Have you ever re-gifted?

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Yes, but I only re-gift gifts that are brand-new/still in their original packaging.
 
BamaRider said:
Ok it says as of now 10 of y’all DON’T regift. So I can give to y’all in confidence, and not see it come back at me down the road.

Y’all need to raise your hands and be counted, and I dunno what to do with the rest of y’all that do all that regifting. I only did it, like 2 times, but some of y’all make a living a it LOL.
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Aw Bama. don’t judge us so harshly 😦 , count your blessings, you obviously lucky enough to have friends and family that know the things you like, some of us not so fortunate 🤷

Truly, I see nothing wrong with giving something you will never use to someone who will use and love said item 👍

I love getting gifts and will happily make space for most everything I’m given.

Hey, though, re-gifting used items is just tacky.

Hope everyone gets just the gifts they want and can enjoy this Christmas…if not re-gift, but better not re-gift anything Bama gives you, he don’t like it. 😉
 
I don’t think of it as re-gifting, more like matchmaking, I don’t like it and can’t use it, but somebody, somewhere, sometime spent some time, money and thought on this, uh, thing, so let me see, who can use and appreciate it.
 
puzzleannie said:
I don’t think of it as re-gifting, more like matchmaking, I don’t like it and can’t use it, but somebody, somewhere, sometime spent some time, money and thought on this, uh, thing, so let me see, who can use and appreciate it.
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Well yeah, but you ain’t tellin the originals you recycled the gift they spent all that time looking for thinking this
but somebody, somewhere, sometime spent some time, money and thought
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:rotfl:

If I buy ya sumptin and you give it away I’m gonna be 😦
 
BamaRider said:
Well yeah, but you ain’t tellin the originals you recycled the gift they spent all that time looking for thinking this

:rotfl:

If I buy ya sumptin and you give it away I’m gonna be 😦
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actually if the original giver is still around I do ask permission to give it to someone else and say why (I am a great believer in protecting my back). Mom this red and purple caftan is 4 sizes to big for me and I am allergic to polyester, but my brother wants to use it as a pup tent, he thinks it will keep him safe in hunting season, would you mind if I gave it to him?
 
puzzleannie said:
actually if the original giver is still around I do ask permission to give it to someone else and say why (I am a great believer in protecting my back).
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That is one thing I don’t do. :eek:
When I re-gift things from my MIL, she never knows. Since she hasn’t been to my house in 5 years, I am pretty safe that she won’t come looking for it. And yes, it is a when. She generally buys me clothes that are at least 3 sizes too small or things for my house that I already have or would never buy. 🤷
 
I vividly remember being at walmart w/ dm one year looking at those silly bath gift baskets that are put together. The one I remember most was one of the cheaper ones w/ peach-scented items - candle, lotion, etc. My juvenile mentality kicked-in when I realized that the peach candle (sliced in half) resembled a ladies unmentionables.

Later at dh’s ostracized grandparents’ Christmas, I got the very same peach bath basket and I had to refrain from laughing! Sorry, that one wasn’t regifted (too embarrassed), it just went in the ol’ dumperoo.
 
maryjk said:
That is one thing I don’t do. :eek:
When I re-gift things from my MIL, she never knows. Since she hasn’t been to my house in 5 years, I am pretty safe that she won’t come looking for it. And yes, it is a when. She generally buys me clothes that are at least 3 sizes too small or things for my house that I already have or would never buy. 🤷
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Hah!!! DH has told me about these little ceramic elf figurines his mom has that he hopes to inherit one day. When I found out that these obnoxious, neon-colored dust collectors weren’t childhood projects, but something she willingly purchased (or otherwise didn’t have the sense/heart to regift), I told him the only place they would ever go in our house is on his computer desk. He later told his mom in front of the family that ‘dw thinks your elves are ugly.’ Thanks dh. Wonder if mil remembers this precious moment every time she puts these hideous creatures out now!
 
maryjk said:
That is one thing I don’t do. :eek:
When I re-gift things from my MIL, she never knows. Since she hasn’t been to my house in 5 years, I am pretty safe that she won’t come looking for it. And yes, it is a when. She generally buys me clothes that are at least 3 sizes too small or things for my house that I already have or would never buy. 🤷
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we should get together and regift to each other. My MIL always buys me stuff 3 sizes too big

may I put in a plug for regifting to St. Vincent, Salvation army or other charity of usable household items and appliances (not knick knacks and collectibles, they are just a burden) and those toiletries you can’t use. we re- pack them in family size packs for those who are homeless, in transient motels etc., with soap, shampoo, deoderant, lotion, toothpaste & brushes etc.
 
BamaRider said:
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.
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Yes if the gift simply isn’t something I would not use and I think someone else might actually enjoy it. If not then no. Dash cover for you car?😃 No I wouldn’t re-gift that.

Anyone ever notice how much junk is shoved down our throats especially during Christmas? You know those “As seen on TV products”. The big one this year was “Snuggies” are something like that. It is a giant shirt/dress. I’m sure someone would use this product but the commercial shows family at a baseball game wearing one of these. I don’t think so.🙂
 
Ok I’m not a big fan of regifting, but what about this.

Gift card swapping.

I picked up 4 this season.

