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Christmas is my favourite time of year and I've always gone a bit overboard with our daughters. Now that they are adults we have cut back a lot. I still do stockings for everyone, including SIL. I love doing it and they love receiving their stocking. For gifts, I treat my married daughter and her husband equally. I usually give them one shared gift and then a couple of smaller individual gifts. For example last year we gave them tickets to a cooking school where they watch a 5 star chef prepare a 3 course meal and then they are served all the courses. They are foodies so I knew they would enjoy this. The smaller gifts were books and things like that. Total spent was around $150 per person including the stockings. This is way down from what we used to spend. I really try to make sure no one feels left out. Gift cards are a great idea as well. I think if you give cash you shouldn't tell them what to spend it on. That should be their choice. For birthday's we usually take them out for dinner, and the birthday person gets to choose the restaurant. If they're not local then a gift card to a restaurant they love would be nice. Hope this helps.