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| View Poll Results: With whom do you exchange gifts? | |||
| Just about everyone I know |
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1 | 2.17% |
| Immediate family and many friends |
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0 | 0% |
| Immediate family (spouse, parents, sibs) and a few close friends |
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35 | 76.09% |
| Spouse or parents only |
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4 | 8.70% |
| No one - presents are for the kids - the adults agree not to buy for each other |
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5 | 10.87% |
| I buy and receive exactly 42 gifts each year |
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1 | 2.17% |
| Voters: 46. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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Poll in a minute
Aside from buying gifts for the kids in your family -- with what other adults do you exchange gifts.
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I'm not very good at making polls -- I just realized that none of my options even fit me - oh well -- do the best you can.
Another thread made me curious about others' giftgiving practices. My spouse and I usually decide on something we both want for Christmas and don't actually exchange gifts. This year it was a new video camera. I buy for my parents, his parents, our siblings, and my grandma but the gifts are small - a bottle of wine, a basket of fruit. Nothing elaborate. The real presents are for the kids in the family.
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I buy for my parents, my brother and his wife, my niece, my two best friends, and one relative for our family get-together (we have a big family, so we each draw a name and buy that person a gift - $20 limit). This year I also bought gifts for a less fortunate family. My sis-in-law's church has a program where you can sign up to provide gifts to a needy family, and she was given a family of 5 to buy for, so I offered to help and buy some of the items. I probably had the most fun shopping for those items - I know it sounds cliche, but it really did feel good to buy stuff for people that can't afford to go shopping much and buy themselves nice new things.
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(I try to remember that when they get inundated with stuff 3 days later and still find something to fight with each other about.
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[nerd alert]
I come from a big family...especially when you add in the spouses that have been acquired over the years. So, a number of years ago I set up an MS Excel spreadsheet to randomly assign names to each other. I set it up so that you didn't get yourself (of course), your spouse, or the person that you got last year. I think it's pretty cool. [/nerd alert]
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Hmm, I said "family and a few close friends" but I don't know that I actually gave anything to the friends. I did give gifts to the friends' kid, and I did pick stuff out that would appeal to friends, too. . . But they gave me something, so it was sort of half an exchange.
Oh wait - I did buy her a magazine subscription - and I'm SURE he'll enjoy the toy I bought for their kids. So maybe I answered right. I enjoy buying gifts for the family adults. It's an excuse to spend time thinking about what they would like. |
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We get gifts for the kids and then donate money to charities in each other's names. I chose "kids only" in the poll because you don't have a "kids and random strangers only" choice. Sheesh.
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