@FormerlyKnownAs said:

1) Is re-gifting OK under any circumstances?

2) Have you ever received a re-gifted present/how did you feel?

3) Would it bother you if someone re-gifted a present you gave them?

4) Should any of the above be dependent on the value (sentimental or otherwise) of the gift?

1.While re-gifting certainly carries with it a tacky connotation, I think the circumstances can make a difference. Here are a couple of circumstances where I think it's ok.

Ex #1: Grandma Louise receives a beautiful necklace for her 15th birthday from her mother. Fifty years later she re-gifts the same necklace to her 15-year old grand-daughter after enjoying wearing it for many years so that it can stay in the family.

(However, I know that's not what you meant, so)

Ex #2: Your great-aunt's best friend's mailman's daughter invites you to a wedding and you barely know her. Your gift budget for the month must cover both this gift and your mother's 50th birthday present. You have a nice set of high quality, neutral bedsheets which were given to you for your wedding and are still in their package. You just didn't need them. You give the sheets to the new couple so that you can buy your mother a nice gift.

2.Not that I know of, but it's entirely possible.

3.Depends on what it was.

4.Yes

Some people, groups of friends, etc, enjoy re-gifting as a game. No harm there.

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

Sheldon and Amy received a much re-gifted wedding present.

I've always felt that re-gifting is tacky and a tad disrespectful in that it gives the impression that the giver doesn’t value the recipient(s) enough to make the effort (or in some case spend the money). Even when it’s an event you must attend, or a gift you must give—even if you rather not—re-gifting is still not OK.

I think that when you receive a gift you don’t want/can’t use it’s better to donate it to a worthy cause. At least then it will be taken by someone who wants/needs it; and not because they’ve had it dumped on them.

What say you?

1) Is re-gifting OK under any circumstances?

2) Have you ever received a re-gifted present/how did you feel?

3) Would it bother you if someone re-gifted a present you gave them?

4) Should any of the above be dependent on the value (sentimental or otherwise) of the gift?

Rule: You can regift a gift card. Anything else is tacky.

1) Is re-gifting OK under any/all circumstances?

In my opinion, yes.

2) Have you ever received a re-gifted present/how did you feel?

Not that I know of.

3) Would it bother you if someone re-gifted a present you gave them?

No, I'm not that sensitive.

4) Should any of the above be dependent on the value (sentimental or otherwise) of the gift?

Nope

@SpecialFlowers said:

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

1) Is re-gifting OK under any circumstances?

2) Have you ever received a re-gifted present/how did you feel?

3) Would it bother you if someone re-gifted a present you gave them?

4) Should any of the above be dependent on the value (sentimental or otherwise) of the gift?

1.While re-gifting certainly carries with it a tacky connotation, I think the circumstances can make a difference. Here are a couple of circumstances where I think it's ok.

Ex #1: Grandma Louise receives a beautiful necklace for her 15th birthday from her mother. Fifty years later she re-gifts the same necklace to her 15-year old grand-daughter after enjoying wearing it for many years so that it can stay in the family.

(However, I know that's not what you meant, so)

Ex #2: Your great-aunt's best friend's mailman's daughter invites you to a wedding and you barely know her. Your gift budget for the month must cover both this gift and your mother's 50th birthday present. You have a nice set of high quality, neutral bedsheets which were given to you for your wedding and are still in their package. You just didn't need them. You give the sheets to the new couple so that you can buy your mother a nice gift.

2.Not that I know of, but it's entirely possible.

3.Depends on what it was.

4.Yes

Thanks for clarifying the first part of your response; definitely wasn’t talking about such a situation.

The second part of your comment reminded me of something from my lean past (for “This Is Us fans"—that's my 'Nine Bucks' past ).

Anyway, while I didn’t re-gift the present myself; I certainly aided-and-abetted the re-gifting. That is, I gave my similarly financially strapped friend a present that I received from a relative so that he could re-gift it.

Since circumstances can dictate, it’s probably not a good idea to attach absolutes to a situation that can have so many variables. “Desperate situations….desperate measures” can out-distance even the best intentions.

@CalabrianQueen said:

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

Sheldon and Amy received a much re-gifted wedding present.

I've always felt that re-gifting is tacky and a tad disrespectful in that it gives the impression that the giver doesn’t value the recipient(s) enough to make the effort (or in some case spend the money). Even when it’s an event you must attend, or a gift you must give—even if you rather not—re-gifting is still not OK.

I think that when you receive a gift you don’t want/can’t use it’s better to donate it to a worthy cause. At least then it will be taken by someone who wants/needs it; and not because they’ve had it dumped on them.

