Christmas shopping for completely different generations and personalities

Mixed my sons up ds1 is married to dil, and ds2 is greedy (but my forever youngest and spoiled baby of the family) Dyslexic and acronyms/abbreviations do not mix.

The adult children don’t get any presents from us. The Grandchildren always want money. Suits me fine ? I don’t have to think about it.
Me and other half don’t bother for the simple reason that if there’s anything we want we buy it.

I usually buy lots of presents. This year I’m cutting back. One present each. It had all got too stressful.

I don't buy much at all. In-laws get a hamper with some of their favourite treats, son and daughter (and their partners) get a voucher of some sort, usually for a night away in a hotel or similar, and then it's just something for our grandson.

I stopped buying xmas presents once the kids hit 18 including grandkids. Now I buy just for my 7 year old grandson.

I’m buying for ages from 94yo to five weeks old!

Hurray, managed to do the shopping for pre-Christmas birthday presents today!

Christmas? Is it that time already?

Easy. The adults do not buy presents for each other in our family; we only buy for the children.

We (I) buy for my daughter and her two children, my son and this year his partner and her daughter. MrJ and I do buy for each other. We all make lists of 5/6 things, from a couple of ££ to about £25, I hold the lists so there’s no duplication. We also buy for two couples, they are friends. Haven’t bought for our siblings for many years. My son and daughter get roughly the same amount spent on them, ditto GC’s, son’s partner and daughter will be treated the same.
We’ve always done lists, my Mum used to hold them before me.

I love Christmas, and still buy for my adult kids, and grandchildren. Small budget, and fun finding little treats within that.

We do Secret Santa for all the adults and I give money to 3 GC the Grt GC get a small gift and money for savings. I hate buying presents and we all agreed SS takes all the stress out of it.

We only have 3 GC and three adults to buy/make for. Not a great problem - get suggestions and suggest things. The adults then choose for the young! Odds for a few other people - usually smellies or suchlike.

Love hearing everyone else’s plans for shopping. SueDonim your age range is very similar to mine!
Jaxjacky yours sounds like military ry precision, I’m very impressed. Do you find the couples more fun to buy for or the gc’s?
MerylStreep my second son would just have money, but I love buying presents ?
Calistemon oh lord, you have winter birthdays, that makes the holiday season very expensive ??
Boz do you buy from a list or go off piste?

Rosalyn69 and calmlocket that’s understandable it starts getting ridiculous doesn’t it. I had to finally listen to son and dil and stop buying because it was all going to the charity shop! ? In the nicest possible way they pleaded for no more stuff!
Blondiescot a hamper and a hotel night away are jolly nice gifts, perhaps we should make friends ?

^Calistemon oh lord, you have winter birthdays, that makes the holiday season very expensive^??

Bad planning DillytheGardener ?

Ha ha, we weren’t taught to plan our children’s birthdays for an even year long present distribution, they missed a trick Calistemon . My family birthdays are unfortunately all bunched up around summer. Gets very expensive.

We're only buying for the three-year old, the eight-year-old, the ten-year-old and the eighty-eight-year old

I love Christmas shopping and must confess to doing more than I expected while on holiday in Cornwall last week.
Warm woolly jackets with horses or tractors on for the young grandchildren, pottery for DiL and a copper bowl for DD. The menfolk are more difficult.
The National Trust shop has a lot of nice gifts.
I'm in trouble for buying the puppy a very posh drying coat, but it will be very useful of course!

The two grandsons get a small toy gift and money; the two older granddaughters get toiletries and money. They like it this way.

Only buy for my husband, three adult children and two 9/10 year old grandchildren

We found that we were buying outside the immediate family, for the sake of buying, so decided to put a stop to it. I think it was a relief all round

Secret Santa for the grown up relatives… saves a fortune.

I give all the adults a voucher for a shop of their choice, the same amount for each couple. I also get a token present for them to open on the day, the same thing for all the women and a different present for all the men. These small presents are usually consumable ( biscuits, chocolates, special sauces etc) or more traditional ( socks, slippers, scarves etc)

Then all I have to sort out are my niece and nephew but at ages 15 and 18 they mainly want money now ( by bank transfer) so they also get a couple of token presents such as tins of sweets or the same as the adults if suitable.

I no longer but for friends as we all decided some years ago not to bother, we just go out for a lovely meal in January.

I often buy the small gifts online from Lakeland or M&S as I struggle to go shopping now.

I love buying presents for people. I have to know what I'm buying first though, I'd hate trawling from shop to shop without a clue. I buy 'stocking' presents as and when I see things during the year. Or did anyway.

I haven’t got a huge family so I know that I do by the family I’ve got far too much but I enjoy it

Buy?