What do you do with gifts you received but do not want?

[wootbot]

What do you do with gifts you received but do not want?

[RebelTaz]

I have never received a gift that I didn’t want. I can always find a use for something and everybody who knows me knows me.

Besides, if someone takes the time to buy/make you something… you should appreciate it. I know I do.

[Markguyver75]

Let my kids play with them. Then they are quickly destroyed, and I can throw them away without any pangs of guilt.

[Wooter609214317]

Regift

[bludonda0]

Monkey Math:

Statistics were obviously not Mortimer’s doctoral thesis…

[netprophet1976]

eBay, sold one just last week.

[Froodyfrog]

If you’d ask about gifts which I want but don’t receive…

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On the other flipper, a Wooter sent a metal water dish to me (for all types of water, and not just metallic water), and I was able to return it to Amazon.

[wootsboc]

I do not get gifts
No one knows me

[wootuserjared]

If you have enough quirkiness or specialities, people approach gifting with you differently. They will try to get something specific on your list or gift card to specfic store. It isn’t as exciting to shop for this kind of person. Yet, less returns or undesirables.

Or so i have been told by people who shop for gifts for me. Sorry that journals of American Founding figure was not exciting, but consider what your gift grants access to!

[ardubu]

I almost always give a gift that I would like to have, and know that others also would like.

Unlike my sister, who gives away pictures of her vacations, taken with her camera.
Or, she’ll get rid of framed ‘art’, that she claims is worth a lot of money.

Actually, she is diverting items destined for Salvation Army, to you.
Probably writing it off as an donation anyway!
Ah, family, still love them…

Ps. Sis if you’re reading this, it’s not about you.
It’s about my sister-in-law…
Really, truly, scouts honor…(nah)

[boxerdot]

candles make great for emergency power outages.

[Palmettogirl56]

I appreciate every gift and especially heartfelt ones, BUT sometimes there’s a dud and regifting or donating does cross my mind AND I have received several regifts myself-Sometimes you just know when it’s not originally meant for you, but your gracious to accept!

[Wooter712588642]

[DerikBrouillard]

[Wooter831251526]

What do you do when you’re the gift to the human that you did not want?

[Wooter60072541]

Regift or donate

[bblhed]

I have been known to straight to the bin some items. Generally I keel it for a while and then move it along. I live in a small house and I don’t need more junk I am not using.

[Wooter994023368]

Display it in a prominent place at least once so that the the “gifter” sees it in passing and therefore derives some satisfaction in giving (at least once), unti they forget about it. Then regift it during a festive holiday gift exchange, not attended by the person (or acquaintances of the person) who gave the gift in the first place. Somebody’s bound to want the thing…

[walldetta]

I can usually use gifts I get. There are things I don’t use that I’ve given to others as a gift, not a special occasion gift, a just because gift.
I also donate to lighthouse, a food bank- clothes- refurbished bikes… charity.

[Dsorgnzd]

It depends on who gave it to me. My parents have given me a few things over the past 70 years that I would not have chosen for myself, but I kept them because of the source (which, I suppose, really meant that I did want them). Truly unwanted gifts from others I would probably pass on to someone who could use the item, but not as a birthday/anniversary/Christmas gift, just as a “hey, I have this thing and I don’t need it, could you use it?” I don’t consider that regifting in the Seinfeld sense, though.