Which is worse: a gift that costs $200 but breaks in a week, or a $5 gift that is so useless it angers you?
I got a Bluetooth speaker from my brother's girlfriend for my birthday last month. It was $200, sleek looking, and stopped connecting to anything after 5 days. But my aunt gave me a salt and pepper shaker set shaped like garden gnomes for Christmas. It was probably $5 at a thrift store and the holes are clogged. I literally cannot use it for anything. I keep thinking about which one I should be more mad about. The expensive one wasted my time, the cheap one just sits there mocking me. Has anyone else had to pick between being annoyed by cost or annoyed by uselessness?