This candle was a very expensive gift from someone I hardly know ..but it was very much appreciated as the thought this time really did count !!
A bit of a sore subject for me really gifts ... Not something Ive had much pleasure from before. I seem to have been surrounded for many years by people who like to give vouchers for birthdys and christmas. Or those who give a gift with the intention that *its the thought that counts* and immediately cancel it out by not THINKING very hard about it at all !! I tend to get in a state buying presents for others. I worry that it might be the wrong thing that people might not know how much they mean to me by the gifts I give. Of course money is an ever present worry in that department too. Id love to give some people lavish gifts and I know people who appreciate very expensive things .. I just dont have the money to give.
This year for christmas I bought Dave a bicycle . I knew he wanted one I knew which one he had planned on buying and why he wanted it. All very practical reasons. I had saved just enough to buy it and the other gifts I wanted for the girls and other family members. He liked it for all the practical reasons he had wanted it aswell the fact I had now bought it for him. The very first day he rode it he locked it to a fence by the train station and it was stolen.
Just my luck really .
I was given some lovely gifts this year ... I dont know if Im supposed to share what I was given yet so I will wait and blog about it later in the year perhaps. Needless to say it was a lovely gift . Beating the mens toiletry set I was given by one person by a very very long shot !!!!!!!!!!!
So things are changing in the gift department I feel .
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