What do you do in your family to hold down the number of holiday gifts/amount spent on your children by family members?

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To many gifts Last year our family decided thay gift buying was getting out of hand. My sister in law came up with a game. We played it last year and this year and we all had fun.1.

Every person brings a wrapped ornament. 2. Everyone draws a number from the jar.

A number for each person will be entered including babies 3. Starting with number 1 they go to the wrapped ornaments and pick a wrapped ornament 4. The second person has the option to take the first persons ornament or to take another wrapped ornament.5.

The third person has the option of taking an ornament from one that is already opened or another under the tree.6. This goes on and on each gift can be handled and traded 3 times after that the person that has the ornament after the third trade is owner of that gift.7. After everyone has taken a gift and the trading that has been done the number 1 person gets to look at all the ornaments and pick.

Number 1 person has the last pick. Finally we all loved it and and the cost was cut. So we will continue this tradition..

Clarify priorities When the children/grandchildren were little it was fine to lavish them with gifts but as they grew and their tastes become more expensive the family has come to realize a few things. The emerging plan is this: 1) People will exchange gifts with immediate family (siblings, parents, grandparents) 2) Instead of gifting extended family each member will contribute a comfortable dollar amount to a designated family member who will then contact a local agency to adopt a local needy family. This is easy for us because we have multiple teachers in the family.

The counselors at schools know the needy families in their population and frequently will take the donation and do the shopping for the family. This is best since the counselors know the family and know the needs. The net result is that we have a lovely Christmas and so does a family who might not have otherwise.It takes the shopping and cost pressure off the family.

It reduces the amount of silly or senseless gifts people get. I hope that helps..

Gift exchange Among the extended family, we pick each others names out of a hat on Thanksgiving and only buy a present for that person for Christmas. There's usually a $25 limit, but people still tend to overspend.

We limit the dollar amount. We have asked everyone (except Nana & Papa, they said they are exempt from the rule as they are grandparents! ) to limit the amount to no more than $20.

We also tell people not to buy for us, just buy for the kids. It has taken a lot of pressure off some of the family members that are not able to buy big things. Also, my children get so many things from other family members, we just don't want them to receive too many presents and not be appreciative of what they receive.

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We agree to only buy gifts for the children in each family. That's where we start out anyway. Then we want to buy for the old people and then we want to buy something special for one of the adults.

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