Hi, I Received Baby Gifts From 3 Friends From School. They Put The Gifts In One Gift Bag?
and handed it to me, the probelm is i want to send each of them a “thank you note” but i don’t know who got what so how would I say thank you for the……, when i don;t know who got what for me ? has anybody ever been in a similar situation ? please help.
If they are all living in the same house or dorm. I would address it to all of them.
Outside the house I would just write a note & saying to all of them. Thank You for your thought.
(Don’t waste a card on all 3) Just a small letter is fine.
Sorry I would be Miss. Cheap.
Just say thank you so much for the gift, it is very much appreciated.
Your friends should have attached a card with their names on the gift or written their names on the gift itself. In this case, just say thanks so much for your gift. There’s no harm in asking what they gave you citing the reason why you don’t know.
Write three thank you notes and write about the entire contents of the bag on each card.
Get your husband to also sign the cards.
Simply say, “Thank you for your generosity. It was great having you to share these precious moments with me! Your presence alone was gift enough.” You don’t have to use those exact words but you also do not have to state the gift. It is obvious to them that you can’t possibly know who got what, so that will suffice. As long as you extend to them that you are very thankful for them and their gifts, your friends will be happy.
You write each a note thanking each for every single gift in the bag.
It was obviously a joint effort and to leave out one of the gifts might hurt one of their feelings.
It’s ALWAYS proper to mention the gift when writing a thank-you note. Generic thanks yous are not acceptable and make the recipient of the note feel that, not only did you not appreciate it, you didn’t even pay much attention to what was given to you.
This goes for thank you notes for wedding gifts to flowers, plants, donations to charities, etc. given for funerals.
Since fewer and fewer people bother with writing personal thank you notes anymore, it speaks volumes about your own proper and good manners.
just thank all three of them for the entire gift …sounds to me they more less went in and combined the gift which is common around here…
Is it possible that they went in together to buy everything in the gift bag? This happened a lot at my wedding showers. Thank each friend for each item that you recieved.
Write three separate notes:
“Dear Jane,
Thank you so much for the beautiful gift. It was so nice of you to think of me and my baby and to be a part of my life at such a wonderful time.”
(If they went to a bridal shower and gave you the gift….then: “it was so nice of you to come and share such an important day!”
Love,
Susie.”
Just right thanks (then right each of them)
Just ask them who gave what – they probably won’t mind clarifying for you. If they don’t want to say, or you really feel like it’s too awkward to ask, write a note thanking all three of them. It’s the thought that counts. Just make sure to tell them each in person that you loved all the gifts.
What I see here is that the three of them went out together to shop for the gift. Liked each gift they found and couldn’t decide who should give what. So to make it easy on everyone, they put them in one bag.
Now what you could do, is thank each one with a pretty card, and describing each gift’s usefulness, and praising them on each card. i.e. the rattle is great fun for ..(baby name) she plays with it whenever she’s awake.
The blanket you gave is so precious, and soft. She loves it when it touches her cheeks.
And the clothes are just so adorable. She will proudly show them off when we go out.
Thank you so much for your wonderful, thoughtful gifts. They are much appreciated.
Big Hugs from us all
“..”
put 1 thank you note in bag 7 give it to them all at once, HA!
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just thank each of them in separate cards, with different things written on them.
Yup, they went in on the gifts together and thank them all for each gift.
just say thank you for your lovely gift. Does it really make a difference who gave what, if so just ask them.
Just put “thanks for the gift, i really enjoyed it and it was really thoughtful of you”
for one of them then
“i really enjoyed the present, thanks!”
for the next
then for the last one put
“thank you for the gift, i know i’m going to use it and think of you”
Yes, that happened to me too. But here’s the deal: they are the ones who put the gifts in one bag, right? Therefore, there’s no reason for them to expect you to know who gave you what. You do owe them each a separate thank-you note, but unless you’re comfortable asking who gave what, you will just need to do a general thank-you and mention something else like how you appreciate them thinking of you or how it means a lot that they’ve been there for you during your pregnancy. Mention something specific that each person has DONE or MEANT to you rather than listing the merchandise they gave you. A person likes to know that THEY mean something to you and not the amount of money they spent. They aren’t going to analyze the card – trust me. They will read it, register in their head that you sent it, and then move on to other things. That said, however, DO NOT write the exact same thing on each friend’s card. Congrats on the baby, hon!!!