I woke up and saw that I had been added to the group, which was called “Alina is six years old. At first I couldn’t understand anything, but everything cleared up after the message: “It’s Alina’s birthday on the twenty-fifth of November. We decided to invite our closest friends to celebrate our birthday with us. Then the time of the party and the address followed.
Only after reading the message I realized that it was a girl my daughter is friends with in kindergarten. After that the parents of the invited children began to write who could bring their child to the party. I also confirmed that we will come with my daughter to the party.
Then my mood plummeted when I received another message from the parents: “So you don’t have to think about what to give our daughter, we want to offer you to give her a general gift – a wooden kitchen. Each of the parents should donate two and a half thousand rubles to the account.
How cool is that? This is actually a celebration organized on the occasion of the sixth birthday of a child, or maybe it is the anniversary of one of the parents of the girl. Isn’t that a bit much? If the girl has a dream, it should be her parents, not the children invited to the party. Or maybe I don’t understand something?
After a while came the link to that very kitchen. After that I understood why such a gift is a dream. I once saw this kitchen at one of my acquaintances daughter. There is no question – it is just gorgeous! It looks like the real thing. I would call it a miniature dream of any housewife. It has everything: oven, microwave, cooking surface. To be honest, I could hardly take my daughter home at the time. I would have wanted my daughter to have one, too, if we had the space to install it.
However, back to the celebration talk. What should we do? I think it is incorrect when, inviting to the child’s birthday party, the host party indicates the amount of gifts, while the amount of the gift is pretty decent. I don’t think it’s appropriate to spend that kind of money on someone else’s child. Wouldn’t it be better not to go to this event?
If I was personally acquainted with the mother of this Alina, I would certainly have told her everything that I think about it. But in this situation I’m at a dead end. And what way out of this situation do you see? What do you think is the best thing to do?
