Stories? We need stories???
2007-12-27 19:57:28 · 19 answers · asked by Wickwire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I only gave thumbs down to the first one with the throw up story, no one else. FYI
2007-12-27 20:40:21 · update #1
I THINK so. This year for the first time I received a fruit cake from an aunt in California. I KNOW it is regifted because I put a code mark sticker on the bottom and my Excell sheet records SHOWS conclusively that I gave that particular fruit cake to her in 1976.
I myself had received it some years earlier from an old Army Sergent buddy while stationed in Germany in 1966. I THINK he may have gotten it from a Nazi War Trinkets store in the Russian Sector of Berlin back around the time of the formation of the Berlin Wall.
It is well known that most food stuffs then were brought into Germany via the Berlin Airlift as the country had NO means of mass producing such items. This item was machine wrapped in cellopphane and carried a small gold colored sticker saying "made in china".
So YES, regifting DOES go on and YES apparently some people DO find out that you have regifted items to them. But I swear to you, I don't know HOW she figured that out.
But it won't happen again. The emergengy brake on my old VW Beattle is not working and we are now useing the fruit cake as a wheel chock to keep it from rolling down the drive way.
You have a Happy Holiday, hear?
2007-12-27 20:12:46 · answer #1 · answered by De Deuce 5 · 7⤊ 2⤋
I still feel embarrassed when I think of this.About a year after I was married, we were invited to a wedding. We were pretty poor at the time, and for a gift, I re-wrapped one of our unused gifts - a set of drinking glasses in a wire holder - very popular in the early 70's. Anyway, there we were at the wedding reception, and the gifts were being opened and displayed by the bridesmaids (as they used to do). A bridesmaid came over to me, and pointedly told me that I'd left the original card (to me and my husband) inside the box that the glasses came in. YIKES! Her voice was so loud, I'm sure that everyone heard, and she made a point of handing me the gift card . I wished that the floor would open up and swallow me !
Well, I do feel better now that I've come clean about that incident !
2007-12-27 23:42:49 · answer #2 · answered by Stella 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I got a gift card from someone once and didn't use it. A while later I was really tight for time and couldn't get a present for a friend of mine, so rushed off to the party with this gift card. It was only after she opened it that I realized the card said "BonMarche", and by then it had already converted to Bon-Macy's or Macys, not really sure. It had obviously been regifted, unless I'd bought myself a giftcard. Luckily, she had a sense of humor and we had a good laugh about it.
2007-12-27 20:02:47 · answer #3 · answered by Lucy 2 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Yes we got a shiatsu neck massage that was totally painful to use. The next year we gave it my husbands foster mother. She is german gets massages, acupuncture and many other things to keep her feeling good. She is tough and strong for 77 so we thought she would actually like it and use it.
She has reminded us for 3 years what a crappy gift it was.
2007-12-28 05:15:27 · answer #4 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wick, you must know my mom!! We automatically know it's not the first time around and she's always giving me cards that she has given me before!! We just get a kick out of it!!
The best one was when she gave my infant grandson a teddy bear for Christmas that said, "Someone in Idaho Loves You"!! We live in Oklahoma!!!
2007-12-28 08:55:18 · answer #5 · answered by ndnquah 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never re-gifted a gift but my youngest sister and I sent each other the same birthday card back and forth to each other for years. We would just get a new envelope and sign the card each time. I guess her daughter has the last card that we exchanged.
2007-12-27 23:01:10 · answer #6 · answered by mydearsie 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Here's a story. I gave my friend a blender with three speeds as a wedding present. He gave it right back to me as a house warming gift. The same exact model? No, the same exact gift. I loved it. To new beginnings.
2007-12-27 20:02:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
Just the Fruitcake Wick, it has been passed back and forth for years. Not really a fruitcake anymore. Probably closer to the indestructible black boxes in airliners now. Whenever one of us gets it, we spend the entire year trying to figure out who to sneak it to under the tree when we visit since it weighs too much to mail anymore.
2007-12-27 23:58:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Our anniversary was The 24Th and my hubby got out but, I didn't and he bought me a beautiful card so I said all these words are so true so I sign it from me, I love all these answers especially the fruit cake.
2007-12-27 23:17:19 · answer #9 · answered by Jan 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
My husband and I gave our kids an electric knife, two years in a row for Christmas.
We got a big laugh out of it and told them they could give one of them to their mother-in-law, since they all had a mother-in-law.
Then the next year, we bought them all an electric roaster and low and behold, an electric knife came with it.
Our family has a lot of electric knives floating around.
They come in handy, if you need to cut foam and one of the kids cut out Christmas ornaments out of foam and gave a decorated ornament to everyone the next Christmas.
Our family has really got a lot of mileage out of the electric knife jokes.
2007-12-27 20:14:38 · answer #10 · answered by DeeJay 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