Philosophy : Giving money as a Christmas gift is lazy & doesn't make sense.

Giving money as a Christmas gift is lazy & doesn't make sense.

The only way giving money as a gift makes sense is if the person giving the money is is attempting to help the person out financially in the form of a Christmas gift. In that sense, it becomes a charity, not a gift. The receiver of money may be thankful for the gift if he recognises he's in an inferior financial person than the person giving it, or he may feel insulted and patronised.

The purpose of a gift is the thought one puts behind the gift. People already have $50 and $100 bills. It's not as if someone receives a $50 they're going to say, "Just what I always wanted! I saw this at the gift shop and I fell in love with it! Thanks!"

Say you buy someone a $50 doll you found in a flea market across town as a gift. She gives you $50 cash as a gift. At that point, she just bought your gift from you. It breaks even. There's no exchange there. It was no work on her part to give you $50 she already had in her wallet, meanwhile your gift took time and labor.

To put in extreme perspective, if Trump give his wife Melania $50 cash for Christmas, it's essentially pointless. She already has plenty of those. It's of no use to her than where she was prior. However, if Trump surprises her with a $50 antique she liked during their trip to Belgium the previous summer, she will be surprised and thankful.

Money just doesn't make sense. Why would you pay $49.99 on a gift for someone only to get $50 cash back from them? You could just not exchange gifts, and you'd save that $50 you spent on their gift in the first place.

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Me and my brother currently buy most of the gifts to our immediate family. My sister is always broke, another brother is currently unemployed. So understanding this we know we might not get much if anything from them so we end up buying gifts for them and for our parents. So instead of me and my brother buying each other gifts we just give each other money or we just decide that we won’t give each other anything since we're well aware that we’ll have to get everyone else. I also have my separate list of presents to buy for friends and coworkers. If and when I’ve given money in the form of a gift card I always like to buy a separate gift that I can wrap and give to them.

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Very sweet, PAGG

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Ok, so I'll cancel that check I sent you in the mail.

"You had me at Elk Tartare"
-Erin Wotherspoon

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Give it to your roommate, which is what you really wanna do anyways. Stupid Single White Female obsessed bitch.

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Lol I already know what her gift Is. I would never give my best friend of 14 years money for Christmas.

"You had me at Elk Tartare"
-Erin Wotherspoon

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I'll take a e-card to Chipotle, Jimmy John's, Starbucks, or Subway pls.

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If you’re not going to tell me what you want, I’m going to give you money. I’m sorry, that’s just how it’s going to work and you’re going to like it. I don’t have a close relationship with everyone that I need to gift in order to know what they want and some people no matter how many times you ask them what they want, they don’t tell you what they want. Also, I’m not one of those people to give generic gifts. I think that’s worse than giving money.

Granted, giftgiving is a very personalized thing. So, there is no right or wrong way to do it. To each there own. Even the refusal of gift giving is a personalize thing. So, to each their own.

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Starbucks gift cards.

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Not everyone likes Starbucks, though. Some people are diehards about being “different”, so they don’t like buying anything from food chains, like Starbucks. Becuase apparently that’s comformity. Even though, they don’t seem to understand that a bunch of people think the same way that they do, so really they aren’t all that different. So, to avoid hearing such nonsense, I rather give them a VISA gift card, in order for them to spend it on whatever they want. Also, they claim Starbuck is overpriced and doesn’t taste good. Some people are diehard Dunkin Donuts fans or like their at home coffee.

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Go to work,like everybody else

Well, this is a tomb. I'll make them feel at home

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I buy gifts for each person, but some people I buy for prefer money or gift cards, especially my nephews.

Sometimes I give them lottery scratch off cards with a gift, so they can at least gamble with getting some extra money out of it.

Everyone thinks I'm hard to buy gifts for, so they'll give me gift cards.

I don't mind though…but I often say I like flash drives and can never have too many, and they are in the $10 - $20 range or less
I really don't want people spending a lot on me anyway.

The thing I want the least from someone is clothes - that's something I'd want to pick out for myself.

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Lottery tickets are one gift I couldn’t give. I’d never be able to live with myself if they won big money.

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Then you must you expect to get more monetary value from the people giving you money than you would give to them.

For example, if you gave your mom $50 cash as a gift, and she gives you $50 cash as a gift, then you both just broke even! All you did was swap $50 bills! That doesn't make much sense, does it?

But if you exchange $50 gift cards to different places, based on each other's tastes, it shows that you both put thought into it while spending the same amount.

Gift cards aren't limiting as much as they are beneficial. Say you enjoy going to Starbucks every morning before work. A $50 Starbucks gift card will last you while, allowing you to save your own cash/money. A gas gift card would be nice too; you'd save from forking out your own money on gas for a short time. With cash, you'd spend it on other things and it wouldn't last you as long.

Cash as a gift implies the person giving you the cash is in a more powerful and/or better financial position than the person receiving it. For instance, CEOs may give their employees a cash Christmas bonus, but it'd be inappropriate and awkward for an employee to give his CEO $100 cash as a gift. The employee needs it more, and it is not enough to make a real difference in the CEO's bank account. An employee giving his CEO a $20 knick-knack has more value to the CEO as a gift than cash as it has the thought and sentimental value attached.

If two people exchanging gifts are already living comfortably and wealthy, the only time giving cash as a gift makes sense is if it's substantial amount like 6 figures that would put the person in a higher tax bracket.

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