Do you Re-Gift or
 

Do you Re-Gift or have you ever Re-Gifted??

Just wondering as I don't recall ever Re-Gifting as I would probably end up giving it back to the person that gave it to me.....LOL!! I DO however buy NEW(or almost new) things at yard sales for good prices and give them as gifts.

I have a friend that Re-Gifts all the time...well the reason I know that she Re-Gifts is that once she gave me an address book that she had written names in (maybe it wasn't gifted to her...don't know for sure) and then another person gave me a calender that was for the year that ended. The items may not have been gifted to them but I guess it was items they didn't want any longer....I just had to laugh and go on....didn't say anything to them.

Wishing Everyone a Wonderful Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!

I recently got a gift that I will never use, I passed it on to a friend's daughter. It wasn't really a gift to her just a I thought she would use it and I wouldn't

I don't re-gift per say, but like quiltstringz I will pass a gift that I know I will never use on to someone who wants it. There is nothing worse than having something sit in a cupboard for years until it is no longer viable.

I normally don't regift either. If I can't sell it on eBay, I give it away or donate it to charity.

I don't regift, but like others, I pass things along to people who I know for sure would use the item. There is also a 2nd hand store I frequent that is run by a church group and I give them a lot of stuff, and I also buy a lot of stuff from them.

re-gifting gets a bad rap because we assume the re-gifter is turning up her nose at the gift.
that might be the case sometimes but there are good reasons for re-gifting.
i get a lot of things that are quite nice, but that i can't use for one reason or another.
by re-gifting, those things find the right home, where they will be loved and used. :)

I have to agree with Patrice. I receive many items throughout the year I either have no use for or already have. I pass those items on, gift them to people who will use them. My mother is one who ( forgets) where gifts come from, and has been known to give back a gift the next year. It reached a point where we told her, " I'm just going to buy you what I really want, since I will get it back for my birthday " :) its all in fun, we are used to it. But we have always been taught to ( share) what we have. Keeps the clutter down to pass on what we don't use

I do, as I have very sensitive skin and can't use soaps, perfumes or even the mildest of creams with glycerine in the ingredients. I appreciate the gifts as they save me the trouble of buying any and I sometimes break up the more elaborate boxes into a number of smaller gifts. I'm not embarrassed to do this. Family and friends generally give me fabric to make quilts.

I've never re-gifted, but have donated some things that I've gotten.

I never pass along anything gift that was HANDMADE. Love anything handmade (no matter how ugly or how poorly made). I am 73 years old and I still have gifts people made for me when I was a child. New or in great condition gifts I pass along to anyone that can use them.

I was recently given a large candle. DH doesn't care for candles being burned. I can take them or leave them. So, I am passing (gifting) it to a friend who is low income. I recently gave her a tiny candle in a jar I had had laying around for a few years and you would have thought I gave her a $100. Being older we have so much we are not using and I am trying to find people who will appreciate a gift now and than that I can no long use whether it was a gift to me or not.

I have a big walk in pantry and the top shelf is the never used gift shelf. Most of the items are from silent auctions that the groups I belong to seem to always have. I usually bid on something just to help out. Anything there is up for grabs for anyone that wants it. My girls have used it as their last minute shopping store many times. DD found a new in box large cookie jar for her office party Dirty Santa gift this year on the shelf. I told her to open it there may be card or gift tag in the box!

[QUOTE=chance;7016179]I never pass along anything gift that was HANDMADE. Love anything handmade (no matter how ugly or how poorly made).
:thumbup: I agree. I'm too sentimental to pass along anything someone made especially for me.

I would never re gift but if it is something I can't use I donate it so someone can get use from it.

There is a CBC radio show called the Vinyl Cafe. One of the Christmas Shows is all about re-gifting. If you can find a podcast of it it is a great laugh.

I do regift. I also go to a Christmas Party each year where re-gifting is encouraged. Some of the items have been passed around for years now.

