Now that you're older, are your gifts to family members more expensive and elaborate?

[LeekClock]

Do you give your parents, siblings, etc, better presents now that you're old enough to know better? Or have you decided that giving expensive presents is silly?

I remember, when I was younger, making breakfast for my parents, with my brother, and then offering a card and some terribly naff present, the purchase of which had taken a great deal of time and deliberation (and which was usually shared between my brother and I).

[DNAClock]

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[RabidClock]

More expensive
I hate holidays, I'd give up receiving any presents if it would mean that I was not obligated to give them. I think they mean more when they're random.

[patriotclock]

Now that I'm older gifts to my family members are existent.

(not really)

[FluxCapacitorClock]

I tend to get my family members useful things now that I'm older. Buying things for people lost all it's fun when I started having to get money on my own.

[Slash]

No, I stopped caring for birthdays instead.

[Solenoidclock]

I tend to make my own presents in batches, depending on the occasion. It's always a functional item that pushes one of my ideals in a subtle way. They're always a little different for personalization purposes, and the cost for me is next to nil.

Example: I give each extended family member at a Christmas gathering a kit containing six types of tea leaves, sorted into brushed altoids tins, instructions with steep times, amounts, and ideal water temperatures, a thermometer, a teacup, and a reusable teabag in a monogrammed felt bundle. Each kit costs me six dollars and some scrounging, and I make ten in a lazy afternoon.

I don't give gifts to my immediate family at the same time because they're all Jehovah's Witnesses and they think holidays are pagan.

Compared to eight years ago, I'd just giggle and open things. From there I gained a sense of goodwill and started spending about five bucks per member. The price has been locked, but for the past seven years elaborateness has been increasing.

[Slash]

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Being in Germany isn't doing you any good, you've allready developed a
vore-fetish in such a short amount of time, get out of there man.

[TequilaClock]

Hey macaroni isn't that cheap, ok? >:[



On serious notes, I can't because I am fucking broke and I have no job yet.

[Pin Clock]

I haven't bought anything in a long while.

[Topcatyo]

I don't get money (yet), so I don't give anything (yet).

[Schmellements Clawk]

nope i just gives thems what i always gives thems i just shove my index finger up my ass and make them sniff it lol!

sometimes i give out hitlers too but thats rare because my shit is godly if u kno what i mean

[joliet_jane]

Mother's Day coming up didn't buy anything yet OH SHI

$50 gift card fix everything?

[Marlin Clock]

For my parents it's always stayed at a steady level, I'll break the mold every once in a while, but that's if I have some excess cash.

With my brothers, present giving has devolved into nothing. We don't give each other stuff on birthdays or christmas.
Lately flowers have been all my mom's been asking for birth/mother's day, so that's not that elaborate either.

[HoochClock]

macaroni paintings still fly... and when they dont, fuck it. im not getting anyone anything.

[SageClock]

Not really. I don't live with them anymore so it's harder for me to figure out what they'd like that they don't already have, so I usually just give them gift cards or dvds nowadays, but occasionally I'll think of something cool and spend extra on them, or spend nothing but put a couple of days' worth of work into something creative and give them that. My Mom in particular appreciates those, but it's hard to come up with those.

[salmonberryclock]

I get cool stuff that I sometimes get cheap but its bettter

[Flounderpa]

I just give them a day without any work...just make them relax

[Soup Clock]

This past year my Christmas gift to my parents was giving my dad a vacation down the road at 2am to exchange my insurance info with some other guy because I was too drunk to do it myself.

[GodClock]

my whole family pitches in when its a gift for one person