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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, I’m so over the gift giving to adults.

My DH, with my help (of course; he doesn’t know what to buy) spent the past weekend, after much thought, buying nice gifts for my ILs.

My MIL today calls me and says, “OK if we just get you the usual XYZ gift card we got you last year. You liked that!”

This is the 4th or 5th year they’ve gotten us a gift card.

What’s the point of exchanging? I could have just spent the money I spent on them, on the gift card for myself. And what’s worse, I know what we are getting!

I’d like to stop the gifts. My husband refuses: it will hurt his mom’s feelings. Fine. Let’s just buy THEM a gift card and be done. He doesn’t like that, he wants to buy meaningful stuff, and that requires us both thinking because he’s useless.

How do I approach this? How can we stop the stupid obligatory gift giving? [/quote]

Why is this so hard? Tap out. Tell him he has to get the gift, wrap it and deliver it. I really doubt you are some brilliant gift giver. He can do just as good as you.[/quote]

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