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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't do this.  If I get messages asking about gifts I usually send a response like
"Busy at work today...I'll try to reply tonight"

Then wait...the person continues to send stream of consciousness texts, and I just let them all go and the one random night during the week I'll send back something like
"Those sound like great ideas...any one will do!"

Basically don't engage, send something non-committal as a response and let them spin their wheels and hunt and look for options and change their mind.  They can do all that without me engaging.[/quote]

I forgot, the only one I make an exception for is my mother.  She usually just sends me a check for a round number like $500, tells me to get the twins "something small and fun" and put the rest into the grandma fund, which is just a bank account for them.  When they are in high school, college, or after, they can take money out of the grandma fund for a big purchase that they want.  So I get them each something in the $10-$50 range, based on things that currently come up that they really want, and the rest goes into the grandma fund.  [/quote]

That is amazing!! I wish my mother would do something like that, but, alas, she is more like the relative in OP's post, and does not want wishlists (or any links, she does not online shop). This year she said she wasn't feeling up to shopping and asked me to send gifts to her for my 9yo daughter. I thought maybe this was the year we solved the gift-giving conundrum (!) but, no, when we showed up she had a bunch of gifts she'd bought at one of the discount chains. None of it age appropriate.

Oh well. At least the back-and-forth isn't as bad as OP's, but my mother does get upset when my kids favor gifts from others (who ask for suggestions and wishlists). [/quote]

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