Gah!

Bliss+Berry · June 2013

As seen pinned on a friend's board. So tacky.

blondolphn · June 2013

Does the back side, and write down what you gave us too?

kcooper1986 · June 2013

Every once in awhile people try to defend this by saying it "saves time" but seriously, how long does it really take to do?? Is the extra 10 minutes going to kill you?! Thank God I have never seen this in person....

BlondieBia21 · June 2013

Agree.... And it also bothers me that they can't even write the sign in a decent looking hand writing. I will never do this, but if I were to ever have a sign publicly displayed, you better bet I'd take a LOT of time to make it cute and not like I wrote it 2 minutes before putting it out..

At least it all matches?

Meery82 · June 2013

kcooper1986:
Every once in awhile people try to defend this by saying it "saves time" but seriously, how long does it really take to do?? Is the extra 10 minutes going to kill you?! Thank God I have never seen this in person....

I wish I could say the same. I see it ALL the time. I refused to do it at both my wedding and baby showers. People must just be pretty tacky in general where I live. LOL.

Example: I was invited to a shower held by the MTB, in her garage, for her 3rd kid. At least we didn't have to address our own envelopes.

SingleMom31 · June 2013

The best was a shower where I did it and then didn't even get a thank you! Saved time on envelopes, then really saved time by skipping them altogether.

afrochick09 · June 2013

Saw this on Pinterest and I spazzed a bit. No wonder these ideas are spreading like wildfire.

Cellis · June 2013

blondolphn:
Does the back side, and write down what you gave us too?

LOL...sorry was lurking and this made me laugh.

RK125 · June 2013

Agreed...very tacky.

I wouldn't want it done at my shower. But it would have saved me a million phone calls to my mother for all the people she invited that weren't on the guest list she asked me for.

She still hasn't called me back yet.

BallSox · June 2013

One time, I refused to fill out an envelope and didn't get a thank you. Another party, I didn't fill one out and got a somewhat snarky fb message asking me for my address "since you refused to play the door prize game". :eyeroll:

Unfortunately, both family so just not attending any future events is not an option.

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RibbitGrl930 · June 2013

BallSox:
One time, I refused to fill out an envelope and didn't get a thank you. Another party, I didn't fill one out and got a somewhat snarky fb message asking me for my address "since you refused to play the door prize game". :eyeroll:

Unfortunately, both family so just not attending any future events is not an option.

That is so incredibly yucky.

I think the whole "It's for a game!" mentality makes it worse. When people have to preface things with presenting it as some cute or as having some utilitarian purpose (book instead of card poems, making the envelope completion part of a door game, diaper raffles), you know it's tacky. If it can't just stand on its own merit as acceptable, then hosts/hostesses should really rethink it.

notkateanymore · June 2013

Bliss+Berry:
As seen pinned on a friend's board. So tacky.

I actually got into an argument with somebody on Pinterest over this pin. LOL It was pinned by Pregnant Chicken as a good idea and I stated please don't say this is a good idea and by the end of it, I was being called high and mighty and something about a horse.

BallSox · June 2013

Bliss+Berry:
BallSox:
One time, I refused to fill out an envelope and didn't get a thank you. Another party, I didn't fill one out and got a somewhat snarky fb message asking me for my address "since you refused to play the door prize game". :eyeroll:

Unfortunately, both family so just not attending any future events is not an option.
You have got to be kidding.

Not at all. I thought I had shared this story? My older cousin called me like 5 weeks before the event was supposed to take place and asked me to take over hosting a baby shower for her daughter (my very young second cousin). Her aunt (on her dad's side, my cousin-in-law (to help following the family tree)), had said she was going to host the baby shower for my second cousin but then flaked out totally.

I said "Sure" and I genuinely didn't mind (despite having my own NB at home). Well, the day of the event comes around and the flaky aunt comes to the shower, tripping all over herself thanking me for taking over the planning. Then she says "OH and I totally heard of this cute idea...(explains the "game")." I told her I had heard of it before and didn't think it was a cute game at all, etc. She told me "But it saves (mom to be) SOOOO MUCH TIME!". I told her that I didn't want to do it, that if (m2b) was having problems, I could come help her, but I didn't want to impose on the guests. The aunt thrust this tacky and dusty (it was likely sitting around her house for awhile) fake flower arrangement at me and said "They won't mind doing it, I brought this for a prize!". I told her a firm "No thank you" and then people started arriving.

I had forgotten all about the "game" and the shower was going smoothly and was almost finished. Then flaky aunt stands up and says "Oh! We almost forgot about one last game!"

Being as I was grossly outnumbered by flaky aunts family to my family, I just let it go (not wanting to basically call her out as being a tacky thundertwat) and moved on with my life. Never got a thank you card. :shrugs:

notkateanymore · June 2013

BallSox:
Bliss+Berry:
BallSox:
One time, I refused to fill out an envelope and didn't get a thank you. Another party, I didn't fill one out and got a somewhat snarky fb message asking me for my address "since you refused to play the door prize game". :eyeroll:

Unfortunately, both family so just not attending any future events is not an option.
You have got to be kidding.
Not at all. I thought I had shared this story? My older cousin called me like 5 weeks before the event was supposed to take place and asked me to take over hosting a baby shower for her daughter (my very young second cousin). Her aunt (on her dad's side, my cousin-in-law (to help following the family tree)), had said she was going to host the baby shower for my second cousin but then flaked out totally.

I said "Sure" and I genuinely didn't mind (despite having my own NB at home). Well, the day of the event comes around and the flaky aunt comes to the shower, tripping all over herself thanking me for taking over the planning. Then she says "OH and I totally heard of this cute idea...(explains the "game")." I told her I had heard of it before and didn't think it was a cute game at all, etc. She told me "But it saves (mom to be) SOOOO MUCH TIME!". I told her that I didn't want to do it, that if (m2b) was having problems, I could come help her, but I didn't want to impose on the guests. The aunt thrust this tacky and dusty (it was likely sitting around her house for awhile) fake flower arrangement at me and said "They won't mind doing it, I brought this for a prize!". I told her a firm "No thank you" and then people started arriving.

I had forgotten all about the "game" and the shower was going smoothly and was almost finished. Then flaky aunt stands up and says "Oh! We almost forgot about one last game!"

Being as I was grossly outnumbered by flaky aunts family to my family, I just let it go (not wanting to basically call her out as being a tacky thundertwat) and moved on with my life. Never got a thank you card. :shrugs:

So it's a game because you get some piece of crap prize for doing it? Is it like a drawing? What is wrong with people?

golfingdarwinfish · June 2013

This is terrible.

Put a little bit of freaking effort into thanking your guests (and your hosts for that matter). For some reason this would make me think the recipient was ungrateful.

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