Posted by:
scaredhusband
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Date: November 24, 2015 12:28PM
My family does a name draw for who they are responsible to purchase a gift and exchange Christmas gifts for. They then set a monetary limit on how much you are required to spend on who you were assigned. I have always felt that this created superficial and thoughtless gift giving. Only giving gifts to get one. I also feel it breeds greed and a sense of entitlement, things I am very adamantly against.
My wife and I are unable to spend huge amounts of money on people because of our financial situation. The people that we were assigned know this and started complaining about needing a redraw. They also started spreading an idea that the drawing should be for individuals instead of couples, except for me and my wife because of our financial ability.
I have come to the decision that I am to be excluded from this drawing. I want no part of this selfish and self serving activity. I posted this for two reasons.
Reason one being I wanted to ask if any of your family does this? Is it common to just mormons? Is it only common to this family?
Reason two, Can I get some help in the wording of my withdrawal from this year and possibly every year after? I don't want to directly call anyone out but I do want to state that the way they are acting is childish.