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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless they decide they want a joint party, two parties. Each kid gets their own party. [/quote]

Yep.   But we don’t throw lavish events - cupcakes from a box, a Costco thing of chips, and a playground = party.  [/quote]

Ugh.  I hate those parties.  Especially the ones like that where you are expected to bring a gift. [/quote]

+ 1. I’m sorry, PP, but I really hate those parties too unless it’s absolutely a no gift party.  [/quote]

DP but what's wrong with that kind of a party? What does a gift have to do with the type of party thrown?[/quote]

It’s a gift-grab.  My kids go to that park twice a week and having cupcakes there isn’t special or worthy of the parents spending $25 bucks for a gift.  [/quote]

I'm so grateful for my group of down-to-earth like-minded parents that absolutely throw these kinds of parties.  The kids have a blast and its all good.

Its also surprising to me that people actually expect gifts at kids birthday parties in this region still.  I can't remember the last one I've been to where anyone has brought a gift.  [/quote]

I am the PP and surprised!   I haven’t been to any other kind of party in two years, but even before that our fanciest party was at a My Gym (so totally not fancy). Guess my circle is just too normal and boring!

I have three kids, oldest nine, and have bought exactly one classmate birthday present ever.   Who does birthday parties with presents anymore?   Aren’t all present parties a gift grab?  Or stone cold transactional - I am only buying your kid a jar of play dough if you give him a single slice of cold pizza in the gymnasium place we are all at last week for someone else?[/quote]

Good lord, some of you people.  Low-key parties are great.  The parties are for the *kids*, not the grown ups, so as long as the kids have fun, who cares?

Also, who are you Scrooges who don't want to give children birthday gifts?  What in the actual?  We've done no gift parties, but come on, people.  No one said you have to spend a certain dollar amount but stop being so damn stingy.  Is the formula that only host parents who shell out for a super expensive party deserve to have gifts for their child?  Un-f*ing-believable.[/quote]

What? The “gifts for their child” are bought by the parents, and maybe grandma and grandpa, aunts and uncles.[/quote]

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