"My mom gave me a book that I made when I was 8 so she could laugh at me for how terrible it was. I drew the illustrations and wrote the story. It looked like sh#t because again, I was eight. She loved to humiliate me and then get mad at me for “having no sense of humor”."
My parents and I run a small restaurant and last Christmas she asked us to host her Christmas family dinner we said sure dinner and drinks for 12 people doing all the prep decorating and clean up on one of our 2 holidays we have per year so she felt generous and we each got a 10€ tip.
Husband's remaining grandparents would send him a $100 check every Christmas. After a while he stopped cashing them, and the last check he is keeping because it still has his grandmother's name, and she passed away last year.