My dad loves us. The way he shows his love is through gifts. That's like his thing. We barely talk, maybe like once a month or so, but for every birthday and christmas he throws a ridiculous amount of either money or gifts at me. It almost makes me feel bad. You know? I'm 25 years old. I have a job. I can pay for my own stuff now. If you see a tshirt that makes you think of me, cool, I'll love it. But I don't need him to buy me tons of stuff anymore!
Anyways. He's a techy guy so I wrote him asking about finding a phone that would work here in CR. (as I've mentioned a million times before, electronics are stupid expensive here, so I want to buy in the USA) He's now picked one out and is ready to buy it for me. I also asked about finding an external hard drive to store my pictures. He's already bought me one. And he just wrote me asking if I want a tablet or a new mp3 player or iPod.
I mean geeze louise! He says he wants to have an "early Christmas" when I visit in December. I feel sooo bad. I don't want my dad to buy me all this stuff. I mean, he's got the money, but so do I! I can buy myself a cell phone now!
Then, I was considering bringing Christmas presents for the family, but sort of decided against it. Because it's annoying to bring presents across borders. But now I have to at least get something for my dad (and probably his wife). But it'd have to be small and fit in a bag and not break. And then is it even worth it? He's giving me tons of stuff and I'm like "here's a frog that ribbits when you rub its back".
I was already thinking of bringing some of my favorite hot sauce back for my family. But I was also considering giving those out as wedding favors. I did buy the personalized sharpies for wedding favors, but since so few people were coming I thought I could make up little party bags for each person. I was planning on including hot sauce. And maybe a bottle of the local liquor. Which isn't anything spectacular. But you can't get it anywhere else.
Geeze louise is this entire blog about hot sauce?
Possibly.
Anyways, what should I do? Should I find gifts for all my family (who will probably not get me anything)? Or just my dad and his wife (who will shower me with so much stuff I probably won't be able to take all of it back)?
And the hot sauce?! What to do about the hot sauce?!?!?!
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No one can ever have too much hot sauce.
Anyway, I promise your dad doesn't expect much in return, you're his kid, he'll always think you need stuff, and he won't be able to help himself. I have the same problem with my own kid. Get him and his wife a few nice, inexpensive, token things. They'll be thrilled.
I know it's not on the same scale, but the $2.00 fake rings that my son buys me at Christmas time mean so much to me because he took the time to pick it out just for me. They will love whatever you might pick out for them because it came from you