My advice for young parents is to make birthdays and holidays gifts of an experience. Encourage loved ones to not buy any toys and contribute to a party, train ride, bouncy castle, petting zoo... whatever it is. If you want to do any gifts at all, make the tradition 1 or 2 special gifts that the parents pick out. Of all the loot a kid acquires on their

Your kids will have better, more memorable birthdays and you'll have SOOOO much less junk and clutter in the house.