Would you give a gift that you received from someone to somebody else?

Question

Perhaps you havent found a use for it or you have too many of the same stuff....

Mixed response....but I wasnt even aware there was a term [regifting] for it.

Answer 1

No, I don't believe in regifting, but a lot of people do it and I guess it's become acceptable. I'd rather donate it to charity and hope that someone else gets good use out of it.

Answer 2

"Regifting", huh? I wouldn't usually. In unusual circumstances in which there is no way either would ever find out, and that the gift is something I *know* would truly be valued by the one receiving it, I might. Also, if it's something given to me with the giver telling me to "keep it if I want it", or pass it on to someone else, in which case, I wouldn't hide from the recipient that it is "regifted", and it would just be a for-no-particular-reason gift, not a Christmas or birthday gift.

Answer 3

I don't like regifting. I think if you give someone a gift it should require some effort from you by thinking ahead what they'd like, go to the store or on the internet to find something, etc. If you regift it's more like---I don't want or use this---of my friends and family who might want this? I guess I'll give it to....

If you have something you don't want and is in good condition give it to Goodwill or the Salvation Army.

Answer 4

Yes, it is commonly known as re-gifting. There is nothing wrong with re-gifting as long as you know the gift you are passing isn't something just as useless to the person you're giving it to.

There is even a holiday game played (White Elephant or Yankee) where you bring in a gift you don't want and play a game to swap gifts with other players. Of course, you take your chances by ending up with a gift worse than the one you brought but it is really fun all the same.

Answer 5

I have but you have to be careful. My sister actually gave me a book that I bought for her a few years ago. I liked the book and told her so when I gave it to her ( i had my own copy already) however two years later I open a gift and it is the book I gave her. It had the note I had wrote on the inside cover and everything. She had never even opened it. Oh well. I just gave away the other copy I had as a late christmas gift this year.

Answer 6

Regifting??? Yeah, I regift--if I can't use it maybe someone else can. You just have to be careful and not regift to the person you got the gift from!

Answer 7

I've got a closet shelf dedicated to regiftables, yes. Just be careful not to give it back to the same person or someone they know!

Answer 8

re-gifting happens more often than you might think. I would and have done it, but with guidelines. It has to be something nice that just isn't suited to me. Then it must be suited to the person I am giving it to. I also never re-gift to people who know each other, I actually don't re-gift to people who live in the same state. If I get something nice from a friend I cannot make use of, I have several neices in different states. I may send it on to them. I don't think it is bad. It is worse to let it be wasted on me if I will never enjoy it as someone else might. Never re-gift something you think is tacky...that's awful. But for instance, because of my coloring I look terrible in yellow. But I have one neice that looks gorgeous in yellow. Why shouldn't she have it?

Answer 9

I wouldn't pass it as a Christmas or birthday gift, but I would give away something that was given to me if I knew that the other person would truly appreciate it.

For the record, I hate Christmas and birthdays, because I feel that you shouldn't need a reason to give something to someone, or ever feel obligated to give a gift. I was unemployed for this Christmas season, and I felt horribly guilty because I knew that I couldn't talk my family out of giving me gifts, but I couldn't afford to give them any in return. I particularly felt guilty about the children. I really wish that I could have afforded something for them.

Answer 10

The answer is no, think about your friend's effort of buying those things, you must show respect with at least keeping it while you didn't found it very useful. It is so sad to think about what you give as a gift to a person would end up in another persons hand that we didn't really know.