Was my gift a strange one?

RAS

I presume these people are the ones who would rate a manufactured item identical to millions of other above a crafted one? I know which I prefer.

I delight in real roses; I would rather have one than a whole bunch of imports.

HannahIOW

Blimey, I would be happy to receive any home made/grown gift, it makes the gift much more personal and special but then not everyone thinks the same way.

Turtle

I'd have been very pleased. Nothing strange about it at all. If someone brought me a home made cake for example, I'd think it was far more thoughtful than a shop bought one (and no doubt much tastier!)

flippin36

No, not a faux pas. What is a faux pas, is to make rude comments about other peoples gifts. How odd. I have picked flowers from my garden and given them to people in the past, it shows a bit of effort and thought - wow have those come from your garden kind of comments.

My (late) auntie was a wonderful gardener and she would often leave flowers from her garden on peoples doorstep if they were going through a rough time. People always remember things like that.

Forget about it.

HannahIOW

Perhaps they felt a bit awkward that they didn't bring such a thoughful gift as yours (or maybe no gift at all) and so were trying to put down your gift a bit so to speak, to make themselves feel better?

Auntie-Dolly

Perhaps OP was meant to bring the burgers!! I'd be very pleased if I got the roses.

Spongbong

LOL at bringing the burgers!:rotfl:

Well no-one else brought anything actually but I wasn't trying to be a creep or anything, I just thought it was the polite thing to do when going to eat at someone's house.

It was just two of the men that thought it was weird, the other bloke made no comment but the girls thought it was nice. Maybe it's a girl thing?

Artytarty

I'd have been delighted too. I'm too mean to pick the roses from my garden, they are precious!
A lovely gift.
last year we were having a garden revamp and before the men with digger arrived I went out and picked everything that would have been destroyed. I gave my Mum a beautiful bunch of peonies and roses with greenery. That wont happen again!
I always prefer hand crafted/ homemade if given a choice.
Except once when I hosted adinner party and a gent arrived with what looked like armfuls of the prunings from various shrubs in his garden. I didnt really have the time to arrange them and he was fussing about asking for vases.....

julie03

i would be delighted with homegrown roses, i quite often bake for my elderly neighbours and always give a homemade christmas cake as xmas pressie, and we always give each other surplus home grown fruit and veg and a handcrafted card would be much more appreciated than a bought one as more thought and love goes into all of these things, i dont think men get that!

flippin36

Do you think they might have been pulling your leg?