How much should I spend on a high school grad gift for friends of dh and myself. We have recently have re-established our couples friendship after about a 18 year hiatus...where they were busy raising their two girls, and we basically just didn't keep in touch. So now we are invited to the oldest daughter's grad. party their parents are giving. I want to give a card, and I guess the easiest would be money. But how much?
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I disagree that so much of a gesture needs to be made. You have not been best buddies for 18 years, you have only just renewed friendship, you have not watched this girl grow up. So, I don't see why such a lavish gift would be expected. I would get a card and a Borders gift token for $20, or buy a couple of excellent books, or just turn up with a great bunch of flowers or contribution to the party: a fabulous bottle of wine.
As a comparison: I was given £50 by my father's best friend whom he had grown up with as a boy and had known as great friends his whole life when I gave birth to my first child.
Clare
As a comparison: I was given £50 by my father's best friend whom he had grown up with as a boy and had known as great friends his whole life when I gave birth to my first child.
Clare
I agree with Clare. $50 is a lot of money! For my son's friends who graduated this year, his very good friends, we gave a stand-up photo album with pics of the guys together over the years and $30 in an envelope. It totalled about $50 anyway. But this gift was for friends who literally have lived at my house for years.
My son received from friends: $50 to Best Buy, a Sensa (@ $50) pen, $30 to Best Buy and a Flat screen TV/DVD Combo with a check for $100 in the card. That family happens to be extremely wealthy!
Ideas that I like and that seem reasonable are: photo frame to take to college, a decent pen, a fancy make-up bag or a book. I bought several books called something like "Things I Wish I'd Known Before Starting College" with info from college students about the in's and out's of college life. These were gifts for "lesser" friends who we wanted to congratulate. Hope that helps, Alexis
My son received from friends: $50 to Best Buy, a Sensa (@ $50) pen, $30 to Best Buy and a Flat screen TV/DVD Combo with a check for $100 in the card. That family happens to be extremely wealthy!
Ideas that I like and that seem reasonable are: photo frame to take to college, a decent pen, a fancy make-up bag or a book. I bought several books called something like "Things I Wish I'd Known Before Starting College" with info from college students about the in's and out's of college life. These were gifts for "lesser" friends who we wanted to congratulate. Hope that helps, Alexis
Great suggestion, the book Alexis. I too feel like these friends, by the way, just before we lost touch we had had to dinner at our house, kids and all..it was really they that did not seem to want to continue..but now, that the oldest is off, out of state to university, I guess they have more time. Off to the bookstore I go! Dianne