Every time my son particpates in a birthday party for a daycare classmate, he gets a party bag. Invariably it contains a #2 pencil, erasers, a piece of candy or two, and cheap, plastic junk.
Summary of inevitable outcome:
- Plastic junk goes in the trash.
- Bag goes in the trash.
- We don’t have a pencil sharpener, so pencil goes in the trash.
- The kid doesn’t use pencils. So we don’t use erasers. So they wander around his room for a couple of days before hitting the trash.
- Most the time, the candy is nasty and gets trashed.
What purpose do gift bags serve?
Donate the pencil, erasers, bag, and plastic junk to the church instead of throwing it away.
We don’t get enough to have a “critical mass” of supplies worthy of donation. But I did donate a ton of Meemaw’s old pencils and map colors to a neighborhood school teacher.