To simplify and not overspend at Christmas, the Vollers pick names and each adult buys for one other adult. The adults retain the right to buy small gifts for nephews and nieces.

In our home we also try to spread out gifts we are personally buying for our son. Just as we spread throughout the season thoughts of Christ and his advent, thinking daily on God’s gift to us, we give a gift per week or so in order to avoid gift-gluttony on Christmas day. Helps preserve the grand themes of the season and to minimize Christmas day madness.