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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that poor kids shouldn’t be expected to have different wants than wealthier kids, the cool stuff is the cool stuff. I’m sympathetic. I like to participate in these gift exchanges, and my budget is my budget - I don’t particularly care if I spend it on multiple items or just one. But it’s typically not the $400-$500 that an Xbox would cost.

I think one explanation for why it puts people off, though, is because it’s a little tacky in the same way that it’s tacky to order the most expensive item on the menu when someone else is treating, or to put a bunch of $800 items on your wedding or baby registry. There was a thread here some time ago where OP got dumped on because her kids always order the steak and lobster when eating out, including when others were paying. Same concept.

I do understand that maybe some kids, particularly younger ones, don’t get this that you don’t pick the super expensive items when someone else is treating) but my parents taught me this as a general point of manners when I was a kid.

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