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The answer is all too often not that easy.
The bottom line is that what the grandparents need may not appeal as reasonable holiday gifts.
Had our families known we could have used new inner workings for a toilet, a new wind chime, a new compact refrigerator for our craft beers, some new place mats for the dining table, a new frying pan that might outlast the one I destroyed trying to make homemade maple syrup, a new set of prescription pill boxes and in our case, a new front door.
But no that is not what our six darling adult-sized grandchildren did. Nor, for that matter neither did their respective parents – led by our two daughters.