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occasionalrain
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Registered: ‎03-10-2010

Gifts for Grandchildren

‎11-23-2013 08:34 PM

On the Quandary thread, a poster wrote she spent $400 on each grandchild. That's made me think about the other set of grandparents. Will they feel they need to match the $400 or at least come close? That's $800 of gifts without whatever the parents/Santa spend on each child. If the other grandparents spend less, like maybe $100 or just $50, will they be seen as cheap?

So now I'm wondering the motivation of the big spending grandparents, are they trying to gain favor, is it a power play?

I don't have grandchildren but if I did, I would have a discussion with the other grandparents and come up with an amount that they want to spend and I would do the same. I have only one child so, for me, there is no limit on what I can spend. That's not the case with other families who may have more children and lots of grandchildren.

So, outspending the other grandparents, is it fair, is it kind?

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