My family stopped buying for adults a long time ago. Now that most of the "kids" are adults we agreed to stop buying for them as well except for one niece who is 10 years old this year and my grandson who is three.
The rest of the family has a Yankee swap, which I personally don't like, but I go along when I visit at Christmas.
Sometimes when I go up there, I bring a small present for everyone because I enjoy giving them something. Some of them get a bit angry because they didn't get anything for me and we agreed not to exchange gifts. I tell them we are not exchanging gifts. I just wanted to get them a small token of my love for them and don't expect or want anything in return.
Some kind of draw a name out of a hat format is a god idea because it is nice to that everyone gets a gift at Christmas.
My previous wife's family exchanged gifts with everyone and it did become a financial burden. I'm glad we didn't have two families doing that. It would have been ridiculous. And half the stuff that you got, you didn't want. use or keep.
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