Is asking for cash for Christmas or giving cash a bad idea? Is it uncool? Let me preface by saying I am a grown man. I'm a grown man who has been gainfully employed and owns a house. However I'm a grown man that wants cash for Christmas. Does that make me a bad person?
When I was a child I'd give my parents a list of things that I wanted for Christmas. Not only did I tell my parents what I wanted, I told them who sold it and how much it cost. I would have given them a map to the store if I thought it was necessary.
Now I'm an adult. For a while as an adult I used to get a lot of a certain type of gift, clothes. I'm not ungrateful. So I'll just say some I liked, others not so much. (Hint: Just because I play the guitar does not mean I want a bunch of clothes with guitars on them.)
In recent years things have changed. I've been getting a lot of giftcards from friends and family members for Christmas. Giftcards are the 'it' thing to give. I'm not sure how someone decides that I'm a Best Buy giftcard guy, rather than a Target giftcard guy, but I've digressed.
What I want this Christmas is currency, cold, hard, cash baby. Times are tight, and I would like a little bit of cash that basically I can blow any way I want. I would like cash to blow in ways that I blew before I became responsible with money. I would like cash to spend in unresponsible ways.
Is that selfish? Does it remove the authenticity from the gift? I don't necessarily think so. I don't see cash as any less personal than a gift card. In all honesty you only picked out a store, not a gift. Cash works at all of them.
So this year lets give the gift that people really want and perhaps really need... cash. Is that bad idea? Let me know what you think.
In closing I'd like to point out that the clothing item you're thinking about purchasing as a gift is made in China by a toddler earning slave wages, and is shipped to the U.S. on a boat that spews polution into the ozone. Cash is made right here in the U.S.A. Go American.
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