I feel kids today have so many toys that you never know if they already have the toy you puchased. Then again, I think it is rude to return a gift for superficial reasons. Ususally, I forget to include the receipt.
2007-03-09 02:25:27 · 17 answers · asked by 2010 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
No, but I would give it to their parent(s) or let them know you have it if they need to exchange the gift. 2ME
2007-03-09 03:17:00 · answer #1 · answered by Better Listen 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As a parent it is always helpful when the gift receipt is included.....only because sometimes the gift given is something my children already have or of it is clothing it is not the right size. When you have the gift receipt you can easily exchange for the size you need or a different video/game/toy your child does not have.
If returns are necessary, I always let the person know that they must have really good taste and really know what my kids like, since they already have that and LOVE it....I also make sure to let them know what we exchanged their gift for. It is better than either trying to return something and not being able to or asking the person that gave you for the receipt...sort of awkward.
2007-03-09 03:34:25 · answer #2 · answered by deerogre 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's really up to you. If the kid already has the toy it would be nice for him/her to be able to return it and get something else they'd like to have.
On the other hand, most stores will give a gift card for an item returned without a receipt...so there isn't really a great need to include the gift receipt anyway.
2007-03-09 02:31:30 · answer #3 · answered by Misty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do. Actually, what I do is to hand the gift receipt to the parent, because I know how presents get ripped open and things get thrown away.
Come the holidays, when I buy for my nieces & nephews, I take the gift receipts and sort them according to who got what (if you ask them to separate the items for gift receipts at the time of checkout, they will!), put them into an envelope and give the envelope to my SILs, to the receipts don't get lost in case something doesn't fit, is a duplicate, etc.
2007-03-09 03:10:48 · answer #4 · answered by sylvia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a mom of three, it is definitely A-Okay to include the gift receipt. That is why stores give them out and I think its a wonderful idea!
Especially when my kids were younger, being that their dad and I are divorced, they often got the same thing from both sides of the family and to not have to get into what always seemed to turn into a heated debate between my ex and I....it was always nice if the gift receipt was included, that way I didn't have to ask him to ask his mother, grandmother, aunt, etc for the receipt....
On a same but different note, last weekend I was at a bridal shower for my cousins fiance and she got the same thing from my mother and I, that she got from her mother and one of her Aunts......that was awkard, because then she had to ask both for the gift receipt because she couldn't decide which one she was going to take back.
(She was registered, but the registry didn't update when her mother and Aunt purchased the vegetable steamer, otherwise we would've went with something different)
Best of luck and don't worry about forgetting the receipt.....Life happens!!
2007-03-09 05:34:47 · answer #5 · answered by L ♥ L ♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 38 years old, I've never received a gift with a receipt included nor have I ever included one in my gifts... I've never received a gift I wanted to return either. I guess I know my friends and they know me, for while I've heard of these kind of practices they've always seemed strange to me.
2007-03-12 04:28:25 · answer #6 · answered by Sheriam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A quick note or an email to the mom about you having the receipt if she needs it might be nice esp. when purchasing clothing for children as it may look right but not fit right. As for birthday gifts sometimes more than one works out our Granddaughter got two of the same Bratz for her birthday so now they are twin Bratz so it worked out. Somethings are always good -Legos, crayons and coloring supplies- cant really have tooo many of those kind of things.
2007-03-09 02:37:07 · answer #7 · answered by elaeblue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can give the kid the gift, and then slip the gift receipt to the parent.
2007-03-09 04:46:03 · answer #8 · answered by Kirsten 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, it's very nice to add the gift receipt. That way duplicate gifts can easily be exchanged.
2007-03-09 03:16:05 · answer #9 · answered by njyecats 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I always include it if and only if the retailer can print one without the price showing.
My nephew got two of the same little dumpers, but he loooooved the second so much that my sister decided to keep both - one for indoors and one for outdoors. You can never tell.
2007-03-09 02:58:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Don't give them the option to return the gift.
2007-03-09 17:22:29 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