Have you ever re-gifted?

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Somebody once gave me dash cover for my car on my bd. Come Christmas I wrapped it back up and gave it to my bil. I dunno where it went from there.
 
All the time. The types of gifts that are appropriate here in Korea are totally not the kinds of gifts I’d keep. 🤷 Koreans usually give family-sized packs of household goods as gifts. I’ve received things like a family-pack of shampoo and shower products - like, seven different family-sized bottles of soaps and shampoos and conditioners and stuff. I gave that one to my boyfriend to give to his parents, as they have 8 kids and a fair number of grandchildren who can help use it all up. What’s a single woman going to do with seven family-sized bottles of shampoo?

I also received a box of fruit - I mean like a crate, filled with fruit - as a Thanksgiving gift. Again, I am a single woman. A single woman who doesn’t own a car. I was NOT going to haul a crate of perishable fruit home to my single apartment, especially when it wouldn’t have fit in the fridge. I re-gifted it the very same day, to a colleague of mine with young children at home. Kids can go through fruit much faster than I can!

Share the wealth, I always say. It’s better to pass along a gift to someone who might use it than to let it sit in your closet for months until the guilt has diminished enough to let you throw it out.
 
Yes, yes, yes!

I friend gave me something she thought I’d like, I knew my eldest DD would love it (she no longer lives at home and didn’t know about the gift), I passed it on and she uses it with great joy.

I love getting gifts but have re-gifted, when appropriate, for many years.

The biggest disaster I had was about 30 years ago, giving bubble bath to a friend’s mom who was unexpectedly joining us for Christmas Day. I had received it from a pupil, would have loved to use it, but knew my friend’s mom loved that product too. My friend had been trying to find this product for her mom and asked me where I had bought it!!! :eek:
 
Of course I re-gift. If someone else can use the present more, why not? Just this Christmas I gave SIL a box of Ferrero chocolates that someone had given DH last month as a thank you for driving them around. DH is diabetic, something the giver had no way of knowing, and I don’t need more chocolate so it was better for someone else to get that.
 
I never have before, but I plan to this year with one gift. Two of my students gave me the same lovely book–I’m going to give one away.
 
I re-gift, but not for close friends or family. I do give them stuff I’ve gotten, and vice-versa, but not a as a gift.
 
I’d love to re-gift what my sister-in-law has given us but I’d be too embarassed. :eek:
 
I have done this a few times, but to be honest, I feel horrible about it…
 
I received an electric pencil sharpener one year. I kept it and the next year gave it to a 13 y.o. boy. He thought it was the best thing ever!
 
We re-gift bottles of hard liquor because we’re fussy about what we drink, and we don’t drink very much anyway. It’s the thought that counts, so we say “Thank you” and then we pass it on to someone who will enjoy it.

I have also re-gifted those bits of colourful trash that one receives at office holiday parties from people that one barely knows - I give them out as prizes to kids for things like perfect attendance, being the best cleaner-upper, etc.
 
OK… we have a major joke about regifting this Christmas…

My ds1 built dd a computer a few years ago… when I got dh a new laptop, she got his old one and passed the computer to ds2. So then, ds1 was having some financial troubles and asked if I wanted to buy a motherboard and some other components… so I saw a great opportunity to upgrade dh and ds2’s computers for their b-days (this was just over a month ago). Anyway, dh is thrilled with the new components because he could now play games on his desktop… his decent components went to upgrade ds2’s computer… so he gave them both to them for b-days… but drivers were no longer available for the raid ds1 had set up… so he has never been able to use his upgraded computer… so he gave it back to ds1 to fix. So ds1 came across some really nice new components and is putting them in ds2’s computer… specifically so he can watch movies and store them on said computer… so ds1 is regifting this same computer upgraded and upgraded again to ds2 for the third time… got all that???

Other than that… yes I do regift… like the year my employer gave us a smoked ham for Christmas and I don’t eat pork… but my babysitter had 5 kids and not much money… that was my gift to her that Christmas…

I have regifted jewelry, alcohol (I don’t drink), clothes, or anything that I can’t use… Someone might as well benefit from them… especially if it is fruitcake… I swear there is a finite number that keep circling the planet.

Oh… and I bought my boss a used cookbook for Christmas this year… a soup cookbook since he is a big soup eater and loves old recipies…
 
I regift–but more along the lines of getting a gift we won’t use and passing it on. I don’t regift for the people I was planning on buying stuff for. 🤷 DH is a teacher so he gets lots of things from the kids (especially food and candy) that I’ll take to work for my coworkers to enjoy. 👍
 
Last Christmas, we received a box of chocolates from another family. One of the children in that family’s name was Jessica, and when we opened the present, it had a tag on it saying [SIGN]To Jessica, Merry Christmas, from ______[/SIGN]

We never got over that:D
 
I don’t pass it along as a gift, but when I give something away I will make a mention, “I received this but…(I already have one and thought you might like it/I simply can’t use it/etc)”.
 
Never. I voted no. lol Shame on you, Bama. 😃 Kidding.😉 I agree with the above poster though–if I were to think about regifting, I probably would offer it up to someone else in a different way, not present it as I picked it out or something. But, I don’t see anything entirely wrong with it, just haven’t done it myself. I like to keep ALLLLL of my gifts, I guess. :rotfl:
 
My bother and sister-in-law gave us a huge tacky glass platter for our wedding gift. It wouldn’t have been so tacky if they hadn’t left the card, addressed to them, inside. Even better, the original giver was my next door neighbor. We dubbed it “the football” because it got passed around a few times since.
 
I’ve always thought it’d be fun to have an after-Christmas party, put out all the things people got that they don’t want and let everybody pick what they do want. I just can’t get anybody to agree with me. Probably because somebody’ll be found out!
 
FickleFreckled said:
I’ve always thought it’d be fun to have an after-Christmas party, put out all the things people got that they don’t want and let everybody pick what they do want. I just can’t get anybody to agree with me. Probably because somebody’ll be found out!
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Not a good idea… what if the jones are regifting what the smiths gave them and the smiths are at the party?
 
BlestOne,
I know - that’s why no one agrees with me.

A very close friend of mine re-gifts like crazy. For the past two years she’s given me something for Christmas that I’m 99% sure was bought with her in mind. I love her to death, but it’s annoying.
 
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