Regifting...do or don't?

[NYCDiane]

But if someone had given you a book about hockey, it wouldn't have been okay to give it to him?

I probably would have given it to him but not as a wrapped occassion gift. I probably would have said, "hey, my ____ gave this to me but I'm not a hockey person. I know you love it, so here ya go".

 

[mom2val]

I think it is okay to regift if the item is brand new, never used, never removed from packaging AND is something that the person recieving would actually like! My mother in law is a horrible regifter- she gives obvious used items (half a tube of arthritis cream, candles that have been burned, used slippers, used shirts that are obviously way to small ( I wear an xxl and she'll give me a M (her size)) - just a few of my christmas presents through out the years). They have money she just chooses to only spend it on herself and my father in law.

 

[Boston Tea Party]

NOW MIND YOU, , this tv station is on the air on tv's in the WHOLE DANG STATE OF TEXAS ......and I have a brother who lives in Houston, Texas....

Now, now, this is a Texas sized whopper. No self-respecting Houstonian would watch a TV station out of Dallas.

 

[MissUndastood]

I have no problem regifting. I do take the time to look for other names that may be on the pkg, but mostly I just regift GCs, soit's not a problem.

 

[DawnM]

We were part of a church group that had an ongoing joke gift of some huge ugly vase. We ended up getting it one year and then left that particular group. Someone came over to our house and they LIKED it so we gave it to them. I am sure the church group missed it, but we wouldn't have been at the party anyway the next year and I was happy to see it go to someone who could actually use it!

Dawn

I don't regift within the family - but my friend and I do have a joke "regift" that we have been trading back and forth for about 15 years - it's a broken nutcracker candle holder and when we regift to each other we have to include a new poem about the nutcracker. This is the first year I didn't get it back - I think she lost it.

For a serious regift - at least remove the tags, prices, etc....

 

[Butterx3]

I have regifted before, only if its something nice and new and I think someone else would enjoy it. However, I generally add it as a filler gift, meaning I have already gotten them the main gift, but I'll add this strong smelling Bath and Body lotion, because we can't have fragrance's in our home. My son gets migraines from strong perfumy smells. But I usually am just adding it to another already existing gift. If I get something from Harry and David I don't particulary like I will bring it to the family gathering and put it with the food to share with everyone, not give it as a gift.

As far as teachers. If you didn't regift your home would be over run with mugs, and candles and lotions. My mother was a teacher, and there are only so many "Worlds greatest teacher" items a person can get. Knowing that from when I was a kid and my mom got all that stuff, I always buy gift cards for the teachers and try to get my kids to find out something they like. My daughters 5th grade teacher was a Male who loved "Monster products", so we got him a gift card and a 4 pack of Monster. She came home and said he had gotten 12 4 packs of Monster. But at least it was something he liked.

I think its a zing if a person regifts and makes it obvious, or doesn't bother to take the previous tag off. That is hurtful. Hopefully it was a mistake to foget the tag and not intentional.

 

[snowywhite89]

It's already been a fun holiday.

Sister in law(L) and future sister in law(T) already had a knock-down drag out on Christmas Eve.

L gave T a Bath and Body works gift set. Well, L got gift set last year because it still had last years to/from tag on it. So, T said she'd rather L take it back. L called her ungrateful, ect...so they didn't speak to each other for the rest of the gathering.

Would you regift in your own family or not? I would regift to people outside of my family, but not my family.

I would never regift as the only gift that I gave a person. I would add an item to another as an extra but make sure it was to a person who does not interact with the other person so not chance of seeing it again.

 

[GoofTroop]

I'm not into regifting....However, if we get a gift that we're not particularly fond of, or not much use to us, we put it away and save it for a "white elephant gift".

Elizabeth