Twin gift etiquette please!

[Shadowboy]

My daughter has been invited to a party for twins (different sexes) our usual party budget is £20 including card.

For a twin birthday do I spend £40?
or maybe £15 each including card? She actually only really plays with one child and doesn’t know the other but it’s a shared, joint party.
I don’t want to be tight but also £40 is a lot!

My twins bring a present each when invited to the same party.

I also bring a third present from my singleton if it’s the sort of party like bouncy castle in church hall where she can come along too (and ok’ed with party host of course) which I’ve noticed not everyone does.

No advice about the presents, but please carry on supporting your local village shop rather than buying cards as cheap as possible from huge companies like Amazon as pp have suggested.

I would clarify with the parents how they treat their twins and whether they're expecting presents for both twins or just the one twin who invited your child. that's a really odd thing to ask someone. "Do you treat your two children as one child or do you recognise them as two seperate people?"

I'm with a previous poster, if your DC is friends with only 1 twin then buy for them only, I'm sure both twins will be receiving gifts from only their friends

@Shadowboy do you even need to buy a card?

In my kids circles it has been a while since anyone got a shop bought card - usually the kids do a drawing and make it into a card

£10 each is more than enough - depending on preferences for a 10 year old, you can give a book, a cinema voucher each (I loved receiving one of those for my kid), a small necklace from brandy & Melville (my pre-teen's friends love these)

Well some parents do see their twins as 'the twins', dressing them the same all the time, expecting them to both be invited to parties even if only one twin is friends with the child, expecting them to do all activities etc. together because they 'come as a pair' type attitude, and expect others to treat their twins that way.

Some parents don't, and treat their twins as completely separate entities, encouraging them to be independent and not just one half of a twin set. So it's not that odd a question to me, and I am a twin.