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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I totally understand what you are saying but keep in mind the big toy years are pretty brief though I know it doesn't seem like it when you have toddlers.  Their opinions start playing a role pretty quickly too.  Are you really going to deny your daughter a Little Pony (or whatever) set when she has been obsessed with her friends for the last 2 months and it is the only thing on her list to Santa because it is plastic?  Unless you are asked, I think you can just say think you.  I do think you could also..sometime in January say you are starting a wish list for next year to be organized and hope they might ask for it.[/quote]

VERY wise post.

My inlaws are of the ten gifts for everyone persuasion. With three kids that usually means boxes of gifts every Christmas.

My youngest is six and the oldest a teenager. This year, instead of boxes or a huge box of gifts, a single, normal sized box of presents arrived. My kids thought something might be missing, but in reality the oldest two had aged out of toys and into sports jerseys, video games and itunes gift cards and the youngest had aged out of pyaset type toys with a milkion parts. The gifts will only get smaller from here.

Also OP, if your daughter is the first grandchild or only girl? Once more grandkids get added to the mix, she will get less and less. Right now tye grandparents are rediscovering tye fun of shopping for kids. That too will be short lived once they get more grandkids or your daughter is no longer "little".

Just be gracious OP and say thank you. This phase will not last forever.[/quote]

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