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Unsolicited Christmas lists
for kids. These are no-no's right?
I got an email on Saturday from a friend I hadn't spoken to in a while...she was circulating a list of "wants" for her two kids.....clothes items, jewelry....no toys.
She tried to make it better by asking for similar lists for our kids.
I was too bleary eyed and in shock to send a response.
Re: Unsolicited Christmas lists
do you normally exchange gifts?
if not, then that's a bit odd IMHO
this... but even still, I think it's weird from a friend.
if it was from a family member that I normally exchange gifts with it wouldnt phase me at all.
LOL I can't really imagine that either. Is this someone you normally exchange gifts with? If not that's just weird. I keep an amazon list for C so the grandparents and other relatives can get ideas (it's especially good for books because no one ever knows what we do/don't have) but I'd never just randomly send it to someone.
ditto
Both of our families do lists for birthdays and Christmas/Hanukkah but these are meant only for family and Santa.
I think that was a really weird email and just wouldn't reply. But I would also think about it every now and then and wonder if there was any way it was a mistake that it was sent to me because that is just too odd.
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The first couple of items were things like world peace, happiness for my friends, good health for my friends.... Then the next 37 items were specific gifts that she wanted. It was so weird.
And this was someone I really didn't socialize with and would not ever think to buy a gift for.
That's strange. We did an Amazon wish list for C, but we started it as a place to keep up with things we wanted. I did email it to some family after they asked, but I told them that it wasn't a requirement - they could use it as a guideline if they wanted. They don't shop on Amazon, so they printed it off and took it with them.
I used to find that odd, but now that my cousin creates one for their daughter, I realize it is pretty good. I never know what to get her since we rarely see her and it also helps me with what size she is.
wow!
i would have sort of wanted to attend and get one of the requested clothing items in a very different color, wrong size, etc.
One of our friends sent out a mass text in late October saying "just so everyone knows, little one is very into x,y,z so those would be good Christmas gifts"
I was embarrassed for her, I just don't think you send out unsolicited lists like that.
Wow.
wow
Interesting...
I don't have any kids yet but my best friends' kids call me Tia E and call H Uncle M. I always get them gifts every year. 3 of them are my Godchildren. I buy then what I want to buy them, although I do ask the mom if they have this or that and if they do, then I go for something else.
One of my bffs, Godson's mom, would tell me just to give the boys cash for their birthdays, Christmas or Easter because they are very picky about what they want. Ummm... No. So I would just get them something simple and small.
I was very hurt one year for Easter, I made my older Godson an Easter basket full of eggs with candy, a coloring book or two and some eggs with dollars and coins. He opened on egg and was like, "That's it, just a dollar!" I took the basket back. His mom's face was classic.
I helped raise that little boy from the day he came out of the womb and never once had he ever disrespected me until that day. So this year, I didn't even ask, I got him what I wanted.
Short answer..we don't normally ( I had to make a mad dash out last year when they announced they were coming over for a gift for DS). They also gave him an ear infection.
I think Christmas will be the only time we have seen them this year.
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