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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't send gifts for parent or sibling birthdays. We only send gifts for nieces and nephews (and there are only a total of 3 of these). [/quote]]

This is the way in my family but not in my husband's.  The gift thing on [b]his [/b]side is EXHAUSTING.  I have suggested making a change (how about an annual family donation to a charity?) and it's met with stony silence.  They like to think they are a close family but it's a joke.  They don't talk, aren't honest, don't listen, but heaven forbid you don't get that shitty gift from QVC every xmas.  Gah.

I guess this rant serves to say, PP, that if the family is stuck on this, it's often not worth trying to change.[/quote]

Then why do you do it?  Tell your DH to buy presents for his own family members.[/quote]

Oh, I totally do.  His siblings and siblings' spouses (who don't plan well or communicate well) try to do group gifts, and chaos ensues.  Sometimes after watching them flounder for a few days I throw them a bone by suggesting something appropriate/obvious (but that they could never have come up with in a million years on their own), and then step back for the rest of the process.

I guess I tried to float the idea of doing away with the gifts, even though it's not MY family, because who wants to spend a week floundering every time someone has a birthday?  Also, who wants to keep seeing your poor, aging parents spend money they don't have on shit from QVC?  It seemed altruistic to at least mention the possibility of nixing it.  But no.  Whatevs.[/quote]

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