Reply #12: Since you are visiting them, and since you don't know him, you don't have to get him anything. [View All]

[Rabrrrrrr]

And, really, once nieces and nephews get into their 20s, they don't need Christmas gifts any more.

Certainly, though, one is free to still give them gifts. There's never anything wrong with giving gifts.

But you really don't need to give him anything. If they were coming to your place, then it would be nice, as the host, to give him a gift.

So all this is to say: no, you have no 'obligation' etiquette-wise to give him anything. But if you wish to do so, you may.


I think what you should do, though, just to be a crank, is give him an envelope, and inside write a note that says "My gift to you this year is a warning: my niece has syphilis. So do all her still-living former boyfriends. Shhhhh.". Especially if you decide you don't like him. :P