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sometimes people are not used to receiving gifts and they might be “overgenerous” in return because they got flustered…”

This is something I had not considered to be honest, but is a great point and something I shall take on board.

I hated receiving gifs when I was broke/poor with passion.

It basically works like this:

1. I receive a gift of 50$ usually spent very sub-optimally.

2. Now I have to spend ~50$ buying a gift in turn.

The end result: someone buying me gift for 50$ is equivalent to forcing a bad 50$ purchase upon me OR forcing me to feel bad and potentially be perceived as ungrateful/unreciprocating.

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