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Pandy · 16 answers · 3y

Honesty Hour: Have you ever re-gifted a present? (given someone a present that someone gave you because you didn't like it)

Only sweets, I think. Sweets are such a generic gift (unless it’s something special that tells me someone really thought about what I like) that I think it’s really not a big deal to regift it, and no one who makes such presents should be surprised by that.

Once. My mother gave me a scarf which wasn’t me. A couple of years later I gave it to my grandmother (who loved it!). My mother knew instantly.

Nah, even if I didn't particularly care for it, that someone considered me enough to give it to me means a lot and I will hang on to such things until my idiot ass loses it or destroys it in a fire 😞

I've re-gifted things to people I don't really know, coworkers I'm expected to give gifts to, or something like that. If I'm given something I don't like, and I think someone I know pretty well could get some use out of it (or might actually like it) I just ask them if they're interested in taking it off my hands. I don't exclude the details of how it came into my possession in the first place, I don't pretend like I've picked it as a gift for them. I think I pick out relatively thoughtful gifts for people I know and care about, and I don't want to soil that with some random shit I didn't pick out for them.

Yes. I later found out it was passed on until it received one man who recognised it as a gift that he had got by the assumed original donator. That gift went full circle! LOL.

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