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I do cost vs quantity for people I buy for. Nieces and nephews all get $25 worth of gifts, so if they ask for a toy that's $25 that's all they get. We will do the same with our kids too, a set amount and whatever they can get with that is what they get!

We have 6 nieces and nephews so with them I've started a rule of 2 items and a total per child limit. My rule is one fun item and one educational item.
I think with kids they will recognize child a got 3 gifts why did I only get 2.

However, my niece and nephews are getting older and understand the concept of money now. So one nephew asked for an expensive gift that is almost budget limit so he will only be getting one gift this year.

My niece and nephews always open Christmas and birthday gifts together. And they know we are very fair about it. Even my brother's and SIL know that we always spend and buy the exact same number of gifts so as not to play favorites.

I will employ the same philosophy when we have more than one child.

My mom always did BOTH. But she had to do some funny things to make it work out right. Like my brother always asked for more expensive stuff than I did, so he'd often get like, a package of socks wrapped up to make the gift # equal haha.

We plan to do some variation of 'something you want, something you need, something to wear, something to read', and if we ever had two, we'd make sure to stick to that.