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My aunt gave me a crockpot I never touched, but the $5 dish towels from my cousin get used every single day
So for my birthday in March, my aunt Carol dropped $80 on one of those big programmable crockpots with all the buttons and settings. I smiled and said thanks, then it sat in my closet in Fort Worth for 7 months until I finally donated it. My cousin Dana, on the other hand, grabbed a 4 pack of plain flour sack towels from a bin near the checkout for like $5 total. I use those things constantly, drying dishes, wiping counters, covering dough, you name it. The crockpot needed a whole recipe plan and hours of waiting, but the towels just work the second you grab one. That's when it hit me, the price tag had nothing to do with which gift I actually appreciated. A gift you have to schedule your day around loses to a gift you reach for without thinking. So what's the cheapest gift you've ever gotten that ended up being the one you could not live without?
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alicew6810d ago
Seven months in a closet before you donated it, huh. I gotta be honest, this feels like you're reading way too much into a crockpot. Dana spent $5 and you use the towels every day, cool, but does that really mean Carol's gift was bad or that price tags don't matter? Sometimes a gift is just something you don't need and that's it, no big lesson about life. A crockpot isn't some impossible puzzle, you toss stuff in and walk away, plenty of people use them weekly without scheduling their whole day around it. Maybe the towels just fit your kitchen and the crockpot didn't, and that's fine, but I wouldn't turn it into a whole thing about what gifts mean.
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