can't afford gift

I never been to situation like this. But this is how I sort this things. Tell your little girl that you don't have money to but gifts. With this information, ask her if she still willing to go to the partly without gifts. Also let her understand that the birthday celebrant doest not he or she will be give a gift for everyone who will attend. Let her know the exact meaning of gifts, that it is not ask but given by free will.

Yeah, but I've been lucky, they usually give me the invitation at the last minute and I just tell them-it's too late to get a gift now, can't go without one :) Just tell her you can't afford a gift, especially with Christmas coming up, and it's impolite to go to a party without one. Hopefully she'll understand, especially since it's not a regular friend. Maybe take her out and do something on that day instead like to the park or walk through the mall, get some ice cream.

i take it in every birhtday......when i was invited

my daughter has a friend like this and we invited her to my daughter party any way we didnt really care about getting a gift because they are good friends, but what the little girl did was made a card and then her mom got a $5.00 gift card to Mcdonalds. My daughter loves gift cards, it paid for a happy meal and noone else knew it was only for $5.00 and she didnt feel left out that she didnt give a gift.

Do yo have craft items laying around that she may make a gift with? Teach her that it is not important to give a gift but that friendship is the best gift of all.

i would let her go, its good to have socialization when they are young. i remember not being invited to some as a child, and felt horrible and hated. I'm sure the gift you give does not have to be expensive. bake some brownings and put frosting and candy on them for the girl, or give some fast food restaurant gift certificates. As long as it is something kids tend to forget anyway.

Thanks to the business I am doing, there is no such problem as explained by you. I always keep 100's of gifts to be given away. For my son's birthday, there are 55 students in the class, all of them get gifts year after year and there are some children who reciprocate. But we do not mistake those who do not give gifts. I keep the stock of these gifts not only for my son, but also to give away to the school as gift to be given to children on any occasion. Pen sets, stationery kit, pokemon activity book, sketch pens, toys etc.

Did your daughter end up going to the birthday party? Did she want to go with out a gift? I don't think I would have as a kid, I would have felt bad, even though i didn't care if someone brought me a gift or not to my birthday.

My son has been invited to a few birthday parties and he has been to about half. I can usually afford to buy a gift up to about 10 dollars, but always wonder if I am wasting my money on some spoiled kid who all ready has everything.

In this situation, I run to the Dollar store with a gift bag (usually a used one from the back of the closet lol) and buy like 4-5 of the biggest best looking toys. It always looks like you did way more than you needed to do! And the kid is usually happier in the moment with a lot of gifts then just unwrapping one.

Maybe you can create a gift. You didn't say how old your daughter's friend is, but lots of small children love to get colorful pillows. Maybe you could help your daughter sew and stuff a pillow. We did that once, using material we had left over from other projects, and stuffing it with the foam from an extra pillow we had laying around the house. A piggy bank can be created from lots of things you have around the house. A package containg a flower pot (an old one you have scrubbed and allowed your child to paint a nice design on), a small bag of soil, and a package of seeds or a bulb makes a nice indoor gardening kit for a child. I'm sure if you try, even if money is in short supply, you can come up with something unique for the party.