Silly Small Monetary Gifts - Annoying or OK?

[swede123]

Tomorrow I'm going to be 32. I received a card from my wife's grandparents, and it felt good to be recognized and remembered. However, the card contained a ten dollar bill, which is the reason for this post.

If I was eight years old those ten bucks would mean lots of candy or some new comic books or something, but to a 32-year old who does OK in the money department it's just amusing in a somewhat annoying way to receive a monetary gift like this.

Am I the only one who feels this way?

Swede

[Los Feliz Slim]

Is there any chance that $10 means a lot more to your wife's grandparents than it does to you? I've had family members who are not well off send me very small monetary gifts, and it doesn't annoy me, it makes me sad.

[deadbody]

Tell ya what Swede, anytime someone sends you money that you deem insignificant, send it my way. I'll even pay for the stamp (although I would assume that the 41 cents or whateverr is meaningless to you).

Maybe you should just be tahnkful for the thought, and move on.

[TheDudeAbides]

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Is there any chance that $10 means a lot more to your wife's grandparents than it does to you? I've had family members who are not well off send me very small monetary gifts, and it doesn't annoy me, it makes me sad.

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Yeah - my grandmother, who isn't very well off, sends me cheques every birthday. I can never bring myself to cash them.

[Nick-Zack]

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Yeah - my grandmother, who isn't very well off, sends me cheques every birthday. I can never bring myself to cash them.

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I am sure she notices that you never cash them. I would think it would hurt her to know that you refuse to cash them.

[TheDudeAbides]

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Yeah - my grandmother, who isn't very well off, sends me cheques every birthday. I can never bring myself to cash them.

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I am sure she notices that you never cash them. I would think it would hurt her to know that you refuse to cash them.

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The same thought goes through my head everytime I don't cash them. But I figure of the two options - not cashing them is best. It never comes up when we talk.

[JasonK]

The grandparents gotta be mid 70's and are probably a bit senile.

[AlienBoy]

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Yeah - my grandmother, who isn't very well off, sends me cheques every birthday. I can never bring myself to cash them.

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I am sure she notices that you never cash them. I would think it would hurt her to know that you refuse to cash them.

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There wasa Seinfeld episode like that - and then one day a friend of his got him to cash them all at once....and grandma got overdrawn! lol

AB

[SoloAJ]

I don't think I would call this inconsiderate, but I wouldn't find anything "annoying" about it. It might be a cause for some interesting postulating as to why they sent it, but nothing more.

They sent it, in theory, to try and be nice or because they like you or whatever. I hardly think that is cause for annoyance.

As for cashing it, I would deem that whichever suits your fancy. I would want it cashed if I sent it to someone, just becuase I could pretend they used it.

A better idea might be to cash it and buy something "with that $10" that you could show to them in the future. So as to show that you got enjoyment from their odd monetary gift.

[RayPowers]

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Yeah - my grandmother, who isn't very well off, sends me cheques every birthday. I can never bring myself to cash them.

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Side topic, my grandparents send between $10 to $25. I would not mind this at all, except, it's a check. My brain has a hard time justifying going to the bank to deposit a $20 check, and often the check just ends up getting lost somewhere and never cashed.

Perhaps my grandparents are leveling me. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Ray