Please stop asking for “experiences” over gifts for your kids!
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Anonymous
| It triples or quadruples the cost every time. Accept your small gift and if you don’t like it donate it! |
Anonymous
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You don’t need to give an experience if you don’t want.
Give a gift card instead. |
Anonymous
| Are you my mother or MIL who insist on littering my house with more crap so you get an ego boost on birthdays and holidays? |
Anonymous
| I get it. You’d rather just send another unwanted plastic toy than take your grandson or nephew to a museum. |
Anonymous
| ?? In the past I've asked for gift cards to Jumping Joeys or Scramble or places like that. The nice thing about a gift card is you can make it for any amount you want. So it can be just $10. And we will definitely use that, the kids love it, and will be excited to open it. Much better than the $50 piece of plastic that will be ignored after 2 days. |
Anonymous
| 8:33 and 8:34 nailed it. |
Anonymous
| There are cheap or free experiences you can give...if you don't want to give a free one, give a 10 dollar gift card to the froyo place or something. |
Anonymous
| I have never asked this, but if someone does I would have no issue with it. I hate all the cheap plastic crap anyway. |
Anonymous
| I see your point. $10 towards an experience only gets them excited. Then you get to pay the rest. |
Anonymous
| I am giving an annual family membership to a family friend to a children’s museum. Pretty sure it save me money by the time I buy gifts for both kids. |
Anonymous
DP here. I’d rather dispense with gift giving all together! None of us need anything anyway, especially your kids! |
Anonymous
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Seriously - the “experience” can be a gift card to an ice cream shop. My kids would love that and it’d set you back $20 for the family. It’s also fine to just pay what you were planning on and let the parents pick up the rest if it’s something they suggested - I.e. your sister Rose suggests movie tickets, to which you reply “oh, great! My budget will cover two tickets for the kids and some popcorn - but that means you’ll be stuck with the bill for the rest. Is that okay? Or should I just get some my little ponies like I originally planned.”
The “experience” doesn’t need to be sky diving lessons! |
Anonymous
+1000. Our kids are so spoiled with junk. So was our generation and now all those toys just sit in a landfill. |
Anonymous
| The experience thing is a pain in the butt. Just because you want to clear your house of clutter doesn’t mean your kids would prefer a crappy museum visit over a toy or game. |
Anonymous
| Both of our grandmas like to give junk from five below or the dollar store so they can see the kids open it. Then it breaks a couple days later and I have to deal with the tears, or clean up all the crap, and eventually send it to the landfill. Even $5 for ice cream would be better. |