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tsvetta
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Some people are notoriously cheap even when they brag they have a lot of money. One of my relatives is married to a very rich man, who doesn't control his wive's finances, or so they both claim. Yet for my son's birthday or whenever they visit our house he always gets either a $20 certificate from Marshalls or a cheap toy from a vending machine. Yet when her kids were born, I got them nice stuff from Tugalooh.
At the end, it's not the gift that counts, but the thought of it. It just that I wish certain people would think more 
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OP, why don't you make a deal with SIL? No gifts for grown ups, just kids (no griping about present numbers). And you can set a limit of $20 or whatever and pass along a gift idea list. That way, you each get a gift for DC that is wanted, not too pricey, and no worries about sour grapes.
Either that or secret santa with price limits, so you can actually enjoy gift giving again rather than years of chintzy gifts and chintzy complaints. |