Although our family isn't very big several years ago DIL#1 suggested at Thanksgiving we pull names out of a hat and instead of buying gifts for all family members we just buy one gift for the name we pull. DH was all for it as he usually only buys one gift, mine. When I told him one Christmas gift was all he would get from all of his family he quickly changed his mind. He likes to put his Santa hat on and pass out gifts for all of the family. I would have given individual gifts to all our sons, their wives and our grandkids anyway so it didn't make any difference to me. DIL#2 wasn't for it as she's stopped giving gifts to all of the family, her DH, our son, buys our gift. She has all holidays with her family so pulling names at Thanksgiving would be a problem and then when and where would we exchange Christmas gifts as we are rarely all together at anytime during Christmas. Sort of takes the whole good feeling out of sharing at Christmas.
Last edited by May in Jersey; 11-15-2012 at 06:43 AM.