I do only on certain occasions. I'll give a person a gift along with something I was going to give them anyway.

For example, someone gave me a Yankee Candle earlier this year for my birthday. I've got enough candles. For Christmas, I plan on giving my nephew and his wife a gift certificate for their favorite restaurant. I'll put the candle and the gift certificate in a gift bag. She loves candles.

The people don't know each other, and I figure nobody gets hurt.

I do only on certain occasions. I'll give a person a gift along with something I was going to give them anyway.

For example, someone gave me a Yankee Candle earlier this year for my birthday. I've got enough candles. For Christmas, I plan on giving my nephew and his wife a gift certificate for their favorite restaurant. I'll put the candle and the gift certificate in a gift bag. She loves candles.

The people don't know each other, and I figure nobody gets hurt.

Nobody gets hurt??

What about the candle?
Did you think about how the candle feels?

:p

But seriously, I have regifted small items as tokens, like maybe a box of chocolates or a decorative dish or something along those lines. No major regifiting.

Did you ever wonder if a gift you regifted ever got regifted again?

I wonder what the record is for a single item being regifted until its final destination and keeping place.

I wonder what the record is for a single item being regifted unit its final destination and keeping place.
There's that one fruitcake that's been making the rounds since 1954.

depends... if it's just an aquantinace, then yea, i don't have a problem... or i'll do something like you said Janice, and put it w/ something

There's that one fruitcake that's been making the rounds since 1954.

Wouldn't it be fantastic if there was actually an item that has been going around for a decade or more?

I smell a holiday special in here somewhere.

Or, if it's the fruitcake, I definitely smell something.

I have never truely regifted, however I was over at a friend's house awhile back and she was throwing away a bunch of nice stuff....a jewelry box, some nice picture frames. All of this stuff was still in great condition. I took a few items for myself and as potential gifts for others. I haven't actually given any of that stuff to anyone yet...perhaps it's nagging guilt or just the feeling that I haven't found the right person to give them to. Because really, the stuff is all nice (the jewelry box is never used and in it's original cardboard box) and since I'm a student I don't have oodles of money to spend on gifts, esp. since I have so many people to buy for, so I suppose I shouldn't feel too guilty...

I wonder what item holds the record for the most frequent regifting?

My guess is the cha cha cha Chia Pet.

I don't regift

Nobody gets hurt??

What about the candle?
Did you think about how the candle feels?

:p

But seriously, I have regifted small items as tokens, like maybe a box of chocolates or a decorative dish or something along those lines. No major regifiting.

Did you ever wonder if a gift you regifted ever got regifted again?

I wonder what the record is for a single item being regifted until its final destination and keeping place.
Janice beat me to it, but I was gonna say there is a fruitcake that started out red and is now brown and green!!! yuck!

I don't remember if I've ever regifted, but I've recieved some regifts lol. Most of them have been nice (thankfully I have never gotten a Chia Pet as a gift lol):lol:

My job gave us honey last year for a X-mas gift and I passed it along to someone else, since I don't like honey.

I don't. :lol:

Janice, thanks for the lovely candles, they just arrived!

;)

i havent yet

Janice, thanks for the lovely candles, they just arrived!

;)
:brent

It really depends. It takes a lot for me to re-gift. I would only re-gift if I received something that I had absolutely NO use for. In that case, it'd just be sitting there collecting dust when it could go to someone else who COULD use it. So, I'd just feel too guilty from the recipient who took the time/energy to get me the gift. It's the thought that counts, for me. I don't recall re-gifting happening quite yet.

If by regifting you mean sell on ebay, then yeah. :lol:

Janice, thanks for the lovely candles, they just arrived!
I hope you liked the lavender color and scent. I swear I didn't regift them. I did NOT get them from my aunt Mary for a birthday present.

I hope you liked the lavender color and scent. I swear I didn't regift them. I did NOT get them from my aunt Mary for a birthday present.
wait... i gave your aunt mary some candles just like that......

wait... i gave your aunt mary some candles just like that......
:lol: :lol:

Who here re-gifts not the gift, but the wrapping paper?

Do you ever so carefully peel off the wrapping paper and then re-use it for next year or someone's birthday or wedding gift?

Who here re-gifts not the gift, but the wrapping paper?

Do you ever so carefully peel off the wrapping paper and then re-use it for next year or someone's birthday or wedding gift?
Yep. I usually do.

Confession time:

With just four days before Christmas, how many of you have peeked at your wrapped Christmas presents that you received so that you still have time to re-gift and deliver them if necessary?

