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Ideas for Unused Christmas Gifts

It's great advice to do your Christmas Shopping throughout the year. My immediate family is large, my husband and I and 4 kids. What do you do when you have bought these gifts for extended family members that you have exchanged gifts with for years, and then a couple of weeks before Christmas they announce that they do not want to exchange or members ask to draw names?

I understand why they do not, most of the rest of our families are small or have no children. So I guess that it's too expensive to buy for my family. Now I've got all of these gifts stored and what am I going to do with them? I can't return them because I bought them too long ago, and some are regifts. So they sit basically gathering dust. It's very frustrating. When someone asks to not exchange, I can't say "No! You have to buy for us because I already bought your presents!"

Last year I went ahead and gave some of the presents even though it was with persons that asked to not exchange. I don't really feel good about giving presents to family members that don't want to exchange with us. This is not thrifty at all!

Amy from Columbus, OH

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