Has anyone ever re-gifted? I have. I re-gifted so many things over

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clofthwld

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the years that I know I'll have to go to purgatory before heaven.

Re-gifts:

A wax bowl with floating candles.

Coffee cups and sh&tty coffee.

Cashmere sweaters - they make me itch.

Unbagged tea. I need tea in bags.

An ivory letter opener. Hello?

I could go on and on, but I'd rather see your re-gifts.

 
Well, you must be careful...

I just brought back some things from my mother-in-law, for my step daughter. In it was a very expensive hummingbird stained glass piece, that had just been given to her for her 80th birthday, in June. My step daughter was very hurt. Re-gifting is not always a good thing. Now, I on the otherhand was given back a gorgeous piece of pottery, that I also gave my mother-in-law, and I am thrilled. I look at it every day and it makes me happy. You just have to be careful who, and how you regift.

 
Of course I have...

and I rarely get caught but like Dawn says, you have to be careful and remember where it came from before regifting.

It's pretty easy when you are like me and have relatives far away. They used to send my daughter some pretty horrible things when she was little and as she got older, this one relative was stuck in time and would send her things for little bitty girls when she was say 12. I EASILY regift kids gifts!

Not sure if you want to call it regifting but I clean out the drawer and shelf of rejects every holiday season by wrapping them and putting them under the trees for charities - they'll find someone that it's right for.

But the best thing of all is when you open a gift and find the tag or a piece of tape and some other wrapping paper still on it! So be sure to check your regifts over carefully before giving them away again because they just might give you away.

 
OK , I'll come really clean....

When Keith and I got married in 1979 we received some of the most henious gifts. I mean stuff I would not display even if I lived at Graceland!! However, my landlord's daughter had many a wedding to attend and some of the bride's to be really dug things like that horrid silver pie dish. I swear this thing had to be 2 feet across with so much scroll work it would take 3 days to polish! Now this lady (my LL's daughter) had a lovely boutique in the city and in exchange for the ugly wedding gifts, I aquired some very lovely things like clothes and shoes and handbags. I have been known to regift on occasion, especially if it's something I already have and don't need another one. ( Like the lovely set of different cheese knives that a friend of mine coveted, and when I got the same set from my SIL, I passed them on to my friend, my SIL none the wiser, because she didn't know I already had them) Now I think the worst re-gift EVER, was the 3 tiered plate metal candy dish that was one of the "ugly wedding gifts" that actually had sticky candy residue on it!! I threw it away. I think it retailed at Woolworth's for $5.00!!

 
I'm cracking up here. One time I got a basket that was scotch-taped together

and inside was coffee and cups, but there were distinct little indentations where other things had once been. When I opened it I got the giggles and excused myself to go to the bathroom.

 
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