Re: Make up mysteries - help!!
^^SLH- I agree. A few times I have been asked by relatives in Pakistan if I want something (more as a courtesy I am sure) but I have said no even though who wouldn’t mind a nice outfi or something delicious snack to eat from there.. but then I think that it will be inconvenient for them or that I don’t want to burden them with something that I don’t really NEED.
And I hate it when people there ask us to send the most costliest thing and say, please get this for us, we will pay you when you come. How nice is it gonna look if I give them the stuff and say, by the way, it’s this many rupees because dollar rate is so and so. I have been asked to bring laptops, expensive cellphones, digital cameras and even GPS (even though they know it will NOT work in Pakistan!!!) and how they will pay me when I am there. Even more annoying is when they call to say, oh find us a good deal on so and so thing, we really want one. I have spent HOURS looking for things for people there and in the end it’s like, oh no it’s okay, we don’t really want it. Now when they ask me to look for something, I email them links to Best Buy or Walmart and ask them to find it themselves.
Once someone in my mom’s family asked her to send this really expensive Coach purse when I was going and how she was going to pay me when I was there. So I took it and while I was giving it to her, someone made a comment about how expensive it must be. To which, she replied, expensive for them? Probably not, they live in America, I am sure they can afford such expensive gifts. I don’t know if she was hinting that we shouldn’t be cheap and ask her for money but I was so annoyed, I was like, actually I was gonna buy you a knockoff from Chinatown since they are so much cheaper but since you wanted to PAY for it, it seemed an original one wasn’t gonna be a problem for you. Oh by the way, it was about $300 so you can do the conversion 
After that, I don’t EVER say yes to buying anything expensive for anyone there!