<p>Those of you with older college students, does or did your child give or exchange gifts with room mates?</p>
<p>Of course this topic just came up and classes end this Friday.</p>
<p>My son does not (but he’s a guy).</p>
<p>I would hope nobody would. The pressure of having to shop for gifts during final exams would make the whole situation unpleasant, I think.</p>
<p>Last year, S and several others (female and male) on the hall who were all good friends went shopping together, then later they all got dressed up (!!!), went out to dinner and exchanged small, jokey gifts.</p>
<p>All my kids did this in Middle School only.
Now my D in college and her friends/roomies only do Birthday presents.
S in college only does presents if there is party/food involved</p>
<p>I didn’t last year with my assigned roommate, and my other college friends and I agreed to not exchange gifts. This year I am getting something for my roommate, and I know she’s getting something for me. We probably won’t get anything for our male friends, but maybe we’ll invite them all over for a drink or something. I want to get things for a couple other friends of mine, but finals time is a really difficult time to shop.</p>
<p>I’m sending a holiday care package to my son with homemade gingerbread cookies, candy I also make and cranberry bread. He’ll share it with his roommate so that’s something. I doubt they’ll exchange gifts.</p>
<p>It must be a girl thing. My S would never give gifts to his roommates…not that he doesn’t like them. They’re great friends but they are…guys</p>
<p>Well…DS and his apartment mates exchanged gifts last year. Other than that…no. DD didn’t HAVE a roommate at the holiday break last year. I think she will get something for her roommate this year…nothing big, just a small treat. DD did get gifts for some friends in her hall last year…again, very small gifts.</p>
<p>Last year our son did exchange a few small gifts with his closest friends, and with a couple of kids who decided to buy a small gift for everyone on their floor in the dorm :eek:</p>
<p>I know that the whole shopping, gifting, dressing up, going out business I referred to above was organized by the girls in the group. No way would S have thought to do it! Because…as said above, he’s a GUY. (No gender stereotypes here! ;))</p>
<p>I will be doing the same as bethievt–I did this last year and I think it was greatly appreciated in terms of helping with studying, and not feeling pressured to exchange gifts! They did not do birthday gifts either-just cake to share with everyone!</p>