Thanks for all your comments. It was more about regifting than giving to charities or raffles. The items are quite expensive and I suppose I feel a bit guilty as if I don't appreciate the gifts bought me. They are new and unused, I would never gift anything that had been opened and/or used. Lots of useful comments so thank you all. I think the general consensus is not to feel guilty and regifting is actually ok in these troubled times.
Yes, give to a raffle. It doesn't matter that the cosmetics are a year old as they have not been opened. You don't know how long they sat around in a warehouse anyway before getting to the shops. Even if they constantly do the raffle rounds for years they will have helped raise money for something!
I’d check any use by dates and donate. Do you have a local food bank that might take them? When we do collections here for ours, my donations are always toiletries.
I’ve always done that. My sister in law gave me bath products for years despite the fact that I only had a shower. 😂 In the charity shop where I volunteer we probably won’t sell all the new Xmas stuff that’s been donated.
I’d regift them, give them as raffle presents or to a charity. My only warning is to make sure the original gift tags have been removed. I had a friend who came a cropper when she didn’t remove the inner tag.
You are definitely overthinking. Much better the gifts give pleasure to someone else if the original givers are unlikely to be offended. Sounds like a win/win.
I'm torn because I have a couple of really nice items still boxed and very presentable from last year which I'm thinking of regifting to a completely different social circle. The items are lovely but I just never used them as I had so many other similar items. I guess I would use them eventually but I'm thinking to save money in these hard times to regift them. I've never done this and I'm a bit torn as to whether it would be a very disloyal thing to do to the original gift giver (both are my grown up daughters). They would never know as they are beauty products rather than permanent fixtures that would be missed. They are boxed and beautifully packaged. Am I deep thinking this too much?