I am the only person in the family who makes any gifts. I generally give food items now.

I do not feel obligated to keep things that have been given to me.

Why can't people just say, "now gifts please"?

The last "re-gift" I received was a jacket with a hole in the pocket and a stain on the lapel..........lol (it was a gift from my father in law and his wife). She pocketed the money and dug something out of her closet.

My then father in law was furious. He handed me a $100.00 bill and told me to go shopping.


So I don't regift anything.

I have never re-gifted but do donate or take to resale shop on items I would never use. No use having in my already cluttered spaces.

If I recieve a gift that is not my thing, but I know someone who will be thrilled with it, I just pass it on.

I used to work at an agency and the Christmas party had a game theme. You could buy or bring an unused gift. Regifted was fine as long as you never used it. It was fun and no hard feelings. I also have regifted items received and donated them. I usually give them to the women's shelter.

A few times I have given a handmade gift to my Mom and also to my late Aunt, told them to enjoy it and then to gift to someone after a year. At my Mom's stage of life and at my Aunt's stage they had everything they ever wanted or needed but I wanted to give them something, but also not to burden them with stuff. They each liked that idea and did pass the gift along without any guilt 'because I made it'. Win-win situation.

Re-gifting has been around for a very long time...We were married in '75. I received a ceramic pie plate from my cousin. She had been married the year before, but she forgot to take their friend's card out of the box...we also got a Mix Master from my aunt and uncle. It had been a gift at their wedding...in 1956! They also left the other card in the box. Oddly enough, I was their flower girl!!

I see nothing wrong passing on gifts that you wont use. Of course, get rid of the evidnce! I like the concept that "things" will come into your life and eventually move on. I dont feel guilty about getting rid of "things" that hold no special place in my heart or home. Others may enjoy having it. Hence, the success of rummage sales and resale shops.

Sandy

Do you mean giving something to someone as a"gift" that had been given to you by someone else as a " gift"? I mean, like wrapped, for special occasion? No way! If someone gives me a " gift" I look at it as something that person actually went out and thought about---rightly or wrongly---and purchased for me! If it something that I really will not use/want for whatever reason........I will "donate" to an organization.........for me to turn around and gift it is something that never enters my mind. Now, if I were to receive a "gift" that I somehow found out was re gifted to me....I would return it to giver with a few choice comments! ......and scratch that person off my friend list. That's just me......to me gift giving is a special effort, albeit, sometimes difficult, thing one does. If you don't want to shop for a gift.......gift cards are always there........now, please don't bite my head off for these comments, it's just the way I feel about this subject and since it was brought up for discussion,I joined in........happy gift giving......most of mine are gift cards btw.........given and received.......

My answer to your question is that I say that all the time and then some friends say "I know you said no gifts, but, I just couldn't resist" or "It makes me happy to get you a gift". I say, but we said no gifts and I didn't get you anything. they make a sad face and say "that's okay". But not really. So I go get them something and they are happy. Hard to break the cycle.

About regifting - I pass things along.

I agree with Patrice, I put a sticky note on what ever the item is so I do not re-gift it to the person who gifted it to me. Sometimes the gift is a duplicate or something I just will never use. Do not see any thing wrong as long as it doesn't go back to the original gifter or is not used.

when my Mom died, we girls got / took first dibs on reclaimimg any gifts we had given to our Mom. we tried to give her good stuff - some of which she never used.

I would prefer that something be used rather than collecting dust.

I have selected things for people with good intentions, and the item was a miss. I have also received things that may or may not have been selected with good intentions that were misses.

I really don't care where the item came from if it's something I like!

This year, we had Christmas early with Granddaugters. One wanted both a hair dryer and a flat iron. I had a very old hair dryer and dgd # 1 roared when she saw the "retro" hair dryer that I gave her. She loved it!

