Scrap gold as a gift

It is another birthday of your friend and you have no idea what to buy him as a birthday gift. Let me propose you an idea that might sound not really smart but let's consider it for a moment as it might be interesting. I am sure that more than once in your life you have received money as a birthday gift. As we all know this is not the best way of respecting this important day for a person celebrating his or her birthday. It is not elegant as he may think that we didn't have time to pick up any other present and that we simply don't care about it. It can make him really sad because it is like being let down by friends. That's why I have come up with the idea of giving people scrap gold as a gift. Why? Well, try to look at this from my perspective. You give a real present that of course usually cannot be used by the person celebrating his birthday but it may be transferred into money easily. He will get cash for gold you gave him and it is like giving him money but indirectly in a form of a scrap gold.