re: Adult family members still exchanging gifts

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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.

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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.