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[quote=Anonymous]I hate group gifts for this reason. Do what we do, and just say no.

This stems from an incident about 10 years ago. My DH and I were in grad school. Two of the sibs had full time jobs and the rest of the subs were in school. Oldest brother wanted to get tickets to a football game for FIL. He gave us an amount that my DH assumed was from the two of us. He bought the tickets and FIL chose the eldest brother (who bought the tickets) to go with him. We lived far away so my DH going was not an option. When we came for Christmas, the eldest brother said that we each owed xx amount since his wife also paid. He knew he would get to go and then proceeded to get money from his college student sibs living off part time jobs and loans to foot the bill for his ticket as well as FIL (I get that they're sent was 2 tickets but an honorable guy would have said that he would just pay for his since the rest of the kids were much younger than he was and in school).  It felt like a ploy to get his sibs to pay for an expensive ticket.  We said never again. Now we buy what we want and can afford.

If you chose to go with these things, say pick out the gift and we will pay 25% of it. Period. If they are picking the gift, they can decide what they can afford. [/quote]

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