Would you judge if someone gave your child an Amazon present in just the Amazon gift bag and no card

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Guilty as charged !

and I noticed all the parents that give gifts to my kids, wrap them and use gift bags, plus a card.

I can barely get it together to buy a gift as it is and to not forget to attend the birthday. Let alone going through all that attention to detail. I also hate wrapping presents in general and I don’t do cards- in general. Sometimes I manage to do a card, but not that often.

would you judge if you just received ( a nice ) gift in an Amazon gift bag?

small kids, so they can’t do it themselves.

No judgement here. Those Amazon gift bags are expensive too! Also no judgement if you were to put £10 in a card.

I love the Amazon bags because they can be used over and over. Much better than wrapping paper.

No judgement here, I was pretty much cash in a card as soon as dcs friends turned about 8!

So if they are actual gift bags why would anyone judge them? How is it different to buying your own bag and putting the gift inside?

No. I'd think they were really busy and too frazzled to get to a shop. No judging.

I'm all for this - I can't wrap neatly to save my life, I think it's genetic 😅

Meh, if people want to judge let them. It’s 2 minutes they’ll not be judging someone else for some imagined sleight.

I find cards a complete waste of money and resources and never have the space to display them. As I child I was never bothered by the cards and it used to annoy me that my mum made me open them first before the present. Cards cost circa £3 I'd rather spend the money on getting the child a nicer present and putting on a gift tag.

Though I also loath Amazon gift bags as I don't like the way they look and so don't want to reuse them but feel guilty at chucking the polyester. Also so overpriced!

Absolutely acceptable

I actually think it's a really nice idea! A lot of people buy gifts from Amazon, so it makes perfect sense that someone would choose the Amazon gift bag to go along with it. It's not the most budget-friendly option, though, and I think that’s a big reason why it’s not more widely used.
As for cards, I personally don’t enjoy them as I find them to be a bit of a waste. But I still include them because I know kids like them, some quite a lot.

Nope, we've switched to Clipify video cards years ago and I don't personally know anyone who would be bothered about the wrapping. The gift bag is pretty much the standard and it doesn't go to waste like most of wrapping paper might.

just buy a big roll of wrapping paper. No I wouldn’t give a gift still in the box, but equally I wouldn’t judge someone. Ex DP sometimes does it. My mothers day gift from kids this year was in an amazon box, which was fine as it was some lovely perfume i’d wanted but was expensive (DS2 must have looked in my amazon wish-list. It must be saved on there since I shared a train ride with this hilarious lady who kept spraying her perfume (Alien) every time she sneakily vaped. Whenever I spray it, I remember that crazy train ride with such a funny lady. I helped her change trains as she was incredibly anxious and then she added me on TikTok and sent a message to say i’d made her journey so much easier. Sorry random story off track there!!

Any kinds of gift bags which can be reused are great. Much better than keeping using wrapping paper.

Gift bags are great since they can be reused. Everyone should be happy not receiving wrapped gifts from me: I'm crap at it so it looks like a 5 year old wrapped it.

We always reuse gift bags, if you want to send cards just get a cheap pack to keep in, the DC writes it anyway, I certainly wouldn't buy individual cards.

If you post a gift then the Amazon wrapping makes sense, you don't want to receive it and have to wrap then post it, just send it directly. We do that each way with some of the cousins.

For a kids party though, it takes 10 minutes to do the wrapping and card with your small helper and is part of them learning how to use scissors, how to cover things, writing their name, how to write a card... I don't know why you wouldn't. You can get a 5m roll of brown paper with some sort of pattern plus a stack of child suitable cards then just use that each time, and it'll be much cheaper than £3.95 for every gift too. You can do it if you want to, and it certainly isn't rude, but it is a bit odd and you are missing opportunities to teach your kids some basics.

Would it be helpful to have a small stash of birthday cards and gift bags stored at home, ready for parties? Once you get down to the last 2 cards, bulk order a few more?

Hang on -
£40?! Which kids are you giving that sort of money to? I only spend that much on my nieces and nephews
(often not even that much to be honest it’s usually £25-30)

Yeah this, I go to the card factory or Tesco once or twice a year and stock up, card factory do 10 cards for £1. Job done

I wouldn't judge at all. You could add fairly generic wrapping paper to your next shopping list if you wanted to make a change. It lasts ages.

I really wish cards would die out though, they end up in the bin within 24 hours here.

No I wouldn't judge at all and would just be grateful for the gift! When mine were young and going to parties a lot, I would buy a stock of birthday cards, card factory used to do 10 for a couple of quid, not sure if they still do! So I always had a load of cards in a drawer, saves a lot of time!

It's a bit crap. How hard is it to have some wrapping paper in the house? But judge is a bit strong.

Of course not, you are genuinely worried about nothing.

You really can't think of any reason why someone wouldn't?