I got more than that at Christmas when I was a kid, but that was about the only time in the year my parents bought me fun things I wanted. There was no every time we go to the store you get something. Outside of Christmas I probably got $50 total on my birthday and got to rent a video game a few times a year and buy a few books.

Still, my family now loves to revolve around presents too much. They have all these rules they don't explicitly define but about money and how much it's supposed to be and the other person has to get the same amount, etc. I've noped out of most of it. I'll give my Mom, my nephews, and my teen cousin something, but it's totally random and specific to them. Mom is kinda broke so hers is just for that, and the kids are the only ones close to me. Sometimes I splurge, sometimes I'm cheap. They'd be fools to count on a specific fixed amount of present from me. Don't give to them in the big "party" to be seen either, it's not about the show of it to me.

I've told the kids before too that I'd much rather actually do something than give them things. Like a couple years ago I hung out with the cousin one night the weekend of his birthday, stayed up all night watching horror movies and playing games with him, went out at like 2am to drive around the empty town and get some junk food. He thought it was the greatest thing ever, and it cost me practically nothing.