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David In Indy:
I've regifted a few times. <blush>

Well, more than "a few" actually.  :-\

But I am very careful when I do it. I try to NEVER give the gift to someone who might know the person who originally gave the gift to me. Also, I try very hard to only give the gift to someone who I think might actually enjoy it.

Does this make me a bad person?  ???

moremojo:
Hey, David, I don't think you're a bad person, though I understand your concerns over how others might perceive your action.

I have regifted before, but not Christmas gifts. The example I'm thinking of involves a book that my best friend in high school bought for me, a beautiful, lavishly illustrated volume on Pre-Columbian gold jewelry (I was a major Aguirre, the Wrath of God [a film involving the search for El Dorado] fanatic at the time; and my friend was acknowledging this by his choice of gift). Years later, long after I had lost touch with this person, I chose one day to give this book to my new best friend, who expressed his admiration while perusing it. I felt I had looked through the book to my heart's content, and felt that it could provide more pleasure to my friend. As time passed, he moved away, and eventually he and I sadly lost touch, but the book was in his possession at the time of his departure, and it may yet serve as reminder of our time together were he to pick it up. So I see my regifting as an attempt to pass friendship along, and do not interpret it as a sign of ingratitude for the giver's original impulse.

As with so many things in life, context is key here.

ednbarby:
I've never regifted, but I've been the victim, I suspect, of quite a few regifts, mainly from my ex-next-door-neighbor (we lived next to her for 11 years and moved across town two years ago).  Among the many things I've suspected she's regifted to me are:

- Various and sundry bath soap and/or salt sets that don't look like anything I've seen in stores around here (and when she knows very well that I prefer showers)
- A roasting pan set where it was clear the box had been opened and the contents sampled (but not used - everything was still in its vacuum-sealed wrapper, at least) - that actually came in handy last Thursday
- Calendars and address books that aren't in any kind of a wrapper
- Most disturbingly, a Crest Whitestrips box set with an open seal on the box.  That bothered me on at least two levels.  (And my dental hygiene and tooth whiteness are just fine, thankyouverymuch.)

David In Indy:
Oh now I would NEVER regift something I already opened up. That's terrible!

If I receive something I suspect I may regift at a later date, I won't open the package. I will put a sticker on the box with the name of the person who gave it to me along with the date I received the gift. I will only give the gift to someone I honesty think will enjoy it. Otherwise, I will simply donate the gift to Goodwill or the Salvation Army. Failing that, I will stick it in a closet and never look at it again or I'll throw it away.

dot-matrix:

--- Quote from: David925 on November 27, 2006, 09:12:09 pm ---Oh now I would NEVER regift something I already opened up. That's terrible!

If I receive something I suspect I may regift at a later date, I won't open the package. I will put a sticker on the box with the name of the person who gave it to me along with the date I received the gift. I will only give the gift to someone I honesty think will enjoy it. Otherwise, I will simply donate the gift to Goodwill or the Salvation Army. Failing that, I will stick it in a closet and never look at it again or I'll throw it away.

--- End quote ---

Me too David, I only pass along things I have no use for or don't care for to someone I honestly think may like them.  Gifts I personally find horrendeous hit the trash or go in the charity bin because I would be embarassed for anyone to think I though so little of them and myself to give them something like that!

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