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[quote=Anonymous]I don't like this idea for many of the same reasons the pp's have  already stated, but also:

If your kid has too much stuff, s/he has too much stuff. Have the birthday party with a "no gifts" request. As a guest, it is not my job to teach your kid a lesson about charitable giving or remedy whatever issues you have with kid cr@p in your home. I'm not the problem.

I dont want to be solicited - in any way - to come to your party. Your solution actually takes away some of the lessons inherent in going to a child's birthday party. Buying a present for someone else, trying to understand what s/he might like even if it is not what you want to buy, handing it over even if it is something you like and would rather keep, watching friend open it and react to it. There are good lessons to be learned here.

There are other ways to handle the kid cr@p - privately. You could not open the gifts (unwrap but not open) and donate them to toys for tots. You could return things that had gift receipts and use that money to buy items for a food bank or other charity. Whatever.

You could also skip the party entirely and donate what you would have spent on it to charity. Seems like that would solve the problem altogether. [/quote]

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