Would you mind if someone - regifted to you

mckayleesmom wrote: I honestly wouldn't care...as long as I like it. Im a pretty simple person. Heck...my mil gives me most of her gifts from other people...

Calimama replied: Not a bit.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: nope. Well, maybe a bit if it's something I gave them to start with... lol

Anthony275 replied: it depends what it is ya know?

luvmykids replied: It would depend more on their intention...if it was b/c they didn't care enough to do anything other than uncover something tucked in a closet, yes But if it was something they genuinely knew I'd like, then no.

grandma replied: If I get something I don't need or want and I think my DIL's would like it, I'll just give it to them (no occasion needed).

Boo&BugsMom replied: It would depend on their intention and what it was. My cousin got a used frying pan for her bridal shower once. That just screams lazy and cheap...I would rather get a card if that were the case.

grapfruit replied:
a USED frying pan?!?!? I don't even have a good comment about that. Other than CRAZY!!!


Was it wrapped?

Boo&BugsMom replied:
Yep, wrapped like any other gift. You could tell it was used because there was stuck food on it.

A friend of mine also recieved a used Pack-n-Play from her MIL for a baby shower gift, wrapped and everything like she tried to pass it off as new. Now, don't get me wrong, if someone went to a rummage sale and said "hey, I found this for you and thought you could use it", I'd be thrilled! Things are expensive now a days. My family does that for each other all the time...but to wrap it and present it at a shower??? Tacky if you ask me. Some people have no class.

bawoodsmall replied: No i wouldnt mind if they really think I would like it. However noone better be giving me something used!! What the he..!

Calimama replied:
That's gross and tacky.

Cece00 replied:
I agree! We have a pretty great consignment shop here in town & every time there is a baby shower, I buy a NEW present, and then I pick up a few outfits that look brand new. And I give them to the mom AFTER she opens all the presents, and tell her they are not new but I thought she could use them. They are thrilled, but I want to make SURE they know I wasnt gonna pass them off a new.

Kaitlin'smom replied: as long as the intentions are good, it woudl not bother me. Just make sure you take the old to and from tag before passing it out.

jacobsmama replied:
That would be bad to forget!!


I don't think it would bother me much either.

msoulz replied:
I wonder if the person couldn't afford anything but wanted to give something?

And I wouldn't care about a re-gift either.

My3LilMonkeys replied: As long as the person truly felt I would like and use it, and wasn't just trying to push off their junk no one wants on me, I wouldn't mind at all.

My mom got a set of the ugliest snowman dishes you've ever seen for Christmas from a friend, and it was obvious from the Jamesway box (Jamesway being an old department store that hasn't existed in our area for probably 20 years) that it was a regift. The friend knew my mother would have no use for them and that I don't agree with.

HuskerMom replied: I wouldn't mind, I'd just be happy they thought of me.

Boo&BugsMom replied:
Given the history of the people who gave it...not it wasn't a money issue...it was a lazy and didn't care issue. AND...it had stuff stuck to it!!! Who does that???

I can understand not being able to afford something, I have been in that situation and are in fact in that situation now...but there is such a thing as tact and class. I don't care if I'm regifted on, but no matter the case I think it's important to use class and be tactful otherwise it's really just plain belittling and makes a person feel like they don't matter. Giving a CLEARLY used frying pan with garbage stuck on it and passing it as new is not tactful. Actually, I consider it disrespectful to be honest. JMO.

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
heck i'm pretty much the only one of my friends with "kids".... the others are all under 7 months old, and they ask me for hand me downs all the time..when I don't use\need something, I ask if they want it.. but as a "gift"? never.

I currently have 3 highchairs and 3 playpens I don't use.