Gift Giving

I know the holidays are still several months away, but they’ll be here before you know it. This evening I mentioned to DH that I think he should consider just getting gifts for his friends’ children only and not for his friends.

He has to think about it.

I suggested that not only because prices for everything are soaring these days and everyone is tightening their budgets, but because that’s just the way I’ve known things to be when children are in the picture. Even when I was little, my parents’ friends would give gifts only to us and not to my parents.

It was all about the children.

My friends and I do a Secret Santa gift exchange so we just need to buy one gift. We do, however, buy gifts for all the children. There are lots and lots of children, and more and more will probably be born each year, so you can imagine how expensive things could be if you were to buy gifts for the children AND the parent(s). Of course, if I find a really nice gift for one of my closest friends, that wouldn’t stop me from giving it to her during the holidays. But the norm for us is Secret Santa for the adults, gifts for all the children.

Do you give holiday gifts (if at all) to your friends and their children, or just the adults, or just the children?

Or does it depend?

I’m just curious…