No gift request for birthday party

[Anonymous]

This is the exact reason why I'm keeping my son's 2nd birthday party limited to family. They will bring presents anyway and I don't want people to feel obligated to bring a present regardless of what we say. He has enough stuff already and the family will be adding to the stuff. Plus, he is 2 so he will have fun with his cousins so that is all that matters.

[Anonymous]

I would just have my kid make a card. Maybe throw in some stickers into the card.

I once didn't bring a gift to a no-gift party and there was a room full of gifts. I didn't feel bad at all and certainly nobody noticed me not bringing a gift. Except the kid's mom, who profusely thanked me for not bringing a gift.

[Anonymous]

I obey the host's rules. So when it's no gifts, we make a nicer card than just buying one at the store and signing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every time I’ve gone without a gift other people have brought gifts so I hate these parties.

If everyone came without one, great! But I havenet seen that happen.

You hate the party because you abided the host’s wishes and others didn’t? Because a few people brought a present that got stuck in a corner somewhere- where, btw, no one was looking at the gift tag to see who it was from- and you didn’t?

Seriously, who cares?? Let your kid have fun at the birthday psrty, eat a piece of cake, and chill the eff out.

- a mom who happily doesn’t bring gifts to “no gifts” parties and truly doesn’t understand all the anxiety about it

[Anonymous]

Honor the host’s request and don’t bring a gift. I know it feels weird, but it’s the right thing to do. Have your kid make a nice card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the exact reason why I'm keeping my son's 2nd birthday party limited to family. They will bring presents anyway and I don't want people to feel obligated to bring a present regardless of what we say. He has enough stuff already and the family will be adding to the stuff. Plus, he is 2 so he will have fun with his cousins so that is all that matters.

We did not have a kid party for my DS until he was turning 5, up until then it was family only. He had fun and all was good.

But at 5 he had been to a bunch of parties and wanted one with his friends so we invited his preschool class to a bouncy house place. We put no gifts and people were good about honorig it. That might be because we honored their no gift requests.

Look, Preschool parties meant everyone is invited and there were some where in the number of 20 parties. Thankfully, all the parents who had one said no gifts, they didn’t want 20 or so gifts for their kid and they didn’t want to give 20 or so gifts. I was not interested in buying 20 presents.

At DS 6th birthday party, we had 10 friends DS choose and people brought gifts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Christ, this again. There are only about a thousand threads on this. Why won't Jeff make this a sticky?

If it bothers you so much why do you reply? Move on.

[Anonymous]

Nobody in upper NW honors this at all. Every no gift party I’ve been to, most still bring a gift.