Large Work Baby Showers - Individual Thank You or Group Thank you?

Btpullia · May 2013

I recently had a baby shower at work where about 92 people attended. This resulted in 4 pages of gifts. Due to the number of gifts received, I was wondering if it would be okay to write a group letter for each department or if writing a card for each individual gift is necessary.

What do you think?

cinderin · May 2013

If you know who gave you the gift - I would write a personal note.

If it was a group gift and you don't know who gave it to you in that department/group, then a group note.

That is a lot of gifts!!!

Try to take it slow. Break it down and do 10 a day or so. :-)

Lelo2006 · May 2013

Omg I think I would faint if I had that many people at my baby shower!

I think cookies or bagels or something and a big thank you note for each department is ok, unless you got 92 separate gifts. In that case, I'd write a note to each person.

HappyMrsK · May 2013

cinderin:
If you know who gave you the gift - I would write a personal note.
If it was a group gift and you don't know who gave it to you in that department/group, then a group note.
That is a lot of gifts!!!
Try to take it slow. Break it down and do 10 a day or so. :-)

This. If 92 individuals gave you gifts, then they really should get an individual thank you note.

BC&LM · May 2013

Everyone should get an individual thank you card because everyone individually took the time to buy you a gift. The only way a joint thank you card might be remotely appropriate is if a department went in together on a joint gift, but even then, I would still do separate cards.

BeckyTheEngineer · May 2013

I just had a surprise work shower, which was about 30 to 35 people. Everyone chipped in for group gifts, and I did individual thank you cards. Granted that is far less than you have to do, but I opted for individual because everyone was so awesome in doing that for me.

Stina2012 · May 2013

cinderin:
If you know who gave you the gift - I would write a personal note.
If it was a group gift and you don't know who gave it to you in that department/group, then a group note.
That is a lot of gifts!!!
Try to take it slow. Break it down and do 10 a day or so. :-)

This is what I would do. But if you have 4 pages of gifts it sounds like people bought stuff individually. If they gave an individual gift I would write an individual TY card. If they di a group gift then I would do a group TY card.

rhubarb123 · May 2013

I would write individual thank you cards for those who gave gifts individually. For group gifts I'd write one thank you for that department. I'd probably take in cookies for all departments as a "thank you" as well...just to make sure no one felt "left out".

database6 · May 2013

BC&LM:
Everyone should get an individual thank you card because everyone individually took the time to buy you a gift. The only way a joint thank you card might be remotely appropriate is if a department went in together on a joint gift, but even then, I would still do separate cards.

This.

Everyone should get a seperate thank you card.

jo4janet · May 2013

lalvillar06:
Omg I think I would faint if I had that many people at my baby shower! I think cookies or bagels or something and a big thank you note for each department is ok, unless you got 92 separate gifts. In that case, I'd write a note to each person.

this. If you got some group gifts, a group note would be okay, otherwise individuals are a little more thoughtful. After all, they were thoughtful in giving you all those gifts.

RachieTK · May 2013

BCLM:
Everyone should get an individual thank you card because everyone individually took the time to buy you a gift. The only way a joint thank you card might be remotely appropriate is if a department went in together on a joint gift, but even then, I would still do separate cards.[/quote

Exactly this.

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