How do I let someone know a gift was expensive?

[Jeff7181]

Here's the problem... my mother has a lot of cheap (gold plated) jewelry and tends to break necklaces and lose stones in rings etc.
I decided to get her something nice and got her a solid gold bracelet... but I want her to realize it's not some $40 plated piece of junk from some random department store.
How do I get that message across without saying, "careful with that, it was expensive?"

 

[BarneyFife]

Tell her how much it cost??

 

[Q]

It's your mom, just tell her not to break it, it cost a little more than the usual you get

 

[vital]

leave pricetag

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Tell her how much it cost??

I'd rather not do that either. I just want her to know it's not a "disposable" piece of crap like most other things she has.

 

[Glavinsolo]

Forget the receipt in the bag?

Put it in a nice box?

Tell her to throw out the rest of her junk and keep only real jewelry from now on.

 

[Dunbar]

Or just say "be careful with that, it's real 18-kt gold." Or something like that.

<---Knows nothing about jewlelry

 

[FoBoT]

you can't teach an old dog new tricks

don't worry about it

 

[richardycc]

tell her its heirloom quality and you expect her to pass it down to your future wife.

 

[OUCaptain]

Include something that describes it's quality like a little card or tag.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I've noticed that women can tell the difference between imitation jewelry and the-real-thing in about 2 seconds.

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: Dunbar
Or just say "be careful with that, it's real 18-kt gold." Or something like that.

<---Knows nothing about jewlelry

Ya, just tell her what it is made out of. That should be enough and if not then you did your part and that is that.

 

[savvy]

Just tell her plainly.

 

[Braznor]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
I've noticed that women can tell the difference between imitation jewelry and the-real-thing in about 2 seconds.

lol, Indian women can sniff out real and fake gold with smell alone!

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: OUCaptain
Include something that describes it's quality like a little card or tag.

Yep. Don't they usual come with a thingy touting its uniqueness?

 

[wiredspider]

So where did you get it? The pawn shop?

If you bought it some place nice, I would expect they gave you a nice box and all that jazz for it...