I have not heard of her posts and look forward to reading them but this reminds me of my Great Aunt Pete (yeah a woman, it is a childhood nickname). She would give all us kids a cigar box with odd things in it like a rubber band, some bandaids, a broken pencil, a few pennies, peppermints, twistties from bread, a marble, etc. I never quite knew what to say but always acted grateful and said thank you cause that was how I was raised. It was a big joke in our family.