A recent article in the AP about regifting:

Art of 'Regifting' Requires Planning

By JOCELYN NOVECK, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 34 minutes ago

NEW YORK - It was a cozy dinner party at our place for three couples, a perfect occasion to bring over a nice bottle of wine.

"Hey, what a coincidence," we exclaimed when handed the bottle in question. "That's our favorite Italian red! How did you know?" A few awkward, silent blushes later, we all realized exactly how they'd known: We'd given them that very bottle months earlier, and it had sat forlornly on a shelf, undrunk.

In other words, we'd been regifted. And with our own gift.

With the holidays now upon us, there are so many gifts to buy. And there are so many things hanging around our homes, those strangely shaped vases or extra scarves or bottles of undesired cologne. Some of these things might still even be in their original wrapping, just ripe for the regifting.

And so: to regift or not to regift?

Feel free, says syndicated ethics columnist Randy Cohen.

"If someone gives me a Liberace CD and I don't like Liberace, what are my options? There are lots of people who DO like Liberace," he said. "And so, to regift it maximizes human happiness all around."

No less an authority than Dear Abby agrees. "It's a time-honored tradition," the advice columnist said in an interview. "It's the earliest form of recycling."

Still, the realm of regifting can be a tricky one. You don't want to cause embarrassment or pain. Especially to yourself. So, a few guidelines:

MAKE SURE YOUR GIFTING 'CIRCLES' ARE FAR APART:

This one should be obvious, as made clear by that wine-bottle incident. If you got a gift from a cousin, don't regift to a different cousin. If you got it from a friend, remember the principle of the Kevin Bacon game: We're all linkable in six degrees or less. (Do not regift Kevin Bacon under any circumstances.)

Ignore this rule, and you face what Donna Fish, a New York psychotherapist, describes as her own "traveling pants" story. Suffice it to say that one reboxed pair of men's trousers started with a friend, made a few rounds and ended up back with the very same friend — labels and all. "I found it odd," Fish says, "that a pair of pants, which is more particular with size and everything, would be sent around like that."

DON'T LEAVE ANY SIGNS OF THE ORIGINAL GIFT:
You'd be surprised how often it happens. You carefully repackage a gift, only to forget that somewhere, lurking inside, is irrefutable evidence of its past life as a gift for someone else.

An aunt of mine, Jane Strompf, e-mailed to say that decades ago, she received an ice bucket as a wedding gift. She promptly gave it to a cousin who was getting married. Rule for ice buckets: always check inside. "We sent it to her and were later told that the card wishing US a happy marriage was inside the bucket."

NEVER PRETEND YOU BOUGHT THE GIFT SOMEWHERE YOU DIDN'T:

It's certainly tempting to use that nice Bergdorf Goodman box you have lying around for just such a purpose, along with the carefully preserved ribbon. But beware: The giftee might try to return or exchange the item.

Twelve years ago, a friend of political consultant Marcia Sudolsky gave her a wedding shower gift of decorative patio tumbler cups. They were beautifully wrapped in tissue paper and a Neiman Marcus box.

You can guess what happened next. At the Neiman Marcus returns counter, a saleswoman took one look and informed her: "This is NOT our merchandise."

"I was standing there, just totally embarrassed," Sudolsky says. "I just wanted to blink myself away." She ran out of the store and, probably out of guilt, used the cups for a decade, even though she never, ever liked them. (Eventually, she gave them to charity.)

DON'T BE A CAD. KEEP IT SUITABLE: This is probably the most commonsense rule of all. "Don't give knitting needles to an athlete," says Dear Abby (real name Jeanne Phillips.) Make sure the gift is appropriate. After all, "good manners is consideration of other people's feelings" — even in regifting.

Finally, there are those who practice out-in-the-open regifting, stripped of all pretense. One of them is Jane Slotin, a New Yorker who organizes a post-Christmas party for her friends each year. The rule: you bring a holiday gift you've gotten that you can't use. You wrap it nicely. Until 8 p.m., everyone's free to trade (without revealing what's inside.) Then a warning bell rings, and by 8:15 or so, the order comes to unwrap what's in your hands. It's yours.

"It's a great way to meet people and do something fun for the holidays," says Slotin. "And hey, whatever you get, you can't go home unhappy. You started with something you didn't want anyway."

I don't usually regift, but if there's something I've received that hasn't been opened yet (nor do I have any plans to), I'll probably stick it in with another gift.

While I don't recycle gifts, I do often re-use gift bags and boxes... it's good for the environment (plus, I'm cheap!)... :lol: