<prompt> Human: my mother-in-law is asking that we gift some money so that she can purchase and surprise a 30k truck for my father-in-law. we live in hawaii; as do our parents. we arent exactly rich by any hawaii standards but are comfortable and dont live beyond our means.her family parents, brothers and sisters in general have difficulty meeting make ends meet month to month.my concern is that if we gift money to purchase a truck and other family members find out theyll also askexpect money from us as well. i dont want to set the precedence of gifting money.help personalfinance - what would you do? if you wouldnt gift the money, how would you politely say no?  <response>: NO.You say they can barely make ends meet. They have no business purchasing a 30k truck as a gift. Do not feed into their poor financial planning. 