gift giving: when you have more kids than your siblings

[Anonymous]

I have one and she has 8 cousins. I only brought gifts for babies and toddlers. Once older everyone gets a gift card from amazon. Done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cousins all do a Secret Santa, and set a spending limit. You can start it even when some of the kids are really young and then it's a set tradition.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Not enough cousins on either side for a secret Santa exchange to make sense. I’d really like to just stop exchanging but I’ve brought it up a few times to no avail.

I’m assuming you don’t do exchange gifts among siblings. If that’s true, consider giving an inexpensive gift for your sibling and spouse and spend less on niece/nephew so you aren’t being inconsiderate buying 1 gift for their family when they have to buy 4 nor or you setting the expectation with the niece/nephew that they will always get an expensive gift from you. It’s a slight different situation but my DH’s uncle by marriage would send us $100 for Christmas and say it’s for us and something for our kids. Every year our kids were shocked Uncle Larlo knew exactly what to get. We always gifted ourselves something from Uncle Larlo gift money and used $25-30 for each of our two kids.