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We definitely still exchange gifts! My mom has a tendancy to go overboard the past few years which is pretty fun on my end, LOL! I got her a Roomba this year, she's been dying for one so I know she's going to be SO happy.
My grandma still buys her kids (my dad/aunts) Christmas gifts... I don't think we'll ever stop. :)
We still exchange with everyone in the family. I don't think you are ever too old to receive/give a gift!
We definitely exchange gifts, and FI does with his parents, too. In my family, I give each parent a gift and usually recieve 1 "big" gift from the both of them, plus stocking stuffers. FI and I give each of his parents gifts and historically they give us multiple presents to the point that I feel a bit uncomfortable. I'm hoping they tone it down this year and expect they really might, since they're helping to pay for our wedding and helping my FSIL pay for her wedding next year, too.
@shellyjean: I haven't lived at home for years but I still exchange gifts with my mother and sisters. My mom only lives about 10 minutes away so we will be packing everything up and spending Christmas morning at her house. Tell your husband to just not participate. ^_^
I absolutely still exchange with my parents. Everyone that I know still does. I never thought that something like this would be regional but I guess its possible.
ETA: I havent lived at home for more than 5 years.
My brother and I only send gifts to my mom. We usually go in on something really nice for her. None of us are together at Christmas time, so my mom sends us stuff all year. She will see something online and she will just send it to us. My dad, I usually just take him a plate of goodies. He hates "stuff" so the homemade treats he really enjoys. Usually it's stuff he only gets once a year since they are my moms recipes and they are divorsed.
Absolutely!!! :) He hasn't lived with his parents for 18 years (he's 37) and I haven't for 10 now (i'm 31) but we still exchange with each set of parents!
In fact, Christmas Eve is their tradition to open gifts - we all go to his parent's house and everyone (including his bro and sil who are a few years older than us) SIL's 9 year old and bil's kids/grandchildren all sit around while everyone opens their gifts one at a time in a circle til everyone is done! :)
I haven't lived at home since I was 18, but the way my parents and I have exchanged gifts has changed over the years. The first four years away from home I was at college, so I would always go home for the holidays, and my super nice parents usually got me quite a few gifts. Now, when I completed school and got a job, we scaled down and exchanged only a few gifts each. And that is pretty much where we are at now. We either exchange a "big gift" each, or a few little gifts. But nothing like when we were kids. I'll always buy my parents a gift!
I can see why some might stop though, because usually you can buy stuff that you want if you have a job, but it's not always the case. I really enjoy giving gifts!
This is the first year my dad isn't buying for his kids as well as his grandkids. Money is tight, and he has been unsuccessfully trying to sell his house. He gives so much of himself helping us both fix things around our houses. He is buying presents for any grandkid/great grand kid under 18.
Us kids have all stopped buying presents for our nieces and nephews after they are about 21, and we don't exchange between ourselves, other then to buy for the younger niece and nephews.
SO's parents each buy one big present for each kid. He and his siblings & their SO's pick names out of a hat.
I haven't lived at home since I was 17, but we all still exchange gifts. My mom usually just gets me, my SO and our kids something really small that we can do together (boardgames,movie tickets,books etc) Last year my dad and stepmom got me and my SO a Wii and Wii fit! My SO's parents have more money than my parents and they always go overboard at christmas. Last year, my main present was all new stainless steel dishes!!! And I always get a variety of clothes and stuff too. It almost makes me uncomfortable with the amount of money they spend on me, I get more presents from SO's parents than I ever got from Santa when I was a little kid. The second christmas my dad and stepmom were together, she went out and bought me, my stepsister, and my stepbrother's girlfriend crockpots, new purses and housecoats. I was kind of mad because they never got ANYTHING for my SO, (not even a christmas card) but stepbrother's girlfriend got the exact same present as me. Oh, and my stepmom doesn't believe in "gifting up" if you get her something for christmas, she seriously gets mad. She thinks christmas should be about the kids and grandkids.
We go on a Christmas vacation together every year. Since I was about 16 this became our gift ritual. We still do stocking stuffers and a few small gifts too.
@shellyjean: WE do every year. But this year we just put everyones name into a basket and we are getting one, 100.00 gift, i love this idea...so much less stressful. DH family are taking DH's siblings to mexcio for christmas so they arent getting us anything, normally we would get them something as well.
