Do you still open gifts with extended family ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, OP. LOL.
This is my husbands family. We’ve been married 9 years. We have 3 kids.

We do “Christmas” with his mom and sister on a day that isn’t Christmas. It nothing but opening presents. For HOURS.

I few years ago I said no, I don’t want gifts myself nor are we giving gifts to you (his sister).

It’s completely ridiculous watching adults open gifts for hours. It’s just stuff from their Amazon list also (Hanes t shirts, lavender oil). HOURS of opening stuff.

My kids are somehow expected to sit there in the circle and unwrap things and watch others unwrap. So weird.

same here!!! we've been together for 10 years, this past Christmas was our first with a kid ... and the 10 month old was expected to sit there and unwrap gifts on his turn!! it drove me nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here,
I prefer opening gifts beforehand on Christmas morning. We tell them to come over in the afternoon at Christmas hoping they opened their gifts already. It just awkward watching an almost 30 year old woman open 16 gifts from her parents.

I was asking how do you word it to have people open their gifts at their home and then come over later. I guess from now on we’d just have Christmas dinner.

I'm with you OP. My DH's family used to do this, and it was unbearable: one person opening one gift at a time, "aww you got me some gloves, how nice. Thank you" then the next and the next. A thousand small gifts, rounda and round and round the circle we go. I never said a word because I did not want to offend anyone, but somehow it stopped.

In my family(there are a million of us), you take your gifts home and open them there. Then you call aunt, grandma, uncle, cousin etc and thank them the day after Christmas or so.

I wouldn't say a thing in your shoes. But I feel you.

Op here, yeah I won’t say anything!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh, OP. LOL.
This is my husbands family. We’ve been married 9 years. We have 3 kids.

We do “Christmas” with his mom and sister on a day that isn’t Christmas. It nothing but opening presents. For HOURS.

I few years ago I said no, I don’t want gifts myself nor are we giving gifts to you (his sister).

It’s completely ridiculous watching adults open gifts for hours. It’s just stuff from their Amazon list also (Hanes t shirts, lavender oil). HOURS of opening stuff.

My kids are somehow expected to sit there in the circle and unwrap things and watch others unwrap. So weird.

same here!!! we've been together for 10 years, this past Christmas was our first with a kid ... and the 10 month old was expected to sit there and unwrap gifts on his turn!! it drove me nuts.

Op here. Wow that’s what I’m imagining for the future haha

[Anonymous]

Op here, we all live relatively close to each other.