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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make a gift rotation with each family (your side and your husband's side).

Assume every letter is one nuclear family.  You have children A1, A2, A3 and A4.  You one sibling has child B1 and your other sibling has child C1.  On your side, put the six kids names into a hat and every kid draws one name.  That child gives a gift to the picked child.  That means that you'll buy 4 gifts and they'll each buy 1 gift.  But all kids will get one gift.  You open then when these cousins are together.

On your husband's side, you have A1, A2, A3, and A4.  His siblings have Y1 and Z1.  Same thing.  Each kid (or parents) are designated to give one gift to the child drawn.  You open these when this side cousins are together.

This way, when the kids get together with the cousins, everyone gets one gift.  You each end up buying one gift for each child of yours to give.  As they get old enough, the kids get to help brainstorm what gift to give their cousins (or siblings since your kids will end up sometimes picking a gift for a sibling instead of a cousin).[/quote]

This is weird.

It would make more sense to just do one gift per family. This system where you’re buying your kids gifts from the extended family seems like a PITA. Just switch to one gift per family if you’re such a stickler for keeping the dollar amounts exactly the same. [/quote]

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