Gift from siblings (twins)

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Anonymous wrote:Twin mom here: The other mom probably has something else on her mind but you seem awfully invested in her gifts for your preschool BD. And you seem POd in general with this mom. Maybe it’s just not meant to be.
But as a twin mom 2 small gifts are better than one large. The one large leaves the twin mom explaining to the little children that “this one gift cost more so there’s only one” which leaves all the other gifts ranked below because they cost less. It’s not an equation I liked to be in with small children.
Also OP you don’t get to make a list for other people. What seems “easy” to you might be hard for someone else. I personally hated “easy “ gifts because they always

Why would the mom be explaining what the gifts cost?

Because when they are writing the thank you notes. But you do you.

Can you give an example of how the cost of the thank you note for an $8 gift would be different from the thank you note for a $20 gift? Because I am still at a loss. Do you have your kids mention price in the notes?

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus christ no one cares. Mom to twin here and singleton. Have many twin friends. ZERO people are counting presents or care if you bring or receive two gifts, one, or frankly ZERO. I have never heard anyone complain in any direction -- and my twins are 11.

I guess you haven’t come across anyone as petty as op then. This twin mom was brilliant to send a sitter so as to limit contact with the woman sizing up cost of gifts from preschoolers!

You seem to have it in against the OP since she sized up the gifts. If I guess right, the $8 gift may be a princess doll. Those cost $7.99 at Target and Walmart and anyone who shops at the toy aisle in those stores regularly would know that.

I think it was very cheap of that twin mom to send an $8 gift when sending 2 kids for a birthday party. The ones who say otherwise are probably cheapskates themselves and trying to justify their actions here.

No, they are adults recognizing that the gifts are for the kids and that no preschooler kid cares if they received 15 or 16 gifts, and they really don't care if it's an $8 doll or a $40 doll. The only person who cares is the adult who is clearly forgetting who the birthday girl is.

Yeah, by your logic its okay to bring a $1 gift from the Dollar Store for the birthday child since they don't know the cost of a gift

No matter how you try to justify this, it is not okay to cheap out like that twin mom did. Makes me wonder if you ARE that twin mom.

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PP here. But regardless of the cost of a gift, a Thank you note would be same for everyone - just say something like 'Dear XYZ, Thank you for the XYZ. DD/DS is excited to play with it. Best, XYZ" or similar. If your child loved it, say DD/DS loves it and couldn't wait to play with it.

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Jfc, OP is just asking a question. Chill the eff out.

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Anonymous wrote:Jfc, OP is just asking a question. Chill the eff out.

You do that too. Clearly it bothers you.

[Anonymous]

God OP, you sound awful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus christ no one cares. Mom to twin here and singleton. Have many twin friends. ZERO people are counting presents or care if you bring or receive two gifts, one, or frankly ZERO. I have never heard anyone complain in any direction -- and my twins are 11.

I guess you haven’t come across anyone as petty as op then. This twin mom was brilliant to send a sitter so as to limit contact with the woman sizing up cost of gifts from preschoolers!

You seem to have it in against the OP since she sized up the gifts. If I guess right, the $8 gift may be a princess doll. Those cost $7.99 at Target and Walmart and anyone who shops at the toy aisle in those stores regularly would know that.

I think it was very cheap of that twin mom to send an $8 gift when sending 2 kids for a birthday party. The ones who say otherwise are probably cheapskates themselves and trying to justify their actions here.

No, they are adults recognizing that the gifts are for the kids and that no preschooler kid cares if they received 15 or 16 gifts, and they really don't care if it's an $8 doll or a $40 doll. The only person who cares is the adult who is clearly forgetting who the birthday girl is.

Yeah, by your logic its okay to bring a $1 gift from the Dollar Store for the birthday child since they don't know the cost of a gift

No matter how you try to justify this, it is not okay to cheap out like that twin mom did. Makes me wonder if you ARE that twin mom.

We got a dollar tree gift. It was actually a great gift. If that's what they are comfortable giving, you be grateful and move on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus christ no one cares. Mom to twin here and singleton. Have many twin friends. ZERO people are counting presents or care if you bring or receive two gifts, one, or frankly ZERO. I have never heard anyone complain in any direction -- and my twins are 11.

I guess you haven’t come across anyone as petty as op then. This twin mom was brilliant to send a sitter so as to limit contact with the woman sizing up cost of gifts from preschoolers!

You seem to have it in against the OP since she sized up the gifts. If I guess right, the $8 gift may be a princess doll. Those cost $7.99 at Target and Walmart and anyone who shops at the toy aisle in those stores regularly would know that.

I think it was very cheap of that twin mom to send an $8 gift when sending 2 kids for a birthday party. The ones who say otherwise are probably cheapskates themselves and trying to justify their actions here.

