Have you ever re-gifted a gift?

[fluffernutter]

What was it?

[GalleryGod]

1. Lots of Times!

:think: A book I all ready owned

[sugar magnolia]

5. We re-gifted a wedding gift

It was a set of mixing bowls & measuring cups. Nothing awful, we just didn't need it. So we wrapped it up and gave it to friends for their wedding gift.

After we re-gifted it though, I panicked. Did I remember to take the original card off the gift? (I had taped all the cards to the bottoms of the gifts.) Did I accidently re-gift it to the people who gave it to us in the first place? If I screwed up they never told us.

[driver8]

18. So did we...

My wife and I had registered at Crate and Barrel, and we received two sets of a kitchen utensil set -- cheese slicer, pairing knife, etc...
It just so happened that we went to a wedding about a month after ours and they had registered for the same set. Problem solved...

[UTUSN]

2. Ab-so-LUTE-ly

Every year. Because this jerk-friend has a X-mas-GIFT fixation, buys crap ALL year long. He gives, like, TWO HUNDRED gifts at X-mas. It's his thing. This irks me to no end. I've found more friendship for FREE on DU than all these "GIFTS". It's CONTROL. This "friend" has lost more with his gifts than his friendship will know.

[Maat]

3. Yes. A coffee-maker. I don't drink coffee.

A tea kettle - I don't boil water on the stove. Many blouses, shirts, sweatshirts, sweaters. It is so dumb to give clothes as a gift if the giver has no idea what the giftee likes. Every present a certain relative/friend (we'll keep it anonymous) has given me for the last few decades or so.

[fluffernutter]

16. ita about the clothes thing. mine all go to the Goodwill.

[Maat]

26. Exactly.

Mine all get 'gifted' to the Goodwill.

[bif]

4. My term is a "Re-Wrap" Do it all the time

Especially cologne. I don't wear the stuff.

[fluffernutter]

10. lol true.

i agree, i don't like cologne either on a guy. au natural is the way to go.

p.s. did you see my question to you in the "what are you drinking" thread?

[wellstone dem]

6. Absolutely though the Oprah politeness expert said it was

'crass'. Mostly just put things I don't want into the "gift" closet. My daughter will then use for gifts for friends, aunts, uncles, teachers. This past Christmas, every box of candy I got was used as a gift for one of her teachers.

[yardwork]

14. I don't see the problem with it, although I can't actually remember

I've handed over some things I didn't need, but I don't think I've ever actually wrapped them up and given them as gifts.

We received a re-gift as a wedding gift. It was a cheap-ass fondue set, obviously opened and re-taped and re-wrapped. From one of of our wealthiest guests, too.

The weird thing is we like that fondue set and we've used it for the past twenty years. lol!

[Ready4Change]

7. Yes. NO! ... uh... who's asking?

;-)

[Skittles]

8. never had the need to

but honestly it doesn't seem right to me

[DemBones DemBones]

12. Me, either. Not if you're pretending you got it for someone.

I can see recycling a gift into a wedding gift for someone you don't know too well. I just wouldn't pass one off on someone I was close to unless it was "I got this as a gift and it's not me but it might be you, would you like it?" and then only if it was something nice but didn't fit or something like that.

[Skittles]

20. I might GIVE it to someone who needed it or liked it

but I would not wrap it as a gift.

[fluffernutter]

22. you are such an honest person.

:hug:

[Skittles]

25. really?

it just wouldn't feel right to me I guess - on the other had, if it IS a gift technically it is YOURS to do with what you will - but I guess I'm the senitmental kind, I really do think the intention is more important than the gift :)

[KitchenWitch]

9. Yes

We got 2 food processors when we got married. Some friends of ours were getting married like 2 weeks after we did, I knew they did not have a food processor, so instead of returning the extra one, we wrapped it up and gave it to them...

[fluffernutter]

15. that is a nice re-gift gift!

i think it's sweet when people give something good like that because they have an extra instead of returning it.

[Longgrain]

11. Love....

Sorry, I'd thought I be a little romantic...

[fluffernutter]

13. you are in a mood tonight...

mr. mushypants. what's up?

[Longgrain]

17. Sorry...I hope you don't feel as if I'm ignoring you...

but my whole system just shut down agan...

:argh:

[fluffernutter]

21. pm me and tell me what it is doing.

i'll try to help if ya want

[Longgrain]

24. I'm going to try and get it set up again tommorow...

Like I said, I think I know what the problem is...

I'm not much of a computer person, as you know...

I'm more of a paint person...:)

Thank you for your concern...:hi:

[driver8]

19. We actually have a "re-gift" box...

My wife is a teacher and gets all kinds of gifts from her students and their parents. We don't know what to do with all of them since a lot of them are "knick knack" type stuff. So, we put them in the "re-gift" box and anytime we need a quick gift for someone, we check there first. It has come in quite handy.

[catzies]

23. No, but I've been a recipient of regiftings. It's okay by me.

I'm happy just to be remembered at all. :)

[Cadence]

27. Yeah, but it doesn't feel right.

I did a book once and another time one of those hickory farms baskets.

[da_chimperor]

28. A model airplane

I was never into that kind of thing, so I kept it unopened for a few months and gave it as a birthday present to another friend who didn't know the friend who gave it to me. He liked models, but I still felt kinda guilty.

[InvisibleTouch]

29. Sure.

I don't remember what they were, but I've done it numerous times. I used to have a hard time with it, because after all it was an item that someone thoughtfully picked out for me and meant for me to have - even if I really had no space or use for it. But I finally realized that it was the intention behind the gift that was important, not the object itself - and that intention could be passed on to someone who might honestly have a good use for the item.

I've made it known to all my friends that if I ever give them something they don't need or want, I'm not offended in the least if they give it to someone else, or even sell it - because then they can get themselves something they do want, and I've still contributed to their happiness.

A tip, though, about re-gifting: if you know you're not going to keep an item, stick a note on it with the name of the person who gave it to you, until you're ready to pass it further. That way you don't accidentally give that same gift back to the person who gave it to you in the first place.