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Parentmos: Do you say "No Gifts" for kid's birthday party, or are you prole?
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Date: February 12th, 2026 10:21 AM Author: Salmon Spectacular Market When throwing a birthday party for your kid, do you tell parents of other kids they should not bring a gift? You and your family can still give gifts.
I don't recall anyone doing this when I was a kid. Now, it's de rigueur in my prestigious suburb. It's also highly cr. The kids can get a few nice gifts from their parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. They don't need 20x of some chinese plastic Amazon junk from their classmates. |
Date: February 12th, 2026 10:26 AM Author: Chocolate Supple Business Firm it mortifies me when my kids to receive gifts from effective strangers. but it’s not about the inevitable useless plastics chinese shit they get. it’s about teaching your kids to accept gifts with grace and gratitude and an opportunity for other kids to experience and learn about gifting. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665421) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 10:29 AM Author: Salmon Spectacular Market Explain. These aren't strangers. It's other kids from their class and around the neighborhood.
Learning about gratitude is cr, but you can learn to appreciate the family gifts and that gifts aren't that important in comparison to your friends being there for you on your special day. Birthday cards are still acceptable and encouraged--ideally homemade. |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 10:39 AM Author: Chocolate Supple Business Firm lol at actually knowing all of your kids’ classmates’ parents. your points are fair and make even more sense when there’s an accepted community standard approach. i would argue that peer interactions are inherently different from intergenerational family interactions and as such offer much better training examples, but ultimately i would prefer the approach you describe so don’t have a lot invested in defending the gifting method. |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 1:53 PM Author: Vibrant cordovan university ape lol @ not knowing ur kids' classmates' parents. the prestige of the parents is the biggest indication of the quality of your kids' school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666033) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 2:37 PM Author: Chocolate Supple Business Firm (weird try-hard extrovert dad who me and other chill dad that i barely know still manage to laugh about) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666143) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 2:41 PM Author: Vibrant cordovan university ape oh i dont talk to them. i just do a doobsian background check on them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666149) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 3:27 PM Author: Chocolate Supple Business Firm oh. well that’s insanely cr. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666247) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 3:36 PM Author: Vibrant cordovan university ape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666263) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 10:30 AM Author: Sticky preventive strike stage seems gay. the point of gift giving isn't the cheap trinket, it's to express appreciation. the quintessential gift is flowers and no one needs them and they only last a couple weeks. banning gifts is missing the forest for the trees imo.
i think it's fine to limit gifts to a low dollar value or to stuff thats not chink slop like just cards or something. eliminating them entirely teaches kids that the purpose of a gift is the gift itself, rather than the gesture. plus kids love to give and receive crap. |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 10:42 AM Author: cowardly adventurous house Next birthday party for my kids, I am planning on requesting in lieu of gifts to please contribute to the gofundme for Renee Good (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665474) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 10:46 AM Author: Chocolate Supple Business Firm (renee good’s wife) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665488) |
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Date: February 13th, 2026 8:57 AM Author: cowardly adventurous house if RG's son's paternal grandparents aren't fighting tooth and nail to get custody of him then they've officially failed at life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49667920) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 10:53 AM Author: Dashing parlor As people ITT have noted, of course you’d prefer not to have the cheap crap (this does not make you some UMC uncle moneybags, lol; no one wants this shit). The same way budding-adult boomers in the late 70s and 80s preferred not to dress up to go to some Rotary Club meeting chock full of his dad’s back-slappy-but-morally-straitlaced wwii gen friends and biz associates. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665524) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 12:07 PM Author: Salmon Spectacular Market The difference here is putting your foot down and saying no gifts, which I hadn't previously heard of before I had kids and which I don't think was a "thing" for kids' birthdays party back in the day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665741) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 12:12 PM Author: Internet-worthy carmine roommate heaven think about how many $20 pieces of shit gifts you have to give over the course of the year and how much better it would be if everyone just saved that money and each parent bought one kid a $300 present. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665751) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 10:55 AM Author: lime bonkers school We decline gifts just to make attending our kids’ parties easy for the other parents. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665540) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 12:08 PM Author: Salmon Spectacular Market Decline, or proactively say "No Gifts"? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665743) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 12:09 PM Author: Pungent Hissy Fit Gas Station Some people say "books only", this keeps out the cheap crap and also makes you look all highbrow. A family of SCHOLARS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665747) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 12:27 PM Author: Salmon Spectacular Market Books only is cr. I've tried this with my wife, but she's said no gifts period, which I don't mind at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665783) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 12:33 PM Author: Pungent Hissy Fit Gas Station Some people apparently think "No gifts" is snobbish, like "We're too good for your prole shit!" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665792) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 2:01 PM Author: Chocolate Supple Business Firm they’re right. not to say it’s not the cr anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666056) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 3:30 PM Author: Stubborn amber messiness only proles would think it's too snobbish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666253) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 1:00 PM Author: abnormal multi-colored feces whorehouse This is incredibly rude because 1. it displays entitlement to a gift and 2. it tells the guest what they can and can't bring. In fact it's tacky to mention gifts at all, except perhaps in the context of "no gifts please." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665863) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 1:55 PM Author: Vibrant cordovan university ape this seems obnoxious and off-putting, but would be good in theory (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666038) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 2:01 PM Author: Chocolate Supple Business Firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666058) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 12:12 PM Author: Rose irate toilet seat masturbator Just gift the birthday kid a VHS copy of Varsity Blues at all parties your kid attends. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49665750) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 1:51 PM Author: gay circlehead lay Gift registry or GoFundMe is tcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666026) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 1:55 PM Author: exciting up-to-no-good crackhouse Both are unbelievably prole, more prole than just letting people bring whatever presents they want. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666036) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 2:01 PM Author: Chocolate Supple Business Firm lmao. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666060) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 2:03 PM Author: walnut plaza haunted graveyard if someone send me a gofundme "in lieu of gifts" i'd honestly fuck their dead mother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666063) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: Pungent Hissy Fit Gas Station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666117) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 3:34 PM Author: cowardly adventurous house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666261) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 2:27 PM Author: yellow irradiated marketing idea hospital the last thing i want is more shit in my house, i tell everyone no gifts, if you truly want to give a give cash only and it will be put straight into their savings/investment accounts
and any gift that is brought will be donated to the local salvation army |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 3:31 PM Author: slate fiercely-loyal mexican theater Prole (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666255) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 5:30 PM Author: Pungent Hissy Fit Gas Station Just take the gifts and then regift every single one to another kid's birthday part. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834024&forum_id=2!#49666668) |
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Date: February 12th, 2026 8:24 PM Author: brindle pocket flask If its a bigger birthday party, i usually say something like "Gifts not necessary - just bring your party hat"
I feel like "No gifts!" is a bit sanctimonious, but i also want to make it clear parents can just bring their kid and there's no need for it to be a fucking errand for them to pick out some toy i don't want in my house. |