What percentage of children check a birthday card for cash before reading the message on the card?

Whenever I got cash inside, the card was tossed aside like some secondary envelope.

My kids and I usually have to move the money or the check to read the message. But we do read it.

I still have some childhood cards, but the first one I got from my mom I kept in my photo album , it had one dollar inside, and I didn’t spend it for 10 years.

@talljasperman That was when I was a kid, I read the cards off the kids as a token gesture, but i’m already spending the loot.

I was always like especially careful to read the card, but if I opened it and there was no money I was thinking in the back of my mind cheapskate I was just careful not to show it.

Mostly because I reacted badly to a money-less card from my grandparents when at my aunt’s house when I was five turning six. First she was pissed, then later she cried. a little more than six months after that my little sister was born but I never connected those dots as a kid I just remembered her reaction to my reaction and was careful from that point forward.

If I’m honest I still feel the same way about birthday cards, even though it’s not exactly rational to expect people to be sending me money at my age. And I can recognize that thought was put into me and feel grateful now, I never thought that way as a kid.

I still do and I’m 42. You need to move the cash to read the card. duh

I think a card without money is pretty boring. But money without a card is just dandy.

I always hope for money when I get a card.

I don’t know. I don’t think my children expect cash in their cards. They don’t expect cards either, just presents.

I truthfully was a good kid who always took time to read the card. So shame on all of you.~

I think most. I know I did as a kid but I read the card first now.