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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I can kinda see where those parents are coming from. Kids get a stupid amount of gifts for birthdays and Christmas. It's a real struggle to stop grandparents, especially, from spoiling grandkids today. And we've noticed that most of the stuff the kids get is looked at once and then discarded. It's extremely wasteful, and can lead to kids not valuing what they do get.
Still, there are probably better ways of addressing the issue. You can ask people not to bring gifts to birthday parties. Or you can have a one-toy-in, one-toy-out policy.
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For my daughter's birthday last year she held a birthday party asking for items to donate to a cat shelter instead of presents. Her choice, she decided she had too much "stuff" and would rather help out homeless cats.
We had 10 people at the birthday and my living room was FULL of cat litter, cat food, toys, paper towel, cleaning supplies and stuff for these cats. I was blown away. The kids she invited to the party had gift bags just stuffed with cat food and toys from the dollar store and my family pitched in Costco sized boxes of cat food and cat litter.
I still remember dropping it off to the shelter and them asking me 3 times if I was done unloading from my car yet. We took up a corner of their storage facility with everything friends and family gave.