We do! Parents are people too...I'm sure they like getting gifts just like anyone else.
My parents still give gifts to my grandparents. It would seem weird just suddenly stop just because we're grown. Plus I have a sister at home still so it would seem odd to only give her a gift. We even send stuff my bro living in Japan each year. I'm not really sure why your FI wouldn't want to give gifts to family.
Well looks like it's pretty much unanimous! I'll just tell DH to get over it :)
We've started doing a drawing so we each get a present for one person. This was hard for my mom though...she still wants to get her girls presents. (We're 30 and 27.) We'll probably continue the one gift thing forever and then everyone will get present for the kiddies once we have them.
DH and I both still exchange gifts with our parents and siblings and our parents and grandparents still exchange gifts with each other as well! I can't even imagine don't doing this until the day these people are no longer with us.
We decided a few years ago that since we are all grown and don't really want for anything, we should pool the money we would have spent on each other so we can give a needy family an amazing Christmas. Now we go shopping together and pick out the things they need and some really fun things they just want. Then we go home and wrap them and eat dinner together. We gift the families anonymously, but we know who they are, because they are all families who's children attend the grade school where my mom teaches.
They always buy us stuff but we can't afford to get them anything and they understand that... Most of the money goes towards spoiling the grand baby anyways ;)
I still do!
BUT! My husband doesn't & hasn't for years. Pretty much after he turned 20, his parents no longer give him gifts & he doesn't give them gifts.
Personally I think its a little "bah humbug" not to even exchange little sweet gifts or something :/
I couldn't really vote- sometimes we do, usually we do something small like a card or something- but this year mine didn't even give me a birthday present :/ (according to my mother I didn't deserve one for canceling the wedding- sad right?). We did for a little while, but it kinda fell away.
Ummm hell yes we do! I buy my parents presents every year (motorcycle stuff for dad, clothes for mom)...this year they got us a vacation. Woohoo!
I still give them each a nice gift (not so nice this year because I'm broke, but this isn't normal). The past few years, they've given me just as much as they did when I lived at home; Santa even gives me presents in my stocking and under the tree by way of the USPS. I wonder if that will start to change, though, now that I'm in a longterm relationship with my BF.
My parents still send a gift to my dad and his step-mom every year, and they always send something for both my parents combined. I'm almost positive that my parents sent something for my mom's parents, too, up until the year they died.
I'm confused by the phrase "still get presents like a child does." Exchanging gifts with your loved ones, including your parents, is very different from getting a mountain of loot "from Santa" like a kid does. I can't imagine not exchanging presents with our parents, where's the fun in that? My parents still exchange gifts with my grandparents who are still living. Of course, there were many years when the gift that my grandparents gave my parents might just be a card with a check inside it.
We went with the obvious choice this year and gave both my parents and my husband's parents a nice album of our wedding photos. They're ecstatic about it.
Yes absolutely. I took my dad shopping this year and picked out all of the gifts for my little brothers, my older sister, my older brother and my niece and nephews. This year he just gave me money to do with as I chose. I LOVE gift giving and my dad still really enjoys it too.
My mom doesn't have much money so I don't expect too much from her but we exchange small stuff and still spend christmas together.
I will always give my parents presents (and never have a care of whether I receive them or not anymore). They gave me their lives. Spreading a lil Christmas cheer is the least I can do.
We definitely do. It's actually a headache because we have such a huge family, but pretty much everyone exchanges gifts except for the cousins. In the end it all evens out because we all exchange with each other. I still get gifts from my Grandma, Parents, Aunts & Uncles and we atill buy them gifts too. Neither FI or I have lived at home since we were 18.
We still do as well, although this year on DH's side we just drew names since money is tight for a lot of people. And this is the first year that my grandma isn't buying for her 10 kids and 31 grandkids, and she isn't wanting anything either. Feels kinda weird, but I know it is saving her a ton of money!!
@missrobots: That is so awesome. I have nothing else to say, I just wanted to let you know I think it's so cool that your family does that.
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I have never thought twice about this, but now that we are married, my husband has suggested that we stop exchanging presents with my parents. He hasn't done it with his parents for probably 10 years. He just thinks it's weird that once you move out of the house, you still get presents like a child does. And mabye this is a regional thing, as he's from a different part of the country than I am. What do you do?