Christmas Prizes

My grandmother called gifts ‘prizes’. Example; ‘what kind of prize did you get for your birthday?” and “I don’t want any prize for Christmas”. The expression would have died off but my mother could not stand it. She thought it sounded we had to earn/win something. So, we kids picked the expression up in merriment and as spoof of Grandmother.
To this day my family gives and exchange prizes.
An annual Thanksgiving tradition is ‘prize discussion’ at dessert time. Over pies and tea and coffee, we discuss ‘how we are going to do it’ this Christmas.
You would think after 40 or so years we would have a routine but every year some new sort of system is proposed. The explanation for this may be simple; the family keeps expanding with marriages and children.
I suspect it mostly comes from our need talk and organize and reorganize and make lists.

So, I want advice. We have the 2 parents, an uncle (with little $ but we want him as part of this), 4 brothers, their 4 spouses. There are 4 children now. That totals 15 people.
This year’s modest proposal is each person draws a name out of a hat and there is a limit to spending. Reasonable enough, but it is already unraveling (as is the wont). People feel the four children should get something from everyone.

So, for bloggers with big families – how do you “do Christmas?”