I know this is a bit premature, but we are moving away from family and I also have family members who shop for all of their Christmas gifts in Sept, so I need to address it now. Basically, I am thinking about letting each of our families know that we won't be buying Christmas gifts this year. This is for several reasons. Firstly, I spend most of Nov and December shopping for gifts (for some quite materialistic members off family) which then go off into the abyss and no thanks is ever received. Secondly, by the time I get to Christmas, I am usually too burnt out to enjoy it and I think all of the gift buying misses the point of what it should be about. Thirdly, we try to avoid buying unethically sourced plastic tat for our DS, but mountains of it come through the door on Christmas Day and we spend the whole year wading through it while DS largely ignores it. I think that DS gets more than enough gifts from us, so he won't suffer and the cousins also get loads of stuff too. I'm not trying to be mean at all, but I feel like the consumerist aspect of the celebration has gone crazy an I want to pull back from it. Advice appreciated before the inlaws hit the shops in Sept.