Comments on: The Art of Re-Gifting

By: FMF

FMF — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:57:45 +0000

mbhunter — we keep ours in a dresser in the basement (it’s a metal one I had in college — so it needs to be in the basement). My wife just used it yesterday to get a gift for someone who was coming over at the last minute.

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:02:06 +0000

That’s a great story, Nick…I am also discovering a need for picture frames now that marriage is looming on the horizon.

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:15:31 +0000

FMF we’ve been known to say that too. We have a couple of shelves of things that are still wrapped, still perfectly new, that we give away at showers.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:55:17 +0000

My best re-gifting story, and a very good lesson in tip #2…

I once received a gift from a friend I had no use for. A couple years later, I re-gifted it to another friend. The next year, I got the gift again from the original friend. It took some digging to find out, but apparently my re-gift victim re-gifted it to the original gift-giver, and the original gift-giver had forgotten he gave it to me in the first place. The funny thing was that when I received it a second time, I actually had a use for it, so I kept it and used it! The gift? An 11×14″ picture frame. (Apparently, once you get married, you need all the picture frames you can get.)

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:29:17 +0000

I’m very careful about tip #2. We entertain a lot and often receive bottles of wine from guests. There were a couple incidents when we subsequently brought that same bottle of wine to a party being hosted or attended by the original gifter.

We all laughed it off, but now I put little Post It notes on all our bottles with info about when and from whom the bottle came.

By: FMF

FMF — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:08:12 +0000

Funny you should write about this today. Just last night my wife and I got something, opened it, and I immediately said “it’s a re-gift”. We didn’t want it, but knew someone we needed a gift for that would LOVE it. It will work out for us both.