Stories like this one (as well as your other horse stories) clearly provide a fine example of showing that the most valuable thing you can give your kids and grandkids is "your devotion of time".
Frankly even a financially poor person can "devote time" to their kids and grandkids.
In most cases kids will not remember 20 years from now that you could not buy them that expensive item and had to substitute with a cheaper item you could afford. However, they will always remember that you would not spend any quality time with them and they will often resent that forever and never forget it.
I have many friends and relatives that were spoiled with expensive extravagances as kids but neglected severely in that devotion of time department by parents and grandparents. Most were not happy kids, and now they are not happy adults either, and they do have lots of pent up resentment about there upbringing even though an outsider looking in would have thought they had everything.
Most expensive present that I received from my grandparents were socks at Christmas as they were not well off (exception a home-made bed quilt that my grandma made herself from scraps she recycled and saved). Regardless, When I spent weekends with them they made you feel like "you were" the center of their universe just talking with you about life and especially the interest they took in you life. My grandma would even go as far to make home-made pizzas using those cheap Chef-Boy-Ardee kits as she knew I loved pizza. Frankly they were not very good pizzas either as she had to improvise on all the ingredients so they tasted nothing like what I was used to since the ingredients were all different. I have not had one of those crummy pizzas since 1985 but I would give anything to have one more of those pizzas along with a days worth of conversation about life but...they are gone now but not forgotten. Frankly doubt I would miss any expensive presents they might have bought me instead of socks today. To this day, I still cherish that home-made bed quilt although it may not have been the most exciting present to a 9 year old kid at the time. There are zero store bought materials in it. It is literally made with scraps salvaged from clothes they were out in life and of course her hard labor to stitch them all together.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 07:34:14 12/16/12 2 times.
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