What does no boxed gifts please mean?
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Anonymous
| See, I would get a present, take it out of the box and either wrap it or put it in a gift bag. |
Anonymous
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I would assume they were serious environmentalists or something! I never would have guessed cash or gift cards.
I would decline the invitation. It's gross to ask for money for a child's birthday. |
Anonymous
| In all honesty, I have never heard of this before for any invitation. My first thought was that they were environmentalists and were opposed to unnecessary packaging. I would be truly insulted if I ever received such an invitation. For someone to blatantly ask for cash as a gift?!!! Good-bye Polite Society. |
Anonymous
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Anyone who complies is saying this behavior is okay.
Give a donation card. "A donation has been made in the name of [birthday girl] to the St. Jude Children's Hospital". Honest to God - this is the height of tackiness. Next people are going to ask for a certain amount of money. "No boxed gifts please or currency under a $50.00 US". |
Anonymous
Which word specifically is tripping you up honey? |
Anonymous
Not word but words - two of them - "boxed gifts" Not OP but does "no boxed gifts" really mean they only want you to give their kid cash as a gift?! |
Anonymous
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"No boxed gift please", "No siblings please", "No Jews please".
It's only a matter of time... |
Anonymous
LOL - oh God, that was funny!!! |
Anonymous
Yep. |
Anonymous
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If you do want to go, a nice present might be tickets to the merry go round at Wheaton park or cabin John. Not in a box, and yet not like giving a 6 year old a visa cash card....
Also, national wildlife foundation does an adopt an animal thing where you can get a certificate. |
Anonymous
Hah! DH and I are from different parts of India. My family gives cash freely as gifts. When my parents gave a cash gift to someone in DH's family, drama ensued. They were so offended! No boxed gifts means cash. I think it is tacky and presumptuous. |
Anonymous
| I'm Indian and I get the no boxed gift thing for weddings (although I didn't do it), and I've even seen it for a child's first birthday (because in my culture, that's a big deal and really all about the parents and extended family) but I cannot fathom someone doing this for a kid's birthday party where school friends were invited. Tacky!! |
Anonymous
| Seriously? No "boxed gifts" means I don't go. How rude! |
Anonymous
That's my first reaction too, but then I feel badly for the kid who had nothing to do with it, and who wonders why most of her friends don't come. |
Anonymous
| I'm thinking that a puppy or kitten would be the perfect present here. |