Tag Archives: gift
T-shirt Exchange
A few years ago, we started a T-shirt exchange. Everyone drew a name and found a weird or funny T-shirt they thought their recipient would like.” It resulted in a lot of fun inside jokes, she says. A gift needn’t … Continue reading
Intuition
Trust your intuition. It is god acting on your best behalf. So when you get that nudge, follow it home to where you need to go. Hesitate, and the moment is lost, the gift is gone. Positively Purging-I welcome your … Continue reading
The Gift of Giving
My mother was an excellent cook an taught my siblings and me everything she could so we would be self-sufficient. As she got older, she didn’t want material gifts, so one year my husband and I gifted her a day … Continue reading
Lending to Family or Friends?
DON’T lend money. Gift it DO create boundaries around whom you support DO offer other ways to help DON’T cosign a loan
Manners
I may be hopelessly old-fashioned at 73 years old, but when my children were young and received a gift, I gave them notecards, stamps, addresses, and explained the ways a “thank you” could be worded. I encouraged them to include … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 