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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to DCUM the only way to not be tacky is to born WASP. Everyone else is tacky.
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One of the prerogatives of being a WASP is not caring what others think of you.  Adopt that attitude for a happier life, OP.[/quote]

Not OP but I'm quite happy not being a WASP. Seems so constricting when you have to worry about etiquette and traditions and elegance and tackiness. I'll take my loud Jewish family any day.[/quote]

WASP here married to a Jew. I actually find my inlaws far more obsessed with "the way things are done" than my own family. [/quote]

Jewish PP here. Are they from New York? My Jewish inlaws from Long Island are like this. They keep lists of which of their friends gave us what gifts so when their friends' kids get married or have babies, they can consult the list and give something of equal value. It's exhausting. But they are good people and they mean well. My own Jewish family, which hails from the midwest and Philadelphia, are nothing like this. We don't give a shit and stress a lot less about this sort of thing. I give all my friends who get married roughly equal gifts, even if I happen to recall that some of them gave far less to us when we got married. Doesn't matter to me. My husband says the score-keeping is a NY thing. 
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Lol. Yes they are from Long Island![/quote]

Haha. I have slowly gotten used to it over the 10 years we've been married but I was so shocked in the beginning when MIL would call and say "what/how much did so-and-so give you for your wedding?" It still annoys me a bit but I have learned to sit back and not care so much. As my DH explained it, if MIL doesn't give an equal gift, her friends will look down on her, so we are helping her out by providing info. Now we just roll our eyes and comply.[/quote]

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