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How do you feel about regifting

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Tue, 01/13/2009 - 14:04
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I have regifted before and don't see it as being a bad thing to do. There's no point in keeping stuff around another person could use when you can save yourself from adding another purchase to your credit card. I've never been caught doing so and if I was, they were too polite to say so. LOL


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Tue, 01/13/2009 - 23:23
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Re: How do you feel about regifting

I regift all the time and it doesn't worry me one bit. I wouldn't care either if I got something that was regifted to me. A gift's a gift. I'd never give anything that wasn't brand new or in the original packaging. There's no way they would know.


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Wed, 01/14/2009 - 22:26
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Re: How do you feel about regifting

cookiefan wrote:

I've never been caught doing so and if I was, they were too polite to say so. LOL

I can tell you a story about an ex co-worker. She got a nice set of dishes for a wedding gift, but since everything she was buying matched she decided to take it back to the store and switch it for something that went with what she had. Both items were exclusive ranges to that store so she saw no problem with that. When she took it back the assistant told her they couldn't change it. Just as my workmate was getting into her stride about customer service and how it was a gift and she couldn't possibly the person for the receipt, the embarrased assistant said it wasn't that she didn't want to. It was because they hadn't carried that design in over 20 years and there was nothing to credit it against in the system. Cue red faces all round and a poor bridgegroom to be that got the sharp edge of her tongue about his family LOL. 


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Thu, 01/15/2009 - 20:09
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Re: How do you feel about regifting

Oh no Kay! That's why I don't regift often at all. I have this fear of the giver finding out. I'd be mortified. The only things I regift are expensive useless gifts that we often get from family abroad at Christmas. You can't get much safer than them being in another country!


The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. - Mad Magazine.

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Fri, 01/16/2009 - 18:58
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Re: How do you feel about regifting

I don't regift but only because choosing gifts is one of my favorite things to do. I get as much pleasure from choosing as giving and I'm not about to give that up. It gives me an excuse to stroll around alone in the stores without the whole family. :)

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Fri, 01/16/2009 - 20:15
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Re: How do you feel about regifting

I love the whole concept of regifting mainly because I'm the recipient LOL. My brother gets all kinds of weird and wonderful gifts from his eccentric in-laws and gives me them the first time he's passing through. He knows I'm a sucker for the unusual and they never let us down in that department.

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