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momto3daughters:
Im wondering if you can give me your advise on an issue. My children were sponsored for Christmas this year, money's just been extremly extremly tight. Anyway I picked up the gifts today and they present them to me and also said the receipt was there if I needed to return anything. Now I look at the presents and most of them are on the mark of what my kids will LOVE, there are three that all though close are not what the kids wanted, and they are the same type of thing just like a lamp thats a certain character my daughter does not like and I truly dont care for. a book that is below my other daugthers reading level, and a toy that my dd is getting from grandma .

With them giving me the reciept and that is it wrong to go exchange those three items to the same type of thing but a little diffrnet. On one hand they gave us the reciept to do so on the toher hand it feels wrong that kids picked these out for them and im returning them???

HELP.

AdakAK:
I don't think that it is wrong.  That is why they gave you the receipt!  If you feel that you can't exchange them, what about passing them on? 

Susan

fklwmn:
Been there, DONE that. Please return the items. That is why they gave you the receipts. If you were returning them to buy something that was NOT for your kids' Christmas, then THAT would be wrong. But whoever sponsored your kids wants them to get things they will really love, so PLEASE exchange them for things that are suitable for your kids.

BurninDinner:
That is the perfect thing to do - they gave you the receipt so you would be able to give the girls what they like.

momto3daughters:
Thank you all :)
I just needed some outside voices of reason. I mean theres one gift they got for my middle daughter that when she opens it shes going to FLIP OUT, I mean im waiting for hooting and hollering and OH MY GOSH's on xmas morning.

Susan as to passing them on I would if truly this wasnt the bulk of my girls Christmas. Two adults in college on one income and a small income at that with no help is hard to pass up things to others. All though we did take a dollar every two weeks and buy a thing fromt he dollar store for toys for tots. Not much but it helped and made me feel better about accepting help this one time.

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