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[quote=Anonymous]I personally would give a gift and have given a gift at a shower I hosted.  I think I would just feel weird not giving anything at all to be opened by the honoree!  I would say that you should get something smaller and not go crazy since you have spent money on the  shower though!  You can find really awesome things for under $10 that would be cute and/or useful -- a board book, a cute stuffed animal, a cute onesie that has a special meaning to the mom, etc!

However, for my baby shower two friends jointly hosted and neither of them got me a gift.  My sis lives out of town so I didn't have any family to host and they offered which was very kind!  It was a bit strange to open all the gifts and not have anything at all from them and I could tell that the other girls noticed since a few were asking if there were anymore gifts, etc.  It's not like I necessarily needed more stuff but I guess it seemed a bit strange that there was no gift at all particularly since they are both pretty well to do (DC lawyer with huge house in the burbs) so I don't think it was a money thing really.   It was also a bit akward then when I gave each of them a nice hostess gift as my thank you to them (I think they then felt weird that they had not gotten me a gift!)  Oh well, I loved my shower and the gift thing was a no big deal :)  you are a nice friend for offering to host either way![/quote]

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