Attending birthday parties

When ur twins are both invited to the same birthday party do u buy the birthday child one gift from both of them, or two gifts, one from each of them?

 

I buy one present from each child since they were both invited. There have been a few times that I have bought one bigger present if I find something I really like that is more than I would usually spend, but almost always I buy 2.

 

We usually buy one present from each kid.

 

I'd do one present from each child as well.

If we're invited as a family though I only get one, but I spend about the same.

 

We also buy one present from each child. Last year for their 4th birthday all of our guests each bought them a separate gift so I figure we should do the same. Plus I think it's more fun for the birthday boy/girl to open more presents!

 

I get a gift for each child to give...they like walking in with their own gift. Plus, people generally get them their own gift because they aren't one child so I consider the reverse.

 

We usually try to spend about 15 bucks per kid, depending on the gift we sometimes do 3 items (if they are books). But I don't break them out as being from B or J, but I definitely try to spend enough that it's about the cost for two kids.

 

So what if they are attending a birthday party for another set of twins? Do you buy 4 presents total?

I hadn't even thought of this.

 

LOL, Mama_dragon. I was just about the ask that as I was making my way down the post replies. I think you may have to, but if it's a problem, you probably could call the parent and ask what s/he would think is appropriate. Basically, would the birthday twins accept a gift each from both your kids. So her kids get separate gifts, but they are from both your kids. I think that is acceptable especially if they are all in the same class and friends.

 

For us it depends on the family. If it is a family where there are 2 kids (where we are invited to parties for both children), we give one gift from both children, and they do the same. That way, each child gets a gift from both of the kids in the family. If it is a family where we only give one gift, I will either give 2 gifts or one bigger gift. My boys have gotten shared gifts from friends as well. One year, a friend gave the boys a Wii game to share. If we only had one kid, she probably wouldn't have gotten that, but because she was getting for two, she was able to get the "bigger gift".

 

If my boys are invited to a birthday party, I get two gifts. One from each kid. If we as a family are invited, I get gifts from the three kids. I found at their first friends party, they get separate gifts and joint gifts. It all equaled out in the end.

But my plan is to always get a gift from each of them, or a bigger joint gift.

 

Hmm. So far we've only been to a few parties, and I brought one present per birthday child. When I would invite friends who were sisters to my birthday parties when I was little, they would bring one present per family.

 

:good: Same here.

 

same here

 

I've done the same... my two kids bring a present each for the birthday kid.

... but for the couple of twin parties I've gone to, I've just done one present for each bday kid... sometimes I've said to bday kid 1 from my dd, and to bday kid 2 from my ds... other times I'll say from both... I figure I'd be fine with "just" one present from each family... so that's what I've done for twins since we have twins.

when the kids get older and aren't invited to the same parties (b/c they are b/g)... I totally can see that each attendee brings a gift for each bday honoree just like if they were going to separate parties.

 

We haven't had a friends party yet for the girls, but the couple of parties that we've been invited to, we've brought 1 gift.

Next year I plan to do a friends party for the girls, and I'm going to ask the parents to bring ONE gift, and not put who it's to, rather just put who it's from. That way I can divvy them up and each girl can open the same amount of gifts.

I wouldn't even WANT someone to bring 1 gift for each child. They have so much junk as it is that I don't know what to do with, that our house would just be crawling with toys. They already have an entire room in the house dedicated to 'play' and can't even keep all their toys in there. Plus their b-day is 2 weeks after christmas.

Maybe I'm being mean, but that's just my thoughts.

 

I do one larger gift from the twins...if I had to buy 2 and keep them straight etc I'd go nuts as they average 2 parties a month!

 

one from each--they love handing the present to the bday girl or boy! (and one gift for both to share kind of annoys me. but that's just me!).

~~jl