
I'll get presents for friends too. Leave stuff on doorsteps.
It makes me feel good. Even if they don't know it was me
I figure it like this. I could piss away a few hundred dollars on concert tickets or a bottle of scotch or a night out...or I could think about all the people that have supported me throughout my life and are near and dear to me and share that bounty with them.
I'll get presents for friends too. Leave stuff on doorsteps.
It makes me feel good. Even if they don't know it was me
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:14 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
Screw them. Sounds like you need to man up.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:15 pm to fr33manator
We get it, you're an amazing and thoughtful philanthropist.
Or you could do these random acts of kindness all year, too :)
Or you could do these random acts of kindness all year, too :)
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:15 pm to fr33manator
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But I just get gifts for everyone except the Shitty teenagers and 20 somethings who are a shame to the family
I probably have between 150-200 family members still alive, including 1st, 2nd, 3rd cousins. You want me to buy sh*t for every one of them?
Yeah, bah humbug, Mr. moneybags.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:15 pm to fr33manator
This I have no problem with. I will get random people a small but meaningful gift each year bit it is usually unexpected and not part of a formal gathering.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:17 pm to Tiger Ryno
We do, but there are only six of us total that do it. The other half of the family doesn't, except for maybe a game of White Elephant.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:18 pm to Festus
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probably have between 150-200 family members
Then pick the top 20 or so.
Maybe have a draft.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:18 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
I give thousands and thousands of dollars every Christmas to homeless and/or retarded people. Doesn't everyone? Had no idea that made me better than anyone else. I guess I'm just that good of a guy.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:19 pm to Festus
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I probably have between 150-200 family members still alive, including 1st, 2nd, 3rd cousins. You want me to buy sh*t for every one of them?
Yeah now that is ridiculous. I don't buy gifts for extended. I'll buy something for my aunt that lives out here in AZ mainly cause she is estranged from her son and grandkids(long story...he is holding a long standing stupid grudge and he refuses to have any contact with her and won't let her see or talk to her grandkids) so I feel bad for her during the holidays. Growing up my mom's side was large and the adults didn't give each other gifts usually except gifts to my grandparents. There were 15 of us cousins so we all drew names at Thanksgiving for a gift ($25 limit usually).
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:20 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
I do that for work. St Jude is the charity. The cards are made by the patients.
I get calls every year saying that was the best gift they received that year.
I get calls every year saying that was the best gift they received that year.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:20 pm to Festus
you sound like a POS
This post was edited on 12/16/15 at 6:21 pm
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:22 pm to lsunurse
If I bought just for my kids, their SO's, my parents, brothers, sisters, and their children (nieces and nephews), I'd have to take out a loan and start shopping in October.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:24 pm to beauchristopher
Merry Christmas. gift card's on it's way.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:27 pm to Festus
I'm curious to see what my mother in law gets us this year.
Some years it's a hit, but many years it is a huge miss(ex: the giant keyboard Christmas)
She is a QVC addict so we get many gifts from there.
Some years it's a hit, but many years it is a huge miss(ex: the giant keyboard Christmas)
She is a QVC addict so we get many gifts from there. Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:29 pm to Tiger Ryno
Gift giving is just for children?
What a miserable world you must live in.
What a miserable world you must live in.
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:30 pm to Tiger Ryno
It's not that I don't want to exchange gifts, I just have everything I want
Posted on 12/16/15 at 6:31 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
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We get it, you're an amazing and thoughtful philanthropist.
I'm actually a pretty terrible person. I try to make up for it by giving gifts, like gangsters giving out turkeys at Christmas.
quote:
you could do these random acts of kindness all year, too
I try to. Visits and little things.
It's...I don't know. It feels more like Christmas when I give.
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