Recycling pressies!

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Hiya all,
So we all must be guilty of this? You receive an awful Christmas or Birthday pressie and simply don't have the heart to throw it away... so then it is always hiding away somewhere gathering dust until another anniversary crops up and you just recycle it... anyone got any funny stories?
I recently received egyptian cotton towels from a best girlfriend, now she knows that my bathroom is cream and granite but the towels were a hideous pink - I asked her what her inspiration was until she finally admitted that she had recycled them! That's it, I think I will store them away and give them to her at Christmas!
Julie xx
So we all must be guilty of this? You receive an awful Christmas or Birthday pressie and simply don't have the heart to throw it away... so then it is always hiding away somewhere gathering dust until another anniversary crops up and you just recycle it... anyone got any funny stories?
I recently received egyptian cotton towels from a best girlfriend, now she knows that my bathroom is cream and granite but the towels were a hideous pink - I asked her what her inspiration was until she finally admitted that she had recycled them! That's it, I think I will store them away and give them to her at Christmas!
Julie xx
MoneySaving to date: £178 (just starting out!!!)
Target by end of year: £300
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Target by end of year: £300
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I get gift sets of perfume, that I know I dont like and pass them on for birthdays or something,
Saves a fortune,
If its a really naf present, I give it to the charity shop or give it for a raffle.
and we will never, ever return.
I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have -
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
It was done as a bit of a joke really (because they all could quite clearly afford to buy new cards) but it started up after someone got caught out re-gifting one christmas.
I have a drawer full of nice body shop (and other smelly) bath products that I was given and can't use due to skin sensitivity and will be re-gifted!
TPAx
A friend of mine gives me blatant regifts every year, she delays meeting up till after Christmas and invariably produces something that has an extra set of marks where paper's been stuck to it. I gently suggested that now we're adults we stop exchanging gifts but she wasn't having any of it - maybe she just likes getting rid of her tat and I've done too good a job pretending I've not noticed.
The worst recycled gift was when i went to a party one night and wrapped one of these bottles to take, i thought at the time the guy looked at me as he opened it, then later in the night his wife told me it had been opened and about a third gone.
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
My Mum's always reusing gift bags and tags, the names get crossed out and a new one written on, sometimes there are several names scribbled on one tiny tag! It's all fine until I get a present meant for my brother because she's forgotten to update the tag! Christmas in my Mum's house is always a case of pass the parcel because the presents are labelled incorrectly!
As well as the odd present, I recycle Christmas cards into gift tags. Saves me money and is good for the environment!
I do wonder about all the effort that some people put in over Christmas. Just look at the queues at the returns desk in M&S after Christmas and you do wonder if anyone ever keeps their present?
"The road to DF is long and bumpy" GreenSaints
The thing that bugs me about this is her and my bil are well off and she is always bragging about what she has got and slagging everyone else off.She is well know in the family for regifting she is always giving my mil and fil out of date chocs for birhdays and chritmas she does not even check the things she is giving to see if they are ok or indate.This year she gave my mil a bag of chocs which had a gift tag in them with her dd's name on.