I have a friend, we're quite close but don't get to see eachother as often as we'd like. Every year I spend a long time trying to come up with the perfect present for him for xmas and birthdays, each year he says he's got me something and it never appears. I don't give him presents to get them but it's starting to annoy me this is the 3rd year it's happened.
The thing that really bothers me is that he never says thank you for his stuff, it takes me to ask him if he recieved it and if he liked it. This year I've seen what I want to get him but part of me is thinking I could do with the money this year as things are very very tight.
So would you get him the present anyway or not bother this time and then see what happens. (I spent a HUGE amount on his 30th present and it took me 2 weeks to get him to tell me that he'd got it, never mind if he liked it)