to think that once nieces/nephews reach 18 you stop buying presents for them?

[Cupawoman]

I have 7 neices and nephews, aged between 15 and 21. We always agreed that once they all reached the age of 18 the present buying would stop. In practice this has proved very hard to do as the 3 18+ ones are all students. When did you stop buying birthday/Christmas presents for nieces and nephews?

My very DM stops buying when they reach ten. After that it's a card with a token amount of money in it.

After that it's 18 and 21, weddings etc.

Somehow, several weeks before my DCs' birthdays she manages to "give" them something she has "just happened to come across in the shop" grin

Maybe that should be

We have 7 nieces and nephews and have not stopped when they reach a certain age. We do however only give birthday gifts if we see them around their birthdays (some live quite far) but at christmas, everyone gets, even if its something small. My one sister has never bought for my kids for birthdays or christmas as they just cant afford it but we still buy for hers.

God I wish my DH's family did this! I have decided that I am not sending one of the 18-year-olds anything this year because he has started working and never ever says thank you I think we are obliged to send the other one something because he is a student (and very nice). I think 18 would be sensible - or 21 at a push.

We say 18 which annoys me slightly because for example, I'm 25 years older than my youngest cousin, so I've been buying him and the other under 18s presents for a few years now. But none of them would ever so much as send a birthday card to dd. I think if I am buying my contemporaries presents (which they are, generation-wise), then they should think of my child, surely?

The presents stopped for me and my brother when we were about 13, before the new ruling came in!

That's so nice Nuttychic.

Too many people forget that it's better to give than receive.

I love to buy small gifts for most of my family but my MIL spoils the gift of giving by saying loudly as she unwraps her gift "I don't want anything. I"ve told everyone not to buy me anything as I can't afford to give anything back"

I somethimes feel like saying to her "The best gift you could give me is to accept my gift gracefully"

I have 15 Dn & n's, so far. . .
We stop at 13, and then they get something at 16/18/21/wedding.
If we don't buy for any of the Dn in the family, we'll give the family a box of sweets/choc at Christmas (MY Dsis's 2 are 19 & 22).
OH and I don't have any children so we get bought for as a couple, as does my single Sis, but there is a limit (normally £15 per person or £25 per couple).
All sounds very, well boring all written down doesn't it but it isn't really!!