I love the idea of not giving gifts, but playing games and winning them. It tickles me greatly. But I'd want to make sure the games were chosen so everyone has a reasonable change of winning something.

Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”

When I was a kid, the rule was We pick names from a hat, you buy one person a present, maximum 10 bucks. I liked it that way. And no problem continuing that into adulthood, if everyone wants to. Oh and we had to write a poem for the recipient :)

My side of the family stopped giving gifts a few years ago. Me and my brother (40, 46) are both married, no kids, and have houses. We already have more than we "need" and my parents have even more. I live in a different state and we don't spend Christmas together (my parents stay here for Thanksgiving). Mom tends to always send "small" gifts to us regardless, but it's food stuffs like coffee and Biscotti which lasts a while and is very nice. We all know we love each other, so we took the pressure of finding gifts off and hop on the phone instead. I sent cards this year. 😀

o.o Its so foreign to me. I always ever got one or maybe two gifts from my parents, now that we're adult we get some sweets and sometimes money. But not too much, maybe about 50 or something, sometimes less sometimes more, but we also gift our parents something this year they will get some selfbaked cookies because officially we don't gift anything.... turns out we always gift something...never the less 🙃. We help with their house and the garden (it's a veeeery big one) and do other things, like a family should. At least if it's a family you like. I love my family so it's always a giving and taking. As it should be.

We only buy for the kids/minors. I mean, that's what Christmas is all about in children's minds, IMO. We all have Birthdays for receiving gifts.

Why would my kids being in a different stage of life make them mean less to me? I don't have much, but there is a gift of some sort under the tree for each of my grown kids, the one's partner and two littles. The other is not partnered. I'll never stop acknowledging them during the winter festivities. What a slap in the face that would be for me to hurt them like that.

My grandchildren found a Plan Canada catalogue several years ago. They were quite interested in what it was. It’s a charity that purchases needed items for people all over the world. My grandkids chose to buy school books, goats, chickens, mosquito nets over the years and have that as their gift. They are 22 and 19 now and we still do a charity gift.

Each to their own, but personally I feel buying for adult "kids" is unnecessary, esp. if you've been supporting them over the years with big things. Christmas gifts are great for children, but adults shouldn't expect them. Christmas (as the name implies) is for celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, if you're of that persuasion, not gift giving because it's "expected".

In our family, we picked names out of a hat and the price limit for the gifts was ten dollars (in the 70's). Worked just fine for me. Oh and we had to write a poem for the recipient. We enjoyed our time together as a family. More recently I saw a friend buy a mountain of gifts for his child because he felt guilty for not spending enough time with him. Kid ripped open all the presents in a kind of strange, manic frenzy and then looked up and said, "Is that all?"

I am an adult child lol and my mom and I run everything for Christmas. We set limits for everyone and that's all we spend up to. My toddler gets free reign lol I love Christmas so I will never stop buying gifts for anyone

We do a $30 secret Santa for all the adults and any teens with jobs who choose to join. Kids get $10 presents.

Ok I hate Xmas with a passion but for my kids context I’m 60 kids are 23-20 and I will NEVER stop buying them Xmas or bday gifts EVER what sort of vile parents do that ffs yes my kids have a lot more money than me n live t home but I set a budget and they now give me a list of bits n bobs hard when they buy own stuff totally lmao but I put a ban on it over dec lol so I got ideas 😂 but NEVER EVER would I stop getting my kids gifts I’m a parent and I make sure they know they are loved those two are scum should never have had kids ! End off

I'm a maker, not a buyer. All this talk about buying gives me creepies.