Introduction/Question
Name: Jessi
Age: 17
State: Puerto Rico
What brought you here?: Interest in etiquette, and I have a question.
Every year, since my relatives don't know me too well to get me a present, I always get a lot of cards with money in them.
I don't mind, since I understand they have a lot of people to buy for, and they don't know me too well, and I don't mind money at all as a gift.
My question is: How do you accept it? Usually I just take the envelope, hug the person, say Thank you, and then put the card away either in my purse or in a gift bag that I got from opening another gift. I don't open the envelope till I'm alone, and I read the card, if anything other than "We love you or Merry Christmas" is written, then stash the money away in my wallet.
But, do you open and read the card in front of the giver? I always go on the polite reasoning that you shouldn't show how much the person spent on you to everyone, hence the reason why you remove the price tags off of items you buy, so you don't show if you spent 5 or 5000 on the reciever. Also, usually the card has nothing really written on it other than the obligatory, "Merry Christmas, from [insert family member names here]." I wish that wasn't the case, I REALLY LOVE when people write a little something extra in a card. :)
I don't know, I just don't want to seem like a weird hoarder of cards.
Happy Holidays!
Age: 17
State: Puerto Rico
What brought you here?: Interest in etiquette, and I have a question.
Every year, since my relatives don't know me too well to get me a present, I always get a lot of cards with money in them.
I don't mind, since I understand they have a lot of people to buy for, and they don't know me too well, and I don't mind money at all as a gift.
My question is: How do you accept it? Usually I just take the envelope, hug the person, say Thank you, and then put the card away either in my purse or in a gift bag that I got from opening another gift. I don't open the envelope till I'm alone, and I read the card, if anything other than "We love you or Merry Christmas" is written, then stash the money away in my wallet.
But, do you open and read the card in front of the giver? I always go on the polite reasoning that you shouldn't show how much the person spent on you to everyone, hence the reason why you remove the price tags off of items you buy, so you don't show if you spent 5 or 5000 on the reciever. Also, usually the card has nothing really written on it other than the obligatory, "Merry Christmas, from [insert family member names here]." I wish that wasn't the case, I REALLY LOVE when people write a little something extra in a card. :)
I don't know, I just don't want to seem like a weird hoarder of cards.
Happy Holidays!