Asking for money for baby for Christmas
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If you're unsure if asking for money might cause issues I recommend asking with a specific thing in mind, e.g we asked family members for our daughter's 1st birthday to send us money for getting her a trike. This meant she could have two bigger presents rather than loads of little things. This year I will be asking for things like money towards an aquarium and forestry membership which contributes towards days out. I find it's a little bit more personal than asking for money as they still feel they've "given" a thing. Some people like my mum are a bit precious about knowing what they've given 🤷🏼♀️
Lots of fun days out have gift vouchers
Awww I so want to do this too! How scout asking for tickets/vouchers for days out eg theatre trip or aquarium or something ?
Money towards a voucher/membership is a great idea!! Thank you!! And yes like some of you, the accounts in their names we have no access to the money anyway so it all Goes directly to them when they are old enough to access themselves
Honestly just exactly what you said. Last year we sent something along the lines of ‘we are so blessed that our son (insert names) has acquired lots of toys and has enough clothes for now. We know you may be considering a gift for him and wanted to kindly ask if this could be in the form of money & deposited in his bank account’ to make it clear it was for him we then just put that we have no access to the account and therefore could they ensure the details were entered correctly as we would be unable to access the account to even confirm. This was just a subtle way of letting them know the money was inaccessible to us incase that bothered them. (It also actually is) x