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« on: December 29, 2012, 06:22:11 AM »
Yeah I can understand that since I've been seeing it for years, though I never really cared much about it since I felt it was natural in my case.
My family on my dad's side of the family is huge, and my brother and I are the youngest of the cousins so everyone else has kids. Considering that there are 8 cousins on my dad's side of the family collectively giving birth to a total of 15 second cousins, minus the ones who live in Arizona, I never really see a end to it. But I'm fine with it because I can understand that one single family can't afford gifts for every family member and kids are easier to shop for. Plus I usually get a lot of money anyways, I think I still have the Target card with all the Target Gift cards that I accumulated on one Christmas.
Though I don't really see that in the past couple of years because we kinda stopped having family gatherings, probably because since my Grandma isn't getting any younger traveling from Arizona to California can be tiring.
But I always have my grandparents on my mom's side which is a smaller family with only 2 cousins and 3 second cousins, and I feel closer to them anyway.