Gift Contribution

If you are asked to give a monetary donation towards a person's gift, do you give a smaller amount since you know other people will be donating as well to buy one large gift, or do you give a larger amount as if you were the only person giving the gift? Just curious as to what other people do!

I haven't voted on the poll as mine is never there. Usually we agree to split it equally between all the people who it would be from if we know what we are getting

It really depends on the situation. If the recipient is someone close to me, then I would give more. If it is a co-worker, office situation, then I give less.

Originally Posted by sadieandziggy

I haven't voted on the poll as mine is never there. Usually we agree to split it equally between all the people who it would be from if we know what we are getting

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Yep that's what I have done in the past. Sometimes a few could only afford a small amount. Then I would add extra.

At work when we collect for a gift we usually have a set amount for the gift and ask people to contribute an equal share. Usually works out to a couple bucks per person. Of course if someone wants to contribute more they can.

Also, some wards have a gift fund where they collect X amount of money from each person who works on the ward. That gets them their name on the card/gift and a gift and dinner of their own when they leave. The gift value they get depends on the length of time they have been on the ward. It's a yearly collection of about $20.00 each.

I work at a large company with thousands of employees. It seems that every week the collection "hat" is being passed around for one reason or another (first house purchase, wedding, first child, etc.). Since the majority of the time I don't even deal with or know the person who the hat's contents are for, I made the decision not to contribute to any of these events. That way, I never feel guilty. However if it is for a friend, I will purchase my own gift for them and present it to them outside of the office.

Originally Posted by Sadie's Mom

I work at a large company with thousands of employees. It seems that every week the collection "hat" is being passed around for one reason or another (first house purchase, wedding, first child, etc.). Since the majority of the time I don't even deal with or know the person who the hat's contents are for, I made the decision not to contribute to any of these events. That way, I never feel guilty. However if it is for a friend, I will purchase my own gift for them and present it to them outside of the office.

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same here, we have really small departments however and do collections within them for retirements only when we choose the gift beforehand and ask for equal contributions from the others

Originally Posted by Sadie's Mom

I work at a large company with thousands of employees. It seems that every week the collection "hat" is being passed around for one reason or another (first house purchase, wedding, first child, etc.).

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Oh man! Can I ever relate to that!

Back in the early 1980's I worked at Tan Jay in the shipping department doing invoicing. I had only been there a couple weeks when a woman who worked in the returns cage across the ailse from me, and whom I'd never even talked to, came and gave me an invitation to her daughter's "hall shower" for her wedding! I told her that I didn't know her daughter and that I wouldn't feel comfortable going to a wedding shower for someone I didn't know. She looked at me like I was from Mars!

I later found out that she had had 2 "hall showers" for her daughter's wedding. One in the city and one in the country and each had about 600 or 700 people in attendance!!! How can any one person know that many people!

Apparently the bride and groom got everything from dishes to linens, full rooms of furniture from bedrooms to dining rooms, large and small appliances and enough cash for a down payment on a house!

Their marriage lasted only about 6 months, then they divorced!

Thanks for the input everyone. The situation here is for my boss at work. They, the girls in the front, never know what they are getting. When I replied to her email and asked what the gift was, she said they didn't know yet. She said "the guys" in the office suggested getting him a small LSU desk accessory and then use the rest of the money for a gift certificate to Academy. I already know that I'm giving a small amount, I was just curious as to what everyone does.

Originally Posted by Sadie's Mom

It seems that every week the collection "hat" is being passed around for one reason or another (first house purchase, wedding, first child, etc.).

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WHAT?!!! People at your job pass around a hat for someone's first house purchase?!!!!! That is unbelievably nervy!!! No way I would contribute to that hat. No one helped me on mine!