Reminds me of some gift buying advice I read. Given a specific budget, don't get a big-but-cheap item, but a higher-quality but smaller/simpler item. The latter is more likely to be valued and retained.

I think the example given, for a golfer, was a crafted/precious golf tee over a trashy electronic putting game. (Ignoring, of course, the fact that the tee might easily get lost.)