What say you?

1) Is re-gifting OK under any circumstances?

2) Have you ever received a re-gifted present/how did you feel?

3) Would it bother you if someone re-gifted a present you gave them?

4) Should any of the above be dependent on the value (sentimental or otherwise) of the gift?

Rule: You can regift a gift card. Anything else is tacky.

Forgot about gift cards; but feel the same way. It’s the same as giving someone money.

@bratface said:

1) Is re-gifting OK under any/all circumstances?

In my opinion, yes.

2) Have you ever received a re-gifted present/how did you feel?

Not that I know of.

3) Would it bother you if someone re-gifted a present you gave them?

No, I'm not that sensitive.

4) Should any of the above be dependent on the value (sentimental or otherwise) of the gift?

Nope

Seems you are not alone...

Read on one site where 63% of the respondents to a survey admitted re-gifting presents.

On the flip side (from another site): Recipients lists the less desirable re-gifted items that they have received:

--Two year old fruit cake

--Box of chocolates with bites taken out of several pieces

--Monogrammed items with someone else's initials

--Used toilet seat

--Electric toothbrush

--False teeth

--Fingernail clippers

--Outdated old desk calendar

--Items the recipient had originally given to the gifter

--Toys with broken pieces

--Gift cards that were partially used

1) I guess being on the "giving-end" is a lot brighter than being on the "receiving end".

Although...

2) With some of these things it makes you wonder what kind of person would have given them to begin with.

3) If you are ever re-gifted--would be interested to hear.

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

@bratface said:

1) Is re-gifting OK under any/all circumstances?

In my opinion, yes.

2) Have you ever received a re-gifted present/how did you feel?

Not that I know of.

3) Would it bother you if someone re-gifted a present you gave them?

No, I'm not that sensitive.

4) Should any of the above be dependent on the value (sentimental or otherwise) of the gift?

Nope

Seems you are not alone...

Read on one site where 63% of the respondents to a survey admitted re-gifting presents.

On the flip side (from another site): Recipients lists the less desirable re-gifted items that they have received:

--Two year old fruit cake

--Box of chocolates with bites taken out of several pieces

--Monogrammed items with someone else's initials

--Used toilet seat

--Electric toothbrush

--False teeth

--Fingernail clippers

--Outdated old desk calendar

--Items the recipient had originally given to the gifter

--Toys with broken pieces

--Gift cards that were partially used

1) I guess being on the "giving-end" is a lot brighter than being on the "receiving end".

Although...

2) With some of these things it makes you wonder what kind of person would have given them to begin with.

3) If you are ever re-gifted--would be interested to hear.

I have never re-gifted anything, but like I said I don't think it's a horrible thing to do. Why keep something you do not want when you could give it to someone that might need or enjoy it?

I have a hard time believing that anyone would give a toilet seat or false teeth, for two examples, as gifts to begin with.

@Knixon said:

I have a hard time believing that anyone would give a toilet seat or false teeth, for two examples, as gifts to begin with.

Weird people?

@bratface said:

@Knixon said:

I have a hard time believing that anyone would give a toilet seat or false teeth, for two examples, as gifts to begin with.

Weird people?

Actually that sounds more like the re-gifting-as-a-game kind of thing. And that's just for fun, nobody takes that seriously.

@bratface said:

@Knixon said:

I have a hard time believing that anyone would give a toilet seat or false teeth, for two examples, as gifts to begin with.

Weird people?

That's an understatement!

Of course, while it doesn't hurt be skeptical; when it comes to human beings wouldn't discount any of those items on that list. As outlandish as some of them may be; I wouldn’t put it pass some of the givers to have engaged in some ulterior-motive-gift-giving.

Case in point...

Here is something someone listed on another site regarding "Shi##est" Birthday Gifts (sounds like a message being sent to me).

"Every year I get chocolates and alcohol from my mother-in-law. I’m diabetic and don’t drink."

Anybody else notice the changes? Not sure if I like them.

@bratface said:

Anybody else notice the changes? Not sure if I like them.

Like the page numbering feature at the bottom.

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

@bratface said:

Anybody else notice the changes? Not sure if I like them.

Like the page numbering feature at the bottom.

I have to take some responsibility for that, I suppose. It's something I asked Travis (board owner) about occasionally, and he just posted on the "support" board that he finally got around to it.

But it looks fine to me.

I would still like to see a specific "back to first page" thing but apparently you've always been able to do that by clicking on a thread subject at the top of each page.