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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've mentioned this before, but with the onslaught of birthday parties for DD's 16 classmates, at the beginning of the year I take DD to Five Below and we pick out about 20 gifts that range from gender specific to gender neutral. We then go to Dollar Tree and buy 20 birthday cards at 2/$1, a few packs of tissue paper, and gift bags. We keep everything in a bin/tote in the closet. When a birthday party comes up, I send DD to the "gift bin" to pick out a gift for her friend, grab a card to sign, and we're good to go. 
The whole year costs me about $125 for all of the kids and I save TONS of time shopping. [/quote]

Brilliant idea!!!![/quote]

I first thought five below stuff would be crap, but just went to their website and they have cool stuff that little kids would enjoy:

https://www.fivebelow.com/play/craft-activity-kits.html?___store=default[/quote]

My kid has received these types of kits as a party favor - recently got the Nickelodeon slime kit.  These are not birthday gift quality unless you buy a few.[/quote]

I agree. Every parent has been to 5 below and it’s crap. The PPs hack is basically being cheap and not caring.

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PP here. You seem incredibly bothered and emotionally unstable. If you don't like the gifts my kid gives your kid for their incredibly useless and stupid birthday party, don't invite us. If you were only pretending to celebrate your child in an excuse for a gift grab, then send out a registry in your cheap ass evite. Get a grip Joanne.[/quote]

New poster:  I can't believe this is your answer to someone not agreeing with the gifts.  Honestly, they are more favor type gifts.  They aren't really the quality of items you would give as a gift for someone's birthday party.  Again, I'm totally new to this thread, but just because I believe that, I'm not emotionally unstable, my kids don't have useless and stupid birthday parties, I don't think evite is cheap ass, and my parties aren't a gift grab.  You could take away the card (write right on the gift or just regular paper), take away the tissue paper (not needed) and reuse gift bags or get cheap wrapping paper.  You could give a few more dollars into each gift and give something a little nicer, especially if you shop ahead.  If you buy from Amazon, there is virtually zero time you're spending shopping.  Pull up app, type in science kid or spa kit or magic kit or Lego set or whatever, and you have your gift two days later.[/quote]
No. I cared enough to get up on a weekend morning, forgo better ways to spend the day with my family, drive to whatever unimaginative Chuck E Cheese/Badlands birthday party location you came up with, listen to the exact same insipid conversations and gossip with airhead moms like you, watch my kid be served cardboard pizza and a supermarket cupcake, then fight with my kid on the ride home about throwing away your bullshit "goody bag" filled with whistles and sugary corn syrup candy. Because as sucky as this experience is for me, I love my child. DD has fun and can't wait for the other 15 parties, not including her own. You put in zero effort, but are this unhinged about a gift for a little kid? Because for you, it was really a gift grab after all.

You want more expensive gifts? Save the little bit of money you spent on your Ledo's pizza and buy it for your kid yourself.

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You need to rsvp no to these parties. [/quote]

Seriously! This hack is the equivalent of saying that you figured out that you can save so much time if you just eat cereal for dinner every night all year long. It’s inexpensive and easy! Technically true... but my family and I want real food for dinner. And my kid wants to give real gifts to their friends and they look forward to birthday parties.

That said, I absolutely think it’s perfectly fine to RSVP no if birthday parties are causing this much anger and stress in your life. [/quote]

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