What do you do with the Christmas gifts you don't want?

if they are nice but just not what you wanted save them and regift them next year or for birthdays. If they are worth something ebay them. But remember it is the season for giving not getting...just try to remember that and it will not be as bad.

wow really, when I get gifts I do not like or want I never tell anyone. It sounds like you are a little spoiled. Don't get irritated. You can give them to someone who would really like something new and has nothing new. bring them to the woman's shelter. Regift them. Or sell them. I never tell any one what to buy me for Christmas. what I get I am grateful for. I try to use everything some one gives me because I care for that person and that present means alot to me. good luck with your unwanted presents.

depends. The one gift thtat I got that I really didn't want was given to me because he really thought I wanted, mainly because I said so. I got an automatic drip coffeemaker with a thermal carafe, a pretty nice one. I had one before and it started leaking. I did go out looking for one, but found nothing under eighty bucks. But what I did was found a percolator for fourty. it only lasted a few months. But maybe what he doesn't know is I e-mailed the company and they sent me a postage paid label and I sent it out and they are going to send me another one. I really like the percolator over automatic drip. I am waiting for the new one. In the mean time I found a used one for a few bucks. But he did give me the gift receipt. What I'm tthinking of doing is return iing it and getting another percolator in case thtis new one goes bad after a few months. But what I usually do is put it aside, sometimes forgetting about it and either discard it, or if I know someone that would like it, I'll give i away. fortunatly for me, that doesn't happen too often.`

Sell them, or if you know where the person bought them, you can try to take it back to the store and exchange it for something you actually want...

Just keep it for other occassions.Donate the items to charity, or sell it to a garage sale. Just make sure that the people who gave the items to you does not know that you will do those to avoid hurt feelings.

I just keep unwanted gifts in my cabinet. I pretend to like it in front of the gift giver. I don't get pissed off when I get unwanted gifts. I could just wait for the next Christmas and tell the persons who will give gifts to me what I really wanted. If you really don't want the gift, then give it to others.

Hi Daliaj, I have not made a Christmas list since I was a little kid and stopped believing in Santa. I think a great deal of the fun on Christmas is the element of surprise...having no idea what you are going to get. If I get nothing at all then I'm ok with that too. It is very rare that I get a gift that I don't like. I also do not give a gift with any expectations of getting one in return. "No expectations means no disappointments" ....quote by Winnie the Pooh.

hi daliaj. it's really hard to keep things you don't like especially when you laid down the cards and told them what you like. the thing is, may be they just couldn't find it or they couldn't afford it. still, they could have told you so. but i believe regifting is the most practical way that we could do for things we cannot use. maybe it will be usable to others, we just don't know. as for the gifts you spent for others, i believe it is also your call whether you want to give it to them or not. what the recipient has is not a right but merely a privilege to receive it. :)

for me christmas or any other gifts are sacred, i find it so nice of someone to give me so if i don't use i'll just put in a box and look to it from time to time to remember the person

These gifts could be saved and given to people who are less fortunate in life than us. As the saying goes another man"s junk is the other man"s treasure.

Hi ! Well ... I think you should keep them a while for the respect of the people you got them from , probably many people don't think as much as you did before they get a gift from someone , that's maybe why you got the gifts you didn't want , maybe you can give them to someone else as a gift sometime next year. I didn't really get what i wanted this year either but it wasn't a total disaster either , the gifts weren't the ones i saw in my dream but I didn't hate them , I guess you just need to see the bright side in stuff , no matter how dark and nasty that may be ... Good luck and Merry Christmas !