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[onliner]

I do give away most treat gifts and gift cards to places I do not visit.  I always tell the person I am giving it to that I can not use it and hope they can.

[tsavorite]

No But I can usually tell when I am getting a regifted item/present!  If I can return the item I do...but if not then I donate it.  At least SA can sell it to someone who truly wants it and SA makes some money on it....I feel like it's less wasteful then if I tossed the item in trash.  

I have mixed feelings about this....regifting isn't when someone says to you "hey I got this blank at work...do you want it?  we have no use for it" that's NOT regifting....regifting is when you wrap up the item and give it to someone else as if YOU purchased it for them.  That makes me uncomfortable to be honest and I'd rather give it to charity in that case and do.

[Ms tyrion2]

I never re-gift. If you do it too often you are bound to give something back to the original gift giver. How insulting and embarrassing would that be?

If I get a gift I don't care for or can't use, I would try to return it or donate it.

[GRACIE]

In my opinion if you don't, know a person likes or dislikes give them a gift card to a local grocery store,because everybody eats food. Gifts cards are neutral the person can buy what they like.

I do not wear costume jewelry with the exception  of brooches( due to my skin breaks out in a rash),yet l have received some as gifts  from people at work, I always give it away. 

Know what a person likes do not buy a gift at random.,They say it's the thought that counts,sometimes you wonder'What were they thinking'? 

I can say that most of the gifts I received are appreciated and loved and as my family and close friends  tell me I am very picky.

[BirkiLady]

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@Sookie Says wrote:

Just out of curiosity how many feel it's okay to use recycled gifts for Christmas presents? 

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This is a little off the topic, but I just remembered the I have given away gifts! When we were married in March,1969, we received duplicates of irons and toasters (and probably other items). Those are the things I vividly remember 48 years later. Rather than return them, I asked my mom and MIL if either of them needed any items to replace theirs. They were both delighted! One needed another iron; the other needed a toaster. And so on. All  duplicated wedding gifts remained in the family. Thank you notes were written and everyone was delighted! (And no one received a rewrapped, recycled gift for Christmas.)

[chickenbutt]

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CARMIE wrote:

My youngest brother and my FIL passed the same Christmas gift back and forth until my FIL passed.

When my brother was younger he purchased a bust of Groucho Marx that was about 12 inches high for my FIL’s Christmas gift.  Well, the next Christmas, he got it back all wrapped up in a nice new box.  It went back and forth at Christmas time for years.

i just thought about it because my SIL came across it a few weeks ago.  She said she was going to send it to my brother.  I guess he will be stuck with it now.

i know this isn’t what you meant about rechcling gifts.  I have regifted gift cards to restaurants and coffee shops that I didn’t care for.  I have given cosmetics away that were gifted to me, but  not as Christmas gifts, I just gave them away.

i have been never recycled anything else as a wrapped Christmas gift to anyone.

i do reuse gift bags, boxes  and bows...does that count?

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(Bolded by me)  Am I a terrible person because one of my first thoughts was that I hoped that when the FIL died he had left that gift in his will - to your brother? 

[chrystaltree]

I think it's fine as long as the gift is brand new, never used and in the original packaging.  I've done but I'm careful with who give it to, I wouldn't want the person who gave the gift to me find out.  

[VanSleepy]

My husband used to get a few gift baskets every year from work.  I would take one of them, or take things out of a couple different ones to make up a new one, and give it to the dry cleaner. He may have figured it was regifted; I don't know.  He would always get my stuff done in a rush if I needed, and I thought his family might enjoy it. That's the only regifting I've ever done :-)   I don't think I've ever even returned a gift I've received.  That doesn't mean I love them all and use them.  I just put them in the donation pile eventually.

[PodyPo]

My five best girl friends and I pass around a great Abercrombie gift bag with a young naked torso hottie on it. Wouldn’t be Christmas gift exchange without seeing who gets Mr. Ab to keep till next birthday or other gift event!

[ROMARY]

Yes, in the past; not lately.   Boxed, unopened small appliances. With warranty. Items that I wouldn't have used anyway.  To people who didn't know one another.  They were thrilled, and used them often, from what I observed.