The spirit of "goods"

In New Zealand, the Maori people consider "Hau" as the spirit of goods and things and how that spirit attaches itself to a certain part of a person. Say for instance, as a graduation gift, you get a new leather case for your laptop from your parents. The leather case might not be as important to you if instead you went out and bought the same case yourself.

"...There is no season of the year; spring, summer, fall, winter when the country is not more attractive than the city..."

T. Roosevelt