Re-gifting!

Nannie123 - that must be the prize - 2 pairs of 2nd hand shoes that are too big!

I may have been given something re-gifted, but nothing that I've noticed.
I would never re-gift anything to anyone else, I'd rather take it to a charity shop and let them make something out of it!
Many years ago, at work, we were given a bag of Brazil nuts by a 'not terribly clean' old lady who made a big fuss of presenting them to us, finishing by saying, "I don't eat nuts, so I've sucked the chocolate off"! Eugh!

Passing things on is fine, but 're-gifting' shows meanness of spirit, in my view. If I get something 're-gifted', I take it straight to the charity shop.

Years ago when I arrived at a friend's with gifts there was a lot of dashing out of the room with her sister and after a little while I was presented with a gift - a small crystal clock. (Friend worked in a school and these were the sorts of gifts which were given by pupils to their housemistress!) I guessed this was a 'second hand' gift. But... the funny part of the story is that when I got it home and looked at it again the clock face has been put in upside down, so she had obviously not noticed!!!!!!

I seems to me that unwanted gifts should be recycled rather than sitting in a 'gift' drawer to go out of date or degrade. All items will eventually degrade and perfumes/bath products especially all contain chemicals which can become dangerous if left for long periods. The key is surely to be sensible in the recycling process - try to match gifts to the recipient and if there's no suitable recipient be charitable and pass them on to a charity shop where somebody will buy them and you know that some good cause will be supported. My mum at 91 and with advanced dementia and who eats very little, receives countless boxes of biscuits and chocolates at Christmas from friends and relatives who fail to use their imagination - a pleasant room spray or indoor plant for instance would be a much more suitable gift - my mum can't eat these but I would never dream of 're-gifting' them a year later so I immediately distribute them among the various carers who come into the home to help me. That way they are well-received and make a contribution to their households as they are still fresh. What I myself can't abide is when someone buys perishable items in a sale, short-dated and then keeps them to pass on for gifts. This happens to me every year when a certain family friend gives me a type of chocolate she knows I like but it's always stale - grey in colour when I take the wrapping off and either out of date, or very close to it. It goes in the bin of course.

We often have raffles at our local club so that’s where any unwanted gifts usually go, usually appreciated or sometimes recycled into another raffle if the winner doesn't want it. It’s quite amusing sometimes but I never buy cakes from stalls as i once knew a lady who said if something didn't sell she put it back in the freezer, the same cake came out several times!

I have given away gifts (e.g. chocs to a slim and very active friend, or items to a charity shop) but I would never actually re-gift. (This happened to my sister when we were children; she knew, and was upset. This has stayed with me.)

We had to pass on a Christmas gift our 3 sons got between them as Oldest BiL came in on Christmas Eve saying hey boys Santa’s here promptly sat down and pushed a frozen turkey across the floor to them?......had to give it away as A, it was too late to defrost and use next day,B,we already had our turkey defrosted for Christmas Day and C,we didn’t have room in the freezer ?

My friend received some toiletries from her best friend. A few weeks later she was at friends house and asked to fetch something from a cupboard where she saw a box of same toiletries with some items missing obviously friend thought regifting the whole box was more than she was worth!! The friendship faded shortly after.

Last Christmas DD3 received a gift card from my sister. On the back was "happy Christmas R (my nephew) love from...)! We still laugh about it. DD3 said it was a useful gift anyway!

Instead of re-gifting why not donate to your favourite Charity shop. Volunteering in one I see a lot of 'unwanted' Christmas & Birthday presents donated to our 'good cause'! If they are sold on then that is money in our till at the end of the day & everyone, hopefully, happy!

I dont know if it counts but I gave my friend aChristmas present and a box of chocolates because we had so much chocolate in the house.

The strangest present i got was from a friend once christmas - 2 pairs of second hand shoes - both a size too big. At the time we were single mums and money was tight, and we both used to find the odd “bargain” in a charity shop - but I dont think I could have ever given someone second hand shoes for a present. I never said anything and our friendship thrived - but it still makes me smile when I think of it.

I think it’s such a practical thing to do I wouldn’t regift something from a close loved one ( somehow I d feel I was giving their love away) but if I m given a gift from a friend or acquaintance that is ‘ not me’ why just leave it fungating when someone else could enjoy it
No I wouldn’t spend a voucher on someone else that wouldn’t be the same, but the regifting of unwanted goods is just plain practical

I couldn't possibly bring myself to pass something on. Nowadays we often give and receive vouchers but I would never spend one on a present for someone else. Not because I was brought up that way, it just doesn't seem right.

I wouldn't wrap it back up and pretend I'd bought an unwanted gift, but I'd have no problem passing it on.

Suspect this was regifting, but not certain. Years ago, at my daughter`s 6th birthday party, one of the little girl guests handed her a parcel and said "my mum says you`ll have to have this, it`s all we`ve got in", it was a matching fountain pen and propelling pencil set, very nice, but not exactly what you`d give to a 6 year old.

Rather than re-gift, I have sometimes handed on unwanted or unloved presents as raffle prizes. But on one occasion, I won some rather unpleasant body lotion (though an expensive brand) and hadn't the heart to pass it on to some unsuspecting winner.

I love the toolset!

I have regifted the occasional small thing, toiletries, notebooks etc.but have to know it’s right for the person I’m giving it to, my Mother always taught me to only give things that would be nice to receive and the recipient would like.
Most things I just take to the Cancer Research shop, a very good cause.

Anything we get that we don't like or can't use is saved for the McMillan coffee morning in September. My friend has had ovarian cancer for many years and is has been fundraising for as long as she has been suffering, she has raised nearly £100000!

My mother always re-gifts presents it has become for my DC and DGC a laugh over what we get. This year our eldest DGS received a tool set she'd won at the bingo. He's 12.

callgirl1, I was!! I think I remember saying to her that she always knew just the type of thing I liked! ?

My DM had some rather strange regifting habits.

One Christmas she regifted a rather expensive ladies pen that my DB's family had given her to my DH for Christmas. It was a very odd thing to regift within immediate family and not anything that DH would like or ever use.

There was also an embarrassing moment where my young DN recognised it when we were staying with them that Christmas
"isn't that the pen we bought granny" she said
"oh - I think granny must have liked it so much she got one for us", I bluffed ......

Oh Marelli, were you effusive with your thanks? lol!