What are your thoughts on regifting?

Pernicious

I had no idea so many people do this! Thanks for all the replies.

I was planning on giving a token gift anyway - apparently my cupcakes are pretty damn good, & since I know when I'll be seeing her near xmas (she lives quite a distance from me now) I was going to give her a couple of specially decorated ones anyway. They have gone down a treat for friend's birthdays this year

I agree with GillM about not passing something on for the sake of it, as others have also mentioned it is definitely the thought that counts!

Vikki_Louise that is hilarious! :rotfl: I will be careful to keep a list in future.

Meadows - Thanks that's a good point, I will have to have a think on that one.

lexuslass

Re-gifting is a great idea... why shove something in the back of a drawer for it to 'go off' and be useless!!

Word of warning tho.. as a previous poster has said.. remember who gave it to you in the first place!!!

My mum was given a really hideous fibre optic lamp thingy with big white flowers on one year (well, we thought it was hideous!).. a couple of years later, it was still in the box and we didn't know what to get my nan for christmas... Mum had kind of suggested about giving her this lamp and I said "great idea, it's just her thing!"

She opened it on Christmas day and said "didn't I get you one of these?" :eek:..... the struggled conversation afterwards was "it looks so beautiful, and we've had so many comments about it, we thought you'd like one too!"

Vaila

i have no problem with regifting, unless the item cost a fortune and the person who gifted it to you expects you to use/wear it or its personalized go ahead !

pinkmami

Every year I re-gift. Esp with the kids Christmas presents. If they're unlikely to play with it it gets hidden away till the next friend's birthday etc.

**curlywurly**

I am a re-gifter! Virtually all this Christmas is sorted with re-gifting or stuff from the Grabbit board. However, I would not re-gift an opened perfume, I would Ebay it, and use the proceeds. I would not re-gift anything which is not 100% new looking (including checking sell by dates on toiletries etc). Also I would be very careful about not re-gifting back to the person who gave you it. That has happened to me, and although I am a re-gifter, I was pretty fed up with getting a gift back myself (hypocrite!!!).

SugarSpun

I think regifting makes a lot of sense, as long as you're careful not to cause offence.

I'd also be fine with giving and receiving the perfume you described along with a token gift.

penny1973

Does your sister re-gift?
As long as she would understand the thought behind the re-gift then it wouldn't be a problem but if she does then I would just sell the perfume and use some of the money to buy a small token gift. As both sides of my families run in very strange but very different ways

annibee

Pernicious wrote: »

I was just wondering what people thought on this as money is very tight this year for me, & I have been thinking about giving my sister a perfume I know she really likes, that was given to me earlier on this year but I'm not so keen on it...

It still has the original box etc & is unused besides 1 test spray to see if I like it! I would obviously dust it off so I hope she wouldn't realise it's a regift.

Is this ok or is this tacky? My only other option is spending a very small on amount on something I'm not so sure she'd like as much.

Perni x

Every year i get stuff for my bday or christmas that i dont 100% like it goes into a christmas box and given to someone who i know will like it. Dont see a problem with it myself as long as you remember who bought what so you dont end up giving the same present back next year :rotfl:

Just like i wouldnt know or care if someone gave something to me that they hadnt liked if you dont tell them they wont know and lets be honest if its something you like you wouldnt care would you.

mr_knight

I'll just add my little story. I was once given a gift by a student who didn't come from the richest of families. Anyway They brought me in this gift and I opened it and it was a toilitries set in a plastic shower bag thingy. It hadn't been used but must have sat in the bathroom for a while as it had water splash marks on it and on closer inspection a few pubes inside the bag LOL. I just smiled and said thanks very much despite feeling slightly sick!

Moral of the story we don't want you to regift your pubes, that just takes regifting to a whole new level!

Rummer

I always re-gift!