I sent Andrew in Australia a few bottles of hot sauce last year, I think. Might have been the year before last. I call him Andrew in Australia because his name is Andrew and he lives in Australia.
Anyway, I think it cost about $50 to ship it. Might have been twice that much, I don't remember that either, but he said I spent too much, I shouldn't have sent it, etc. And I told him that it wasn't about the money, it was just the experience of me sending my own hot sauce and him having it. In Australia 🦘
Kind of like when I wanted to stop at the Big Texan Steakhouse before I retired, but never got a chance to. Closest I came I lacked an hour of driving time to get there. Stupid ELD. And people said "you didn't miss anything, it's just a tourist trap, you can get a lot better steak a lot cheaper at other steak places, blah-blah-blah".
And I don't doubt any of that, it wasn't about the steak, I can probably cook a better steak in the back yard, it was just about being there.