Regifting Goodies....

[PrincessFiona]

Fess up....this is the place to confess to the gifts that you have....passed on to someone else

ME?

Bath oils/soap gift basket that my mom gave me....passed it on to a friend here as a gift when I needed it.

A set of 4 crystal wine glasses...they didn't match our decor and I ended up giving them as a birthday gift to a colleague of dh's. :>

A book that I was given as a gift for my birthday....It wasn't my taste, so I regifted it to Kelly on her birthday :>

I'll keep thinking, but...I want to hear your confessions!

kris

[houseelf]

I got busted by regifting a leather portfolio, laser pointer, and pen set that I got for speaking at a CLE. I gave it as a college graduation gift. My boss got the same thing and about six months after the fact I realized that the set had Minnesota Bar Association emblazoned on it.

The shame.

Kelly

I have not regifted - I usually take Lily's approach. I guess the *bad* gifts we get are so bad that I don't want anyone else thinking I chose them. Lots of garage sale fodder, lots of trash. A few things that just weren't my taste I've passed onto friends but with the "I got this from so and so but can't use it - would you like it?".

Unless you count the crazy bounty of toys we got a the huge 1st birthday party my IL's threw for Quinn. There were about 250 people there, and we got $ (which we used towards bills -- residency folks), clothes that were either right size, too big even for Jacob, or too small (Hindus REALLY know how to regift), and toys, toys, toys! DH and I waited until the boys were in bed, opened everything, picked out a toy for each of them and the outfits we could use now, and put everything else away until Christmas. That year, Santa was Hindu.

[alison]

Kelly, that's a good one!

I've regifted a couple of books... I actually have a box of stuff that I've collected to use as gifts here. They're things that I find on sale that I hold onto until birthdays and Christmas. I rarely have to go shopping this way and can just dig for stuff in my box for people. Dh has added some stuff that he's received as gifts for regifting. We're going to send them off to Germany - no risk at the actual giver finding out! :>

[Vishenka69]

I've regifted tons, most of the stuff is very nice just not my taste. And I try to regift into a different social circle (i.e. from my friends to DH's).

Some of the resent items:
-a set of body lotions
-wine that I don't like (from Australia)
-set of glasses
-Fendi silk scarf
-VS body set

[Momo]

Well I once received a set of 4 napkins made in France from some hioty toity linen company and a brass candle stick w/some la-tee-da foundry markings. The person who gave them to me was sooooooo materialistic that she made sure I was aware of how special they were!! Whatever.She was the older sisters of a good friend of mine...

Well about 5 years later I was a guest in her Apt. in Seattle. There was the matching candle stick on her night stand, and I saw the rest of the napkins in a drawer while looking for a kitchen towel !

I'm not organized enough to re-gift. Or maybe I'm too organized. That's it. Too organized. If I get something I don't like/won't use/not my taste, I will return it or just give it away. There are a few things I hang on to for white elephant gifts but I have a hard time remembering those (almost all of those come from my grandmother who gives the ODDEST gifts of anyone I have ever known).

Or let it sit in a dark corner and collect dust and then when packing up to move wonder why the heck I have it. :!

[DCJenn]

We had the infamous vase regifting from the first wedding. (we received a regift that the people hadn't even removed the gift tag from!) We thought it was so funny that we left our tag in and passed it on to the next set of friends who got married. It was a 'joke' gift along with the real one. It got passed along at least six more times.

Jenn

[Vishenka69]

I remember the vase story. :rotf:

I'm too cheap to just throw stuff out, hence regifting anything presentable enough.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlene ... ml&src=rss

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Wrapping up that unwanted picture frame from last Christmas and giving it to someone else as a gift might not be as taboo as it once was, according to a study released on Wednesday.

The survey of 1,505 American adults, conducted by market research firm Harris Interactive, found that over half of the respondents admitted to "re-gifting" with passing on gifts becoming a far more common and acceptable phenomenon.

In fact 78 percent of consumers who were polled felt that it was acceptable to re-gift some or most of the time.

Nancy Wong, a spokeswoman for Harris Interactive, said she was surprised by the number of people who admitted to re-gifting.



"It's not something I've thought about and when I saw that nearly half had done it -- 52 percent have re-gifted and or would re-gift -- it's quite a significant number," Wong told Reuters.

According to the survey, the mostly commonly re-gifted items were decorative household items, such as vases, paintings, picture frames and other trinkets.

Wong said that while 77 percent of respondents said they re-gifted because the item was perfectly suited to the new recipient, in some cases, the re-gift was far less generous.

The study showed that nine percent of people admitted that they re-gifted out of laziness to purchase a new gift and four percent confessed that they re-gifted out of dislike for the recipient.