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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. It’s actually rude to mention gifts on an invitation. [/quote]

Please stop repeating this. Manners and social norms evolve.

Op, it totally depends on your crowd. In our neighborhood group where all the kids and siblings go to each other's parties, there are just two families out of about 20 who didn't write "no gifts" on their invitations over the last few years. I don't think that was rude, but because it was outside the norm there was a little grumbling among parents at drop off about how they had to do a last minute gift run because they didn't notice that earlier that the invitation was missing the "no gifts" line.

Officially the grumblers were the rude ones, of course, but nonetheless it happened and tbh it was annoying to have to make a trip to get gifts when it wasn't the norm.

One of the two families made a big deal about how they would donate some of the gifts which was also a little weird, but that's another story.[/quote]

You are ruining life. You squash joy like a kid squashes bugs under their sneakers. Grumbling about having to go out to buy a child a gift on their birthday. Gross.[/quote]

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