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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are older. I always hated these "no gifts" invitations because it threw a giant question mark over the entire event. It says not to bring a gift, but some people will do it, anyway, and so maybe I'd better get one?

I remember showing up to one "no gift" birthday party when I had a kid in grade school and honored the invitation. We didn't bring a gift. We were the only ones who did not bring one. After that, I just brought a small gift.

Just let your birthday kid get gifts. They love opening the gifts. You can always donate them to a charity after.

The goal of a good host is to make things easy on your guests. "No gifts" makes everything harder. It is about the parents' virtue signaling instead of being about their kid.

Sorry if the truth hurts.[/quote]

Agree. When my teen was a toddler we were invited to one of these parties. It was the first one like this. I dutifully followed the invite and brought no gift, thinking that was the right thing to do. Everyone else brought a gift, there was a pile of gifts, yet we came empty handed. So awkward. I have never made that mistake again.[/quote]

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