Community Chat

[blackhole99]

If it's something I don't like or can't use I will regift it to someone who would I think might like it. I have given gifts to my family I never saw them wear or use and I know they probably regifted those items. I don't mind , it's the thought that counts. I don't buy gifts for my adult son, I give him money in his stocking and I know he likes money.LOL

[Mominohio]

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@WenGirl42 wrote:

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@Mominohio wrote:

I have no problem regifting or being regifted....if the gift fits the new recipient's needs/wants/style/interests more so than it's first recipient.

Just regifting junk that no one you know would want, use or like is lazy and rude. Those kinds of things should just be donated to charity in the next donation box going out.

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If no one would want, use, or like it, what makes you think a charity wants it? That also seems lazy to me. It just makes it their problem to dispose of, or re-donate out to a different charity (repeat as necessary).  

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@WenGirl42

What a lot of people don't realize is that places like Goodwill or others that have thrift stores have a use for odds and ends and lesser things that people would consider junk (I'm not talking trash or ruined things), as people use them for things other than their intended use.

Crafting, art work, art classes in school, costume making etc.

One thrift store we frequent takes pieces and parts of a lot of holiday things, and their volunteers create beautiful holiday wreaths, centerpieces, candle rings etc. out of what many people would have seen as a pile of junk fake florals, odd ornaments and trinkets.

And what I mean by junk, would be something like a brand new gift set of say, bath products from Walmart, that you or anyone you might know would consider to be substandard and unusable, because they use expensive or specific brands. It would be rude and cheap to regift something like that, when you already know that your circle considers it undesirable or unusable. 

But it is still of use to someone else. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

[Laura14]

I can confirm one of my managers does. 

[Bri36]

No, I do not re-gift.

If I get something that can't be returned or exchanged, I either donate it or give it to someone that I think might want it.  I don't give it to them under the pretenses that I bought it just for them though.  I'm honest that it was a gift to me and I do not want it.

[Shorty2U]

I don't care what anyone else does but I could never recycle a gift.  I would just feel rude. (Plus I know of someone who did it and gave the gift back to the person who gave it to them by accident! How embarrassing). Plus the fact of, I LOVE all my gifts. I have never even returned a gift  back to a store or to the person who gave it to me, in my entire life! 

[sunala]

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@sissel wrote:

My frugal Aunt use to iron old wrapping paper & ribbon. Don't know if she regifted but she hated when anyone would tear wrapping paper. 

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@sissel- it sounds like your aunt could have lived through the depression. Those were really tough times, and some people never got over it.

A friend of the family used to use the backs and insides of envelopes for scrap paper. I also heard of a woman who ironed wrapping paper, and was darned proud of it.

I'd never make fun of people who were frugal because of what they'd been through.

[De Anna]

I have never re gifted a gift. But, if I really don't care for it and it is in good condition, and I know someone may enjoy it, why not. I think its better than throwing it away. 

[Nataliesgramma]

When I worked, we did gift exchanges at Christmas. It seemed that I always got stuff from Bath & Body Works.  I am not really a fan of some of their Holiday scents....so I would just give them to my Daughter who loves their scents....but not as a gift...

[BirdieGal]

Well I know for a fact as a little Birdie Told me...that DH has purchased (among many other things, silly man) a Le Creuset item that I already have, HE BOUGHT THE FIRST ONE!

I do not have the heart to tell him and return it. So...regift it?

[faeriemoon]

I don't recycle gifts, but if I get something I don't want I will give it to someone who I know will like it.

I do have a well meaning relative from out of state who sends things that I would never use (I would say junk if it were politically correct), and I donate those items.  I don't know how well they fare in donation centers, but it's better than tossing the stuff away without first seeing if SOMEONE might want it.