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Wow people are insane.

I have enough to do. When a host asks for no gifts I'm happy to have one less thing to do.

You have enough to do? Pity party. Then stop sending your kids to every party they are invited to. Stop inviting 15+ kids to your kids parties. The irony of parents bitching about being too busy. YOU make your schedule busy. You overschedule your kids. You over invite and want countless mom friends and friends for your kids. You want to impress with having Pinterest parties or planned venue packages that indulge every child but your own? Teach all the kids about what is important? Friendship or how cool the party is going to be? If you had a handful of simple birthday parties for only your child’s closest friends each year, you would have much more time to go get a gift for those few events. And it would be meaningful.

The problem is the parents. The fact that you all sit here thinking it is great to ask for no gifts is missing the whole point of why it is just too much to buy presents for parties these days. [/quote]

Not PP, but you have serious issues.  If my child is invited to a birthday party and wants to go, if the invite says nothing about gifts, we buy a gift.  If the invite says no gifts, we don't waste time psychoanalyzing whether the parent really meant.  Who has the time and energy for that nonsense?  We just don't buy a gift.  Other families should have whatever type of parties they want - be it venue parties, at home parties, gift parties, no gift parties - and we will do the type of parties we want to do.  If you are having an emotional response to kids' birthday parties, something is wrong.
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