As of today, you have 89 Days Until Christmas
From now until Christmas, I will be sharing my tried and true tips for saving money on Christmas and holidays. Everything from your gift shopping, your holiday cards, teacher gifts or even Holiday Entertaining....in this economy, we all need to save some money!
Re-gifting (giving someone something as a gift that you had received as a gift) is seen by a great many people as rude and tacky. But truthfully? I really don't have a problem doing it!
I have received many gifts over the years that weren't quite to my taste. When it comes to my family, I have no problem thanking them sincerely for the time and effort that they put in to selecting the gift, but asking if they would mind if I exchanged it for something more to my taste. This is just the way my family operates (my mother used to be MORE upset if she gave us something that we never used than if we asked if we could exchange it....although I know that not every family operates that way).
And sometimes you just don't have any sort of relationship with the gift-giver (I'm thinking of gifts given to my children at their birthday parties, where I really don't know the parents. This is why I ALWAYS include the gift receipt when my children go to the birthday party of a friend.
And so, I have an entire section of my attic devoted to gifts that aren't perfectly nice, high-quality and usable gifts....we just can't use them in our house for one reason or another.
So I have 3 choices: I can throw them away, donate them or give them to someone else as a gift. As long as I am not giving the gift back to the same person who gave it to me (because that WOULD be rude), what is the harm?
Do you re-gift? If you wouldn't, why not?
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Amy G
I do re-gift, I don't see anything wrong with it.
tarabu
I've regifted on occasion - usually really lovely (often fragile) things that just don't fit my lifestyle. I like to believe that it's better for the karmic wheel for a gift to be actively enjoyed (by someone) rather than passively accepted (by the recipient). Looking back over the years I am certain I've gifted a few things that seemed like a good idea at the time but, in retrospect, really weren't quite right for my chosen recipient.
rachel
I've been told a good rule of thumb is that it is ok as long as the person you are regifting the gift to does not know or would not ever know the person who originally gave it to you. If that makes any sense.
Beth
makes sense to me, don't mind regifting, but don't need the person you got it from or the new recipient realizing it.
Freelance Search
Yeah, It's my habit to re-gift. For example clothes that don't fit me and some house decor that doesn't even suit my taste and some small stuff that are still in good condition.