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Subscribed! We're in the same situation, minus the baby

Our baby is going to be arriving the week before Christmas, so I feel you! We started shopping really early to break the costs down, and did a fair amount of purchases at stores like Marshalls and TJ Maxx. For some relatives, their presents consists of baby pics in nice frames with a sweet note/poem. We also limited how many presents to buy. We bought a joint present for MIL and FIL, things like that.
Hope this helps!

I picked out inexpensive gifts on Amazon (like in the $25 range for each person) and then we are probably going to frame some newborn pictures and give each family members one of those as well.

I do a lot of DIY things. For a the women in my family I'll usually make a cookbook, this years theme is camping/cookouts and I include pictures of us from different camping trips. Then I'll make something sweet from the cookbook to go with it.

Another tip (which is too late now but will be helpful for next year) is to start early. I always pick up things when I see good sales no matter what month it is and put it away in my closet. That way I'm not waiting to buy everything at once and I can get some awesome sales throughout the year.

My family realized a couple years ago that we enjoy spending the holidays together more than getting big gifts, so we've started only buying $20 or less gifts for each other. Buying for 5 other people means we only spend $100 each but still get the joy of giving and receiving. Its been a real hit.