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Anonymous wrote:Not new. I had those myself as a child. Only works if it's no gifts, of course.

Enough with the no gifts. You can bring a gift for the child you know, and/or don't know.

NP but I absolutely do not want people buying gifts for my child’s birthday. I don’t want a bunch of random toys in my house. She has enough.

If she has enough, stop buying her so much stuff and don't have a party.

She has enough because family members buy her stuff. Not me or DH. And she wants a birthday party with cake, friends and activities. She loves it. Those can easily happen without receiving 25 presents. And it saves the other parents money. Win/win.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not new. I had those myself as a child. Only works if it's no gifts, of course.

Enough with the no gifts. You can bring a gift for the child you know, and/or don't know.

NP but I absolutely do not want people buying gifts for my child’s birthday. I don’t want a bunch of random toys in my house. She has enough.

If she has enough, stop buying her so much stuff and don't have a party.

Yes, have been to a few of those, from early elementary through high school. Seems like it works well when the kids have a common friend group & the parents can split the cost.

Smart parents

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not new. I had those myself as a child. Only works if it's no gifts, of course.

Enough with the no gifts. You can bring a gift for the child you know, and/or don't know.

NP but I absolutely do not want people buying gifts for my child’s birthday. I don’t want a bunch of random toys in my house. She has enough.

My son and his friend are born a couple of days apart and have generally the same friend group so they had a joint party at a trampoline park type place, and it was great - split the costs and easy to do.
My daughter has two friends with the same birthday and they regularly do a joint party.

Yes birthday parties are running over $1k people are splitting the cost because the kids have all the same friends

Our dd, now in college, had a BFF in ES with a bday a few days apart from hers. For several years we did a joint party. Definitely not new

My kids have been to just one that was for friends not twins. I think it’s great.

I have wanted to do this - one of my kids has a December birthday and one of her friends has a birthday 3 days before. It’s really hard to find a totally separate time in December- honestly it’s hard to find one time in December! But both families have to go for it.

Yes! Thank God!!

I did a joint with a preschool friend. We would have had the same guest list. I think I invited 2 extra kids and the other family invited 2-3 friends.

I don’t think my kids have ever been invited to a joint friend party in elementary.

My one friend did a 3 friend joint party for her 5 year old. Their birthdays were the same month, we’re in the same preschool class and same neighborhood. It was a giant party and a lot of fun.

We did it in preschool for two friends who shared a birthday.

My DD (4th grade) just went to one of these. The two bday girls (also in 4th) are very close friends with a similar circle of school friends. It was that circle which was invited to the party. Everyone brought a gift for each girl. It was . . . fun! Is there some problem with this?

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Anonymous wrote:Not new. I had those myself as a child. Only works if it's no gifts, of course.

Enough with the no gifts. You can bring a gift for the child you know, and/or don't know.

I've done joint parties a few times. We just say just bring 1 gift and we will divide them up. Everybody was happy with that and the birthday boys weren't overwhelmed with 30 gifts each.

Anonymous wrote:Not new. I had those myself as a child. Only works if it's no gifts, of course.

Enough with the no gifts. You can bring a gift for the child you know, and/or don't know.