Brad Pitt Favors Homemade Holiday Gifts for Family

His longtime love Angelina Jolie was recently named the highest-paid woman in Hollywood, and he's not far behind, taking home $20 million for his new flick The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

But when the holiday season rolls around, Brad Pitt says he and Jolie aren't big spenders for their brood of six, preferring making crafts to giving pricey presents.

"We do exchange gifts, although we don't feel any pressure to make them big or expensive gifts," Pitt, 44, tells Hello! magazine.

Yet with their luxe lifestyle, how do the youngsters avoid craving tons of holiday loot? By nixing TV.


Cutting Out TV
"The kids don't ask for the big gifts for the reason that they don't see a lot of the American cartoon television, which is packed with all those manipulative commercials for big toys that look so fantastic," says papa Pitt.

"When they do see that stuff is when they start asking for the toys, so we figure if they don't see them, they won't know they're there. So we have gifts, but we try to keep the money spent to a minimum."

Despite the ban on overpriced presents, the clan still makes the holiday season exciting – and family-focused – by having everyone make gifts for each other.

Says Pitt, "The rule is that everyone's got to make something for someone else, you got to put time into it. Then, when they give to each other, it's really sweet."

Yet he is mum on the topic of where the clan will spend the holidays this year: "An undisclosed location!" Pitt demurs.

Re: Brad Pitt Favors Homemade Holiday Gifts for Family

It is nice to see that they are trying to have some normal fun with the family. Making gifts is fun! Plus I think it is a great idea to pull kids away from the "I want, I want" situations every now and then.

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Ugh- give me a break. These two are so phony.

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Don't the kids (the older ones) go to school? So you mean to tell me that their kids have NO idea what cool toys are out there just because they don't watch tv?
Honestly, I don't believe that they don't buy them presents. It's cool if they make eachother stuff because its a project they can all enjoy but I just think Brad it full of crappola

Re: Brad Pitt Favors Homemade Holiday Gifts for Family

They probably don't feel the need to go overboard around the hlidays because the kids are spoiled year round. i don't mean that as a dig, but every picture you see of them with their kids they are buying them toys.

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I think it's nice, and hope that it's true.

I love to make gifts for my family. We all exchange homemade Christmas ornaments (my father's family) on CHristmas Eve. After all the years of doing, we all have quite the collection and laugh how it gets harder every year not to duplicate.

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I can't STAND them. So now of course "american TV" is the enemy They are so hippie fabulous it makes me sick.