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I personally think this points out the craziness in gift giving at Christmas and Chanukah. Arbitrary gifts purchased just to conform to what is expected are such a waste. Just donate them to a thrift shop right off the bat. Send a thoughtful handwritten note from your heart instead.

Bahhumbugigetthiswayeveryyeariapologise. XO

I've yet to re-gift. I think there's been stuff I've donated to community organizations, but never re-gifted. I have this thing about getting people stuff that I would think was cool myself. Which is weird considering...



Igetthesamehumbugwaysodon'tyoudarefeelbad. XOback.

We have a re-gift party with some of our friends... 3rd annual this coming Jan 1st. It's where we get together and do a white elephant where we wrap up the crappiest gift(s) we got and pawn them off on other people... there are also some "real gifts" in the mix to make the "greed" game interesting...

Fun! I'm bringing the bird clock that I got at last year's re-gifting party...

~fff

anyone want a aaron neville christmas cd i received as a gift. the back cover has a nice shot of that unicorn horn thing on his frigging head.

peace,
zayne

I once regifted an awesome gift that I never used...When I started towards my art degree in college, my parents got me a beautiful portable wood easel (probably in the $300 range). I managed, in four years of art school, to never take a painting class. My sister does paint though, so one year when I was broke, she got the easel...and was super happy!!
~m

seeing margarita's name in the 're-gift' thread reminded me...

i've uh, re-gifted gifts i've bought for others to myself, does that count? as recently as this christmas, too. i bought a pendant and necklace from margarita when i was in OH last month with the [ever-loving] thought that my mom would like it and well, about 3 weeks ago, as i was doing mom-shopping for xmas, i decided that i was keeping it. *sigh*

i mean, c'mon... how could i not "re-gift" to myself!? look at it!!

i'm planning on wearing it xmas eve or xmas night... answering my mom when she asks about it should be uh, fun.

I get tons of stuff from folks at work that I'll regift to folks as hostess presents

This is very close to being a de-gift. But not really.

do i re-gift? do i EVER re-gift!

it's become a staple of my christmas gift-giving. foreal.

i mean no harm in it. sometimes i get things that are great gifts, just not great gifts for me. i never re-gift thinking, "hm, i at least HOPE s/he likes it!" no, no, no.

i re-gift thinking, "they will like this so much more than me! and since i haven't found anything for them yet, why not?"

OR

i re-gift thinking, "they will like this so much more than me! there's nothing wrong with enhancing the gift i already got!"

i'm a total re-gifter. have been FOR YEARS. the quickest turnaround was in just a few hours. a friend gave me a lamp. it was a nice little lamp, but not my style. i was heading over to a friend's house right after i got home from my first friend's house, and i wrapped it all up again and friend #2 was THRILLED. i always make sure that the original giver doesn't know the secondary receiver. it would be tacky if they did.

i don't usually re-gift, but i did this week.

i pulled a name off of the giving tree at work, and the woman is 76. we were supposed to spend five dollars.

what can you get someone for five dollars?!

so...i had a nice hand repair kit that i had gotten from one of my kids one year at the day care that i had never used -- it had lotions and gloves and all sorts of fun stuff. i gave her that.

i saved $5, and i got rid of something i'll never use -- and ruth told me that the woman was ecstatic.

so, it worked out. normally, though, i don't.

I re-gifted a 2-1/2ft wooden cow standing up with an apron that reads, "Kitchen's Closed - this heifer just quit!" on it that I got in a random awful white elephant gift exchange last year. It's what I papier mached into a beautiful 2-1/2ft snowman the other night.

And I have other times too, I just can't remember...

I've been the victim of re-gifting.

For Christmas one year I gave my ex's mother a bag full of little gifts... one being a [stupid] little angel pin. Well, a coupla few months later I got the SAME pin for my birthday from the ex's mom. "Where have I seen this... Ohhh.". Haha. Fun stuff.

This year, money is tight. So, I kinda bought some gifts at Goodwill®. That's ok, rite?

But of course. I bought someone used books myself, mainly because the books would have cost me 100 bucks, and I only had 15 to spend on this person.
So yeah, used gifts are kind of a regifting in itself, aren't they?

Oh, another kind of regifting thing I did this year. My grandma thinks that she has to get me and my cousin the same exact thing, so sometimes I get some - umm - interesting stuff (especially since my cousin is significantly younger than I am).
So, a few years ago, she gave us both something that I just could not use. I did not know what to do with it, and it was gettting in the way. Then, it hit me, it's brand new, and some 10 year old would really like it - so....I donated it to a toy drive.

i'm a big fan of the re-gifting. i used to take gifts that family members would give that i didn't want and give them to the senior citizens i worked with. they loved them!

someday i may regret not keeping that spare toilet paper roll holder with the cat on top, but i doubt it.