small, standard gifts

[Anonymous]

Please don’t give my tween $5 crap to console them for something they don’t need consoling for. This is a terrible idea OP.

[Anonymous]

Books? This one is gender neutral, age appropriate, and about $5.

https://www.amazon.com/Side-Mountain-Puffin-Modern-Classics/dp/0142401110/ref=pd_aw_sim_9?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0142401110&pd_rd_r=7939f9ab-ae92-4a27-bdf1-58db213cc871&pd_rd_w=ETB2l&pd_rd_wg=UiOUJ&pf_rd_p=469620d9-3e90-496d-9dc8-b19f900ba5fe&pf_rd_r=3GS91NG8KQGHCEWYAPFX&psc=1&refRID=G6BCRY5TKNBTR75VD1MS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Books? This one is gender neutral, age appropriate, and about $5.

https://www.amazon.com/Side-Mountain-Puffin-Modern-Classics/dp/0142401110/ref=pd_aw_sim_9?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0142401110&pd_rd_r=7939f9ab-ae92-4a27-bdf1-58db213cc871&pd_rd_w=ETB2l&pd_rd_wg=UiOUJ&pf_rd_p=469620d9-3e90-496d-9dc8-b19f900ba5fe&pf_rd_r=3GS91NG8KQGHCEWYAPFX&psc=1&refRID=G6BCRY5TKNBTR75VD1MS

Great idea. You can also buy in bulk.

[Anonymous]

Please-no more disposable gifts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please-no more disposable gifts.

Why? Disposable gifts like bath bombs, art supplies, etc. get used up pretty quickly and don't add to your clutter. Seems like a win.

[Anonymous]

Don't embarrass an 11 year old with a gift on her sibling's birthday. You're going to make her feel like a baby. Totally ridiculous for that age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please-no more disposable gifts.

Why? Disposable gifts like bath bombs, art supplies, etc. get used up pretty quickly and don't add to your clutter. Seems like a win.

Unless you don't really use that stuff and so your option is to hold on to it (on the offhand that you might use it), throw it away (wasteful), or give it to someone else (a pain). I have a whole shelf in the closet of art supplies my kids haven't used.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have an almost-10-year-old boy. Some ideas

Pack of glowsticks, new markers, sketch book, cute goofy socks, Uno or card games, bath bomb, bubble bath, temporary tattoos. Candy is always nice, too.

Bath bomb for a boy?!

I don't get it. Why not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mad Libs

This is the best option so far. Or puzzle books - like seek and find or crosswords, etc. you can get them for under $5 almost anywhere.

I’m also not a fan of giving sibling gifts to my kids. Everyone should have one day that they don’t have to share with their siblings

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure what you are talking about and you don't need to give gifts to non-birthday kids/siblings.

But if you want some gifts for 10-11 year olds, I would do small notebooks with cute pens, stickers, legos.

I know I don't need to, but I want to.
This is great- legos. I have only girls and I tend to think of things like playdough, lipgloss.

Please give girls legos and not lipgloss.

But what if there's a girl who prefers lipgloss?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't embarrass an 11 year old with a gift on her sibling's birthday. You're going to make her feel like a baby. Totally ridiculous for that age.

My 11 year old is perfectly pleased to get a gift on any day, for any occasion, or no occasion. It is not typically done, but no one, including the sibling whose birthday it is, would mind.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So this is a gift for specifically when there's a new baby, not for younger siblings' birthdays, right?

both- looking for something I can keep easily on hand. $5 or less preferred.

FWIW, I don't want my kid to get a gift when it's her sister's birthday. I want her to be able to be happy for someone else, fully.

This. I have a few people in my life who do this with my kids and I strongly dislike it. Now my daughter pouts when anyone gives her brother a gift on her birthday and doesn't give her one too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please-no more disposable gifts.

Why? Disposable gifts like bath bombs, art supplies, etc. get used up pretty quickly and don't add to your clutter. Seems like a win.

PP here. Because it’s mostly landfill garbage, that’s why. Who needs a piece of trash to be happy for ten mins before it goes to a landfill? Also who gets jealous that a toddler is having a birthday. Everyone’s birthday comes once a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please-no more disposable gifts.

Why? Disposable gifts like bath bombs, art supplies, etc. get used up pretty quickly and don't add to your clutter. Seems like a win.

PP here. Because it’s mostly landfill garbage, that’s why. Who needs a piece of trash to be happy for ten mins before it goes to a landfill? Also who gets jealous that a toddler is having a birthday. Everyone’s birthday comes once a year.

DP. Not the topic, but some dates are more convenient than others. I used to be jealous.

-Summer baby, born less than a month after Christmas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please-no more disposable gifts.

Why? Disposable gifts like bath bombs, art supplies, etc. get used up pretty quickly and don't add to your clutter. Seems like a win.

Unless you don't really use that stuff and so your option is to hold on to it (on the offhand that you might use it), throw it away (wasteful), or give it to someone else (a pain). I have a whole shelf in the closet of art supplies my kids haven't used.

Send the art supplies to school. I am pretty sure there is an elementary teacher out there somewhere that needs crayons & markers.