How many people give your dcs presents (in addition to mum dad and santa!)

[elliott]

Intrigued by the thread on thank you letters, where some people seem to be writing 15 or more thank you letters, I am wondering what is the average number of presents your dcs receive at Christmas? And I wonder whether that influences how much you buy them?
I buy my dcs quite a lot (I think), but they never seem to be inundated (we got through our presents under the tree in less than an hour I think!)

So I counted it up and they have 8 relatives who normally get them Xmas presents (two grandpas, two uncles, one set of great grandparents, three great aunts). In addition, one of my friends usually gets something small like chocolate for them.

Is that average, a lot, or not many?

Granny.
Grandad.
Grandma and Grandpa (for both ds even though they aren't elder ds bio grandparents. He also gets from his pat uncle and aunt and granny. Oh, and his own dad, natch)
Uncle and Aunty 1.
Uncle and Aunty 2.
Uncle 3.
Great Aunt.
And a friend of mine.
Btw- are we really, really rude that we don't ever write thank you letters? We say thank you at the time-isn't that enough? I wouldn't expect any more.

This year we had...

Us / Santa
Maternal grandparents (another sack from Santa, despite pleas to cut back!)
Paternal grandparents
Great Grandparents (a mini sack despite more pleas to cut back!)
Uncle
My Friends
Joint friends
Hubby's friends
Childminder
My aunt
My great aunt

Took us about 3 days to get through it all - way too much stuff, and their favourite present that they still love above all others is the cardboard box they got.

2 sets of grandparents (each buying 2-3 main presents and LOTS of bits)
My brother and his wife.
Dh's brother and his wife
About 8 sets of aunts and uncles
My parent's best friends.
Dh's best friend and wife.
A close work colleague of dh's and wife
a couple of friends of the mil.
One cousin

my mom
my dad
my sis + BIL
my 2 nephews
my 3 sets of friends
my 4 aunts + uncles
my 2 cousins
my sis's PIL (!)
dp mom and stepdad
dp step-grandad
dp 2 x sis + bil
dp bro + sil

my eldest is from a previous relationship so she also gets presents from her dad and huge amount of family where he lives but i never get to see that as it stays there.

i had my youngest dc, dd2 at 1pm on xmas eve last year. Got home from hospital about 5pm and we had to wait till everyone asleep before dragging all those presents out!! - craziest xmas ever