Angel Tree angels

[mommyatty]

Do you guys do this? I’ve adopted 2 angels this year. The girl asked for a baby doll and the 3 yo boy asked for a VTech toy. The needs were shoes. That seems like so little.

-Do you guys do extra toys?
-Do you guys do clothes? Undies? Coats?

[k3am]

Nov 17, 2017 15:14:10 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

Do you guys do this? I’ve adopted 2 angels this year. The girl asked for a baby doll and the 3 yo boy asked for a VTech toy. The needs were shoes. That seems like so little.

-Do you guys do extra toys?
-Do you guys do clothes? Undies? Coats?

I would just add some addition angels to your list. There are a lot of kids and they do their best to allocate for all. Or include and additional but separate gift with a description of what’s inside.

[mommyatty]

We are also helping a family my bff knows who have fallen into homelessness. So we probably won’t do more angels. I could just put more money into the stuff for the homeless family, but just felt bad that the angels wanted so little.

[twinmomma]

When I do an angel tree, I just stick to what's on the card. I don't want to mess up whatever system the organizers have in place.

I've also done a thing where you adopt an entire family and they provide a wishlist. In that instance, we'd buy from the list and then add some basic stuff like clothes, underwear, etc... since we were just handing in a big bag of stuff for a family at the end.

[sudokufan]

I've sometimes tucked a small gift card into those types of gifts; usually for somewhere like Walmart/Meijer where you can just about anything under the sun.

My work is doing a drive this year where we provide hat/mittens, book and a toy, and I'm thinking I'll add a $10 gc.

[2chatter]

I always go overboard.

Having said that, apparently DD’s Girl Scout troop voted to adopt a family and it came to $35/girl. But the leader asked for parents to PayPal it. I said no. Unless DD can shop, I am out - all that teaches the girls is to allocate their parents’ funds for others. Not exactly the point.

[mommyatty]

I think I’ll put a few pieces of clothing and an extra little toy or two in the sacks.

[rere]

I've bought extra if I have the sizes. Or maybe a gift card.

[sandandsea]

We grab names off of a tree and stick to the one gift and budget on the tags.

Idk how the angel works but if it’s for a specific family and you can provide more I would but that’s not how ours work.

[freezorburn]

There are sometimes giving trees at our local malls and shopping centers. There are paper ornaments with gift wishes on them. DS got really into this last year. We chose an ornament — essentially an anonymous child to buy a gift for — and tried to find gifts for them. Any gifts we donated needed to be in a bag with the ornament. I think the collecting organization probably wrapped them later after reviewing the donations.

[kimberlybb]

We do this through church and just picked up info for the family last weekend. One of the kids is three and he "wants" socks and underwear. We are getting these things, a toy, and a few books. I think we will also do a family gift card to target or walmart too. It was very humbling reading some of the items the family was requesting. All the dad asked for was a bag of rice.

[rere]

I just got mine. It says socks and a doll, but I think I am going to do an outfit too since it has sizes on it.

[mommyatty]

Nov 18, 2017 16:47:22 GMT -5 sandandsea said:

We grab names off of a tree and stick to the one gift and budget on the tags.

Idk how the angel works but if it’s for a specific family and you can provide more I would but that’s not how ours work.

It’s the Salvation Army angel tree. So you get the name, gender, and age of the child, a want, a need, and then they list their sizes for clothes. 

And I sometimes wonder who fills these out. The parents? For example, the girl we got says she’s a size 5 in everything. Does that mean a 5T? Because after 5T, sizes are even numbers. DD is a 6, for example. And the little boy says he’s 4T in pants but 3T in underwear. I can’t find 3T underwear. But we have a ton of 4T undies DS outgrew before he ever wore them, so I’m putting those in the bag along with his want (a VTech toy), his need (boots, though they don’t say what kind so I got some Osh Kosh hiking boots), and a hoodie (since it gets cool here but not terribly cold).