Give Story - Not Stuff - for the Holidays

We have a 12-gauge shotgun in the basement ... somewhere. When my husband was 12, his father gave it to him as a Christmas gift. He didn't expect it, hadn't asked for it, but money was tight. According to the story my husband has told for decades, that gun was all his father had to give.

The item itself isn't something we use. We don't hunt, we don't go shooting, but that shotgun is the only gift my husband has kept from his childhood -- the only gift worth holding onto for the last 30-plus