ReGifting

angie76angie76 Posts: 646
edited December 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I tried to search for a thread like this, but couldn't find one.

What's your thoughts on it? I don't think it's always bad. Especially if you received something that's not your taste but you know a friend would like it.
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  • PJPixiePJPixie Posts: 3,026
    I'm down with it! I'm a total REGIFTER!
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  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    yeah if it's a cool gift, but not for you go ahead.
  • angie76 wrote:
    Especially if you received something that's not your taste but you know a friend would like it.

    Like a Nickelback CD?
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  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    Like a Nickelback CD?

    ha...yeah my sister is the only person i know i could regift nickleback cd :p


    I got this gift..it was actually last holiday, that's not for me at all. It's perfectly good in the original package. I want to give it to one of my coworkers but i kind of feel guilty..lol...but she would have no idea.
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  • arielariel Posts: 191
    lol, I think the coworker usually ends up being the recipient of the regift. Not always, but a lot of the time. poor fools :)


    As long as you put some thought into who the new recipient will be there's no problem with it - gift dumping is a different issue though.
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  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    ariel wrote:
    lol, I think the coworker usually ends up being the recipient of the regift. Not always, but a lot of the time. poor fools :)


    As long as you put some thought into who the new recipient will be there's no problem with it - gift dumping is a different issue though.

    ha..yeah that's how it usually goes..I never do it for family. Only casual friends and coworkers :p. How is gift dumping different then regifting..Is that when you unload a fruitcake? That is cruel.
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  • angie76 wrote:
    I tried to search for a thread like this, but couldn't find one.

    What's your thoughts on it? I don't think it's always bad. Especially if you received something that's not your taste but you know a friend would like it.

    Exactly why wouldn't somebody want the sloppy seconds of the item you hate.
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  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    Exactly why wouldn't somebody want the sloppy seconds of the item you hate.

    Well cmon now if it's that horrible i wouldn't dump it on anyone. I did say in my original post "if it not my taste"

    I remember getting some ugly ass slippers once as a secret santa gift, there was no way in hell i was regifting those. That would be too embarrassing.
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  • angie76 wrote:
    Well cmon now if it's that horrible i wouldn't dump it on anyone. I did say in my original post "if it not my taste"

    I remember getting some ugly ass slippers once as a secret santa gift, there was no way in hell i was regifting those. That would be too embarrassing.

    The fact that you are thinking about it this much, makes it ok.

    Personally I never do it. Just not my thing.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Nope. I still have the Avril Lavigne CD my neice gave me when she was little. She knew I liked punk rock and she was just a little kid and thought I'd like it because to a 12 year old girl... Avril Lavigne was punk rock. I played it that one time at Christmas and it has sat in my CD case ever since.
    I figure, one of these days, she'll look through my collection as see it still there.
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  • PJPixiePJPixie Posts: 3,026
    Cosmo wrote:
    Nope. I still have the Avril Lavigne CD my neice gave me when she was little. She knew I liked punk rock and she was just a little kid and thought I'd like it because to a 12 year old girl... Avril Lavigne was punk rock. I played it that one time at Christmas and it has sat in my CD case ever since.
    I figure, one of these days, she'll look through my collection as see it still there.

    That is Awesome! I actually like Avril :D
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  • if you tell the person you are giving the gift to that it was given to you by someone else...not if you are trying to pass it off as your own purchase.

    I don't like regifting because it makes me feel bad - like I am unappreciative.

    but sometimes, i give gifts that i received but did not want - but i always tell people that it was a gift for me.
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  • HawkshoreHawkshore Posts: 2,160
    Funny story .....A guy who I use to work with Richard was a chronic re-gifter to the point he would not even open the gifts to save time on wrapping. One year at our company Xmas gift exchange he got his gift didn't open it ....and later that night gave the gift to a friend the friend opened it and it was a personalized coffee mug that said Richard!!! Talk about being busted as a regifter!!! :D
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Hawkshore wrote:
    Funny story .....A guy who I use to work with Richard was a chronic re-gifter to the point he would not even open the gifts to save time on wrapping. One year at our company Xmas gift exchange he got his gift didn't open it ....and later that night gave the gift to a friend the friend opened it and it was a personalized coffee mug that said Richard!!! Talk about being busted as a regifter!!! :D


    what a dick ;):D
  • pearljamjenpearljamjen Posts: 13,578
    if you tell the person you are giving the gift to that it was given to you by someone else...not if you are trying to pass it off as your own purchase.

