What age to stop kids Xmas presents?

Jo6673

princess_moomoo wrote:

If you have had a shockingly ungrateful reply theres your answer. I wouldnt bother!!

Here here!!:T stuff em!!

*Louise*

A friedn stopped sending her SIL's kid's money when they turned 21 (still sent cards though)......but the mother took offence and stopped even sending cards to my friends 2 son' who were only 12 and 14.

Families, eh?

*Louise*

yummynanny wrote:

In our family brothers and sisters continue to buy for one another until they have children at which point they stop receiving and the children start.

That's what we do.

Although sometimes my sister keeps buying me things, I've lost count of the times I've asked her not to.

Oh well, if she wants to buy her wonderful big Sis a present, who am I to complain??:D (I'll get her a bottle of her fave wine);)

Becles

It was 18 in our family.

However my brother is 2 years younger than me, and it was a bit upsetting when he got decent gifts at 16 and I got nothing!

When it was the other way round and one cousin had reached 18, my Mam bought them a token gift like a small box of chocs or couple of quid toiletry set, just so the older one had a gift to open.

jennron

I stop buying presents for neices and nephews after they are 18 as they are then adults and they should be buying you a xmas pressie instead.
if we meet them out and about solialising then we we buy them a drink.

buxtonrabbitgreen

yummynanny wrote:

In our family brothers and sisters continue to buy for one another until they have children at which point they stop receiving and the children start. Nieces and nephews stop getting gifts when they leave full time education or stop sending thank you letters, whichever is the sooner. Of course your own children and grandchildren continue to receive gifts for ever and ever. Luckily, this system has been adopted for years throughout our family and works very well.

I absolutely agree. I still buy for nieces and nephews at scool, bu am thinking of cutting one or 2 out after this year as they never even SAY thankyou. never mind the letters. I have stressed to my own 2 youngest teenagers the importance of thankig for gifts. DD is brilliant the day after her birthday she sat and wrote everyone nice long thankyous, but DS is likely to be cut off next year if he doesn''t get his finger out.

BillScarab

My parents stopped buying for all of my cousins when they were 18, they bought them a nice, slightly more expensive, 18th birthday present, usually something to keep and explained that as they were now adults they wouldn't buy for them in future. It seemed to work fine in our family. I had 15 cousins so it must have cost my parents a fortune in Christmas and birthday presents every year.

Princessa_2

Our family said they'd stop buying for the kids when they were 18, though I still get a fair few pressies off my aunties and uncles. They don't spend as much as they used to, but it's nice little things like scarves and things for my house. Now that I've got children, they maybe won't, and I won't mind at all. I did get stuff from them last year, but that's cause the girls were only a couple of weeks old then and I think they all wanted to pamper me after being pg, so I don't expect anything this year. Though I do like to watch all my little cousins open theirs.

Princessa_2

Pinklepurr wrote:

Thank you everyone for your replies so far. In fact, without giving too much away, we have raised the subject already with the parents of the "children" concerned and got a shockingly ungrateful reply!

What was said? And how old are they?

The_Pink_Wafer

In our family, everyone gets a present, but it's family to family. e.g we would give my aunt and uncle a shared present, they would give my Granny a present from both of them etc, so no one gets left out of any present giving.

My mother is extremely heavily in debt and my sister is in college, so no one was expecting them to give anything last year. However, I was highly impressed when my mother informed me that she managed to buy for everybody for less than a tenner! For example, my cousin is very gothic. She found her a silver bracelet with black charms on it on a market stall for 99p. She then wrapped it up in some pretty material rather than wrapping paper and my cousin loved it and wears it all the time.