Lol, I wasn't going to respond but.....I DO "regift" and I see nothing wrong with it because it would never be anything used. I have a problem where I impulse buy..because I think it's darling or whatever. Then later I look at it and say....you know, so and so would really love this and it's just sitting here being unused. I do it with thought and intention. So to me it's not that I am just too lazy to shop. Also sometimes after I have bought something I feel guilty for spending the money on myself so I will "regift" it to my daughter because she and I have the same tastes! If I am regifting at Christmas, that person always received gifts I have purchased just for them, but then I will throw in one of those little regift items as just something a little extra. Sure would be sad if I thought someone would "give me a few choice comments."

I, too, am in the regift camp. I'm also in agreement that as long as the gift is new and doesn't get given to the xrayperson who gave it, then there is nothing wrong with doing it. Money can be tight and I would rather regift something I couldn't/didn't use to someone who might otherwise not get as much from me. I sent a little embroidered owl that held a hand sanitizer on a key chain, to my dd along with a mini table runner. Both were little gifts from my guild Christmas party. Now I did send her other things that I had bought just for her, but I thought that they were some things she would like. I didn't wrap them just stuck them in the box.
We also have an annual Christmas party at my church and we do a really fun gift exchange. I have regifted items for this and like someone else mentioned, it's encouraged. Lots of fun.

THANK YOU so much for the reminder of the Vinyl Cafe... I have read a few of their books & thoroughly enjoyed them! I didn't find the podcast of the regifting...but I did find the one about Dave cooking the turkey...so funny! http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/v...1220_55068.mp3

Back to the original question.... I can't say that I officially REGIFT.... but I certainly give my DD and sisters a chance to enjoy something that I have been gifted & know I will never use, does that count?

A special re-gifting.... The last few years my Mom was able to be in her home... she would place a few special dishes out on the table when it was our birthday & we got to choose one for our gift.... It was SPECIAL and in no way would any of us have felt slighted to receive something that she had received as a wedding gift many years before.... or as a gift from one of us kids or grandkids.... So many different ways of looking at things, isn't there?

I find it insulting to get a gift that was given to someone before. It seems...almost...deceitful. In turn, I tell my recipients that they may pass it on if they wish.

However, I do like re-gifting where everyone is participating and it is known ahead of time. It is the element of misrepresentation that I find insulting.

This is not about re-gifting but...my Mom, one year..gave me the gifts she bought and wrapped for me and the children the following September and it was kinda special. Because it could have been me doing that.

How would anyone know that they recieved an item that was "regifted" to them unless the giver told them???

Frankly, i have recieved plenty of gifts where minimal "thought" was given. Recently a good friend gave me a minky-like throw. I MAKE throws! I just exchanged it for some winter gloves. I could use the gloves and she will never know. The gloves are from her in my mind. Nothing deceitful in my mind.

sandy

What a timely thread! On the evening news they mentioned that the people in the province of British Columbia, were the people in Canada, who regifted the most. Almost everybody I know regifts. In fact we went to a Christmas party that was a secret Santa party, and all the gifts had to regifts. It was so much fun.

When you give to charity, it is a gift. Therefore, when you give an unwanted present to Goodwill or Salvation Army you are indeed re gifting. Better than trashing it or setting it in the back of the closet for 20 years.

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Yup!
Sandy

I call that donating....in my mind big difference

No what you are talking about, in my mind, is not re gifting.......you overbought or impulse bought something for yourself, then on second thought gave as a gift to someone else.

I have occasionally re-gifted an item that I would never use. I appreciate the thought (or sometimes just the effort because not a lot of thought seemed to be involved in the choice!!) of every gift I have received.

On the thought of 'sitting on a shelf for 20 years'--many years ago, my DH gave me a very expensive necklace that was absolutely not my style. I asked him if he minded if I returned it and chose something more appropriate. He said go ahead but I could tell that I had hurt his feelings deeply. I did return the necklace and chose another--which has never given me the pleasure that I know my DH felt, choosing to original. In hindsight, I should have kept the original even if I never wore it.