quick Hanukah gift question

I remember being little and getting maybe 1-2 big gifts , 1-2 medium ones, and the rest little (like Barbie clothes, colring books, CDs.) Do you do this, or some other gift rule with your DC. And I should probably add that DS is Catholic so we celebrate Xmas as well. So needless, to say, this kid can't get ten million gifts.

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DH's family keeps it small. Small in the value of each gift but there is still a lot.

The guideline is each aunt/uncle spends approx $20 per child. My DC's got books, craft projects, personalized step stools their aunt made for them, stuff for their play kitchen.

Grandma and Papa give several small gifts, outfits and a check for a "nice amount" for their college fund

All of my nieces and nephews, as well as us, celebrate both. IMO, it's just a blur of one present after another. One year we had Chanukah one night and Christmas the second. There were so many gifts that they couldn't remember on the second night what they got just 24 hours before

I didn't give my DC's anything for Chanukah because I knew DH's family (who gets them the the majority of their gifts) was getting them a lot.

ETA: We haven't even taken the gifts home yet. They are still at IL's. I plan on hiding several and taking them out throughout the year.

Message edited 12/21/2008 10:12:41 PM.

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DS really won't be getting Hanukah gifts from anyone but me. My parents will buy him stuff, but we exchange gifts on Xmas, so he will think they're Xmas gifts. And I know it may sounds weird, but even though I wasn't raised overly religious and DS really won't be either, I don't want him to think that Xmas is great and Hanukah is a big nothing. Now don't get me wrong, it has nothing to do with the money, I would have no issue giving him 8 small things, but I want to light the candles and explain it all so that it means something as he gets older. KWIM?

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We do one big gift and then smaller gifts. This year's big gift for DS is a train set. We were going to give it to him tonight but I ended up giving it to him last week. He is 16 months old. I saw that there was a huge price cut on it from 70 to 20 so I had to take it back to the store to get the price adjustment - and he saw it. He freaked out that he thinking he was not getting it. So I figured that he would not know one night from the other and so he got it that day instead.
I had planned on giving him some additional trains with the train set - those he did not see and so he will get them tomorrow night.

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When I was little, I got 8 gifts. There are 4 kids in my family and there was no way Mom and Dad were going to get 32 gifts. As we got older, we had the choice of 8 little ones or one big one. As adults, we just got cash.

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My mom is Jewish, dad is Catholic. Same as DS only I was raised Jewish.

Anyway, my grandparents always bought 1 big present 7 little presents. And my parents took care of Christmas.

This is how it is working with DS as well. My parents are taking care of Chanukah and DH and I a doing Christmas.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure my parents will do a gift or 2 for Christmas as well. But they already said they'd be happy doing Chanukah.

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My mom is thrilled that I'm "doing" Chanukah with DS, but it's all on my shoulders. I just don't want him being overly confused around the holidays. And I also don't want him to be a spoiled brat this time of year.

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At this age, I am getting him what suits him, knowing that he does not see the difference between the little gifts and the big ones just yet. I think that it will vary each year but that I will want him to open something every night of Hanukah.

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i am Jewish and DH is catholic and we are raising my DS Jewish, although we celebrate both holidays. This year we got him a present for each night of Hanukkah, ranging from big to small and then he will get 2 gifts on x-mas (one big, one small). He will get so many gifts for both Hanukkah and x-mas from both our families, so prob once he starts to really understand, we will make it one big gift the 1st night of Hanukkah and 7 smaller ones the other nights and then one big one for x-mas.
I really want to reinforce Hanukkah for him (and getting a present each night) as i have so many wonderful memories as a kid of it and celebrating with my family. Because DH is catholic, Hanukkah falls on us to do too (my family already has so many people who come for Hanukkah and limited room, so i cant ask them to invite DH whole family too), since i do want his family to celebrate us, so we do Hanukkah dinner for them and his family split his presents, he gets half from them that night and the other half on x-mas.

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