Reply to Do you still give when parents request"please no gifts" for a birthday party?

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "Do you still give when parents request"please no gifts" for a birthday party?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, we bring a card with a small gift.

IME, a no gift party means that there's also no food and/or no cake.  Although I can understand the selfish impulse behind it, we have lots of toys too, I'm not a fan of them.[/quote]
I have been to about a hundred no-gift parties at this point, and every single one of them had cake, and some kind of snack or meal, depending on the time of day.  Every single one.  Now that I think about it, the parties with the skimpiest spreads were not no-gift parties.

I assume that people have no-gift parties because they don't have the space for lots of toys; they wanted to invite the whole class but thought that 20+ gifts was too much for their kid (who is likely getting gifts from family); or they didn't want anyone not to attend because buying a gift was a financial burden.

And when the invitation says no gifts, we do not bring a gift.  My kid makes a card, and sometimes we put a sheet of stickers or something in it if I have some that match the theme of the party or whatever.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics