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Take them to dinner.





If it's a long flight home, and you know flying is a bit of a hassle for them (for the elderly it usually is) would $300 be enough to upgrade their plane tickets? They'd probably like that....
I say use it to help buy something really important. Like books for school, or towards a car, or a new camera. Then let them know what their present helped you with. They will love that!!!!!!!





^ Good ideas. I vote for all of the above.
Your grandparents gave you 1.5 month's income, which means it was very important to them that you keep it. You did your best to give it back, and that is respectable, but they refused - so finding a sneaky way to give it back to them is to disrespect the gift that they gave you.
I think shasta has the right idea - use it for something that they would want you to have. Use it for something you can tell them: "thank you, this is going to matter in my life." That is what they want, and it really doesn't matter that you could have afforded it with your own money just fine. Only you know what that is, but it would mean so much more to them to see it go to "good use" than to give it back somehow. That's just how grandparents areRemeber how much you are loved every time you use / see / put to use the thing that you buy and you will make them very happy.
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Start a savings account... that would be an awesome use of 300 bucks. Put it toward learning a trade or some kind of education.
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Your Grandparents are showing you the value of money. 300 isn't that much to most young people, but to an elderly person who is on a fixed income it is a lot. I would start a retirement fund and send them a thank-you note for the lesson learned. Tell them your putting the money away for your future, and they will be pleased. At least thats what I would do![]()
It could also be a gift that your grandfather is giving to you as a man, which he is, regardless of his age. Don't refuse the gift---instead of thinking about what it took for him to save the money and to give it to you, think of how it must make him feel to be able to give it to you as a man who can still provide for his family.
One thing that would probably make him real happy is if you told him you were putting the money towards a plane ticket to come and visit him back home.
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I think that's a great idea. Once you get that degree then be sure to send pictures and a thank you note. They'll be so proud.
If you have a savings account that you cannot add to, then you should open another one as well. Keep saving!!



I find it funny, this is what grandparents do, and its what makes them happy. The wanted you to have it. So do with it what you want.
I am a 42 year old grown man, college educated, the excutive director of a government agancy and own my own real estate business. Every time I visit my grandmother she give me $20 and tells me to go get yourself something to eat. I make 10x what my grandmother gets in SS & pension. I have told her a thousands time I don't want it but have never once walked out of her house without it. It would seriously hurt her if I didn't take it.
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A decent education is absolutely priceless. We take it for granted in our society, but for many others in this World, it is a rarity.
Use the money for books and stuff....and you will increase your Grandparent's respect and love for you....and they DO love you. They have made a huge sacrifice by doing this and you're so lucky to have elderly relatives who think this much of you.
A plane ticket will be used up in a few hours hours. An education will be used for life.
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Start a new savings account for your upcoming educational expenses. Let it sit there and add money to it if/when you can. Send them flowers and a thank you note, or give them to them before they fly back home and keep them updated on your intellectual pursuits. Just suggestions, but I'm sure it will mean a lot to them!
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I know I am probably really late and the money possibly already spent but I think that you should buy something meaningful like a pendant with it because we do not know how much time we have with our grandparents and 20-30 years down the road you can pass it on to one of your kids as a momento from your grandfather.
My grandmother is 89 and on my birthday she gave me her original wedding ring from when she married my grandfather and they were poor and could not afford more than a simple band. I wear it around my neck everyday on a necklace. My grandfather was the light of my life and he passed when I was 12 (i'm 24 now) but one day I would teach my kids about the great man he was. He worked hard established a business and eventually bought my granny the huge rock he could not afford when they were first married.
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