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Thank you card poll.
Who do you send TY's to and for what occasions?
I sent a thank you to everyone for shower/wedding gifts (obviously). But I only send thanks you's for birthday or Christmas gifts if I don't see the person. ie. for the gifts people gave to us on Christmas I wouldn't send a card but for the gifts we received in the mail I do.
Re: Thank you card poll.
I do the same thing you do.
Actually, the thank you card question caused some drama in my family back when I was in middle school. My crazy aunt on my dad's side decided one year that my sister and I were ungrateful brats and got mad at us for never sending TY cards to our grandparents for our xmas gifts, which we always opened in front of them and said many thanks in person.
She made us feel like sh*t about not sending TY cards, and even went so far as to mail us TY cards that were pre-stamped and addressed to our grandparents. At this point it was a battle of the wills and we never filled out her ridiculous cards. We talked to our gma and she knew we were very grateful.
The whole thing pisses me off to this day for many reasons. If my grandparents really wanted the damn TY cards, they should have said something, not the crazy aunt. Not once did she talk to my parents about it, and not once did they try to make us send them TY cards for xmas gifts. If that was a "tradition" on my dad's side, nobody ever mentioned it to us, so how were two kids supposed to know?!
Wow, sorry for the huge rant... obviously it's still a sensitive issue for me.
My rule for gifts is if there is an actual invite for an event, I bring a gift. If I throw such an event, I send a thank you for all gifts received.
In the past year and a half, I have sent thank yous out for a bridal shower, wedding, baby shower, gifts that people brought to the house when C was born and the christening. I'm sick of writing out thank yous, but I guess I like all the gifts.
ETA: I don't send them for Christmas gifts. No one sends me any gifts in the mail. I also don't send them for b-day gifts because really only DH and my parents get me anything.
Similar to Natalee. If's it's an invite event or a dinner party, or someone who is hosting and I've never been to their house before, I bring a hostess gift.
TY notes for every gift, except from my parents or DH, however E will write notes to my parents.
In my mom's circle it's just the way it is so I follow suite.
ETA: Hostess gift is usually a bag of cookies , cheap wine or a candle. Don't get any ideas of inviting me over ladies. I'm no money bags.
K+S 9.18.9 | DD #1 age 2 | PG # 5 EDD 9.17.12
This for me as well. Otherwise they get Thank You's in person, on the phone, or through email in a few cases.