My assistant at school is super cheap. She never donates to anything, never shares anything she has. There could be one donut left in the faculty room, and I'll bring it back to the library and split it with her... She will walk in the library, stuffing the last of anything in her mouth, saying "Oh, I just got the last _________ in the faculty room". I've always brought in a bowl of soup I made, cake, cookies... a bunch of us always share what we make, and she'll partake, but she just never shares...

Anyway... the one year for Christmas, she gave me a tube of handcream from Avon that she had had and a pair of these really cheap itchy gloves that she got at the dollar store (tag still on) to put on my hands when using the hand cream. First of all, she knows I'm allergic to scented body and hand creams, and secondly, who gives a pair of gloves from the dollar store and keeps the tag on them??? Another year she gave me a jar she had put popcorn kernels in and a little baggie of seasoning mix to put over them after they are popped. Again, container from the Dollar Store.

She may be my assistant, but she's not poor. She owns every single Longaberger basket ever made, and her husband works for Johns Hopkins Medical Center. She's just cheap and puts no thought to the gift... that's what hurts the most, cause I'll put thought to what I give, even if it's home made.