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    Default Are you re-gifting anything this Christmas?

    It's time to pull out all those gifts you aren't using, so you can re-gift.
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    Yes i have already done several regifts...anything in my house that is still in a package and was never used is fair game...if it hasn't been used in a years time then we won't ever use it! Merry Christmas

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    Nope, I don't have anything to re-gift this year.

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    me neither. i keep trying to declutter so nothing sticks around long enough for regifting.
    wife to carl
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    Nope not here either.

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    I don't have one thing to re-gift this year. Wish I did.

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    I have always re-gifted. I didn't see it but my daughter saw this so called "expert" on Oprah that said re-gifting was tacky.

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    I saw that ion Oprah and I agree I think re-gifting is tacky.

    I understand not keeping something becuase you don't like/want or need it but presenting that as a gift you bought for someone else I think is tacky.....

    Eileen

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    I don't know if this counts as re-gifting - For Christmas I got Damon a magnet set but then I found a bigger better one, however, I kept the origional set cuz I knew someone would have a party to go to and sure enough Ryan did - we wrapped the magnets and he gave that as his gift!

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    I never regift, I too think it's tacky, if I recieve a gift I think someone else would like or use I just give it to them.

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    What
    so wrong about it? I received several duplicates of wedding gifts and I didn't need them all. A couple of years later when i had too attend a shower for a girl I didn't really know I gave her the gift and she was happy to receive it. What difference does it make if they don't know?

    Originally posted by sixfreds
    I saw that ion Oprah and I agree I think re-gifting is tacky.

    I understand not keeping something becuase you don't like/want or need it but presenting that as a gift you bought for someone else I think is tacky.....

    Eileen

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    I see nothing wrong with it if it has never been used, it would only be tacky if it had been used by you then rewrapped.

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    If its something you can't use, don't want or don't need yet you know someone else might want it, need it or be able to use it I see nothing at all wrong with re-gifting it (as long of course that it as never been opened and used by you first.

    This year though I have nothing. We've thrown out so much moving this year that we don't have anything that we aren't using.

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    I have nothing to re-gift. Actually, I don't think I've ever re-gifted anything.

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