Category: gift giving
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A reader has been in touch about the "thank you" note issue, especially as it pertains to grandchildren and more especially to older grandchildren who may be gifted with a check on a birthday or during the Holidays. It is not surprising that the issue would rear its head again since, in these days of…
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'Tis the season to receive Thank You notes. The present-giving is behind us. If we weren't present at the gift-opening moments–and that's true for those of us who live far from our children or whose children are spending their holidays elsewhere–we may be waiting for the snail-mail delivery of a much-desired handwritten Thank You note.…
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Okay. So crowdsourcing wisdom is just another way of saying Reader Comments on an issue that cuts close to many of our hearts and pocketbooks. Often, though, those comments are more than passing remarks. They carry kernals of wisdom based on years of experience. So here is commentary from my readers responding to Michele Singletary's…
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Giftor Beware: If we attach strings to our financial gifts, our grown kids may not appreciate our generosity so much as resent it.
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He's got an hilariously snarky point of view. Choire Sicha, the NYTimes Styles desk editor who is working his way through a three-month stint as the newspaper's "Work Friend," columnist, admits that he has only two to four ideas about life and that none of them are particularly original. That said, he notes that "Somehow…
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The gift of a book: Whether our grandkids read it or not, it’s on their shelf and sent with our love and imprimatur.
