Ang Pow Issues...
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tankee:
not being humble. just being self-conscious.
How about Penguin daddy.. -
auntieM:
tankee:
not being humble. just being self-conscious.
How about 'tok kong tankee' instead of super?
'tok kong' no lah .... :idea: maybe 'talk kok' ? -
lovekidsverymuch:
ya? why Pengiun ? :?
Penguin :? why ??????KSP:
How about Penguin daddy.. -
I think is from the show "企鹅爸爸".
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For us,
nephews (my side) - $20
nephews (DH’s side) - $100 (because he wants to give more even though we always get $50 in return)
kids of cousins/close friends/colleagues - $10
other kids from DS or DD’s classes - $8 to $10
kids we don’t know (ie strangers) - $6 (altough sometimes we also take into consideration how many kids there are)
Haven’t given any angbaos at $4 for years… but received a number this year. Maybe "market" is really bad.
Talking about some of the "bad nuts" at wedding, in our case, I suspected there was someone (a friend from school somemore) who did not even give angbao to us. When it came to this person’s turn to get married, I simply chose not to go. Simple! -
Wow Busymom,
Hope your DH side don't have too many nephews -
ha ha, just two, so we lugi $100 since we also have two
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Busymom:
ha ha, just two, so we lugi $100 since we also have two
.... Maybe you should start to mirror our system. Flat rate for all nieces and nephews regardless how many kids each family has. The current rate is $20 and it has been like this for the past 9 years.
This is our situation today :
1st sil - 3rd sil - 2 kids each
4th sil - 1 child only
We have 3.
Hubby was like should we give the youngest sil more????
I was like... then like that, we must adjust for all the others to be equal to the amount we receive too :? Eg. for 1st sil to 3rd sil, iso getting $20, they should now get $30 each. Very complicated. What happens if along the way, she give birth to more kids, so we must reduce proportionately???? Funny rite???? Anyway... just ask her to give birth to more if she think she lugi. It's not as though we want more kids because we want to get more angpow.... To me, angpow is just a \"blessing\" to the younger ones.
This is how they split the bills for special occasion meals too. Eg. XXX amount over 5 kids. So when the youngest only has 3 (hubby + herself), she still need to pay a equal share. -
auntieM:
:!: First time heard of giving cheques in angpows. :faint: So when funeral also give cheques for pek kin lah. :roll: I mean, unless the amount is really big, why cheques?Some people very 'X'(cannot find word to discribe, do help).
They will show up for wedding dinners and present you with a cheque, nice and big number but got problem 1, so there is no way you can bank it.
This guy friend did it to a few of us before we found out :x -
tutormum:
The idea of giving cheques is to purposely make a mistake when writing the cheques, so that the cheques cannot be deposited. Then the person giving the cheque got a free meal out of it, pretending that it's an honest mistake.
:!: First time heard of giving cheques in angpows. :faint: So when funeral also give cheques for pek kin lah. :roll: I mean, unless the amount is really big, why cheques?auntieM:
Some people very 'X'(cannot find word to discribe, do help).
They will show up for wedding dinners and present you with a cheque, nice and big number but got problem 1, so there is no way you can bank it.
This guy friend did it to a few of us before we found out :x
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