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But that’s a tough one though.

What could a man want that isn’t a tangible thing? [/quote]

PP here.  We do want tangible things, but only a handful of them, which are of the highest quality and are heirloom items. The kind of stuff your kids will fight over when you’re dead. It’s a sort of sentimentality. And once you’ve reached the point in life where you’ve spent considerable research time and money having just a FEW high-quality items in your life… then at that point, being gifted stuff picked out by someone who doesn’t totally know / understand your rationale for why you do / don’t possess certain things is the opposite of sentimental. It’s a bit sad and depressing.  One more thing you have to pretend to like and use when you’d have actually liked product “X”. (Or you already purchase product “Y” with the intent of using it until you’re dead.)

At this age, you might still have a good three or four decades left, God willing.  Do you really want to think, on your death bed, how you spent those last decades managing more Chinese-made crap and clutter? And how you spent precious money on it?  That just seems horrible.

If you must buy something, let it be something masculine. A wristwatch is a good idea, but not some quartz movement junk you’d find in a women’s magazine ad or shopping mall. Maybe a handmade Nomos from Glashütte Germany. (Probably $1500 to $2000.) Pocket knives? Then something high end American made by Benchmade or German Böker. ($300 to $700) Firearms? Colt is making their beautiful, high-polished stainless Python revolvers again, reportedly as good as the originals back in the 1950s. ($1500) Pellet smokers? Again don’t get suckered into Costco-club junk like Traeger.  RecTeq is vastly superior and incredible customer support. ($750 for the smallest and probably $1000+ for something with a bit more room.)

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