Buying Gifts For Nieces And Nephews

And before any of you fire off one of your own nasty-grams telling me what an inconsiderate cheapskate I am, you can rest assured that all my nieces, nephews and other close relatives will still be receiving gifts for their high school and college graduations, and their weddings and baby showers too. Assuming I get an announcement, of course.

buying gifts for nieces and nephews

If you're an aunt or uncle, you're likely obsessed with your nieces and nephews. They're so cute, and you get to enjoy all the best parts of kids without living with them all day every day. There's nothing better than being the fun aunt or uncle who gets to take them to their favorite store, to the amusement park, or even just out for ice cream, and then getting them home to their parents in time for bed. The holidays are coming, and now's your chance to be their favorite aunt or uncle with these 32 great gifts.

However, at least one couple appears to be taking a stand against the rampant festive consumerism. In a post shared to the MaliciousCompliance Subreddit on Reddit, a man described how he and his wife decided to get revenge on their siblings after they were "basically ordered" to buy their nieces and nephews expensive gifts this Christmas.

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We've always bought presents for our nieces and nephews for Christmas, even while they were still in college. One of them is now an adult and married. Now I'm wondering what to do. What do you think- gift or no gift? What does your family do?

We have quite a few nieces in college and graduated from college. What I do is give money to "my" nieces/nephews (my brothers kids), and gift cards to Barnes & Noble to our nieces that are my hubands sisters' kids. We have ceased giving gifts to the parents of said nieces & nephews it's just tooooo much $$$..... Also, we give everyone the exact same amt :), so it's all transparent and fair.

We're not there yet... I just don't see how I *could* buy something for all of my nieces and nephews for birthdays/Christmas. My parents have a total of 8 nieces/nephews. I have twenty-one... and still counting. Plus, I have five children... who all claim to want at least 20! :lol:

Gifts stop when they stop going to school (high school, tech. school or college). When they have children, the children get gifts. We have three nieces and four nephews. We have 8 great nieces and 5 great nephews. I had a ball shopping for the little ones this year!

Only my 21 yr old nephew, 24 yr old niece, and 30 yr old nephew (who we raised since they were 8, 11, and 17) get gifts from us. Once they turned 18, we spend about $25 for each (unless we can afford more). But the four younger kids give them a little something too. Dh's parents and my parents also send a little something for them. Dh's family basicaly adopted my niece and nephews as one of theirs and sends my niece/nephews gifts/money for bdays and holidays.

But this year, Dh's siblings asked to not exchange gifts. Dh and I are not comfortable since we haven't been able to recipricate for the youngest nieces/nephews as much as his siblings gave to our kids. So we plan to make it up to them the next time we visit-LOL. This year everyone is feeling the $$ pinch.

But perhaps the same man chooses to give each grandchild $21,000 instead, exceeding his annual exclusion limit by $4,000 per gift. In this scenario, grandpa could potentially owe gift taxes on the $40,000 overage, but more on that in a bit. What about married couples? Each spouse may give away $16,000 tax-free in 2022. This would allow Cynthia and Joe, a married couple, to give up to $32,000 to each of their three nieces and nephews every year.

I have 2 nieces and 1 nephew, all siblings. The eldest, N1, is 20. The other two are 18 and 15. I've vaguely had in mind that when they turn 21 then I'd stop buying them gifts. The adults buy each other gifts too. However, my family all get together at Christmas for present swapping. If I stop buying N1 gifts next year when she's 21, then at Christmas I'd be handing out presents to her parents and her two siblings, but not her. I can't possibly do that without feeling like a complete cow. I've suggested we all stop buying presents and instead we spend the money on a family day out or meal. It went down like a lead balloon - no one wants to do it. I've suggested secret Santa. I've suggested giving to charity. Nope.I can't think of any other way of stopping buying my nieces and nephew presents without feeling majorly awful and leaving one of them out. Is there anything else I haven't thought of? Otherwise I'm going to be buying them presents well into adulthood and, well, I don't really want to

Do the adult nieces and nephews buy you presents back?Just say with all this waste - lets stop buying each other presents. Or visit wateraid...suggest you all chip in and buy some in need the gift of a well so they can have fresh water or a flushing toilet.

