Re-gifting

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Sometimes, you get a present that you don't really want. Maybe it's not your tastes. Maybe you would never use it. Maybe it just doesn't fit your size.

Maybe you think "I bet Mary Sue would love this a lot more than I ever did." And voila! Christmas present solved.

Or is it...?

[Poll #607334]

If you have strong feelings on the subject, feel free to fight it out debate below.

Comments

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

I marked "don't care" but it's really more like I have mixed feelings about it. I wouldn't re-gift a book, for example, because someone probably picked it with some thought as to what I'd like, and I'd like to be able to tell them how I liked it. And some things if I don't like them it's because I really don't like them, and wouldn't want to inflict them on someone else. I don't think I've ever re-gifted, but it's more because of those factors than because of some moral opposition. I'd probably be most likely to regift something small and impersonal, like, I dunno, candles, and probably more likely because I'd run out of time or forgotten someone than because I decided ahead of time it'd be a good idea.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine re-gifting a book.

I think if I liked it I'd keep it, and if I didn't I'd give it to a library or trade it a used book store, and if I thought it was the worst book I ever read I'd just throw it away (only did this once so far), no matter who gave it to me. It's like once a book is in my posession it doesn't matter how I got it, it's automatically judged by the rules of my reading universe. Like, how to say it... like I separate gratefulness at the attention that went into picking it from the actual book itself. I'll appreciate the thoughtfulness of a book (assuming I think they really did think about it), but that won't make me want to keep it necessarily. Likewise, if I hated it I would never regift it to someone else. My snobbyness as a reader forbids me from reccing to people anything less than what I consider great. I'd rather buy someone a great book than give away a bad book to save money and time.

Candles have to be one of the ultimate re-giftable things. Candles and bubblebath.