Re-gifting...do you do it?

I get very few gifts actually & usually the people who give them know EXACTLY what to get. My wife takes my daughter shoping for my christmas present I tell her, point out that I haven't played the first God of War. My oldest daughter gets me the new Robin Hood which I've been holding off to buy till after the holidays to give here the chance to get it. I'm relativly transparent as to what to get me. Father & mother inlaw both gave cash, can't go wrong there. My parents got me the supplies to finish roofing the shed ( which lead to me dislocating my shoulder but that's another story ). Not a thing to take back.

I am not a big fan of re-gifting. I just hate it because I that if I did it that means I have no time to go search for a gift for that person. However, I sometimes re-gift if I really had not time. Or if I know that re-gift would help that person.

Yes we do re-gift, I know who gave me something and so do not give it back to them. Nor to someone else who knows them. My daughter often gets really impractical gifts given to her or her children. Things they are not interested in at all from her in laws and so they often pass them on over to my side of the family and other cousins. In my family I ask each child and person if there are 3-4 things they would really like or need and I put a limit on how much because I am on a low income budget. I do have a couple other things I add to the list for each one. I try and know their favorite colors,Scents, size of clothing and of course age and interests. From there I start my holiday shopping right after New Years. I buy gifts for Mother's and Father's Day and Anniversaries as well as birthdays each year through out the year and I put it away in my special locked closet with some one's name on it so I know who I got it for. I give them a small list of things too I might like and so it has become a family tradition to make out a small list 4-5 items from each and it helps the shopper know what is desired or hoped for and we check and make sure we don't all buy something often we get together and discuss who is going to buy what from whom and yes we do throw a couple surprises in that they forgot they said they wanted earlier in the year. I write things down when I hear something some one wishes they had. I go to thrift stores and yard sales too and often find brand new never opened nice items I know someone in my family will like and can use. I know they use the things I give them I see them being used often. By December I have most my shopping done and just need to get some decorations or wrapping paper and the like.

Yes, I do it and I don't see anything wrong with it. Thoguh I don't wait for an occassion to give, I just give it whenever I think somebody can use it.

Yes, I do that too. I call it recycling. Rather than leave it to gather dust and unused, it is always better to pass it on to someone in a form of gift. There's a lot of clutter in our place simply because we want to keep things and we do not want to let go of these things. One way of getting rid of clutter is by using these things as gifts.

This is going to sound horrible, but I have re-gifted some of my daughters toys. She has gotten so much, being the only grandchild on both sides, that I just do not have room for it all. She got three dolls for her birthday. I took one, wrapped it up, and gave it my sitter's daughter for Christmas. Technically my daughter will still play with it, just not cluttering up my house.

We do re-gift here. I don't see any reason not too. I will put the gift in the closet until an occasion comes up that I can use the gift for. I just have to make sure I remember who gave me the gift in the first place so that I don't re-gift it back to them.

Fortunately, all the gifts I've received so far were rather "usable", so there is nothing I had to leave on the shelves waiting for it's time. However, I find that re-gifting is not a bad idea, if the item looks new and nice, but you have nothing to do with it, you can forward it to another person, who may put it into good use. For me it's okay too.

There'a nothing wrong with regifting. If an item is still new and unused hy not find a way to make the gift work.

This is going to sound rather strange, but I don't have the courage to re-gift, as I'll feel really guilty. I mean it has to be something brand-new that I bought or spent hours making with my hands. It all goes back to my 2nd foster home, where if we didn't *BUY* soomething we were called cheap, and our foster parents were generous with us foster kids so why can't we be generous, that sort of thing. We weren't even allowed to *MAKE* anything. I know that's where it all comes from. However, if someone re-gifts something to me, I wouldn't be insulted. It's just not my nature. And if we do have to give something away that's valuable but we can't use ourselves, we openly give the item to another person when it's not a holiday for gifting. Hehe, I really really like what Stine1 says - "de-gifting"!!! That's what I'm doing as well, er, ah, um, at least *TRYING* to! :-)

I will absolutely re-gift! Simply because why keep something that will never be used. I especially like to give them to people who I know will absolutely use them. I do show appreciation for any unneeded gifts but I feel that if someone can use it then it is then much more appreciated.

Hi! I normally keep gifts either for souvenir or for memory's sake. But just last week I gave away one gift received to a colleague. I was pressed for time and could not go shop due to time constraint and the gift had to be given the following day. I recieved a gift which is the same as another given to me. So I decided to give the second one where it can be put to good use, as you said. Merry christmas.

There is no problem with re-gifting. I swear that half the time people buy you stuff they know you aren't going to use. But if you are going to regift make sure the gift you give to someone else is not to the same person who gave you the gift in the first place or someone who knows the person who gave you the gift. If the gift was worth less that ten dollars than by all means rewrap it and send it off to the next poor sap who will like it. Its either that or it becomes a paper weight, gains dust or soon finds himself in trash can. Its kind of funny for what I do every Christmas, I end up rewrapping gifts I dislike and give them back to the people who gave them to me. No one remembers the gift they gave me last year, just goes to show how much thought people put into their gifts.