to my DB & SIL. To put into context I don't really like them as my DB is a taker (always has been!). For so many years now I have given them reasonable gifts and what I have got back is just so cheap. One year we got a packet of pot purri (when dd was little and I couldn't put it out or she would eat it!). The year before last we got a bag of jelly babies. Last year we got a box of biscuits that I saw in the supermarket for £3. My sister & other brother both got the same! My mum always said to us that it was always the thought that counted and you don't give to get back. But I have had enough.
My brother is not poor. My sister and I had a discussion last christmas that we were going to regift the box of biscuits back to them this year. But we realised they would be out of date and therefore a bit petty.
I have been trying to think outside the box about a suitable gift for them this year and had the inspiration that I could do one of those charity gifts, like a goat or a couple of chickens, or a water well and put it in their name, with a card explaining the gift to be opened on christmas morning. My dd thinks I have lost the plot!
What do you think?