There was a split seam on my FIL's sweater. My sweet SIL knows I am a mender and suggested me for the repair. I stitched the hole closed and washed the sweater. I wrapped the sweater carefully with tissue paper in the folding and out. I made a card like I have a mending/laundering business (which perhaps I do, I'm never sure about that kind of stuff). Jim will ship it to Chicago tomorrow. I used the tissue paper that came with some super fancy shower products that my MIL bought me for Christmas years back (Baltimore days).It was serious lux goods.
I was raised on Gemutlichkeit. And: directness, hard work, refugee immigrant frugality.
