Do people in the US give cash as a gift for Christmas?
Pretty sure that almost doesn’t happen here. It would be frowned upon.
Cash is king baby!
Gift cards are good too but you’d be surprised how many people just exchange them for 80% their value in cash via some popular websites.
I prefer gift cards, as I don’t ever carry cash. I think we only brought 8 bucks cash to my brothers wedding so hubby and I could each get 1drink at the cash bar. Otherwise, everything here is debit card/credit card. Even my M kids schools are completely cash free, and ■■■■■ I’d you write a check for field trip fees. They prefer you put your card on their school district site and use that for everything. Nope, you still get checks. I learned my lesson after last year’s end of year field trips.
Right now my district is reduced lunch fee kids are getting free this year, some donor gave them the money and told them it was for the lunch program, better not be misused for sports again. So that’s been a lifesaver too. Yay for donors!
You’ll occasionally get a Christmas card with cash inside, and almost always from someone older. If younger folks give a cash equivalent sort of gift, it will be a gift card. At least that’s how it is wear I live.
We give gift cards, too. To be fair, my grandmother started giving cash when her Alzheimer’s got severe. But I’m pretty sure my mom took care of it, because she didn’t really understand what Christmas was at that point. There was no point pretending she had bought gifts or gift cards, no one would have believed it.
In my group of friends it’s kind of tacky to give cash for a few reasons
- it always ends up going towards gas or bills and never anything fun
- it requires zero thought
- it requires spending cash at a store or going to the bank to deposit it, so it’s just a hassle
I like Amazon gift cards because I eschew going to real stores that aren’t grocery stores and most people never accurately guess what I actually need (e.g. a pop filter for an EV RE-320 microphone). I’ll be opening presents and be like, “oh, a USB powered cooling fan, boy did I need THAT! I’ll put it next to the 19th LED flashlight that I don’t need.”
I do try and let people know what things I can use, mainly interesting sauces and spices to cook with and I’m always up for trying a new box of tea, but people tend to buy whatever cheap crap the stores pile up front.
Yes, Americans give cash as a gift for Xmas. I have a little amusing story. It was when the times were different. In 1993 I was married in America and I gave 200 dollars as a Xmas gift to my spouse at the time so that she could invest it in one Canadian high-tech start-up and so she did but she invested much more and after a while this start-up went bankrupt and failed and she lost all money she had invested. Now it sounds little amusing.
Someone gave me $50 for Christmas. It went to groceries.
I love cash for christmas! I really don’t want anything I don’t already have. I’m pretty lucky in that way.
I love getting cash for Christmas lol
I have been given cash for Christmas before and was so happy for it.
This year I hope to get my bills paid as a Christmas gift but my bills are more expensive than the amount of cash I got last year so I said it can be a birthday gift too or more.
I have bills I can’t afford.
I can’t afford to have a car if I didn’t get help from the loved one who bought me the car.
Car insurance is expensive.
Registration too.
Does it depend who you are giving too?
You might not want to give cash to a drug addict or alcoholic…
But someone responsible enough yeah.
True the money might get spent on bills though.
I’ve gotten $400 dollars so far this year in the mail. I’m not expecting anymore, but you never know what could be under the tree lol.
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