    I don't like regifting because it makes me feel bad - like I am unappreciative.

    but sometimes, i give gifts that i received but did not want - but i always tell people that it was a gift for me.

    Yeah. I don't do that for someone's birthday or holiday though in place of another present. I just say that I received a gift that I think they would like and want them to have it.
  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    if you tell the person you are giving the gift to that it was given to you by someone else...not if you are trying to pass it off as your own purchase.

    I don't like regifting because it makes me feel bad - like I am unappreciative.

    but sometimes, i give gifts that i received but did not want - but i always tell people that it was a gift for me.

    The one gift im thinking of doing it with is something i received from someone I hardly knew and they knew nothing about me. It was an obligatory gift. So the whole feeling unappreciative thing isn't coming into play for me. I just feel like Im being a cheap.

    I was going to give it to a coworker, I dont think i want to go into the fact with them that it was a gift to me.
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  • HawkshoreHawkshore Posts: 2,160
    cutback wrote:
    what a dick ;):D

    Well played ...........
    Yeah I would have loved to have seen his friends face opening this up! :)
    ...............I can just hear his buddy saying YOu sure gave this gift a lot of thought!!! :rolleyes:
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  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    The fact that you are thinking about it this much, makes it ok.

    Personally I never do it. Just not my thing.

    well it can be tacky..i usually don't..never with family or close friends.
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  • angie76 wrote:
    The one gift im thinking of doing it with is something i received from someone I hardly knew and they knew nothing about me. It was an obligatory gift. So the whole feeling unappreciative thing isn't coming into play for me. I just feel like Im being a cheap.

    I was going to give it to a coworker, I dont think i want to go into the fact with them that it was a gift to me.
    oh well if that is the case, i would say go for it...

    it's not cheap - it's ahem, "Frugal" ahhaaha
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  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    oh well if that is the case, i would say go for it...

    it's not cheap - it's ahem, "Frugal" ahhaaha

    lol...yep, frugal :D
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  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    Hawkshore wrote:
    Funny story .....A guy who I use to work with Richard was a chronic re-gifter to the point he would not even open the gifts to save time on wrapping. One year at our company Xmas gift exchange he got his gift didn't open it ....and later that night gave the gift to a friend the friend opened it and it was a personalized coffee mug that said Richard!!! Talk about being busted as a regifter!!! :D

    LOL..that's a riot.

    Yeah that's bad.
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  • covered in blisscovered in bliss chi-caw-go Posts: 1,332
    angie76 wrote:
    The one gift im thinking of doing it with is something i received from someone I hardly knew and they knew nothing about me. It was an obligatory gift. So the whole feeling unappreciative thing isn't coming into play for me. I just feel like Im being a cheap.

    I was going to give it to a coworker, I dont think i want to go into the fact with them that it was a gift to me.

    If you truly feel the gift is PERFECT for the coworker, give it to them. Otherwise, you are being cheap. Unless it's a mandatory grab bag, don't exchange with anyone, period.

    I know a woman that has a closet full of gifts to regive. She'll even go as far as giving my kid a bag full of old halloween candy. She puts the candy in those 'free bags with purchase' from the clinique counter.

    To me, that's not thinking about the person, it's thinking "gee, what can I throw at them that will pass as a present?"
  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    If you truly feel the gift is PERFECT for the coworker, give it to them. Otherwise, you are being cheap. Unless it's a mandatory grab bag, don't exchange with anyone, period.

    I know a woman that has a closet full of gifts to regive. She'll even go as far as giving my kid a bag full of old halloween candy. She puts the candy in those 'free bags with purchase' from the clinique counter.

    To me, that's not thinking about the person, it's thinking "gee, what can I throw at them that will pass as a present?"

    Eh..well yes that is tacky. I wouldn't just blindly regift just to dump a present on someone else. In this case, I think the person might like it. It's just not my taste. Most of the time I put the bad gift in the closet to collect dust or if it's clothing give it to good will.
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