Did you ever regift a gift or got one that obviously was regifted

[debm55]

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I regifted a blender that my school gave me as "gift". I regifted it to my neighbor as I had 3

[spooky3]

1. Yes--received a regifted hurricane lamp as a wedding gift. Never used it! Nt

[Turbineguy]

2. A friend gave me a used book

I recognized it because it was on his bookshelf. It was a novel by German author, Heinrich Boll.

[mobeau69]

3. I think you mean re-gifting. There was a Sinefield expisode that covered the topic!

And yes, I re-gifted a KJV Bible I got from one nut to another nut.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Besides fruitcakes?

No.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. I never have done either

But I do have a big Yankee Candle in a nice glass jar in its original box that a friend gave me a few years ago that I was always think I could use in case I need an emergency gift. Lol. I’m not a “candle person”.

A funny story …. My late aunt, my mom’s sister, was well known to be one of those people who stockpiled things to use as gifts so she wouldn’t have to run out and buy something at the last minute for an occasion. She had a shelf in her hall closet where she would store things that she got on sale or some good deal on throughout the year. Really not such a bad idea, but one time she gave my mom a box of candy for her birthday she must have bought a long time ago, it was so old when my mom opened up the box I kid you not a little moth flew out!

[LakeArenal]

6. A bit off topic:

I never win anything. But one time I entered a drawing at a Avon party. It was about 45 minutes from home but a friend wanted me to go with her. Later I got the call. I won the prize. So I drove all the way back for my major award.

It was a date book. For the previous year!!!!

[LakeArenal]

7. I do regift. Often.

I only do it if I think the new person would like it. Not just to get rid of it. I might tell them it’s a regift too.

Despite the fact I tell everyone I don’t drink, I’m given so many bottles of wine. Which I accept graciously and regift for the next house party I attend.

I don’t regift junk.

[2naSalit]

9. That's what I do too.

My dearest friend ever in the world was from eastern Europe and was a child in WWII. She was a master scavenger, not for junk, she had an eye for quality things and when she found something it was just right so I never minded when she gave me something that was a re-gift. She had this incredible ability to find things for anyone who expressed a need for something. You could tell her you need a specific thing, just in conversation and two days later she calling to tell you she has just what you need. It was amazing.

With my siblings it's the same, we re-gift stuff and tell that it is, it's the thought of finding the right thing whether new or not that is of value in these gifts. Besides, it saves things from being thrown out that are useful.

[applegrove]

8. My sister gave me some glass tea cups and saucers. They were angular

and really unique. My aunt was visiting me and I made her some tea. She said oh Pampa had tea cups and saucers like this (her father-in-law). My sister said after that she got them as a wedding present from my cousin. So my cousin inherited them and regifted them to my sister who then gave them to me.

[2naSalit]

10. Doesn't that...

Make them heirlooms? They've gone the distance!

[applegrove]

11. I broke some of them by mistake. Don't know what I did with the rest.

Wish I had them now. I just bought cups and saucers because all I had were mugs.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Forty some years ago my boss gave me a gold Cross pen for Christmas. When I took it out of the

presentation box I found that it had his initials engraved on it. I’m pretty certain he regifted it to me!

[Fla Dem]

13. Not that I can remember. BTW, what's a "Bender"?

If the gift is of any value, but something I didn't need, I may have pass it along to someone else, but not as a regift.

[debm55]

15. Sorry, fixed it, should have been blender. i already had 3.

I liked it better when the school and PTG gave us gift cards as I could buy what I liked or needed. The blender school had no way(no receipt ) to return the item.

[Niagara]

14. On occasions, I have re-gifted.

Two weeks before Christmas in 2014, I performed the Heimlich maneuver on an elementary student while I was public school cafeteria aide. The week before Christmas, the mother of the student came in with Christmas gifts to show her appreciation. For me, she brought in a Dr. Teal's Epsom salt bath gift set which I ended up re-gifting since I don't soak in or take baths. The entire kitchen staff got this over-sized box of chocolates that no one wanted and for whatever reason it was sent home with me. I re-gifted that over-sized box of chocolates to someone else that's thinner.



Last year I was gifted a beautiful but useless to me set of mittens with a matching infinity scarf for Christmas. I didn't have the energy or time to return or exchange this set. I re-gifted it this year to a client and told her straight-up that I didn't spend any money on it and that it was in fact a re-gift. My client absolutely loved this mitten/scarf set and stated that she needed these items. I did purchase this client some other items that she could use as well.



I really dislike it when people purchase articles of clothing for me, their tastes in clothing wares do not match mine. Please don't buy it for me unless I specifically ask for that item.

[Aristus]

16. For my eleventh birthday, one of the guys I invited gifted me a model of the Space Shuttle.

It wasn't hobby-store new. It had airplane glue stuck all over it, and parts of it had been badly painted. It was obvious he had gotten it as a gift, started putting it together in a half-assed way, got tired of it, and just re-gifted it to me.