We usually kept back a couple of presents until Boxing Day - it keeps the excitement going. One year, my daughter bought her usual shed-load of toys and put some away at the back of her wardrobe and completely forgot them. She found them in February, and they were greeted with rapture as the excitement of Christmas had waned.
I was exceptionally lucky in one set of 'the other grandparents'. My daughter's mother-in-law is one of the nicest people I have ever met and I never felt any competition to be the 'most loved' grandmother. Sadly, she now has Alzheimer's and doesn't recognise her grandchildren.
My other daughter's MIL was an absolute bitch who never bought the children anything and would have resented any woman that her son married.
My own MIL used to knit the girls horrible jumpers in cheap, scratchy wool, which they refused to wear apart from the day we visited her.
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How much do you spend on yourself?
To obliterate your address on packaging