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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]
A little more context - they are in their 80s and in declining health. Before their health decline, they bought inexpensive age appropriate gifts. My kids still cherish a book Grandpa gave them 5 years ago. But toothpaste? 
When I was a child, my grandma gave me odd gifts like that. I thought she hated me. Turns out she was just really old and not all there. I’d rather my kids don’t think grandparents don’t like them since they got toothpaste. Honestly, getting nothing is better than an awkward present like that. [/quote]

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