Age when you stop giving gifts to nieces/nephews?

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Or do you give them forever well into adulthood? And if you do continue to give gists when they become adults, do you expect gifts / cards in return or is it a one way system that started when they were children regardless of their ages now?

Both of my nephews are adults, one with his own children now, and the other is getting married soon. They both live far away so I never see them bar the very rare occasion (funeral, wedding). We rarely talk but we’re not on bad terms at all. For context their father (my brother) died when they were both young, and they were partly raised by my parents but I was not at home at that time as I was already married and lived some distance away.

Just wondering what other people do?

18

We stopped when they became 18 and now just give gifts to their children. Hope this helps!

I was going to say when they have dc of their own but actually our eldest niece is 31 with her own children and we buy for niece, husband and the 2dc!
We have 14 nieces and nephews between us ranging from 7 to 31 and buy for them all still. Aswell as 6 adult godchildren!

So I don’t really have an answer for you, we don’t stop.

I used to say 21/full time education but I got pissed off at the total lack of thank yous (not even a text) and stopped at 18.

My sisters still give presents to my adult children but then my adult children buy gifts for their aunties so that makes it a bit different . I can’t imagine why any working adult would take gifts from someone and not reciprocate.

21 in our family. We do kris kindle in our family and once they reach 21 they join the adult kk.

18 - which is ironic really, as that's the exact age they start needing money more than ever!

My sister stopped when my kids were 8 & 9 but she is a tight assed bitch so I wouldn’t follow her example. We all gave her son presents until he was 18 and some of us continued until 21 (traditional age in our family).

Exactly @ManchesterLu ! And part of the reason we didn’t stop. All of the older ones went to uni, Christmas presents were either care packages of nice food and drinks of mostly cash/vouchers. Now the ones that are home owners get a voucher for a local restaurant and cash for a babysitter or a ticketmaster voucher.

I'm 40 and 2 sets of Aunties & uncles still give me gifts, I really wish they would stop. Feel they should of stopped sending as soon as I was an adult at 16.
They send every birthday and every christmas and it gets on my nerves.

I'm in my 60's and am lucky enough to have two aunts who are still around. They both buy or send money for me and my family - me, DH, 2 dcs and dils, 2 dgc. We of course send to them as well. We don't manage to get together as often as we would like, but talk often on the phone and send messages and pictures either via email or WhatsApp. My sibling decided a couple of years ago to stop all gifts other than to young children. I would have preferred to continue buying - we are a small family so didn't add £££ to the Christmas budget, but she wanted to stop so that was it.

At 18 or when we lost contact with them which happened when a couple of nephews left their family homes to live in shared houses etc.
My nephews on DH side of the family are all over 30 with families of their own and 2 are over 40. My DS is the youngest cousin by over 10 years and is actually younger than oldest cousin's kids. We've actually decided not to buy for the great neices and nephews because we're at opposite ends of the UK and we don't see them much. We do however treat them when we do meet up.

We gave each of ours a (double value) present for their 18th birthdays and that was the last one.

I've later treated them to lunch or whatever when I've met up with them, when they were students, but the last presents were at 18.

I would say 21. They are likely to be broke and grateful in the late teen years. Whereas young children want for nothing and end up swamped with presents.