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Last week I gave my mom my slightly expensive $70 mechanical Corsair gaming keyboard because the space-bar always made my thumb sore over time due to my game playing style; so I thought she may like it and use it while I use my membrane $50 RGB Logitech keyboard. So I told my mom its all good and keys and all works and that she could have it and to take care of it because it was slightly expensive and it was still good and under warranty. And she was like "oh thank you" and she asked was that the keyboard that could change colors and I told her no it was the all red keyboard that I paid $70 for, and she smiled and said "I didn't know you love me that much" and I asked her did she want to look at it or set it up now and she just said "you can sit it over there and I'll set it up this weekend" and that was about almost 2 weeks ago, so I just sat it on the floor where nothing was because everything was full then. Since then its been under the couch and she has also has it leaning against the bookshelf in the box and not even opened since.

Sometimes when she gets gifts she has them un-used for years sometimes more. Like my sister gave her a smoothie one time and my mom was like "ooo thank you Im going to enjoy this" and this was probably back in 2017. And its been in the freezer since then unused. And its been a habit of hers unless its clothes or something she can show off.

But when she gets something for me (mainly food), she just has it sitting out for a few days or a week and is like I got this for you I just was waiting to see if you were going to say "can i get that?" and I don't think anything of it because I mainly buy my own food and snacks. And she's like this with me with a lot of things she gets me.

So was I wrong to give it to her or not?