Have you ever re-gifted?

Yup.

Yep! Far be it for me to keep something I haven’t touched or won’t use when I can easily pass it on to someone who will really enjoy it!

I’ve never regifted. I’ve only given one gift in my life (besides the money I give to the beggars on the street) and it was for my ex, and God knows what she’ll do if I ever gave her a regift before she broke up with me!

For the record I have re-gifted – more than once.

like it’s my job. My house is pretty much a clearing house for regifted gifts. I keep a journal so I remember who I received a gift from so I don’t regift to them.

Um, yes…is there some societal convention that I am not aware of concerning re-gifting?

Yes – more than once and I will do it again.

Why trash something perfectly good that you know someone else would/could use or enjoy? I look at is not as “re-gifting” by Paying it Forward. Providing one something that is useful for them. And if I’m wrong, they are certainly welcome to pass it forward also. Won’t hurt my feelings.

Of course there is this pair of fur lined undies that’s been going around maybe 20 years in the GoldWing group. that’s an entirely different story.

Of course.
As long as the connection between the two people, giver and receiver, aren’t connected or know of each other. Gifting a nonrefundable gift on the other hand… I’d only do so if the object suits them.

Just once and I felt badly

@evegrimm I am not sure of society’s stance on re-gifting.

Yes, once years ago. It turned out good, so I don’t regret it.

Sure, why not? As @IBERnineD stated, if I think it’s better suited for someone else…why not give?

I give free lurve all the time which is like re-gifting….

I don’t because I they might have trouble returning it if they don’t like it or if it doesn’t fit or whatever. If we get something we can’t use, we give it away to a friend or family member or donate it to Salvation Army.

Is it considered re-gifting if you steal from someone a gift you had given them in the past, and then either give it to someone else or give it back to the original recipient as a new gift to “replace the last one I gave you that is now mysteriously missing…”?

No, that’s terrible!

Ok, yeah I have.

Why not? I dont want it.

I’ve regifted a couple a times; a sweater that I had already had one of (no use have two of the exact same sweater in the same colour) and a hat/glove/scarf set (the one I was given being more appropriate for a young girl, IMO, with its’ red/white/pink-iness).

Yep. Actually, this item circles around our immediate family every year. Her name is “Fing” (short for finger, but, said with a strong old Italian accent. Just picture an older Italian woman saying “I hurta my “fing” in the door”. She was named after one of my brother’s co-workers :)). Fing is an Italian fruitcake. She’s been around for 10 years. Each Christmas, someone in our family has her (we lose track) and they wrap her up and surprise an unknowing recipient.

We’ve all grown rather fond of old Fing (not the real Fing).

Yes and I don’t feel badly. Now and then I get something I’m not wild about but think someone else would really like a lot so I put it aside and off it goes, seems better that way. For instance, a few years back my dad’s new wife gifted me a stack of paperback classics I’d already read in elementary or Jr. High school and I passed them along to a friend’s child. Why waste?

Only once. It was a vase I received as a gift and I didn’t like it. It wasn’t ugly, just not my style. I re-gifted it as a wedding gift to someone with whom I wasn’t particularly close. (They were inviting everyone they knew just to get the gifts.)

Yes, I regift candles all of the time because I lmost never light a candle. Oh, and wine, I regift wine because I don’t drink it. Both of these are given regularly when people come over to the house. I have regifted frames and vases too. Sometimes the receiver of the regift knows it was a gift I received that I won’t use; in this case I am just giving for no reason, just simply giving the “gift” to someone who will appreciate it. Sometimes I give it like I bought it myself for a specific event.

A few times. Never something I’ve used, even slightly.

Not too long ago, I was digging through my closet for something and came across a bag from a toy store. My husband and I had picked up some little things when the store was going out of business. We planned to give them to two of our kids who had birthdays coming up. Well, we forgot all about the toys and by the time I found them, those birthdays were long over. Then, my son was invited to a birthday party. Money was tight, so I dug out two toys from the closet and wrapped them up. The birthday boy was perfectly happy with them, and I got to save a few bucks. :)

I have and will do it again as the opportunity permits.

The wife unit and I have been together 22 years, and are still regifting wedding bedding. Everybody seemed to think we had a queen or king sized bed and we simply had a full. So back in the pool they went. (Wife unit shooting death ray at me) We were married in 1987 and got an avocado colored electric knife! A Positive symptom of a regifted item. My brother and I have been passing a fruitcake back and forth for some years now. We write the year on the card and cross out the previous. (Got the idea from a news story somewhere) He gets a real gift too though.

I didn’t answer the latter part of your question, I don’t feel bad doing it, and I don’t mind receiving regifts either, although if it is a crappy gift then I would prefer it not be passed on to me, better no gift. I think whenever possible people should return or exchange gifts at the store if they don’t like it, rather than regift.

Everyone I have given my regift wine to seemed happy to get it.

These gifts work well for those Christmas party games when you have to bring a gift worth less than $20.

Ooh… I received a Starbuck’s giftcard from a vendor today and I’m going to re gift it to my sister in her Christmas stocking. No guilt- I appreciated the gesture and spirit in which it was given me but I don’t go to Starbuck’s and my sister happens to love the place so it was kind of exciting to me.

@hungryhungryhortence Starbucks GC is my husbands all time favorite gift.

I’m looking at things right now that will be given this year. Some things I give to the recipient, with acknowledgement that I’ve had it for awhile, and want them to have it as a remembrance of me. Example: I had a pizza stone that I never used, but my neighbor borrowed it all the time. Finally, after 5 years, I gave it to her for her birthday, saying that I only owned so I to lend it to her, and I wanted her to have it. After she moved away, she wrote and said that every time she used it, she thought about me keeping that stone just so I could lend it to her. I recently gave a friend all my champagne flutes as a gift, because she seemed to be borrowing them a lot. I gave a young friend crystal old fashion glasses that had been part of my mother’s wedding crystal.

Some things can be passed off as new, other things are better given as token of sentiment.

As a matter of fact, this year I will be re-gifting a lovely cheesy reindeer mug.

I have…if the item is new, never used and I know I will never use it….and of course, if it is something that I think the receipient will enjoy.

Which means that the baseball cap with the two beer holders on each side and the long straw…will not be re-gifted…neither will the big plastic red Arkansas Razorback hat or the complete CD collection of Tony Orlando and Dawn.

:)

Of course.

@DarlingRhadamanthus, nonsense. It means a worthy recipient of the lore attached to those gifts has yet to appear in your life.

I don’t re-gift ,and have rarely taken anything back.When I get something I can’t use,I donate it.Is that re-gifting?lol!When I give friends or family gifts it is usually very well thought out and comes from my heart.If I should catch them trying to re-gift something I gave them,I will beat them silly with it!Never give your mother-in-law boxing gloves by the way…
she should’ve kept them;)