Does your group buy/make everyone a gift or do you draw names with a money limit?

[joel]

My group buy/make gifts for everyone, until this year. At the Asian restaurant some said we should draw names. This is after black Friday sale where I have bought most of the gifts for the year.
So we use a site that randomly picks names for the group.
I got son name, so I have a gift for him, also gifts for five other people.
So if you change gift giving, do it early in the year.

 

[OldSchool]

Picking names from a hat is good among young adults when spending Christmas with a large group of siblings and cousins. Been there and done that years ago, it was cool.

 

[lilmissy]

We draw names each year at our family Christmas Eve get together. We draw names for anyone under 16. To many of us. We set $50 an adult and $30 on kids. You can spend more or less or make it all. No rules really. Some siblings, in laws, and such are easier to make things for.

 

[zoomzoom]

I give gifts to my parents, wife and kids to the tune of around $200 each.
The other 18-20 people gets token gifts of around $15 each.

 

[Mountain trapper]

The wife and I get each other something for Christmas and we get the grandkids something. For the grandkids we like giving them their bank deposit slips. They get excited about watching their money grow. We never buy the gkids any plastic junk. Next Christmas I plan on buying the grandson his first rifle. For their birthdays we're getting the grandkids metal detectors.

 

[Amish Heart]

We do pretty much what zoom zoom does. Except little granddaughter gets more from us than the other grandkids because she doesn't have parents that take care of her or buy her things, so that'd be us. Some years husband and I just buy something big for the both of us that we wanted. Nothing we could think of this year, so we each have a short list. I asked for a yogurt maker and I'll give him some book titles of wants, and a portable washer for when mine is down. He's got some weird techy things on his.

 

[Pearl]

It's usually just the two of us, all family is far away ()! We get something that the house or place needs. The cats and Bear get treats. Buddy gets new 50 lb salt and mineral blocks each Christmas!

 

[Amish Heart]

Pup Rowdy is getting a stocking this year. So is our son's new girlfriend, Rachel. She's coming for Christmas.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I almost forgot about Tracker. He's getting a new bed and maybe a new coat.

 

[Weedygarden]

We used to exchange gifts with lots of people, but then most are now deceased. Daughter and I exchange gifts. She has had years of wanting little, and then there are years where a new I-phone or laptop are on her need list, so I get that for her. I know she gets gifts from her aunt in N.D. Depending on the year, we gift visitors to our Christmas Eve dinner evening, maybe a bottle of wine, maybe a pie, or some other food.

 

[Mountain trapper]

We don't know many people around where live here and most family live 400 - 500 miles away. The kids are having Christmas at their home. The wife and I are looking forward to having a nice Christmas dinner by ourselves. For dinner it'll probably be one of our chickens, shrimp or crab cocktail, roasted potatoes, dressing, gravy and pie for desert. For Christmas eve we'll pop open a bottle of fine wine.

 

[LadyLocust]

For adults, many years ago we set a $10 limit because none of us could afford to keep doing things like BBQers and electronics and whatever else. We haven’t really veered too far from that. Hubby and I get each other gifts but my folks usually get me a farmers almanac (which I like). All the kids are adults now. We don’t go crazy there either. It’s more than $10 but maybe $20.