I get $10k per year from my dad, ostensibly for an eventual mortgage down payment down the road (Dad, don't you know millennials don't buy houses?). I count it towards my annual savings goal, which is a flat number rather than a %. (It's also a minimum I plan to exceed as often as possible.) It's invested, so it'll grow along with the rest of my net worth.
Wow... I'd take that kind of yearly gift.
Story time!
When I nearly failed out of high school, my father was panic-stricken that I would never amount to anything. He had also read
YMoYL and was panic-stricken about being saddled with an economic outpatient. I was also dating a hispanic boy pretty seriously, and my father was panic-stricken that I would get pregnant at 17 and/or saddled with my own economic outpatient (thanks, casual racism). So we made a deal: If I held off getting married until after I got an undergraduate degree, he would pay for my wedding. I wasn't into weddings, and he wasn't into throwing money away, so that eventually morphed into down payment instead. Graduated in 2011, married in 2014 (to that same hispanic boy, incidentally). Ergo, future mortgage payment in yearly installments of $10k. (Which I suspect has also become estate planning on his part.)
I also graduated with zero student debt thanks to my parents, and I am thankful every single day for parents who not only provide amazing financial advantages, but also somehow managed to raise me as both frugal and nonconsumerist.