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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I buy my kids presents in my parents' name because my parents can't be bothered, so I don't see anything wrong with it in theory, but not in the scenario you described where you're already buying the kid a gift. [/quote]
Same, but because my parents are on a fixed income. One year they gave them toothpaste and I knew I had to do a little more.[/quote]

I think this is just incredibly odd. Why do you have to do "a little more" in someone else's name? Buy your kids whatever, from you. But putting another person's name on it is very rude.[/quote]

With their knowledge or without?  My kid is my ex-MIL's only younger grandchild (there's a 20 year gap).  It is incredibly important to her that she be able to spoil him at the holidays, but she's on a very tight budget.  When she was younger and healthier, we'd go out together and I'd point out things I thought he'd like, and she'd pick one or two.  I'd put them on my card, and she'd write me a postdated check to cover it, and then I'd "forget" to deposit it.  It was a win/win.  He got things I would have bought anyway, she got the credit.

Now, they're both older, and she can't go out to shop any more, so she writes the check to him, and he gives it to me and I "cash" it and take him shopping, and he writes her a thank you note.  Again, I don't actually deposit it.

I think it's fine, but, we're both in on the game.  If it was behind her back, I'd feel differently.  [/quote]

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