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What do you do for your husbands family over the holidays?
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Anonymous
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Wondering what other people do for their husband's family over the holidays?
My husband has three sisters, all older with kids of their own. I wanted to get them each a little gift for the holidays since we will be seeing them. I am leaning towards more of a gift for each of their families, since I am not crazy enough to want to buy gifts for 20 addiitonal people. I am curious if other people do anything neat in terms of gifts for their families over the holidays? Ideas are welcome! |
Anonymous
| We give gifts to 18 years or younger. |
Anonymous
| Nothing b/c my in-laws don't celebrate Christmas, but they do have their wedding anniversary on the 26th, ugh! So still gotta spend some $$ on that. |
Anonymous
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No gifts for those over 21.
And why are you buying them an anniversary gift? just curious.... what can you possibly buy them that they cannot get for themselves if they really wanted it?? |
Anonymous
| We used to do a Yankee Swap for the adults, then decided (thankfully) Christmas was about the kids. Really, the adults don't need anything, least of all more "stuff"! What they really need they buy for themselves anyway. It is also one less thing to do during the very busy holidays! |
Anonymous
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We usually travel to Germany to spend the holidays with them (with baby/toddler in tow) and we give gifts to everyone regardless of age.
They love me  .
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Anonymous
I am glad somebody loves you! Maybe we can all be so lucky someday. |
Anonymous
| Lumps of coal. |
Anonymous
| We did restaurant gift cards for the adults and got things fir the under 18 kids. That way everyone is happy. |
Anonymous
| My DH buys the gifts for his family. He usually buys a nicer ($75ish) for MIL, and his siblings' get a token gift for the family, e.g. box of citrus, gourmet coffee cake, Starbucks pack. etc. |
Anonymous
I like this idea. We still buy for everyone, but thinking of nice gifts for adults is REALLY difficult, especially in the $50 range, which is our budget for each immediate family member (in our case that is our parents (4 total), our siblings/spouses (5 total), and our siblings' children (only 1 right now, but will eventually be more)) I get so tired of buying BIL another video game and SIL another sweater - neither of which they really want/need. I would love to just do gifts for the kids, but I don't think that would go over very well, especially on DH's side. They are all about the gifts (even though MIL demands a very specific list from each family member every year and does not buy anything that is not on the "list" - in fact, she loves it if you just go buy your own gift and she will just write you a check for it. I guess you get what you want this way, but it just sits funny with my southern roots.) |
Anonymous
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On both sides, for adults we often do things of the gift card / consumable variety. Harry & David's gift basket, etc. Giving to whatever group of individuals will be spending Christmas together (i.e. sending a joint basket intended for both DH's grandmother, aunt & uncle.) We'll generally up the price point for the basket when doing that, but maybe spend a little bit less than 2 individual items, and it saves on shipping.
And my about-to-pop SIL will definitely be getting wine this Christmas.
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Anonymous
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xmas is for kids, and I would just get the kids gifts if they're under 18. You can shop frugally for sale items and limit to spend $10-20 per kid.
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Anonymous
| We do secret Santa with the adults (everyone gets 1 gift for someone else - we draw names at Thanksgiving), and buy gifts for the kids. |
Anonymous
| Wait for my sister-in-law to tell us who will buy gifts for who. |