What Happens to Gifts?

Have you ever wondered what happens to gifts that you give people?  Well, I am going to show you what happened to a couple of gifts that I received for my birthday this year.

Both of these gifts were given to me for my birthday this year.  The first gift was from my mom.  I have been wanting some house plants, and I just knew I could keep an Aloe Vera plant alive.  The plant was a few years old, and she was wanting to get rid of it anyway.  So, I took it and tried to give it a good home.  It was doing pretty good, but I was worried that it wasn't getting enough sun.  So I set it outside one sunny morning, hoping to perk it up some with a little sun. 

Well, I kind of forgot it outside and this is what I found the next day.

Oops.  I killed it.  Not what I like to do, I wish I had a greener thumb.

The next gift was another birthday gift.  My sister ordered it for me, and at the time of my birthday it hadn't come in yet.  So I just got it a few weeks ago.  I was kind of anxious to use it, so I made some cookies.  This was my birthday gift from my sister.

So, I have killed one plant, and will eventually will kill this bottle of vanilla.  I love this vanilla. 

I don't even want to think about all the gifts we've given and what has happened to them.  Hopefully people care more about those than I did the aloe vera plant.  I do feel bad about killing the plant, really I do.  I wonder what kind of house plant I could grow without any problems. 

Comments

[Jenni in KS]

I am a house plant serial killer and right now I have two pretty dead looking aloe vera plants I'm trying to decide if I should bother attempting to revive. I always feel worst when I get plants from a family funeral and I can't keep those alive, but I comfort myself with thoughts that they came sick from the florist. It isn't me, it's the disease ridden florists and nurseries. Yeah, that's it.

[Sandy]

Silk.