When do you stop buying Christmas presents for nieces/nephews

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Is 17 too young to stop buying Christmas presents for nieces and nephews?

I ask because we're on a bit of a tighter budget this year. We're not hard up by any means, but we've got bills for our garden revamp, extension etc to pay and so we're cutting back on present budgets wherever we can, including for each other and our own kids (5 and 2).

DH's sister has 3 kids - 21, 17 and 4. We stopped buying for the 21yo last year, and we are thinking of saying to SIL that 17yo won't be getting a gift. It's very hard to buy for the older 2 - they only like designer make up like MAC and Bobby Brown, and designer clothing (even their underwear has to be Calvin Klein or they won't wear it). So the last few years we've gone down the £30 voucher route but really that doesn't buy then much for their tastes, they end up having to find at least another £30 to buy a single thing they like, which has been commented on before. So we can't even try and get away with a cheaper present!

We will still buy the 4yo a present. SIL always buys ours, but in fairness from birth we've bought all of hers too.

Is it the height of tightness to say no presents for the older 2? I've only ever dealt with young children and I am yet to enter the arena of Christmas present politics 🙈

My family stops around 16 I think, however my 43 year old husband still gets them from his aunts and uncles and I just wish they would stop. I know that is rude and ungrateful but they never buy stuff we want (think gaudy bowls from other countries, olive oil sets, hand towels etc) so it goes straight to the charity shop. I just can’t understand it and if they did feel the need a charity donation would be much better. My MIL is the same too, she recently told me she buys presents for 40 people!!!!

We stop at 16 for Christmas, but do 18th birthdays.
After that it's just a token but nice gift like wine or posh chocolates.
I like choosing younger children's gifts but then they get to an age when only money will do, usually around 13.
For my great nieces I've already told the parents I'm stopping at 12 and will give a family gift instead.

We stopped buying when nieces/nephews reached 21, agreed by everyone.
My children are much younger, and surprisingly once the other 21 year olds stopped getting gifts, so did my younger children - as 'we agreed we would stop'.

We've stopped buying for my husbands cousins (22 and 18) and so his auntie and uncle have stopped buying for our kids (15, 12 & 7) my DH wanted to carry on buying but I put my foot down.
I've stopped buying birthday gifts for my brothers and sister now as they are 34, 22 and 20 because they have never bothered to buy so much as a selection box for my kids even though they are their nieces and nephew. 34yr old occassionly puts money in the bank for them at Christmas but not every year. I was getting sick of buying for them and nothing sent for my kids. I don't give to receive, me and DH would never expect a gift but something little for our kids would be nice..

Well, my 81 year old father still gets a present from his aunt and uncle who are 93 and 94, so that's the precedent set for our family. And they also buy a present for my 78 year old mother who is only a relative by marriage.

would change cut off age to 18, so this is last one, I know vouchers can be a bit of a pain for the teen as they really don't like adding their own money to them, had these problems with my DD, as she didn't want to "waste " vouchers on t shirts etc but wanted bigger more expensive items, so we used to give DNieces and nephews, something like phone credit. or iTunes or cinema vouchers these seemed to go down far better and smaller amount is fine, even Mc Donald vouchers for the little ones when younger as they saw older siblings with vouchers and wanted some, we often gave a family voucher eg for family to go bowling, to zoo, to day out, that worked well when a few teens in one family, for last few years we moved over to selection box and £10 in pocket, as its just one DN maybe you could just find out what nieces fav chocolate is or treat is, and get her some of that or a voucher for a manicure, all of which would cost less than 30 but still feel like she's not forgotten