Twin birthday party--two less expensive gifts or one more expensive gift?

[Anonymous]

DC is invited to a birthday party for a preschool classmate who is a twin. Do I get two smaller presents, one for each birthday child, or one more expensive gift and just put both their names on it? I usually spend about $20 per birthday party, so I'd be looking at two $10 gifts or one $20 gift.

[Anonymous]

Does your child know both twins? If they do, I'd up the budget to $40, just as if there had been two separate parties. If your child only knows one, I'd get something slightly smaller and address to both.


For twins, I've done both - each gets a nice book, or one larger Lego set. When in doubt ask the parents.

[Anonymous]

Two separate gifts.

[Anonymous]

If you spend 20 per birthday party for one child, I would assume that for twins you would spend more than 20, e.g. 30-35 and get either one gift in this range or two gifts for around 15 each.

I got a more expensive (according to my logic, not yours) one gift for the twins whose birthday dc attended. But most parents brought 2 presents for each of the twins.

[Anonymous]

I would do two. Twins probably get so tired of sharing EVERYTHING.

[Anonymous]

If DC only knows one child, and just sees the other one as the "plus sibling" at other parties, why spend a significant amount on the non-friend-twin's present? DC is still only getting invited to one party and only because of a friendship with one of the twins. Just curious about the thinking, since I'm not a parent of multiples.

[Anonymous]

I'm a parent of identical twins. Two is better. And you get brownie points from me if its two of the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Parent of twins here. Two small books is great.

[Anonymous]

I always buy two gifts.

[Anonymous]

I have twins and most people give two gifts. But when we go to parties, we bring two gifts - one from each twin. They are two separate children and we act accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Two small gifts.

[Anonymous]

Wonder how many gifts Octobermom's kid receive...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonder how many gifts Octobermom's kid receive...

Correction:

Wonder how many gifts Octomom's kids receive ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is invited to a birthday party for a preschool classmate who is a twin. Do I get two smaller presents, one for each birthday child, or one more expensive gift and just put both their names on it? I usually spend about $20 per birthday party, so I'd be looking at two $10 gifts or one $20 gift.

If you normally spend 20 per party then really you normally spend 20 per kid. I think it is crappy that you would spend HALF that just bc they are twins having a single party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is invited to a birthday party for a preschool classmate who is a twin. Do I get two smaller presents, one for each birthday child, or one more expensive gift and just put both their names on it? I usually spend about $20 per birthday party, so I'd be looking at two $10 gifts or one $20 gift.

If you normally spend 20 per party then really you normally spend 20 per kid. I think it is crappy that you would spend HALF that just bc they are twins having a single party.

Parent of twins here who posted two small gifts would be fine. The last thing I want is for parents to feel put out by having to double the cost of the birthday gifts. More important than the gift is that my kids' friends come to the party. My kids appreciate gifts of any size and they wouldn't know the difference between a $10 gift and a $20 gift.