My kids are swapped into many gifts.  They get gifts for everything.  Our house is literally flooded and gets.  We throw stuff out we recycle stuff we donated to charity we even have a garage sale every year and were still completely overwhelmed.  The problem is that people get gifts for far too many things these days.

Instead of just showing up and been somewhere peoples and gets.  Even when they do show up they bring guests.  When people come to visit you take our kids shopping and they buy gifts.  When we go to visit someone they buy gifts.  There have been times when we've almost been broke and we still get gifts.  It's really ridiculous.

If my family was still Catholic we probably be giving gifts for our children's  first communion gifts, I'm surprised that we don't get gifts for the gifts!

I was just writing an article that in the United Kingdom people are being suckered into a new trend.  Hippies that used to complain about material possessions and more recently about excessive consumerism, are now buying more and more things because a portion of their credit card purchase gets donated to a charity.  It's great the part of the money's going to charity but they're spending more money on stuff they don't need.

We don't have to worry about the polar ice caps melting and flooding the world.  We need to worry about all of the plastic items floating the planet in a sea of junk that nobody can use.