Have you ever received gifts you have given someone, back as a gift?

mrs_sparrow

Present recycling, I get it but..... to the person that gave it to you??

When DD opened her xmas presents from DH brothers family they were all the gifts I had given their daughters as birthday and xmas presents in the last year - they were suitable and age appropriate. Hubby & DD did not notice as I am the one who does all of that stuff, my DD is younger than their children.

The thought of giving it back to them next year has occurred to me but DD was quite pleased with them and has opened them, LOL.

Just wondered what someone else would think if this happened to them. Has this happened to anyone else? These were not cheap looking tat gifts but brand named gift sets appropriate for the age of the child/teen.

We are not a big family, they would have known that it was us that gifted them.

I honestly don't get it?

paulineb_2

The only reason I could think of regifting a present back to someone, is being short of cash, not liking the present or being too lazy to bother to do any shopping for presents.

If they know it was you who bought them, the only way you are going to find out is to ask them why they did this.

Have you told your husband this is what happened?

Tenyearstogo

Are you sure?

I bought my niece a present one year. A few years later my sister bought the same thing for my son. It wasn't the same one but my sister thought it was such a good game she wanted to buy it for my son.

For the record both my son and niece loved the game.

paulineb_2

I think there were several presents regifted, not just one.

mrs_sparrow

Yes, there were several gifts.

I am not that confrontational to go and ask them and no, I've not told my husband as he would just get angry about it and it's not worth telling him for something he can do nothing other than seeth about.

There is nothing I can do about it, I know that, but part of me is feeling that it might have been intentional and I wonder why anyone would do something like that.

The gifts was given the year before so it had been held onto for a while for 'recycling' so they were not wanted back then.

I am just not sure how to deal with it in regards to present giving in the future. I just wondered if it happened to anyone else really and how they felt about it.

mrs_sparrow

Tenyearstogo wrote: »

Are you sure?

I bought my niece a present one year. A few years later my sister bought the same thing for my son. It wasn't the same one but my sister thought it was such a good game she wanted to buy it for my son.

For the record both my son and niece loved the game.

100% definite they were the same gifts.

paulineb_2

mrs_sparrow wrote: »

Yes, there were several gifts.

I am not that confrontational to go and ask them and no, I've not told my husband as he would just get angry about it and it's not worth telling him for something he can do nothing other than seeth about.

There is nothing I can do about it, I know that, but part of me is feeling that it might have been intentional and I wonder why anyone would do something like that.

The gifts was given the year before so it had been held onto for a while for 'recycling' so they were not wanted back then.

I am just not sure how to deal with it in regards to present giving in the future. I just wondered if it happened to anyone else really and how they felt about it.

I would tell him, just my view as it might have a bearing on what you do buy gift wise in the future.

Im not sure what I would do if this happened to me, I would very much go down the line of buying a token gift or two, maybe vouchers or something as they are harder perhaps to give back, something possibly with an expiry date on them so they cant be given back to you the following year.

Turtle

Could they have not realised it was you that gifted them in the first place? ie maybe they thought another friend gave them and passed them onto you? I can't imagine someone doing this knowingly!

Annisele

I suspect they're strapped for cash. If there aren't many children in the family, they might be limited in the people they can regift to.

My only suggestion would to make sure that the next present you buy them is something that your DD would like.

venetianlagoon

I think they must have forgotten it was you, no one could be that blatant. If you have a good memory it is tempting to think everyone does but I am often incredulous at what friend and colleagues forget they said/did which I remember.

paulineb_2

The thing is though, if you give a gift to someone, I would say particularly to a child or young teen, you expect them to use it at some point, its most odd that everything that was gifted during the year ended up being given back to the person who bought it.