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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I said “H buys for his family, I buy for mine”

Same for thank you notes.[/quote]

Exactly.

[b]Or: "We are opting out of the gift giving this year.  Do not feel obligated to give us gifts as we are not buying any other adults gifts".[/b]

My DH was much more on board with paring way down on gift giving once I told him I was not shopping for his family anymore.  I stopped caring what we give them, he can spend what he wants (within reason of course) but that I am not managing, wrapping, or contributing mentally to ANY of that.  I am a grown up and I can buy what I want, so can they.  Why are we all swapping multiple gifts?  [/quote]

Just curious if you actually have used this response before with success. I have tried limiting gifts (to 1) and got treated like a GD lunatic.  MIL wrote DH letters, asking "What's wrong with your wife?  No one else in the family has a problem with my gift giving.  The only other person who ever said anything was Crazy Uncle Al."  Uncle Al is the one they like to mock and make fun of every holiday about how pathetic and crazy he is, but they also are the closest with and are weirdly obsessed with him.  And then that holiday, we got some weird large check for $1000 that was written out to every member of our immediately EXCEPT me.  They got the usual 30 gifts per each grandkid, and 10 gifts for DH.[/quote]

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