No, they are adults recognizing that the gifts are for the kids and that no preschooler kid cares if they received 15 or 16 gifts, and they really don't care if it's an $8 doll or a $40 doll. The only person who cares is the adult who is clearly forgetting who the birthday girl is.

Yeah, by your logic its okay to bring a $1 gift from the Dollar Store for the birthday child since they don't know the cost of a gift

No matter how you try to justify this, it is not okay to cheap out like that twin mom did. Makes me wonder if you ARE that twin mom.

We got a dollar tree gift. It was actually a great gift. If that's what they are comfortable giving, you be grateful and move on.

+1

Why on earth is it not ok to bring a gift from the Dollar Store? I personally don't because I have the budget to spend a lot of money on gifts and I enjoy doing so, but I couldn't care less if a kid either didn't bring a gift at all or brought something from the Dollar Store. Do you have some sort of entrance fee for your kid's parties? And what is that teaching them? That's really despicable behavior to (1) notice and (2) care about the price of a gift.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus christ no one cares. Mom to twin here and singleton. Have many twin friends. ZERO people are counting presents or care if you bring or receive two gifts, one, or frankly ZERO. I have never heard anyone complain in any direction -- and my twins are 11.

I guess you haven’t come across anyone as petty as op then. This twin mom was brilliant to send a sitter so as to limit contact with the woman sizing up cost of gifts from preschoolers!

You seem to have it in against the OP since she sized up the gifts. If I guess right, the $8 gift may be a princess doll. Those cost $7.99 at Target and Walmart and anyone who shops at the toy aisle in those stores regularly would know that.

I think it was very cheap of that twin mom to send an $8 gift when sending 2 kids for a birthday party. The ones who say otherwise are probably cheapskates themselves and trying to justify their actions here.

No, they are adults recognizing that the gifts are for the kids and that no preschooler kid cares if they received 15 or 16 gifts, and they really don't care if it's an $8 doll or a $40 doll. The only person who cares is the adult who is clearly forgetting who the birthday girl is.

Yeah, by your logic its okay to bring a $1 gift from the Dollar Store for the birthday child since they don't know the cost of a gift

No matter how you try to justify this, it is not okay to cheap out like that twin mom did. Makes me wonder if you ARE that twin mom.

We got a dollar tree gift. It was actually a great gift. If that's what they are comfortable giving, you be grateful and move on.

+1

Why on earth is it not ok to bring a gift from the Dollar Store? I personally don't because I have the budget to spend a lot of money on gifts and I enjoy doing so, but I couldn't care less if a kid either didn't bring a gift at all or brought something from the Dollar Store. Do you have some sort of entrance fee for your kid's parties? And what is that teaching them? That's really despicable behavior to (1) notice and (2) care about the price of a gift.

+100. The PP who cares about the dollar store gift needs to remember WHOSE birthday it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus christ no one cares. Mom to twin here and singleton. Have many twin friends. ZERO people are counting presents or care if you bring or receive two gifts, one, or frankly ZERO. I have never heard anyone complain in any direction -- and my twins are 11.

I guess you haven’t come across anyone as petty as op then. This twin mom was brilliant to send a sitter so as to limit contact with the woman sizing up cost of gifts from preschoolers!

You seem to have it in against the OP since she sized up the gifts. If I guess right, the $8 gift may be a princess doll. Those cost $7.99 at Target and Walmart and anyone who shops at the toy aisle in those stores regularly would know that.

I think it was very cheap of that twin mom to send an $8 gift when sending 2 kids for a birthday party. The ones who say otherwise are probably cheapskates themselves and trying to justify their actions here.

No, they are adults recognizing that the gifts are for the kids and that no preschooler kid cares if they received 15 or 16 gifts, and they really don't care if it's an $8 doll or a $40 doll. The only person who cares is the adult who is clearly forgetting who the birthday girl is.

Yeah, by your logic its okay to bring a $1 gift from the Dollar Store for the birthday child since they don't know the cost of a gift

No matter how you try to justify this, it is not okay to cheap out like that twin mom did. Makes me wonder if you ARE that twin mom.

We got a dollar tree gift. It was actually a great gift. If that's what they are comfortable giving, you be grateful and move on.

+1

Why on earth is it not ok to bring a gift from the Dollar Store? I personally don't because I have the budget to spend a lot of money on gifts and I enjoy doing so, but I couldn't care less if a kid either didn't bring a gift at all or brought something from the Dollar Store. Do you have some sort of entrance fee for your kid's parties? And what is that teaching them? That's really despicable behavior to (1) notice and (2) care about the price of a gift.

I think this is a class thing, honestly. The only people I know who care about where a gift for their toddler is from are LMC people for whom "stuff" is how you show status.