Re-gifting?

[QuarterMillionMan]

Anyone care to admit to re-gifting? My SIL always gives me things I never use (ie, new cheap Casio watch every Christmas, new jacket sometime with a gift receipt attached sometimes not, and canned goods, LOL yes canned goods such as Vienna sausage, tuna, spam, etc). I've sold the new cheap Casio watches (~5 over the years) all on eBay or Craigslist. The new jackets I would return to Sears or Macy's if the tag and gift receipts were attached or I might re-gift it or just donate it to Salvation Army. I don't eat Vienna sausage so I would donate to food drives or just dump it. And the fruit cakes this time of year. I would bring the new unopened fruit cake to work and sometimes the workers would take a piece, other times not so much. Anyone care to share your re-gifting stories?

[Smallsteps]

Anyone care to admit to re-gifting? My SIL always gives me things I never use (ie, new cheap Casio watch every Christmas, new jacket sometime with a gift receipt attached sometimes not, and canned goods, LOL yes canned goods such as Vienna sausage, tuna, spam, etc). I've sold the new cheap Casio watches (~5 over the years) all on eBay or Craigslist. The new jackets I would return to Sears or Macy's if the tag and gift receipts were attached or I might re-gift it or just donate it to Salvation Army. I don't eat Vienna sausage so I would donate to food drives or just dump it. And the fruit cakes this time of year. I would bring the new unopened fruit cake to work and sometimes the workers would take a piece, other times not so much. Anyone care to share your re-gifting stories?

I have done it many times. When people would give us items we had zero use for and it was not an item they may look for when visiting etc,I began thinking if anyone i know could use or would want this item.
We had awful gifts from family so early on we convinced them it would be just OK if we just bought items for children only.
Your descriptions of items reminded me of the same items every year etc.
So many items I could not even guess where they might have bought them. One year an XL sweater when my DH was a medium but the hole for your head was so small only a child could get it over their head.... One year we stopped by a donation box on the way home.

[disneysteve]

We've regifted many items. If we don't want it or won't use it but we know someone who would appreciate it, why not pass it along?

When I was in private practice, we used to get a lot of gifts at the office, especially gift baskets. Sometimes I would regift some of those items if we didn't want them. I probably regifted an entire basket once or twice.

[QuarterMillionMan]

We've regifted many items. If we don't want it or won't use it but we know someone who would appreciate it, why not pass it along?

When I was in private practice, we used to get a lot of gifts at the office, especially gift baskets. Sometimes I would regift some of those items if we didn't want them. I probably regifted an entire basket once or twice.

Another SIL of mine is also an MD in private practice. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of gifts she receives from her patients from cookies, cakes, gift cards to restaurants, etc. She often re-gifts to me some good stuff that she doesn't want or need. I'm eating some good butter short bread cookies from her as I write this.

[disneysteve]

Another SIL of mine is also an MD in private practice. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of gifts she receives from her patients from cookies, cakes, gift cards to restaurants, etc. She often re-gifts to me some good stuff that she doesn't want or need. I'm eating some good butter short bread cookies from her as I write this.

Most of the gifts came from referring doctors and facilities (x-ray, physical therapy, pharmacies, etc.). Some came from pharmaceutical companies. The stuff that came from patients was usually homemade (and yummy) so that never got regifted.

[Keshet]

I regift when I can. Frequently we receive gift cards we can't use. We just save them and use them as gifts for others.

[bjl584]

I can't say that I have, as far as I can recall anyway.

I have however returned items over the years.
Usually for store credit so I could buy something that I actually wanted.

[rennigade]

Most of the gifts came from referring doctors and facilities (x-ray, physical therapy, pharmacies, etc.). Some came from pharmaceutical companies. The stuff that came from patients was usually homemade (and yummy) so that never got regifted.

That should be illegal imo. Anything that can persuade a physician to use one product over the other should be illegal. The only thing that matters is whats best for the patient. I also wish big pharma commercials would be banned in the US like most of the rest of the world.

As for re gifting...I dont recall a time when we did, but I wouldnt be opposed to it.

[kork13]

We make regifting a sport.

Okay, not that bad, but my wife tends to win a shocking number of competitions/raffles/giveaways. And of course, sometimes we just get given stuff that we don't want or need. So anything that we can't use, we look to regift items whenever it fits the occasion.

For example: My youngest brother is graduating college as a pilot this month (hooray!! He'll actually gonna make something of himself!! lol), and it's our turn this year to give to him for Christmas (both of our families rotate gift recipients to minimize the excessive gift-giving). He's asking mostly for household items for establishing himself after college, so in part, we're regifting to him a Vitamix blender that my wife won from a drawing at a gym's fitness event a couple months ago. I may also give him some other kitchen items that we've still never opened from their boxes since we received them at our wedding (6 years ago).

[LivingAlmostLarge]

i do it all the time