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I still gift my younger brother on his birthday. I usually buy him clothes or something else he needs for work. I am sure this will change once he gets married, but for now, I still like spoiling him

I have two full siblings (29 and 26) and three step siblings (HS and college age). Last year was the first year I didn't not do gifts for my step siblings. They don't give gifts to me or my brother and sister, and they are pretty spoiled overall. It makes a huge difference in our gift budget and I didn't feel like it was really appreciated. I did get gifts for my brother and sister last year, but this year we agreed to buy for our parents and my niece and my son, and skip gifts for one another. I prefer it that way. We don't do birthday gifts for one another either, but we are all long distance. I think we would if we lived close by.
I do get gifts for my husband's brother and his wife. It's my husbands only sibling and we are all really close. This is the first year that there has been a baby (my son) and I imagine in a few years we might change to kids only gifts, but not yet. Since we see them so often, they are much easier to buy for and we see them on Christmas Eve when we celebrate Christmas with my husband's family.

The gift giving has changed as we have gotten older. We are 36, 31, and 30. The oldest doesn't participate in anything so gifts are no issue with him. However, my sister and I still exchange. For Christmas we probably spend $50 on the couple. So I get my sister and her husband a combined gift and vice versa. (I also usually get her a little something extra) On our birthday's we don't buy a gift for the other per-say but we usually will have a girls night and take the other out to dinner or to get a pedicure or something.

On DH's side, we draw names with his siblings and set a dollar amount.

We stopped exchanging w/ siblings last year. We still do neices/nephews and parents but it was getting too expensive buying for siblings every year. My sister and I usually go shopping on Boxing day anyhow, so we call that X-mas gifts

if i see something that i think my brother will like, i will buy it and send it to him at a random time during the year. i just don't have the time and energy to buy birthday and christmas gifts anymore!

I do buy them presents, but I'm starting to make stuff instead. For birthdays, I'm going to start giving them a box of cool things to do. Like, for my sister's birthday, I'm sedning her a ice cream sundea box so it'll have cones, sprinkles, some kind of topping, and maybe something else. Basically, everything but the ice cream just to give her something cool, but not expensive.

I only have one sibling and he is still single so when gift-giving comes around, I give him money or ask him what he wants. He gifts me/hubs/LO with one gift for the family, which is find by us!

Gifting isn't supposed to be burdensome and if you don't have the money to do it then don't. A heartfelt card is thoughtful and appropriate, don't feel guilty.

Since the poll doesn't have a both option, I couldn't vote, but what we do is a swap where you pick someone's name out of a hat for DH's family. I give a gift to each of my brothers.

We still buy sibling gifts, but I think we'll probably stop sometime in the next few years once everyone is married and has kids.

My brother gets presents for his birthday and Christmas (much smaller for the bday). We give my sister in law (bro's wife) presents at Christmas but just a card for her birthday. They do the same... my hubs gets a Christmas present from them, but not a birthday present. My husband's sister gets presents for bday and Christmas. She's single but I'm sure when she's married some day we'll give her husband a Christmas present.

I exchange gifts with my siblings because I don't think they are old enough yet to understand why I wouldn't give them one. My budget for them is pretty inexpensive though. Maybe in the future once they are all married or in committed relationships we will stop.

My husband and his siblings decided to stop exchanging gifts last Christmas. Instead we all get together and go out to dinner. It is a nice change.

I have one sister and we do still exchange gifts though it's becoming more difficult each year. There's not much I need or want and she seems to have a list that goes on forever. On DH's side we do couple gifts for his brothers and their wives and we set a dollar amount.