Thank You Cards from Baby Showers, Weddings etc What do you think?

[anaj06]

I think it would be okay to wait. That is still in plenty of time! For your sanity though if you are, I would get them written, dressed and stamped where all you have to do is add the photo and seal the envelope.

I actually am working on my Baby Shower thank you cards today. ) My mom had a really nice Baby shower for me last Saturday.


I do agree a lot of people are seeming to to it much less... though I send thank yous to everyone for everything.. I know at this point the baby could come at anytime I want to get right on them, I thought about waiting until she is born to send them her due date is March 7 and sending thank you cards along with say a first photo of her but is seems like it would be not so much of a timely matter.. My reason of thinking this is pretty much thinking of the stamp prices and If I sent a thank you and a phot I could save postage and make sure everyone got both he thank you along with a photo.. I just don't do well when it comes to passing out photos I really do mean well but seem to forget to pass them out and mailing them is just well so much money to just mail and visiting everyone is just not going to happen :/

[kbullsexy07]

Wow!!! I agree! I definitely would not send baby #4 a gift!

I agree with op....I am retired now so I have to find things to keep me busy.(wanted to insert a smiley face but can't figure out how to do...something for me to do later on I guess). I sat down and made a list of people I have sent gifts to in the past 10 years for various events and I found that only one person sent a thank you....Everyone else just takes gifts and I never hear from them again....

My ex friend...his daughter graduated from college= a gift; wedding shower =a gift; the wedding = a gift; had 3 babies over the years = 3 gifts; his son SO had a baby = a gift
Never a thank you for any of the gifts. And yet, the other son was serving overseas and I sent him a funny card and he sent me a letter back! Go figure...all three kids from same family....I send a card which probably cost $2 plus a .42 cent stamps to mail and he thanks me....the other two I spend at least $50 each time and I get nothing....

My step grandson's family lives across the country. I packed a box of Christmas gifts in 2010...never heard a word....in Feb. I sent an outfit for their little girl...never a word... They had a new baby in Oct. 2011 and I did not send a gift then or for Christmas...

My nephew got married in August...sent a check...check cashed and never a word...

My neice finally had a baby (at 42) sent two darling outfits....never a word....

Ane the list goes on........

What is wrong with people??? With all the technology, you can send a quick email or FB them to let you know you got the gifts...

My solution: I am saving my money now and spending it on ME!!!

[bugweena]

I always send a thank you for a gift (thanks, Mom!). I think it is rude when someone doesn't let you know that they received your gift if you didn't give it in person. Especially when you see that the check was cashed......

My nephew got married in December during their winter break from college. My DSO and I drove 8 hours each way and took three days off from work. Gave them a decent sum of cash because that's what they said they wanted. Of course we received a thank you in person, but what really bugs me is that DSO's brother and wife (who had only met my nephew once or twice) mailed them a GC and they didn't get a thank you note.

[Rene S]

I almost feel like my gift was unappreciated. What do you all think? Am I overreacting?

No, I think you are justified in feeling this way. Especially for larger events for showers and weddings, it's a courtesy to those who attended or sent/mailed gifts.

I can't tell you how many times I've mailed a gift and never heard anything, similar to other posters here. It's frustrating.

[enginerd]

This irritates me too! My nephew got married several years ago - I gave them a very nice gift and cash for the honeymoon also - no thank you card. Last year they had a baby and I sent a very nice gift through my brother. I didn't even know if they got it so several months later I asked my SIL and she said that she had given it to them not long after I dropped it off. Again, no thank you card or even an acknowledgement that they had received it. My nephew recently had a 30th birthday party and the baby is having it's first birthday - guess who is not giving anymore gifts. I think it is very rude - I was taught that you must always send a thank you card - especially if the person is not there when you open the gift.

[Smee]

As long as I get acknowledgement, I don't care in what form. Email, text, facebook, carrier pigeon, face to face, I don't care. Matter of fact, I'd prefer not to get a card at all. It seems like such a waste to get a piece of paper in the mail that's going to go right into the trash.

I am a little annoyed at the poster here to whom I sent a rather significant gift she requested before Christmas. Not one word to even let me know if she received it, hated it, nothing. I still have no idea if she even got it, much less if she was able to use it, even after asking her if it arrived. I think that's rude. I don't care much about thanks, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone to at least acknowledge that something arrived. I sent one of my sisters a package of homemade slippers and dish cloths at Christmas, and I never heard from her, either. The other sister was thrilled with hers and sent me pictures by text.

[meggers]

As long as I get acknowledgement, I don't care in what form. Email, text, facebook, carrier pigeon, face to face, I don't care. Matter of fact, I'd prefer not to get a card at all. It seems like such a waste to get a piece of paper in the mail that's going to go right into the trash.

I am a little annoyed at the poster here to whom I sent a rather significant gift she requested before Christmas. Not one word to even let me know if she received it, hated it, nothing. I still have no idea if she even got it, much less if she was able to use it, even after asking her if it arrived. I think that's rude. I don't care much about thanks, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone to at least acknowledge that something arrived. I sent one of my sisters a package of homemade slippers and dish cloths at Christmas, and I never heard from her, either. The other sister was thrilled with hers and sent me pictures by text.

Uhhhhhhh, I did pm you, right? I'm so positive I did. I was thrilled & I'm positive I did. Yeah, yeah...positive.


Right?

[kbullsexy07]

I am a little annoyed at the poster here to whom I sent a rather significant gift she requested before Christmas. Not one word to even let me know if she received it, hated it, nothing. I still have no idea if she even got it, much less if she was able to use it, even after asking her if it arrived. I think that's rude. I don't care much about thanks, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone to at least acknowledge that something arrived. I sent one of my sisters a package of homemade slippers and dish cloths at Christmas, and I never heard from her, either. The other sister was thrilled with hers and sent me pictures by text.

Im confused.. I posted this..lol

[motherofmolly]

i sent out thank you's for my baby shower (x 2) and wedding by myself. I also sent them out for both dd's first birthdays. might not of been immediately but by gosh i got them out and hand wrote them!. (within 6 weeks of receiving)...but we have family that i will never hear from.

i can understand the new baby and not getting them out. but what gets me is when you continually plan birthday parties for your children on birthdays number 2 , 3 and now 4 and expect people to come ..and even go so far as to call us after we get the invite to make sure we are coming (as no one else really wanted to as we are sick of your kids parties)....then do not acknowledge the gift. i even sent a gift to one of the kids b-day parties that we could not make as we were moving....not a thank you at all.

no more. if i dont go, u no getty a gifty. you no say thank you...next year i no gooey. and if i no gooey , you no getty.

[summermay]

I attended a wedding early last September. When I got something in the mail late October I'm like finally my thank-you. Nope it was a baby shower invite for the same person. No I did go or send a gift and yes I'm still waiting for my thank-you card.