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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am one of the posters from the other unfair treatment thread.  This is one of the reasons we are staying home for Christmas.  My SIL comes to MIL/FIL's house  every other Christmas, this is their year. We go on the Christmas that they are at their  IL's home.  However, when we are there and my SIL is at her IL's, my MIL/FIL want to Skype with them every other day.

The one year we all spent Christmas together, my husband made it clear to his parents that presents needed to be equal, if not in quality definitely in quantity.  He also said the same to my sister because [b]she would bring presents from her inlaws for the kids to open in front of our children[/b].  When this happened, we brought extra presents - and just said oh we forgot something in the trunk!  I know it all sounds like game playing, but  it awful.  Our kids were too young to understand that these presents were from another relative of their cousins.  My family does not celebrate Christmas so there are no presents from my side of the family.

Knowing that things are unequal...I only spend about $10-15 on Christmas and Birthday presents for niece and nephew. I  used to spend alot more and never received a thank you, verbal or written.[/quote]

I don't understand why you would have any right to tell your SIL how many presents her kids can open.  These are gifts from HER in-laws.  I think you need to teach your kids that life isn't always fair, and that everything can't be equal.  As for the grandparents, I agree that they shouldn't be so obvious with their favoritism.   But you can't insist that people hold back on gifts that they received from people not related to your kids.[/quote]

So you think it's OK to receive gifts from, say, your parents...then bring them over to another relative's house to open? Why would you do that? [/quote]

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