My brother and I take turns buying gifts....he bought me something this year so I'll buy him something next year.
DH and his brothers exchange gift cards or cash...I wonder if the same $100 GC to Apple is being rotated between the 3 of them 
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Usually. Generally it is just a $50 gift card somewhere. I'd sort of like to stop. We're old enough at this point we really don't need to be passing $50 back and forth every year lol.
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My sister is 14, so I have a feeling my mom is behind the gifts she sends me each year. We always buy her a gift, but she's so young, and I know how fun birthday gifts are at that age!!
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Yes, we do a big deal for birthdays in our family. Not so much for DH's family though.
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Taking turns each year is a great idea!
My sister and I don't exchange, we share the same birthday, guess she is the gift that keeps on giving, getting a sister for my 8th birthday? Ha.
DH and his brother's don't either.
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My big sister and I do. She's turning 40 in July, so we're getting her something really nice!
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we don't really, at least not consistently. we don't live in the same place, so it's hard, we'd have to send something. we usually do holiday gifts (though again, not so consistently), and I give my nieces birthday and holiday presents, as well as small gifts when I visit them. My family isn't really big on gifts now that my brother and I are grown up!
dh and his sister sometimes do gifts, but it's kind of random. like, for her last birthday, dh was going to take her to a fancy dinner when she came to visit but she didn't end up coming. I don't think she did anything for his bday this year. His mom, on the other hand, gets SUPER pissy if we don't give her or fil gifts, which is weird bc my parents don't care at all (and I don't think fil cares, she just cares on his behalf...)
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I used to buy them each a gift, but the past couple of years we've done a adults only Secret Santa gift exchange with our extended family instead.
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I have 4 sisters. I only exchange gifts with my youngest sis who is 18. The rest are in their 30's. Instead I buy gifts for my nieces.
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Of course! I buy gifts for all of my siblings (4 of them) and each of their significant others.
We also buy for all of DH's siblings and each of their significant others.
There are SO many presents under the tree at Christmas! -
@Mae: This is the way it is with my sister also. We're in our mid-30s- it just seems silly, especially since we both have kids now. I really want to put a kibosh on the Christmas gifts also for this reason (just exchanging gift cards basically) but I know my sister and I already know she isn't going to be very receptive to it.
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We just mail cards. For Christmas we buy each other gifts.
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@travellingbee: Ditto!
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I exchange gifts with my sister because we like buying and receiving presents from each other. We usually get the other something she really wants but can't justifying buying (ie expensive make-up, yet another pair of strappy sandals...). I stopped buying my 9 year younger brother presents when he turned 19, he didn't reciprocate and he was an adult. He's fine with it.
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We decided to just buy for the kids now that we both have them
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My sister and I exchange birthday gifts but we don't do Christmas gifts. We just buy for each others' kids at Christmas. We usually try to do birthday gifts that let us spend time together. For example, she bought me a ticket to see Kinky Boots for my birthday. Should be fun!
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No, we usually just take each other out for a nice meal
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Nope and we don't even do cards! A Facebook message or email is about all the acknowledgement I get from 1 brother. The other brother doesn't do anything
I try to send both of them emails though.
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My sister is a complicated story, but the short answer is, no, we don't exactly exchange. I usually offer to treat her to lunch or a pedicure on her birthday, and bring a gift or two for Christmas. She doesn't/can't reciprocate.
My siblings in-law aren't gifters. I always gift their children, and will occasionally pick them up something special, too. Just depends.
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Me and my sisters exchange gifts. It is fun and we like it.
DH and his siblings don't. They usually give each other a call or text.
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I give my sister a gift, but she doesn't usually get me anything.
That said, I almost exclusively give her a gift card to LaSenza which is re-gifted from my mother in law. I've hinted a few times that I'm too big for their stuff, but she gives me a $50.00 gift card for there every Christmas. So, Happy January Birthday, Little Sis.
She does legitimately love shopping for cute undies though, so probably what I would get her anyway.
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We don't anymore, we buy for each other's kids instead.
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Nope. Neither of my sisters have ever given me a gift for any occasion. I've given them plenty.
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My sisters and I do and we typically do gifts, not GCs, but I don't with my brother. My sisters and I also all live in the same city and have birthdays close together, so we do one family get together to celebrate all three (plus my mom's!) while my brother lives 1,000 miles away.
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We agreed a long time ago not to worry about buying eachother gifts. We will buy eachothers kids gifts though!
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Yes--or at least we take each other out to something like dinner & a movie.
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My brother and I always do. My brother also gifts my husband and we gift my brother's girlfriend. My husband's family doesn't so he likes that we make a big deal out of birthdays.
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Yes, but I think I'm over it! It gets harder every year to find something.
I try to send both of them emails though.
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