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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My SIL insisted we exchange gifts for many years. I kept telling my DH to ask her to stop. Who wants to exchange gift cards with adults or spend hours hunting down the perfect gift for another adult? Christmas gifts are for kids, the elderly, and the less fortunate. [/quote]

I finally stopped the gift-giving with my brother and SIL, because it had wound down to "going to Amazon and checking off gift-list items." At that point it felt like nothing more than a required exchange of goods. If there's no joy in it, and we all have more than we could ever need, what's the point?

I wish DH would finally put his foot down with his parents and stop the exchange on that side of the family as well.

Don't get me wrong, I miss the "real" Christmas--but that's the Christmas of my youth, when there were so many things I wanted, and it seemed like Mom always knew what to get me. Those times are gone. What I want for Christmas now is the sanity of being able to enjoy the season without having to worry about a present exchange that has no heart in it.
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