N1 is at university, but goes home for the holidays and will likely return home after university. They're all still living at home. No the nieces and nephew don't buy gifts. So I'll get a present and it will be collectively from parents plus N1, N2 and N3. But I'd buy them all separate presents iyswim. And my husband will get a gift from the five of them as well. (We don't have children.) Same with greetings cards - they're from the five of them. I'm honestly not bothered that we buy five gifts and get two in return though - I've been really happy to do that while they've been children as I've really loved having nieces and a nephew. But, cost wise, I'd rather not do it for the rest of our lives. We all spend around 25 per gift per person. I've already suggested that we stop buying gifts and no one wants to.

I'm surprised they don't buy you presents. I started buying presents for my aunts, uncles and cousins once I was 18. We have slowly phased it out since. Originally giving normal gifts (like perfume / clothes etc) then gradually over the years spending less so I bought them small gifts (like a bottle of wine for aunt and uncle / spirits for young adult cousins) and they bought me small gifts back. Once I had DS they stopped buying for me and I stopped buying for them and the aunts and uncles just send a token gift to DS.I would just tell the parents you aren't buying them a present this year and tell them not to buy you one. If you really wanted you could just buy a token gift for each of the nieces to open so you don't feel like a total scrooge at present opening time but it isn't really necessary at their age.

I'd second the whole family gift idea, its something we did when kids got to age that gifting was harder and harder and it seemed we were swapping endless envelopes of phone credit, vouchers and cash, over time we made the family gifts smaller as we stopped buying for all adults except my parents and pil, then some kids got too old. We keep it going for one sil though as she's a single parent of three, one 21 , 2 late teens ,and none of her kids ever made much of an effort so we felt she needs the reward more than her kids, but if we get her a present then she feels she has to get us both presents making it just another burden on her. I know you suggested changing to a day out or meal and the idea was shot down but nothing stopping you getting them something like that their family can use. Over years we have done things like Panto tickets, other show tickets for later in year, cinema vouchers, a movie night home basket with dvds (later years net flicks voucher) popcorn , fizz and and treats . Family membership to zoo for year that's probably for younger kids but some random days out vouchers like alpaca trekking went down really well with teens.

Well at some point in the not too distant future it will escalate if the children have partners, I wouldn't want to be buying for niece/nephews' partners as well. Are there any charities that the young people support that you could give a donation to/buy something for on their behalf. Other than that, if you want to stop present buying altogether, say you're cutting back due to environmental concerns, a justifiable reason.

We still buy for our nieces (21, 16, 14), and will continue to do so. They all get the same thing (usually a voucher and some little bit gifts). I guess well keep buying for them for some time, probably until they have kids of their own?? then we'll start buying their kids instead.

One year, we split by how many kids you had. One year my parents wanted to be included in the drawing because they were low on funds and couldn't afford to buy for everyone. We split evenly one year except there were 2 extra kids so my sister and I each took one extra kid. I honestly don't feel it's even worth the hassle to draw names. We buy for all the nieces and nephews on DH's side. Do any of you have a method that works for your family?

Part of the reason we insisted on continuing to buy for nieces and nephews was because my brother's kids don't always get much for Christmas anyway. So really, the drawing thing benefits her the most monetarily and usually my brother next because we overcompensate for him and his constant lack of income. Which I'm fine with but even though she usually does the drawing and the splitting, I guess I don't understand what the deal is but she seems to get huffy about it every year. I actually would care less if she said she couldn't afford to buy for my kids and did not buy at all. However, now she was being passive aggressive at me by handing it over to me and then saying she would buy for 4 like she doesn't trust me not to give her more than what he have done historically. On her DH's side, they don't buy for the nieces and nephews, they do a huge secret santa type thing. 041b061a72