TY for a TY etiquette NMMR

[noodleskooze]

Are you supposed to give a thank you note to someone who has given a thank you gift to you? I advised a student for his senior thesis presentation, and he got me a gift to say thank you. I feel like I should know the answer to this, but I don't.

[boiler717]

As long as you thanked him in person or on the phone that's fine.

[ECB]

I think a TY GIFT should get a note.

[Susie]

At some point the thank you cycle has to stop. Think of it like a hostess gift at a party. You wouldn't write a TY note for that, right?

[partiallysunny]

I don't know the correct etiquette, but I think thanking in person is fine. Only if the gift was mailed to me and I didn't have an opportunity to thank them in person would I sent a thank you card.

[noodleskooze]

Thanks everyone. He gave me the gift in person, so I definitely thanked him right then. I highly doubt a seventeen year old guy cares about the cycles of thank you note etiquette anyway.