Giving someone your gift '

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toffee

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Come Birthdays Christmas -Easter - you get a gift given to you 'but u never used it' or took it out of the wrapper it's in '
and its some one's special day ' mean yes it is -but why keep a gift u dont use ?..have you given it to someone else especially xmas time -yes I have done it with several' scrooge comes to mind hahah - but hands up who has !
 

I'm guilty of regifting.

When I was young I received an expensive bottle of champagne in a distinctive see-through box as a Christmas gift from a customer. I regifted it to a friend who in turn gave it to another friend and finally one night it turned up as a hostess gift at a party we were all attending. We all agreed to drink/kill the poor thing before it could be regifted again.

 
I have done it with gift cards but not anything else, at least I don't recall if I did that with other stuff.
 

toffee said:
Come Birthdays Christmas -Easter - you get a gift given to you 'but u never used it' or took it out of the wrapper it's in '
and its some one's special day ' mean yes it is -but why keep a gift u dont use ?..have you given it to someone else especially xmas time -yes I have done it with several' scrooge comes to mind hahah - but hands up who has !
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Absolutely I would regift and have done. If I am given a gift which I can't use for whatever reason, I'll either regift it or donate it to the womens aid shelter . I would always pass it on for someone who would make much better use out of it than me, but that's not to say I'm not grateful for being given the gift in the first place. !
 
My late MIL, who was a really wonderful, caring person otherwise, was a notorious regifter .
She had a whole chest of drawers of unused gifts of all kinds to recirculate. In fact she regifted me twice with things I had given her for Xmas, once a tablecloth, then a pair of gloves, each 2 years after I had given them to her. The kind of person she was, I think she was just to try to make others happy, rather than insult what she was given. And she and my FIL also went through those lean depression years...
 
toffee said:
Come Birthdays Christmas -Easter - you get a gift given to you 'but u never used it' or took it out of the wrapper it's in '
and its some one's special day ' mean yes it is -but why keep a gift u dont use ?..have you given it to someone else especially xmas time -yes I have done it with several' scrooge comes to mind hahah - but hands up who has !
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Yes I certainly have and feel no shame whatsoever in doing so. If someone else will get more joy and appreciation for a gift given more than I would then by all means I will gift it to them.

I wish I could start learning to regift chocolates but they have no chance. Lol 😝
 
Regifting played into my first divorce: My pathologically stingy, miserly (then) wife regifted a gift my mom had sent us, without ever showing me the gift! When my mom called to ask how I liked the item, I told her I never saw it. Off the phone, I asked my wife if she'd seen it. She told me she had, she didn't like it, and so she regifted it. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. I divorced this woman, a few months later. Far more went into my decision, believe me.
 
If I turn the question around from "Is it okay to regift?"....to...."How would I feel (as the original giver) if I found out my gift had been regifted?" Well.....

I wouldn't blame the regifter because no since in wasting the gift if she knows of someone else who might appreciate it.

I wouldn't blame myself for gifting someone a gift they don't like because we can't always hit a home run, although I'd feel bad I disappointed them.

And I certainly can't blame the receiver of the regift.

So with no one to blame then all's fair...and the only thing left is to let go and for the original gifted to try to do better next time at choosing a more likable gift.

Have I ever regifted? Not as an adult. Maybe in my early 20's. I don't remember.
 

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