Is it OK to return gifts to Giver?

It's been some years since I gave my daughter a present she didn't like. She would tell you there and then she didn't like it. Now I ask.
If she wasn't the spitting image of her father I would swear that I was given the wrong baby at the hospital

Thank you for your comments. I was beginning to doubt myself in modern manners, and glad that the general consensus is the same as it has always been. Thatbags - you are very perceptive, there is a lot of 'history/issues' between them, it is very difficult to step back but I am really going to try and let them get on with it. It's too stressful to be forever torn between them both. I love them both... but..... arghhhh!

As the other posters have said,she should accept the gift graciously, then recycle quietly later. There's no point in hurting someone's feelings.

It is very hurtful when people openly do not like the gift you have chosen. My sister was like this all her life - nothing whatever our parents or I gave her was right and she behaved as if she always gave the perfect gift - which of course she did not. It got to the stage where we just gave her the money so she could choose her own.
I have never returned a gift as others have said but either tucked it away or recycled it.

No, it isn't OK to return a gift in that manner. I think your "mum of son" daughter must have other issues with her sister if she can be so insensitive.

Might be best to let them fight their own wars and keep out of it. What a pair of sillies!

I agree that gifts that are given for a special occasion should be accepted graciously, and I would never hurt someone's feelings by returning a present.
But if someone tried to offload something into me that they no longer want themselves (e.g. 'This doesn't fit me any more but you might be able to get into it') I have no compunction about telling politely pointing out to them that I have no need or desire for the said item

It is bad manners and shows complete disregard for the gift givers feelings.

I'd never return a gift, no matter how unacceptable. Now that you can ask for a gift receipt in many stores, I usually get one when I am not sure of the tastes or size of the recipient.

No, never ever return a gift , so hurtful ,it's saying thank you but I don't like/need/want it.

I have received some awful gifts in the past but have NEVER returned them to the giver - just said thank you and either re-gifted or, more likely, quietly binned them.

No its not acceptable, it is extremely rude and ungrateful IMHO. Sometimes we just have to say what we think and no eggshell treading.

Families eh?

I am of the school where we accept gifts graciously and sort out in the background, by re gifting or returning to the store if possible.

Its something we are just teaching our little ones - we explain it that someone has spent time, trouble, money and love to buy you a gift, so say I hate it or similar would hurt their feelings. So we smile and say thank you and then we sort it out afterwards,

Might be old school but I think there's no need to hurt someone's feelings over a gift that is given with love.