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I keep asking my sisters to do "secret santa" - where at least the adults pick names and give just give a gift to one person - but they said that sounds cheap.
Between hubby and I, we have 5 parents, 10 siblings/sibs-in-law, and 8 nieces/nephews. We don't have kids, so in essense, all the $$ we spend on the kids during the year and on Christmas doesn't really get reciprocated. I know that sounds harsh, but there seems to be such a sense of entitlement and competition, when it comes to getting gifts for people's kids. Heaven forbid one kid gets something more expensive than the other (the parents can tell), or if one kid's gift has several things in it (like action figures) and that kid's sibling's gift has one "thing" - the kids complain.
Hubby said that everyone is getting $10 gift cards this year and that's it. Part of me likes the idea, the other part wants to shop around for the "perfect gifts". But we always end up spending almost $1000 on other people and putting it on credit, and this year, that is NOT happening.
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