Our niece is being christened this weekend. We don't want to give cash so we were thinking of a savings bond. I know when I casehd mine in a few years back, the return on them wasn't that great. So do people still give them? Can anyone suggest something else better?
TIA!
jennyhet
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We always give savings bonds as gifts for christenings/baptisims. I think they are perfect!
070502
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We do it! Hey my husband's first communion bonds paid for our closing on our new house!
I think they are great!
Just make sure you have the right SS#
wc0143
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Posted by jennyhet
We always give savings bonds as gifts for christenings/baptisims. I think they are perfect!
Same here.
nylisa
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We always give savings bonds as gifts for christenings/baptisims. I think they are perfect!
Me too.
VickiC
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We always give savings bonds as gifts for christenings/baptisims. I think they are perfect!
Yep, us too. My savings bonds paid for a portion of our wedding.
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We do and my niece and nephew both got a ton when they were born/baptised! I think they are GREAT gifts! And we just started giving them for birthdays and holidays for our neices and nephews because they have too many toys and too many clothes we decided to get them a small gift and then give them savings bonds as well! It will be a great help 18 years from now when college at a state school costs 80K a year!
hbradio
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I definitely do. I just bought my brother and cousin a savings bond for their communion.
I cashed in all the bonds I received throughout my life after college and bought a computer.
dgtlsunshine
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Where are you guys purchasing the bonds for gifts. I would love to buy some and give as gifts.
Donna
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Where are you guys purchasing the bonds for gifts. I would love to buy some and give as gifts.
You can buy them at any bank, that's where I get mine, I have a Citibank in my office building.
ChristineC68
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Here, this site will link give you a link to buy them on line...
We get them for christenings & new babies. In fact, we just got one for my friend's sons first communion as well.
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i just took finance class before i graduated and my teacher said not to get them.. he said if you get them its good to pull them out as soon as you can can and put the money elsewhere
