When do you stop giving gifts?

[pepelutivursky]

A friend of mine is curious about this issue and I really have no answer for her, so I thought you lovely folks might.
She (we'll call her V) and I both have a mutual friend named Z. 
Z is a bit flakey at best.  While she's a nice enough person on her own, she picked up a lot of bad habits from a former roommate that have kind of amplified already bad habits that she had.  I'm not really close to her myself but V and Z roomed together for most of V's college life.
I haven't talked to Z myself in 2 months now and that was only to help her move apartments. 
V has not talked to Z in about a month and even before that they haven't done more than say 'hi' to each other online.  The last regular conversation V has with Z was when her, Z, myself and another friend got together a month or so before I helped Z move in September.
V is wondering now whether she should still get a gift for Z or not.  Z constantly has financial troubles and right now she has apparently declared herself exempt from giving gifts because of this and some other issues going on in her life.

[Harriet Jones]

I'd say no to giving a gift to Z, it sounds like she's drifting away for whatever reason.

[pepelutivursky]

I'd say no to giving a gift to Z, it sounds like she's drifting away for whatever reason.

I have to agree there.  Z's problem is that she's a user and when she has no use for a person anymore, she doesn't talk to them till she DOES need them.
Case in point, I hadn't heard from her since I helped her move in September.  Then earlier this month, she IM'ed me asking for a favor which, I assume, she got another friend to help her with because she never replied to me.
So now that V doesn't live in our college town anymore and Z still does, she doesn't have much use for V anymore.