Regifting - tacky? or plain smart

Within reason I think that regifting is just fine. I saw a news story about it, I think on 20/20, and they recommend doing a log if you plan to regift so you can remember where a gift came from when it's time to send it on! My funniest experience with regifting (although I've done it more than this) was when my husband's cousin was marrying this really annoying and pretentious girl about a year and a half after our wedding. When I married, not one but three people sent us these heavy ornate silver serving pieces. I understand they're quite popular but not at all to my taste. I took the most ornate of these and wrapped up for the bridal shower and Little Miss Pretentious adored it. My mother in law was sitting next to me at the shower and later I admitted that it was a regift and she laughed and said that she already knew it because she knew that I wouldn't have selected that thing!

Regifting is something I will admit to doing. I have strict rules about it though. If it is simply an undesirable item, it doesn't get regifted. However, if someone gives me something lots of people would enjoy (say for instance candles or aromatherapy), I regift. Last year I got a lovely set of bath and body lotions that I knew I wouldn't use. It was likely an expensive and tasteful item. I regifted it pronto to someone who probably enjoyed it very much. I don't have a lot of money to waste here so the misfit but nice gifts actually work for me in a way.

I think I would feel guilty. Though, lately, I was thinking of giving some things away to Goodwill because I don't like the person who gave them to me. That way, someone would get some use from it.

I always consider the feeling of the person who gave me the gift. Will they be looking for me to have it in my house? I think regifting an item that you will not enjoy to someone who will is just great.

Yes I think it is ok. There is no need for unwanted items to sit around and collect dust when they can be given to someone who can use them. As long as neither person involved find out that it was regifted then I think it is ok. They won't know the difference and it will all work out.

Oh yeah... I've regifted! We did it a lot with our wedding presents. We kept the cards taped to the box so we wouldn't give it to the person who gave it to us, or someone they know! We've regifted a couple of gifts that my husband got in his office. They just weren't our style at all, and would be perfect for someone else! I don't see anything wrong with it. Especially if you see the gift and immediately think to yourself, "So and so would LOVE that!"

I don't regift a lot, but I have done it. We did it with wedding presents. We've been married 20 years now, and back in those days, people didn't give you the receipt with a gift. And, people didn't seem to be as good about buying things on your gift registry! lol! We had to be careful with the wedding presents though cause we were the first of all our friends to get married and we knew that we'd be going to a lot of weddings in the next few years and we didn't want to give someone back the gift they gave us! So I put a sticky note on top of each box saying who had given it to us. I don't see anything wrong with it.

i think regifting is a fab idea! Why let something go to waste when it can find a happy home somewhere?! As long as you remove any trace of where it first came from and make sure you regift it in a different circle of people then its a smart idea!