Is your girlfriend by any chance bisexual? I'm also a cheap pharmacist and I would love to date a fellow cheap pharmacist. She sounds like a wonderful woman so if you don't want to date her, I'll date her. I also only have a small car payment and I would 100% pay for all dates with her. I actually don't give gifts to my technicians because no one does in my pharmacy and it would likely be frowned upon as potential bribery to make me their favorite pharmacist to work with. Their job is to help all pharmacists in the pharmacy, not just the ones who give them lavish gifts, and in return they'll receive a good review from the pharmacist manager and/o9r lead technician that gives them raises paid for by the actual employer.