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[quote=Anonymous]My family does the “everyone watch one person at a time open gifts thing” so I don’t think that’s too weird (although I know one of my BILs finds it super uncomfortable to be stared at so we try to mostly get him join gifts with my sister or makes sure other conversations are happening when it’s his turn as a compromise).  But we also only open 2-3 gifts total on Christmas Day; I can see it getting really boring if you had to wait through 10+ rounds.  (I take OP’s assertion that SIL gets such a disproportionate number of gifts with a grain of salt since the number and discrepancy has increased significantly in their second post.)

Regardless OP I would suggest that (a) you say you don’t want to host presents so maybe someone else in the family can do Christmas breakfast/presents which you can attend or not as you wish and (b) be prepared for grandparents to give your kids tons of gifts.  Maybe discuss with your fiancé how the two of you want to handle the latter once you actually have kids?[/quote]

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