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Would this be wrong?
AdakAK:
Oh, I didn't mean that I thought that passing them on was what you should do!! I think you should exchange them for something they will like!
I only meant that as an option if you really felt that you just couldn't exchange them.
Susan
gjcva1:
momto3daughters,
first, as someone who sponsored a family for the first time this year, thank you for giving someone the chance to have a whole boatload of fun in shopping for your precious three girls. it has been many years since we shopped for our own small ones, as they are now in their 20's. we shopped until we dropped, and had a wonderful time, even though i HATE to shop. i can only hope that our little guy (and his parents) enjoy what we chose. you gave someone a gift that you cannot fully appreciate right now. and i'm sure that having benefited from this now, you will do the same thing when you are able.
kuddos for your contribution to Toys for Tots, in whatever way that you can.
now as to the exchanging thing? we included gift receipts for everything that we gave as well. only you know what will suit your children. if there are things that you know won't work, yes please do exchange them for something they will like!!!! that's the whole purpose of both sponsoring AND including the receipts.
and as a sponsoring family, enjoy those Oh My Gosh's on Monday morning. and bless you and yours.
ShadesOfGrey:
nah, go ahead and exchange them. If you were ungrateful for them, I think it would be rude, but you have actual reasons for returning them.
freakyfemme:
--- Quote from: gjcva1 on December 21, 2006, 11:20:27 AM ---momto3daughters,
first, as someone who sponsored a family for the first time this year, thank you for giving someone the chance to have a whole boatload of fun in shopping for your precious three girls. it has been many years since we shopped for our own small ones, as they are now in their 20's. we shopped until we dropped, and had a wonderful time, even though i HATE to shop. i can only hope that our little guy (and his parents) enjoy what we chose. you gave someone a gift that you cannot fully appreciate right now. and i'm sure that having benefited from this now, you will do the same thing when you are able.
kuddos for your contribution to Toys for Tots, in whatever way that you can.
now as to the exchanging thing? we included gift receipts for everything that we gave as well. only you know what will suit your children. if there are things that you know won't work, yes please do exchange them for something they will like!!!! that's the whole purpose of both sponsoring AND including the receipts.
and as a sponsoring family, enjoy those Oh My Gosh's on Monday morning. and bless you and yours.
--- End quote ---
Momto3, don't worry about exchanging the gifts, I mean, the point of the sponsorship was so your girls would have a nice Christmas, right? So, that's just what you're doing, but in two stages instead of one. The first stage was, of course, asking for help when you needed it, instead of just trying to "make do," which would have meant that the girls would probably have had a very "bare-bones" Christmas, and that's just not fair to them. I know it must have been very hard for you to ask for help, because normally, you're the one helping everyone else, with all the volunteering you do for Girl Scouts, and driving your girls all over creation to their Scout meetings and softball practices, not to mention just normal kid things like play dates, sleepovers, doctor/dentist appointments, etc. So, exchanging the gifts will just be Stage Two of the Christmas preparations for your daughters, so you'll be sure that they're getting the things they'll like best, as opposed to just taking the pre-packaged hampers and dumping them under the tree, like I suspect most parents do. Also, by doing it your way, your daughters won't even have to know that you asked for sponsorship for Christmas this year......and kudos to you for still donating to Toys for Tots, even though you're having a hard time yourself. :D
Oh, and Gjcva, I know *exactly* what you mean about preferring charity gift shopping to "family" gift shopping. This year, I put together a box for Operation Christmas Child back in November, and I decided to make a box for a 2-4 year old girl. It was SO much fun picking out little toys, a colouring book and crayons, cute fuzzy pink mittens, a toothbrush and toothpaste, and some candy canes, and taking them home and putting them all in a box, and dropping it off, knowing that some anonymous little girl in a Third World country will actually have a Christmas.
Shopping for the family, on the other hand, was a chore--find out what people want (which was like pulling teeth, since my parents didn't give me any hints, and only told my brother, and my brother didn't tell me at ALL until last week, and then I found out on Tuesday night that my mom and I had both gotten him the same movie, so I had to exchange it), then call all the stores in advance to see if they had the correct gifts (my dad wanted the Rocket Richard movie, which is going like hot cakes and sold out practically everywhere, my mom wanted a recently-published book with a weird title, that's also very popular, and my brother wanted ice skates, which would have been perfectly simple if his feet weren't a men's size 12), and then purchase and wrap everything, INCLUDING Bigfoot's skates.
I know the gifts will be well received, but at the same time, it seems kind of futile, because my mom will have finished her book by dinner time on Christmas Day, my dad will almost certainly be too busy to actually watch the movie he asked for, and BOTH of them will probably lavish me and my brother with a pile of gifts that will what we got for them look pitiful. But, as for the little girl who'll be receiving the box I put together for her, that'll probably be her whole Christmas. She probably won't have any expectations about Christmas, since she's so young, and she'll probably be thrilled with the things that are in there.
Tabris:
If I'd given you a gift your daughters would hate, I would be very sad indeed if you did not exchange it for something they would love. Consider the gift plus a receipt as a bulky gift card.
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