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[quote=Anonymous]Do you need to inform them? Long story short, we’ve had a lot of unexpected expenses this past summer and our savings took a big hit. My parents recently retired and are completely on board to not do gifts, though we are doing a $10 Secret Santa. My ILs on the other hand have grown accustomed to lavish Christmas with expensive gifts. My MIL has been dating for years but recently married. We typically spend about $200 on her and $100 on her boyfriend, but now we’d like to get one together gift for them and spend around $100 total. I don’t even want to spend that, but $100 is all I’m willing to spend. She usually spend the same amount on us (around $150 each.) Do we hint that we’d like to just drop gifts this year? Hint at a Secret Santa? Or just explain that we’d like to spend less? [/quote]
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