Dear Prudence,
I recently found out that my mother has ordered me an Apple Watch in the $600 range. I do not want it. I am not a tech person, I feel stressed out by social media and I try to remain as “unplugged” as possible. I do not even own the Apple iPhone, which is necessary to make the watch functional. Most of all, I am uncomfortable with the ostentatious display of wealth that wearing this thing entails. My mother and I have a distant but friendly relationship, and I’m sure she’s just trying to be nice. I feel like a donkey’s rear for complaining about this, but what do I do? Let it sit on my shelf? Wear it only at family gatherings? Try to give it back? Unlike my mother, I am pretty tight financially, and I would love to be able to scalp the thing for the cash. Would that make me a terrible person?