If you're going to regift - regift fungible items - i.e. something that is interchangeable with another. That way, the person who originally gifted the item to you wouldn't know if you are regifting or just liked their gift idea so much that you decided to also give it to someone else.

I saw a shirt that said "End regifting. Give beer."

Seemed fitting for this place.

Earpj: I saw a shirt that said "End regifting. Give beer."

Seemed fitting for this place.

No matter how tempting it may be to re-gift beer, don't re-gift your friends home brews. Half a year from now they're going to wonder how their experimental pumpkin spice, jalapeno and jelly bean beer wound up in the back of someone else's fridge.

Linoleum_Blownapart: Earpj: I saw a shirt that said "End regifting. Give beer."

Seemed fitting for this place.

No matter how tempting it may be to re-gift beer, don't re-gift your friends home brews. Half a year from now they're going to wonder how their experimental pumpkin spice, jalapeno and jelly bean beer wound up in the back of someone else's fridge.

Do people actually gift experimental brews?

I try it first, see if I like it, then see if friends like it, then if I everyone that has tried it likes it, I'll give it out as gifts, maybe.

UtileDysfunktion: Earpj: I saw a shirt that said "End regifting. Give beer."

Seemed fitting for this place.

This is why I always gift of alcohol. Never gets thrown out, never goes to waste.

/srsly

alcohol is a great gift. I personally think that good gifts bring everyone closer together.

in this day where technology items rain supreme, and other impersonal things are on the top of lists, the gift process has become very impersonal. Not to mention, all of these items are very specific, the person probably won't like your non-customized options.

booze, on the other hand, always brings people together. the gift is impersonal, but its outcome is more personal than the perfect smart phone (or drill, or whatever).

I really wouldn't care if people re-gift the things I get them. Just makes me not care as much on their next gift. My grandma is the worst offender. I once gave her a giftcard with enough on it for her and a friend to go out to eat (around $80, it was a fancier place she loves) and she complained it wasn't enough for her to take my uncle, his wife, and their two kids out to eat and next time send a giftcard of at LEAST $200 so she can enjoy her dinner. Then next year I got that gift card back with a note on how much she loves me. Since we don't have that chain where I live it was pretty useless. I did get some cash out of it selling the card to cardpool, but I looked at it more like recovering my funds then getting a present.

The next year that grandma gave me an ugly set of hand towels and a washcloth which I thought was weird. Then my mom opened her present and got the matching towel and washcloth to complete the set! I've never laughed so hard! Then a couple months later my dad was talking to her and she said how every year she participates in her bridge club's gift exchange, but that this year she got a set of ugly embroidered towels that she wasn't going to do it anymore. For my mom's birthday, my Grandma gave her an ugly XL sized shirt...which is suspiciously my grandma's size and not my mom's (who is a medium). When my mom went to take it bake to the store they were only going to give her $2 since the shirt was bought on sale! We laughed about that too.

For my wedding my Grandma told all my aunts and uncles that the dollar dance was to raise tips for the DJ and didn't actually go to us, so before the dance they all left (I have NO idea where she got that from, but I just assume she's cheap and wanted to leave). At least the wedding gift was new, she gave $20 to my mom to buy me whatever.

The weird thing about it is she is LOADED. I'm talking millions in savings, enough that she makes an income of $4000 living off the dividends. I think her re-gifting and cheapness are really hilarious though.

This year for Christmas I sent her a Lia Sophia (knock off probably) necklace I found off Ebay in a Christmas-decorated Chinese box with a lewd card which cost me maybe $15 for it all shipped. I'm going to stalk my cousin's Facebook pages to see who gets a cheap and crappy necklace from Grandma. My mom and I have money riding on which person gets stuck with it.

My mother is the worst re-gifter in the world. She never keeps track of whom gave what, so the same person who gave her that ugly sweater will likely get it back on their birthday (it's happened to a couple of my aunts). Worse still, if she owes you money, she'll repay it by giving you a bunch of junk w/tags still on them or w/gift receipts and tell you to go to the store & get the money back. But that's rare, only because she almost never repays loans.

I get all of that re-gifting hassle out of the way. Every January, I hold a Bingo re-gifting party. Everyone brings a gift they want to re-gift & the winner of every bingo hand gets to pick one. When all the gifts are claimed, there's a 1/2-hour free-for-all of Bingo where the winners can now claim any gift they want, stealing from previous winners. When time is called, whoever was the last to lay claim to the gift gets to take it home.

/Some people have ugly sweater parties, I have this
//Any reason for a party