regifting - what is the etiquette

my Mother regifts me all her candles. I am very grateful

Oh escaped!! could some of your whisky escape to me!! Love it , and have some treasured single malts of various kinds I am savouring . How about a swap for something he does like? In my womens group I have already suggested that in january we bring our unwanted gifts to a meeting. So we are going to either have a swap session, where we will rate gifts with some gold stars on a sheet. You wouldnt expect to swap a candle for a jumper . so your gift gets a star rating, and then you can spend those stars with anyone else. So should end up a good time, or alternatively we said we might bring gifts - such as the candles etc - and these are auctioned and a bit of fun had with them. The money raised will be shared half to the group funds and half to a charity. You could raise some much needed money for the charity you support with your whisky. Are you anywhere near North Yorkshire and i will come!!

I would use them. Keep them somewhere cool until you've used your other things up. They don't expire anything like as soon as the manufacturers would like to suggest.

I would like to think that if a gift I gave someone was not wanted that it would not be pushed in a cupboard and forgotten.
So would not mind at all if a gift I had given was regifted.
I regift but take care to look for any dates on the product, or writing by the giver - some do write on the actual packaging.
Or if struggling to think who to regift to, give your gifts to a charity shop. Money is tight for some so they will be looking for cheaper bargains in high street charity shops.

I would regift as long as they are 'In date' and the brand still exists ! Just something to be aware of..make sure that when the Christma label has been written with your name on, the pen hasn't left an indentation on the product so that in a certain light th recipient would be able to see and know it had been gifted before. Otherwise I don't see a problem with it, for instance if it was stuff I liked andcould use, I'd be very pleased with it.

Regift them, just check whether there is an expiry date on the products

They sound ideal for regifting. The only rule in doing this is to make sure you don't give the item back to the person who gave it to you! My cousin gave me a book one year that I had given her (I knew it was the same one as it had a small mark on it!) She obviously forgot I gave it! However we had a laugh about it.

MissAdventure

Aren't the gifts give to represent the ones the wise men bought, though?

I've been given gold but never frankincense or myrrh.

escaped

Corporate gifts keepingquiet.

Corporate gifts should be illegal. No more than blatant bribery. Ex used to refuse them. Totally unnecessary.

Aren't the gifts give to represent the ones the wise men bought, though?

I suppose if we already have enough gold and frankincense we might like some nice soap though.

Just saying!

We should be celebrated the poverty of a child born in a stable, not moaning about the gold and frankincense we've been given.
Is moaning the in word on GN when someone writes a comment that is not to another's liking?
I would agree with the first part your above post keepingquiet.

Corporate gifts keepingquiet.

Regift I do I do still have stuff from last year but I’ll wade my way through bath gifts etc but I’ve loads of candles and stuff I don’t use. I’ll regift and be done!

Reading this thread I am amazed at the generosity of some people's family and friends. Excess bottles of whiskey?? I'm lucky to get cheap supermarket wine which I would never re-gift but drink.

I don't think this thread is good for my mental health so I won't be commenting again.

We should be celebrated the poverty of a child born in a stable, not moaning about the gold and frankincense we've been given...

DH has several bottles of whisky as gifts again this year. He hates the drink, so they get shipped across the Channel with us as presents for our French friends.

another thought about regifting. I hope to meet a couple of old friends who now live quite a long way away from here. I had emailed them and mentioned this subject. We are planning to meet up for a lunch , and so we are bringing unwanted gifts and plan to swap them and donate to our local charity shops. That way original givers wont be upset and we all free up some space and think we have hit on a good idea that can be used in the future. Re the dark chocolate comment, it makes me realize I must have always been an organiser. As children we thought we were doing very well to get a small box of chocolates at christmas, and naturally didnt want to waste any. I love dark chocolate but cant stand turkish delight. So I said to friends , lets meet up and do a swap, which is what we happily did. We would be down to the last and not loved chocolates in our box. I have always loved coffee in all forms and quite a few of my friends didnt like it so we were happy with our swaps. This was in the 1950's so definitely waste not want not! Anyone else done that? I was born in 1945 and know that rationing went on quite a long time after the war. We normally had 2 oz of sweets for the week in our house (6d a quarter of a pound so the princely sum of 3d to spend. We spent ages looking in the window before making our decision and going into the shop!!)

lemsip

Instead of re-gifting why not have the conversation and stop buying!
It's a job to think what to get people anyway and to think you will just re-gift it is time to Stop the charade I think..

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J52

I’d regift them, give them as raffle presents or to a charity.
My only warning is to make sure the original gift tags have been removed. I had a friend who came a cropper when she didn’t remove the inner tag.

I was going to say exactly that. I had a chuckle to myself when my elderly neighbour gave me a gift last Christmas with the gift tag still on it!

But yes I would regift.

Of course you should give them to someone - why on earth not !? That or a charity shop. Pass them on and don't feel guilty about it.

Recycling an unwanted gift is sensible, as long as it is carefully done.
I would be wary of giving an expensive present to someone who might then feel pressured to spend more than they usually would in return.

Louella12 that brought back a memory of a similar conversation with my Mum about chocolate. Turned out that she didn’t like mint chocs, and had endured being given a box of After Eights every year. What a waste!

This isn’t a modern situation. We have always re gifted when times have been financially challenging. Why would we not do so.

I am so glad that this year I have not used a gift from my granddaughter of shower and body products last Christmas, which I can now take to my 95 year old friend who has just been discharged from hospital into a care home.

Instead of re-gifting why not have the conversation and stop buying!
It's a job to think what to get people anyway and to think you will just re-gift it is time to Stop the charade I think..

Definitely re-gift. Why not?