Wal Mart

Lowe’s

Olive Garden

Bass Pro Shop.

I’ll swap any the last 3 at face value for a Best Buy, and I’ll talk about the Wal Mart card. (mean I take a BB of lesser value for it) Lemme know. :cool:
 
Ok for all you folks thinkin about regifting stuff, here’s some stories that were on AOL. blogs.

*With our wedding just a month prior, we had received many duplicate kitchen essentials. With an upcoming wedding of my husband’s childhood friend I thought: What’s the harm? I wrapped up one of the crockpots we received and dropped it off on their big day. When we received the Thank You card in the mail, it had a notation on the bottom of the card asking “Who is Uncle Bobo and Aunt Cecelia”? Apparently, my Aunt and Uncle had stuck a card inside the flap of the box … I could never face them again." *

Another

"In the 1970s, I had rental properties and one tenant always gave me a Claxton fruit cake each Christmas. So, one year I did not even open it but gave it to my neighbor as my gift to her. As she was opening it, I saw a card inside. I knew I was doomed. She opened it and it read “To a great landlord.” My friend said, “You are trying to palm this off on me?” Was I embarrassed? There was no way to get out of it."

Last one.

“I had given a wine basket with different wines and an opener to a friend who was retiring. Well, what does [this retiring co-workers’s girlfriend] give to our boss as a Christmas gift? The gift basket. Bad taste. Never should happen.”
 
Is it bad because you might get caught, or is it actually bad, in and of itself? 🤷
 
I don’t think its bad per se, but if a “friend” gave me a regift at Christmas or my birthday I just as soon ya not get me anything. I mean if you don’t think of me enough to go out and personally look for something, then I dunno.

If you get a gift you can’t use, ok just tell me, “look here I got this for Christmas and can’t use it, would you like it?” But don’t wrap it up and pawn it off that you went out shopping for me when ya didn’t LOL. I’m funny like that.

I’m not gonna give a away something a dear friend, or immediate family member I’m close to gave me. Something that they put effort into to find and buy, when they coulda spent their money at the Asian buffet. But that’s just me.

I’ve done it a couple of times with gifts from casual friends, but only because it was prolly a regift in the first place :mad:
 
This thread reminds me of a Christmas “regifting” tradition that lasted several years of my late childhood and young adulthood. Every year our Church had a sale of donated items with the proceeds going to St. Vincent de Paul or Birthright or one of the other groups that our Church supported. After the sale, the ladies had to go through the remaining items to sort and save what they thought they could sell the next year at the sale, donate things they couldn’t keep, throw away things that were torn or broken or that they thought were useless and would never sell. Well, my Aunt picked up one of the ugliest pillows to have ever been created, which was otherwise destined for the trash can. It was red and white and gold and lumpy and had a bunch of tassles and crooked rick rack and it was quite possibly the most gaudy and ugly thing imaginable. Someone had obviously made it. I think my Aunt gave a dollar for it and took it home. One of my cousins got the pillow as a gag Christmas gift that year. The pillow made the rounds through the family and none of us ever knew for sure (well, one of us knew, but most didn’t) who would get it or when it would appear or who gave it after that first time because it would change hands for several occasions. I think sometimes it would be a wedding shower gift, sometimes it would be a Christmas gift, sometimes it would just be a “just because” gift. We could remember when so-and-so got it here and there, but we didn’t keep track of it and never knew for sure when it would next appear. I know my little sister got it the year that she went away to college.

I have no idea what finally became of that poor, ugly pillow, but it provided a lot of laughs for my family over the years and a lot of happy memories. It was a fun “regifting” tradition while it lasted.🙂
 
I’m afraid I was ‘given’ a wine koozie with a box of wine inside…I don’t drink wine!

I have NO idea who to give it to-nobody I know drinks wine either…

Oh well, at least it won’t spoil while I wait for a chance to re-gift it…
 
Someone gave a friend of ours some perfume. She immediately regifted it to our 16 year old. She didn’t like it so she immediately regifted it to her sister. 1 gift, 3 owners inside 24 hours.
 
If I re-gift as an actual gift, then I add something I chose specially for the person as well. I see no harm if you have been given something you don’t particularly like or have no use for and you give it to someone you know would like it or who could use it. Mind you, I must be surrounded by folk who know me well - its years since I was given anything I would even consider re-gifting 😉
 
As a continuation of my first post on this thread… DS2 now has a computer that will run his games and he is thrilled… I guess 3 times is the charm on regifting that computer! We were talkin about it last night when my ds1’s best friend was over and he had a good tale of regifting.

It seems his sister had borrowed her brothers car and left the gift she bought for him in the back… seat that is. Her mom asked about it and if she wanted the mom to wrap it for her. She thanks her mom and says yes… so mom goes to the car… all the way to the back… i.e. the trunk… and opens it and finds a lamp. She thinks it is a bit odd but she takes it in and wraps it for her. The daughter sees the gift still in the back seat and wraps it for her brother thinking mom didn’t get around to it.

So on Christmas they were opening presents and mom hands the brother the gift she wrapped for her dd. He opens it and looks at it… all confused… then asks why he got the broken lamp from his trunk as a gift… my ds and his best friend were on the floor laughing before anyone figured out what happened.
 
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