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[quote=Anonymous]OP, are these a few nice, thoughtful things or are there so many gifts that you have to take a break in opening to keep the sanity?

I spent last Christmas with my DH's sister and family and it was an obscene amount of gifts and really not enjoyable.  For context, we did not go inexpensive with our kids, the 7 year old got a kindle fire as her big gift and the 3 year old got some larger bitty baby (American Girl stuff for the little ones) accessories that she really wanted.  Santa got them kinect for our Xbox and a lot of cool little things.

This appeared as a frugal, not much in the way of gifts compared to the PILES of gifts being opened by their 4 and almost 2 year old cousins.  It was unpleasant and obscene and I will not do a Christmas like that again.  None of the kids really appreciated any of the gifts they were tearing through to open and no adults opened gifts until the afternoon, and it is not the amount of gifts it is that gift giving was an all day event that required breaks and it was not fun.

We do one big gift for each child, something on the larger side from Santa and some smaller silly/fun things.  [/quote]

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