Does anybody else do this?

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Do you give your siblings presents? I'm skint, they are skint and I'm thinking it's about the time spent together and the feast. so why all skint ourself out and instead just get the children and parents presents this year?!

Does anybody else do this?

No. We only buy for our parents.

I give to my siblings and my husband gives to his twin but not the other two. I think it’s silly to spend more than you have on presents for adults. Maybe make some fudge or Christmas biscuits?

On my side we only buy for the children, and adults get a little token gift (apparently hated on MN but welcomed in my world!) On my DHs side we have to buy for everyone which is a pain in the arse. Sometimes I think we should all just gift ourselves £50 and be done with it. (Bah humbug)

So my siblings from us get a box of biscuits or chocolates. And we buy my neice and nephew presents. Have done for a couple of years now, it works for us

I don't buy for my siblings & they don't buy for me, we are not actually 'skint' but it seems pointless to each spend £20 (or whatever) on each other & not really be given anything you particularly want. We've also now agreed with parents that we won't exchange gifts, just enjoy getting together.
I therefore have no Christmas shopping, I give cash to my DS & nieces, nephews & godchildren. DH & I don't exchange gifts.... I might just treat myself to something I really want .

We buy boxes of chocolate - it's a gift and we would buy that anyway so makes no difference financially

I buy for my younger sister who doesn't have dc. Don't exchange gifts at all with older sister or her grown up dc. Don't do gifts for my brother but I do for his 2 sons

We ceremonially exchange gift vouchers of equal value.

We never buy for adults just the kids as there is over 15 all together so to get adults as well would need a loan

We agreed to just buy for each other’s children.

I actually do buy DSis a present though, because she’s a single parent and I want her to have something special.

I do, because my siblings don't have children and are unlikely to for various reasons. We also don't have a large family (it's essentially just us and our parents) so extra presents are always good! We don't buy for DH's sibling but do for our nephew, and the sibling buys for our children not us. It works well.

We did a secret Santa for a while but have stopped that now and just buy for kids. On dh side we used to buy a "wine & chocolates" gift for his cousins as well as buying for their kids, and get something similar in return. It was so fucking pointless. One year when was a baby we were so skint we weren't buying each other a gift so I said let's cancel the token gifts and save 60 quid.

No siblings but my cousin and I used to take part in a ritual exchange of sweet tins but now we don't even do that.

Now everyone is an adult and can buy themselves what they need as opposed to waiting for Christmas/birthdays (and we're all a bit skint to be honest) we don't buy each other gifts. We tend to get food things like a chocolate orange for my sister who likes to eat one every Christmas as a tradition. I try to get my parents food items from a nice shop, like fancy mince pies or a luxury Christmas cake

We don't buy for siblings but do buy for nieces/nephews

Me and siblings stopped buying for each other once we all had dcs as it was too expensive.

We managed to persuade DP's siblings to do a secret santa last year as it was too expensive, especially as we were expected to buy for each sibling plus partner. Secret santa per couple worked well.

We try and make sure we share a day out/exoeriemce/meal with each other instead.

But no way to transactional gift giving where everyone bungs a £20 voucher at each other in a pointless, circular way!

As soon as we all had kids we put a stop to it to everyone's huge relief!

We just buy for the children in our family.

If you're both skint, they'll probably be relieved if you say you'd prefer not to exchange gifts this year.

We don't buy for siblings who have DC. I still buy for my sister and her DH, and they do for us (and DS).

I give to my brother & his wife ,ive always gave my brother since i was a child id buy xmas gifts with my birthday money. My brother has 4 children & i have 5 x

I do think that at some point you have to cut back x

Yep we do. Suits us as we are by far the poorest although it was not our decision. The only thing is on of my BILs has 3 kids so we have to fork out for 3 presetns whereas he, who earns a lot of money, only has to get two (one for our DS and other nephew). They just have to have smaller gifts.

No, never buy for my brother unless it’s a bottle of wine. I buy for his children and I buy for my parents.

I don't exchange with my brother, DH's sister we only buy for the kids and the do the same, easy as same number of kids and of a similar age. I buy for my Mother and Dh's Mother.