All About Birthday Parties

[autumnbronze]

jedamum:

parents,

what is your budget for gifts when invited to birthday parties.
TIA.

Hi jedamum,

From $20 to $60, depending on how close we are to the family.

[auntieM]

jedamum:

parents,

what is your budget for gifts when invited to birthday parties.
TIA.

Depends on how 'close' they are.. ..Board games that's around $20-30 plus, clothing for closer pals..
Quite paiseh if venue is nice and parents get to hang around and makan de..
The last party I attended at Safra Jurong someone brought all three kids and they told us they bought a Geronimo story book ..

[autumnbronze]

auntieM:

Quite paiseh if venue is nice and parents get to hang around and makan de..
The last party I attended at Safra Jurong someone brought all three kids and they told us they bought a Geronimo story book ..

:yikes:

[auntieM]

autumnbronze:

auntieM:

[quote=\"jedamum\"]parents,

what is your budget for gifts when invited to birthday parties.
TIA.

Depends on how 'close' they are.. ..Board games that's around $20-30 plus, clothing for closer pals..
Quite paiseh if venue is nice and parents get to hang around and makan de..
The last party I attended at Safra Jurong someone brought all three kids and they told us they bought a Geronimo story book ..

:yikes:[/quote]No kidding hor.. ..Couple are both high flyers somemore.. .. :faint:

[jedamum]

thanks.

but what if not close?
like ds classmate…
do we depend on venue?

[micollh]

auntieM:

jedamum:

parents,

what is your budget for gifts when invited to birthday parties.
TIA.

Depends on how 'close' they are.. ..Board games that's around $20-30 plus, clothing for closer pals..
Quite paiseh if venue is nice and parents get to hang around and makan de..
The last party I attended at Safra Jurong someone brought all three kids and they told us they bought a Geronimo story book ..

what is Geronimo story book ? expensive books u mean ?

[tankee]

micollh:

auntieM:

[quote=\"jedamum\"]parents,

what is your budget for gifts when invited to birthday parties.
TIA.

Depends on how 'close' they are.. ..Board games that's around $20-30 plus, clothing for closer pals..
Quite paiseh if venue is nice and parents get to hang around and makan de..
The last party I attended at Safra Jurong someone brought all three kids and they told us they bought a Geronimo story book ..

what is Geronimo story book ? expensive books u mean ?[/quote]Geronimo Stilton.

A series of novels based on this mouse called Geronimo Stilton. Quite popular among kindergarten and lower primary children.

http://www.geronimostilton.com/

[Funz]

Do you get a small gift for the birthday kid even if your kid will not be attending the party?


I have been doing that, so long as DD gets an invite, I will get a small gift for the b’day kid even though DD cannot make it. But realise it is getting a bit too often.

I will usually drop dd off at the party, chat for a while and then make myself scarce until the end of the party. Value of the gifts for parties that dd attends will be about $30.

For my kids’ parties, my main objective is for the kids to enjoy, I do not really care about the value of the presents. Even if the invited comes with kids and cousins in tow and without any presents, that’s fine too. More importantly, will be kids enjoying themselves.

[autumnbronze]

jedamum:

thanks.

but what if not close?
like ds classmate.....
do we depend on venue?

Jedamum,

So far the parties DS have attended were celebrated at home. Two others were at a park where there was a playground and at a small function room in a hotel. For the one at the park, we spent about $60 on books as they had a gift registry. As for the one at the hotel 6 years back, I gave $50 cash as a gift. We are personal friends of the family.

My son's birthday is also celebrated at home every year. We get gifts with the price ranging from $20 to over $100. The most expensive, apart from
IL's cash gift was when our agent whom we had just bought insurance for DS from, gave clothes worth over $500 from DKNY for DS1 1st birthday party :yikes:

Really :faint: when I found out. Wonder whether they can charge to the company???

[autumnbronze]

Funz:

Do you get a small gift for the birthday kid even if your kid will not be attending the party?

Yes, we do that too. Or we give cash as a gift.