When little kids go to a birthday party or have some other celebration, it is not uncommon to send everyone home with some type of small gift.

What would you do if the other parents in your kid’s school would always send useless little gifts that you were sick of dealing with all the time?

That is what the parent in this story was experiencing, so she came up with a great gift idea that she knew the kids would love, but the other parents would hate. She sent each kid in the classroom home with one of these gifts, knowing the mess it would make.

While I don’t think it would make the gift-giving tradition stop, it would at least be fun to think about from time to time. Read through the full story below and see what you think of what happened.

Nursery school parents seem to think that birthdays are for sending stuff home with other people’s kids. Ooh. Idea.

My kid spent two years in nursery school. She loved it. It was good for us parents too (get the mouthy 5 year old out of the house… heck yes, we’ll pay for that service).

Nothing wrong with celebrating birthdays.

The problem though, we had some snooty rich parents (rich here meaning upper middle class) who must have thought that giving gifts to everyone you know was what you do for birthdays. So, all 30 of these kids had a birthday. Even the ones whose birthday wasn’t during the school year.

And of course these mothers (in true pinterest fashion) decided they needed to outdo each other. So, the favors became more elaborate and more annoying.

This stuff can just be thrown away.

My kid brought home so much plastic junk for our dogs to chew on it was an outrage. I know they either meant well or just likes shoving candy and annoying stuff down other people’s throats.

Still. Every birthday, every holiday, and sometimes just because my kid brings home some junk and yells “It was X today and I got Q from K.” (X is event, Q is annoying gift thing, and K is kid’s name who brought it)

Now this is genius.

My sister came up with a great idea. She said “you should figure out something glittery to send home with all your kid’s classmates”.

We tossed ideas around for weeks before deciding on…

SAND ART!!

The kids will just love this.

Not just any sand art. Oh no. Sand isn’t near messy enough and it doesn’t stick to everything. We found glitter to match the sand colors and put little baggies together, stuffed them inside baby food jars and tied one bag to the outside.

We would have stuffed all the bags into the jars but they weren’t big enough. Well, the teachers thought “OMG, so cute and clever…”

It is nice that they don’t want teachers to have to deal with the mess.

We didn’t have issues with any of the teachers, so we instructed the teachers “do not let the kids have these until it’s time to leave.” But we didn’t say why until later.

When all the other kids were gone, we let the secret out as to why we sent Sand Art home with all my daughter’s classmates.

The parents must have hated this.

The sand bags were roughly 25% glitter. Each and every one of them were shimmering, glittery powder kegs just waiting for some impatient tot to grab, rip or spill all of this glitter all over themselves, all over someone’s car, someone’s house…

You know what they say… Glitter is forever.

You have to wonder if the other parents got the point and stopped sending stuff in, or if they just kept right on with the traditions.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about this simple revenge.

Was there really a need to send these things home to the kids?

This commenter thinks sending home gifts is nice.

Parents (and teachers) compete too much.

There is nothing wrong with sending home party favors.

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This commenter has a way with words.

While this might have been a mean thing to do, it undoubtedly did accomplish her goals of upsetting the other parents. Of course, she shouldn’t have done this. There are plenty of better options available.

Some parents, however, just seem to want to cause trouble. At least the kids had fun, though.