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Your advice is often right on the ball, but in this case (and I admit the letter's a bit inane) you veer off into the way-too-commonsense-ical. There's nothing wrong with handing a cease-and-desist order to family members who repeatedly send cheap, pointless holiday gifts. In fact, it often leads to a catharthis. Maudlin holiday baggage is an annual event for many of us and I applaud anyone who tries to dismantle it in their immediate family.
