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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I have a similar dynamic.  Birthdays are big celebrations in his family with expensive presents and my family doesn’t really celebrate them except for children.  When we first got married, I thought it was really weird that the kids all bought the parents expensive gifts.  His parents would buy both of us gifts, but they were not extravagant.  My husband and I have also never bought each other birthday gifts, so it stood out as an anomaly in our general attitude toward gifts.  If one of his siblings organizes a group gift, we will go in on it, but it always irritates me a little.  We all have money and can pretty much buy what we want within reason. It’s a strange circulation of money for us to buy my FIL expensive headphones and them to buy us an expensive roasting pan, for example.  Why don’t we all just buy our own stuff and send a card at birthdays?

Maybe this is the kind of family your SIL comes from.  Maybe she will adjust to your gift giving tendencies or maybe you will see some wisdom in hers.  [/quote]

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