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.

Do you think it's OK OP, it sounds like you really feel its not ok as you are aware of what others usually do. Wrapping a present and giving a card isn't 'attention to detail' ,it's just a thing that is something else to prepare for. If you don't want to and you think what you do is ok ,then that's fine. Personally if something was delivered to me to give,I'd want to open it to see it was what I ordered and not broken and suitable for what I wanted. Its not attention to detail to have some generic paper and cards on hand.

My youngest's class we had an agreement that there would be no gifts, just a fiver in a card (in a class of 30, where 20 turn up, that's a fair wodge of cash for the birthday child) - SO MUCH EASIER - and the kids loved it.

I don't see the point in cards personally. Just a waste of time and resources. And Amazon giftwrap/bag is expensive, so I definitely wouldn't feel offended, just worried that you're clearly struggling for time, and next time, don't worry about it at all!

If I could, then I wouldn't have written that. Feel free to suggest some, I'm clearly not able to understand what's complicated about it for OP.

Fuck no. I would judge anyone stupid enough to judge, though.

I have a friend who sews her own gift bags from her kids worn-out clothes - now that's intimidating!

I do do cards - because my kids enjoy writing them but we bought a huge multi pack a few years ago which we are still going through. I definitely wouldn't go out specifically to choose and buy a card for each party

No it's still a present who cares if it's wrapped don't be so damn ungrateful 🙁

I think for a child party when they are little and you go to loads it’s fine but do you do the same ie not wrap for children’s and close adult relations? I only ask as I’ve a relative who won’t wrap , she gave my father in law four cans of beer in a carrier bag presented to him at a nice restaurant. Better than the year before I suppose where she was just going to hand the four pack over the table until I intervened and got her a gift bag.

Of course, not.

I'm terrible at planning and remembering but what has helped me is to buy everyone once in a while a stack of 50 or something kids birthday cards so I don't have to remember to get one for each and every birthday. I also bulk buy presents when I see them on offer so I've got a few at home to give. This works really well with things like lego or playdough for younger ones.

Err I cant imagine wrapping cans of beer. I also think adults shouldn't expect presents to be wrapped. For kids absolutely because the anticipation is part of the present but for adults I'd either use a gift bag (and expect them to reuse it) or nothing.

We had similar in my son’s classes. Every gift was a ten dollar gift card from the same shop. It was brilliant. So easy and the kids ended up being able to buy themselves something they wanted.

OP, if you are at all worried about this you can buy thin shin foil gift bags from Amazon. They are very cheap to bulk buy and you could just the present in.

No I wouldn't care at all

I know a lot of people are saying, buy bulk cards or buy bulk paper. It’s the sort of thing that I find super annoying to store in my house. It’s the sort of thing that just gets lost. I’ll end up being able to find the paper, but not the sellotape and then I’m in a shit position once again where I can’t do the job properly.

hence, oder gift in Amazon gift bag- job done.

to people asking if I don’t wrap other presents.

the only presents I wrap are for my kids at Christmas and usually at birthdays but I admit, I didn’t wrap everything this year for them for their birthdays either…

when gifting stuff to other adults, I just use an Amazon gift bag or a normal gift bag. I don’t wrap them. I’m rubbish at wrapping them and just find it a faff I don’t need to deal with.

I’ve been in charge of teacher gifts this year. They need 5 presents each throughout the year.. I know.. I haven’t wrapped them. I just used gift bags ( not the Amazon ones ).

God no, I wouldn't judge.

I only judge when parents say they've forgotten the gift but they'll give it to the child at school and then it never materialises...
It's mean to promise a small child a present if you're not going to deliver.

Yes by wrap I meant gift bag , handing a four pack across the table is odd in my opinion. It was like being at a student party.

I have a storage container from Ikea for wrapping paper, gift bags, sellotape and cards, all the Christmas and other occasions stuff goes in there, it fits in the Pax wardrobe which we use for storage and shoes

Of course not

Clicked on this thread wondering if it was about me, as last week I had organised some gifts for local children who had won a competiton connected to my work. The person who’d bought the gift cards had just kept them in an envelope and there was no backing card or space for names etc, so the children just had the plastic cards handed to them 🫣 I’m sure it was fine!

No. I wouldn’t care. I don’t think my dc would either.