To regift or not to regift...

Francis63

Who is it that buys the blooming body lotion in the first place? 

Always get the stuff - I can't use it, yet every year, expensive bath & body stuff and I run out of ideas who to give it to. I doubt anyone wants it. Stop buying it please, it's a boring and thoughtless gift. 

Something fun, or a good book, or a bottle of Baileys, always a winner for me.

Let's ban body lotion!

Pollycat

Francis63 said:

Who is it that buys the blooming body lotion in the first place? 

Always get the stuff - I can't use it, yet every year, expensive bath & body stuff and I run out of ideas who to give it to. I doubt anyone wants it. Stop buying it please, it's a boring and thoughtless gift. 

Something fun, or a good book, or a bottle of Baileys, always a winner for me.

Let's ban body lotion!

I like body lotion, I use it daily.
If someone buys it for me, I appreciate it.
Let's not "ban body lotion" just because you don't like it.
Instead - change your friends who clearly don't know you well enough to buy you gifts that you like and appreciate. 
Or don't care enough to buy you things that you like. 🤔

_Penny_Dreadful

I have never re-gifted anything.  I have a very small number of people, whom I know very well, that I buy presents for so I know what they like.  No panic buying body lotion or candles for me.  Whereas I have a colleague who spends £20 per family member, and she has a BIG family, buying those tatty gift sets every Christmas and gets into a right state about it just that she can then receive a similar £20 gift set back.  Why?!!

Spendless

Francis63 said:

Who is it that buys the blooming body lotion in the first place? 

Always get the stuff - I can't use it, yet every year, expensive bath & body stuff and I run out of ideas who to give it to. I doubt anyone wants it. Stop buying it please, it's a boring and thoughtless gift. 

Something fun, or a good book, or a bottle of Baileys, always a winner for me.

Let's ban body lotion!

I'm with you - lol. I don't use it either but then I only suffer from dry skin on my feet and elbows and in the event I just fancy using a body moisturiser as a bit of a pamper, then I prefer body butter, lotion being too runny for me. They turn up as part of gift sets.and I like the rest just not body lotion. Some stores like Boots have a hygiene bank which you can put unwanted unused toiletries in, I've donated there before too. 

Bluberry139

Francis63 said:

Who is it that buys the blooming body lotion in the first place? 

Always get the stuff - I can't use it, yet every year, expensive bath & body stuff and I run out of ideas who to give it to. I doubt anyone wants it. 

LOL please give it all to me. I love a good gift basket of what we used to call "smellies", ie nice smelling bath/body stuff. 

Nobody buys it anymore & i am always asking for it when people say 'anything you're after for Christmas... but they dont flippin buy it. I had to put some on my amazon wish list!

As for regifting, i've never understood peoples' problem with it. If i get something i dont like but i think someone else would, whats the problem with giving it to them. I certainly wouldnt have any issue receiving something regifted. I have loads of friends who we all like to buy in chrity shops flea markets etc so regularly get/give used items too.

Whats the problem? 

What does bug me is when people buy me things that if they ever bothered listening to anything i said or paid any attention to what i wear/how i decorate my home, they'd know i wouldnt like/wear/use. It just tells me i am neither seen, heard or known.  

SavvySlut

I really don’t see a problem in regifting if the gift is something you don’t want/like but you know a friend who would love it - what is the problem? However I wouldn’t ever regift something I thought was hideous and that the recipient wouldn’t like just for sake for getting rid of it. In that case I would donate it to charity. Also I would view it as a snub to regift it back to the original sender… so ungracious! I have had some really unthoughtful gifts sent to me over the years … but my motto is accept them gracefully and pass them on if they don’t suit your tastes! Simples! 

poppystar

I don’t regift in the sense of giving as a present for a particular occasion but I do pass stuff on to people who might want it or to charity shops. My elderly neighbour gleefully received two boxes of liquor chocolates yesterday that I’d been given for my birthday! 

CapeTown

I used to ask my relatives what they wanted because to be honest I hate wasting money. So they got what they asked for. Unfortunately this was not reciprocated. My vegetarian daughter got leather and fur gifts. I got .... worst was a reproduction candle snuffer.... I actually said in the end " let's stop this waste". Call me scrooge.  Everything was regifted

MSE_Laura_F

With Christmas approaching, this thread is very relevant. 

And Martin Lewis just asked on Twitter:

"Christmas is coming, so let's talk regifting. Have u regifted gifts or ever realised ur gift was regifted. What was it? Did it go well or mess-up (eg u gifted it to the person who gave it to you)"

Please pop your regifting stories here. 🎁

tealady

I solved the problem by asking everyone not to buy me a gift but treat themselves instead.
I love hearing what they have bought (often stuff I would never have thought of).
Cards are a different story, love getting a card.