Outside the box first birthday gifts.

Re: Outside the box first birthday gifts.

• SidraJedi member

  January 2014

  I made my nieces play "felt food" out of tee shirts for Christmas and it was a big hit. Making stuff is always sweet.
  
  A savings bond? Or a cool kind of piggy bank?
  
  A membership to the zoo or something like that?
  
  If I don't know what to get someone I get a clever card to put cash in. It's kinda lame but it gets the job done.

  
  

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• lars1226 member

  January 2014

  I love the zoo or children's museum idea! We just went to the zoo today and it was so fun!

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• findmenow member

  January 2014

  For our LO's birthday we're considering telling people that all gifts will be donated to 'XYZ Shelter' if they choose to bring something because we just don't need anything.

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• Blondie1212 member

  January 2014

  Thanks ladies. One thing I read about was doing a time capsule for them to open on their 16 birthday. So guests would bring something a 16 year old would enjoy now, clothing (obviously an extreme guess), news papers, pictures, etc....kind of a neat idea but I'm not sure how on board guests would be with it.

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• SidraJedi member

  January 2014

  @blondie1212 that could be cool. As a 16 year old I would have enjoyed some vintage clothing from before I was born (like 1970's or 1960's which would have been way easier to get a hold of in 1983), some notebooks for school that were hip the year that I was born, vynils that my folks listened to (I actually had some of these), that kind of thing.
  
  But I think a far as requesting gifts goes, isn't that some kind of faux pas unless it is books?

  
  

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• MrsG071809 member

  January 2014

  I am thinking about requesting books - saying something along the lines of "gifts not required, but if you insist please bring a book"

  
  

  We have soooo many toys now after Christmas that I really don't know where we'd put a million more 2 months from now.  The only things I can see being useful would be outside/summer toys.  Otherwise we can always use books, and they take up much less space

           

  
  

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• Blondie1212 member

  January 2014

  @sidrajedi Yeah- requesting a gift is always a weird situation. I think you could drop that in as a suggestion if someone asked. But to down right say "please gift us this..." It's rude. I like the wish lists at toys r us and amazon because they give people ideas but I wish you could just make a generic wish list. For Christmas my mil kept sending me emails "please remove xyz from the wish list as it was purchased"

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• Jerzee17 member

  January 2014

  I heard about doing a registry on toys r us. I know my sister is doing this for her son this Christmas coming up that way he gets what he doesn't have. I thought this would be a good idea because my son has a ton of toys but nothing for outside. I was hoping to put a water table, Wagon, kiddie pool etc. On the registry that way people know what he doesn't have or if they want to go in on a bigger item for him. I feel weird about registries though, not a fan of them. I love the time capsule item, we didn't something like that for Christmas. I had his grandparents, aunts, uncles etc. Hey God's a first Christmas ornament. That way he can put them on the tree every year and I can tell him who they are from.

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