Children's party bags – love them or hate them?

For decades, party bags have been a popular take-away tradition at children’s birthday celebrations. But one person recently questioned why they’re filled with so much crap.

The parent, who has a five-year-old, took to Reddit’s r/Parenting community to vent: “Please, for the love of god, stop the birthday party goody bag madness.”

They revealed they’d been invited to several birthdays over the past year and had left each one with a “goody bag full of crap” – specifically sweets, stickers, and pieces of “small plastic garbage”.

You know the ones: the jumping frogs, plastic whistles and bouncing balls that double up as an extremely efficient choking hazard for younger siblings.

“Yes I get that it’s fun for the kids to take something home,” they said, before pondering whether parents should instead consider “one token that won’t immediately get forgotten and........

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