Would you buy a cheap Christmas gift for your best friend?

I appreciate all gift including the cheap ones. If I receive a cheap gift, I could see that as a sign that I am not very important to that person and that they bought a cheap and meaningless gift because they felt obliged to buy something and just choose the first thing they saw, but I don't know if that is the truth. Maybe the person bought a cheap gift because (s)he can't afford to buy an expensive gift, maybe the person is not good at buying gifts or maybe there is another reason that I don't know of.

Understandably people are broke around the holidays, especially this year. I think any gift should be appreciated. However!... My in laws are famous for cheap gifts and their gifts are always awful too. It's like to go and get the worst possible thing for the money they want to spend. I tell ya, if they plan on only spending $5, there are plenty of things my kids would appreciate for that money. Action figures and barbies don't cost that much anymore. But they spend the money on something that is cheaply made and breaks within hours of using it. Like last year they bought my oldest son a knock off PSP that honestly cost them $5, and it was horrible. It wouldn't play any actual games and I believe it broke within 5 minutes of my son opening the gift. He was extremely disappointed, and would have been happier with a nerf football which would have cost them the same amount of money.

Course not...its the thought that counts. May it be a cheap gift or the most expensive one that you've received...it doesn't matter, what matters is that the person remembered you.

To me it doesn't nowadays you can buy some lovely cheap presents and they are lovely to give to people..if I receive one it means just as much to me as an expensive one..to me it is always the thought that counts more than anything as the giver has actually thought of you to give the gift to..that means a lot...littleowl

Hi silvercoin. For me is the intention that worth. I know some people that always give expensive gifts but aren't true friends for someone. So what you prefer? a true friend and cheap gift or false friend and expensive gift? I stay with a true friend. For me the true friendship is already a gift and no need any more. And if you give me a ceramic pig I will love it because I like pigs I think they are very sympatheticals animals. In the past I received cheap gifts like toilet soap from a friend that was in bad situation. In this time I always give to him, as a gift, money because I think that he would do best use of it. And I never looked with bad eyes his gifts because I knew that for him, in this time, those gifts were expensives. So I always valued his gifts much more than anothers expensives gifts. Have a nice day.

Hi silver, i don't buy the gift at all on the eve of christmas.From the childhood i did not get any gift on christmas and now, i don't buy any gift for anyone.I just wish on this festival and join friends in the party and celebrate.. nothing more than this.. I think i am only one like this and if there are anybody like me let me see,,,

It is definitely the thought that counts. It may not e something to your liking or it may be cheap but sometimes those small things have big meanings behind it. I don't know much about pigs, but it is said that if someone gives you the gift of an elephant with the trunk up in the air then that brings the receiver good luck. It is said to only work when someone gives the elephant as a gift and not if you buy it for yourself. The trunk must be up in the air as well. So if someone bought me an extremely cheap gift...it could be that it had a significant meaning behind it or with the credit crunch these days, maybe the person wanted to get you something and could not afford more than that. You can't be so selfish to think it was cheap and the person was lazy. Be grateful that the person still wanted to get you something even though s/he might have been tight on finances.

it all depends, the gift maybe cheap in price but of use to me, I would just think probably my friend is financially hard up at that time but still she tried to give me something. Should she is well to do however, I may felt bad a little for sometime but keep it for myself, maybe disappointed a little too.

Hi Silvercoin. I think gifts are something that should be cherised for life not the price. It is the thought and intention of the person who has given it to you.

Believe in the saying that "it's the thought that still counts". In friendship, cost of the gift is non-issue at all.

really the price does not matters, the price could be from a little small watch to a very big car it depend on the person but i strongly believes that if the emotions and feelings of the person towards the gift is true then even if you give a greeting card to him he would holeheartedly accept but if your feelings behind the gift is not true then even if you give him a car he would not be happy with that so i strongly believe that it is not the gift which matters but the emotions behind it matters the most..

Not really. It does not mean that if you buy cheap gifts then you don't really appreciate your friendship with your friend. It is based on what's really on your heart when you give a gift to your friend or someone. Remember, giving is really loving. The point there is you give. Right? Don't think about if he/she likes it or not. Actually, on your friends point of view, he/she will really appreciate it.:)

Of course not because friendship is not defined by the price of gift but the feelings of the person behind it...the gift presented to you could be something associated to good luck....so don't be ever dissappointed with that