It's the thought that counts

A few years ago, instead of spending a lot of time buying gifts and mailing those out,
Grandma sent checks out in cards that said "Buy your own gift."
She was a little miffed not to have received any thank yous,
until she was cleaning out her desk a few months later, and
came across the entire stack of checks she had forgotten to enclose.
We still kid her about that.

 Shared by a reader of the Carolyn Hax column
The Washington Post, 15 December 2023