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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on how much time I have. Sometimes we just get a card. I always feel crummy about it. We don’t ever really know these kids and I have no idea what to get them, and I ask their parents but they rarely respond. [/quote]

This is awful. You know the kids well enough to attend their parties  you have no more or less time than the rest of us. Gmafb - you can get them something your kids would like, a gift card, cash. So because you feign not knowing what to get them, are too busy and their parents don’t tell you what to buy - you have your kid hand them a card and it isn’t because you can’t afford a gift?!  Dear Lord, you suck. [/quote]

No I don’t actually know the kids. My kid is in preschool. She gets an invite every second or third week. We rarely can make it to the parties, there’s not usually enough notice as we work weekends, and I never even know who the parents are...they leave the invite in child’s cubby. I do RSVP promptly though.  Thanks for judging me so much. You’re not very kind. 
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We’re not talking about the parties you don’t make it to. Whether YOU know the kid is not relevant. If you accept a bday party invitation, you show up with a gift. Unless there is a valid reason not to: cannot afford, party said no gifts, you’re ill, etc. You initially at least said you feel crummy about just giving a card but now you seem to justify it. It’s pretty bad to put your kid in that position and makes the family look bad. [/quote]

No. I just think the previous poster was super rude and taking a bad day out on an online stranger. [/quote]

I actually don’t think the previous poster was rude at all. I have certainly seen worse in DCUM. But I do think it’s rude to show up with just a card.[/quote]

Pp could very easily have picked up a $25 amazon gift card. I keep a drawer full of amazon, target and Barnes and nobles cards. Sometimes I will get an experience gift card and print it out. I have printed out amazon gift cards and put in hand made card from my child.[/quote]

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