Presents you won't use.

My DIL does an unwanted pile which I think is awful, people have bought those presents for her and the grandkids,why not put a Xmas list out to receive things you would like,have to say my other DIL usually,as her birthday is beginning January,receives a gift from aforementioned unwanted pile which we find amusing

I take the unwanted gifts down to a charity shop where I suspect some of them came from !

Yes, charity shop for some, food bank for others.

A relative keeps sending my aunt, who lives in a care home , hampers. My aunt and me have told her repeatedly that hampers get taken into the kitchen and all residents benefit from them. My aunt would like a Christmas present just for her.

Novelty socks and mugs. Hand cream, body lotion. Pannetoni.

I asked for two lovely room sprays which my son buys for me in a shop in the North West, they are a particular brand.I am down South. I get up to a pile of gift vouchers as well and I love it.
So nothing going to the charity shops or re gifted. I find people who have a don't want to pile, tight, they probably re gift stuff to others that they don't want either.

The recipient dies not want either.

DH and I have been given knitted beanies with powerful lights in the centre. We looked like a pair of Daleks when we tried them on!

Dylis

DH and I have been given knitted beanies with powerful lights in the centre. We looked like a pair of Daleks when we tried them on!

Why???
Are you both avid potholers??

I got a set of handcreams from someone in a group I belong to. We don't usually exchange presents so this wasn't expected. I've got quite a stash of handcreams so these may well end up in a charity shop.

Our granddaughter gave us a basket of goodies including two bottles of lovely hand wash, some chocolates and three different packs of Whittard ground coffee but unfortunately we swapped to decaff coffee a while ago because of Dh’s atrial fibrillation.

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Dylis

DH and I have been given knitted beanies with powerful lights in the centre. We looked like a pair of Daleks when we tried them on!

Why???
Are you both avid potholers??

No! We live in a brightly lit town centre. I have no idea what the thought process was behind the beanies.

Surely a new and exciting hobby beckons, Dylis?

Well they ll be very welcome when you have a power cut

How awful that people take their presents to the charity shop or in a pile to give to others that’s awful

I don’t get why it is awful.
I received a scarf I don’t need and I don’t like the colour. Why not let someone else benefit?

Charity shop in the new year.

I think it is a bit sad if you give gifts away because you don’t need/like them. Better than throwing them in the bin though.
My tip if you are donating them to a charity shop is to take them to one in another town if you can. That way, the person who gave you the gift isn’t going to see it laid out in a local shop. That said, if you do that , and the donor visi

Cont’d… visits you, they might notice it’s missing!

I buy throughout the year when I see something at a good price which can be gifted to the person I had in mind when buying. I keep them in a box on top of the wardrobe so the they're out of sight.

I have received some very ordinary gifts over the last few years which end up in this box and will be regifted.

I get miffed about the lack of thought which goes into these gifts, e.g I am allergic to most skin care products and yet I receive highly perfumed creams and lotions which are a definite trigger.

I don't like waste so if someone else gets some joy out of an unwanted gift I have received I don't see the problem.

I organised our womens group last year to bring in any make up or cleaning things like bath salts that had not been opened but that they would not use. So I no longer have a bath, and it did seem somewhat thoughtless when someone gave me bath salts etc. Then we made up a little hamper of all these unused and unwanted but good things and had a little raffle. The winner was pleased with her goodies and our charity gained a little too, and nothing wasted. I suggested it again before christmas and at our first meeting expect to do something similar.

Cabbie I think it may be practical but very sad that someone who has perhaps taken time to think what to buy, gone to the trouble and expense to buy it, wrapped it, and given it in good faith, should have it dumped the next day. I d be very upset if I thought that’s what happened to presents I give people, as I put a lot of thought into trying to find something they would like.
I think it’s ok if something is given to charity or regifted in time but to talk in such a flippant way about going to the charity shop the next day is hurtful and uncaring.

My late MiL was very dear to us and we put a lot of thought into the gifts we gave her. Sadly, after she'd died and we were clearing her house we found most of them in a cupboard. Wed obviously not chosen as well as we'd thought.

Aveline My Nan was the same, we found so many unopened and unused gifts in cupboards but we think she was saving them for best as she had such a poor upbringing.It was sad to see that she hadn’t felt able to use them up.

That reminds me of a story about my Dad not really a present but it always makes me smile
Dad in his late 80 s phad a very favourite cardy which he wore nearly everyday except when he was going out or anyone was coming anyway it was starting to look a bit tatty after years of wearing it and I decided to buy him another one. I found an absolutely identical card and bought it, gave it to him. He said how happy he was. He wore it a couple of times and then it got folded up put in the drawer and the old one got put on his back. 🤣