Recently I have been thinking of a birthday gift for my soon to be three year old nephew and a lot of ideas were coming to mind. One thing that was interesting was my brother talked about how he went to this stand up comedy show where the comedian kept saying how dollar stores are like a paradise for finding gifts kids. Basically, you can buy them the simplest things and all they care about really is opening a bunch of stuff and throwing it a few times.
While in many ways that was true I thought, it just made me wonder for that scenario when it comes to the adults like the parents. Example, imagine that you literally bought say a $1 gift item that made the kid super happy. Being more over the top, say he/she enjoys it more than all of the other expensive gifts. Now what would the reaction of say the parents be? My guess is that you will be labeled as a cheapskate to a certain extent regardless of how happy the kid is. Therefore, you will want to spend more just to not be labeled as a person who doesn’t care to other adults.
Kind of an interesting dilemma when it comes to the mindset of gifts in our society.
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