Regifting? Cover Your Tracks

The Denver Channel ^ | 11/29/05 | Staff

[Millee]

I regifted a juicer once...

[Millee]

Fess up ping!

[Mike Bates]

Who needs regifting when there's eBay?

[Dashing Dasher]

Time for the holidays...

guess what I'm getting you....


a PING!!!

[EX52D]

I can honestly say I have never re-gifted...

[Millee]

Well you know, some of your older bras would make a nice tent for someone. ;o)

[kevkrom]

Fruitcake

You mean whoever has the only fruitcake in existence is stuck with it now?

[teenyelliott]

Never done it.

[Dashing Dasher]

I don't think I have either - ....



Gift idea...
Fruitcakes make great boat anchors and wheel chocks.

[EX52D]

LOL...I'm afraid I would disappoint...perhaps a small "pup tent"...

[LongElegantLegs]

CUP tent.

[Peepster]

Ebay.....ROCKS!!!!

Actually I got a foot spa last year, and since I already had one, I gave it to someone in my family instead of spending money on buying them a gift. Is that a bad thing?

[dfwgator]

I still think there really is only one fruitcake in the world and it keeps getting passed around.

[EX52D]

...that's cute.

[Michael Goldsberry]

I give my son and nephews cash as a gift.

They "regift" it immediately at the nearest video game store.

;)

[Mike Bates]

Is that a bad thing?

Far be it from me to be judgmental.

/s

[Peepster]

[Space Wrangler]

Before I met my wife, I never had either. Really, I have never done it directly myself to this day, but let me tell you.....she takes re-gifting to an artform. Her entire family is that way. The entire practice of buying gifts on a whim was completely alien to me, and thus a major factor in why no one in my family ever engaged in the practice. We always got exactly what we wanted, and no one in our family ever made whimsical purchases that just piled up in the closet. The wife has a special section of the closet dedicated to 're-gifts' however. After getting out all of the holiday decorations this past weekend, we discovered that we had enough 're-gifts' that we could skip Christmas shopping altogether! It's still not something I am completely comfortable with though, and I refuse to take part in the practice myself.

[Mike Bates]

Last year I gave someone a $50 gift certificate to Red Lobster, a place I know he goes to. He sold it on eBay for $47. This year, it's fruitcake.

[PaulaB]

I have never re gifted myself.....


My in laws are the HARDEST to buy for...

they have been around the world and lived in Asia

for years and years. You can imagine the things

my mother in law has in her house. Things we could

only dream of and have never seen here in the US ;(