When I was younger my mom cleaned houses with a few of her friends. During one rather challenging job they discovered this artificial rose that had been placed in a glass jar with water. It looked like it had been around for quite a while and really was destined for the trash. They joked about how beautiful it was (not). As a joke my mother put the rose in the car unbeknownst to her friends. From there the rose began appearing in the most peculiar places wrapped in beautiful paper and gift boxes. It would arrive for birthdays, anniversaries, wedding showers, baby showers and for no reason at all without anyone knowing it was going to arrive. Even after my mother?s death the rose still appears out of the blue for some celebration and boy do we have a good laugh, it is truly a great way to remember her and her sense of humor.

My daughter got married about 5 years ago, so of course, I gave her away at the wedding. That marriage didn't last, and she is getting married again next week. I am now having to give her away again. Does that make me a regifter?

I work for a small family owned business- owner. On birthdays and holidays I kill myself to make sure I get my boss and her sister something they will love
So I find this fabulous Day Spa that I know she loves, and get a Gift Certificate for her.
A few months go by and a co-worker has a birthday and I over hear the boss say I would love to take you to this fabulous spa for your birthday!
OMG! how tacky is that! So not only is she a total cheap ass using her gift certificate so she doesnt have to buy this chic a gift, but she is totally regifting my gift on a girl I can't stand!
So, I am totally over it...
A month or so later I am going to the movies with another co-worker and she says... Hey lets go to AMC I have a gift card from (the bosses sister! our manager) Another damn gift I bought!
Does total cheap and tackyness run in a family, or do I just totally buy lame gifts?

While working at a new company my secret pal gave me an ugly shirt at our Christmas gift exchange saying, "This made me think of you." I immediately said, "I can't wear it to work!" I took it home and was showing it to mom when a friend of hers walked in and said, "I love that shirt!" I said, "Do you want it?" and she was really happy. I seriously don't know what my co-worker was thinking of me. Another friend gives me gifts and tells me they are used before I even open them which is truly tacky on her part. I regift myself, however, I always put a sticky note with the name of who gave me the gift that I am not using so I am sure not to give the gift to someone in the same social circle.

Every Thanksgiving, my brother would raise a stink because we woud be serving 'Yuks', yams to the rest of us.

About 20 years ago I scanned and made a new label for a can of yams, substituting the word Yuks everywhere it said yams on the can's label. Then I snuck into my brother's pantry. Imagine his surprise when his wife pulled them out and started laughing, showing him what I had done.

Every year since, the 'Yuks' have appeared in pantries across the country, as my family has spread from here to there. One year they're in Arizona , the next in Pennsylvania, the next in Virginia, then South Carolina.

Every year it's a hoot trying to figure out where the Yuks are and who will be 'serving' them on their special plate that we purchased years ago to show off our Yuks.

Check your pantry, you never know when or where the Yuks are going to show up!

I started a new job in October. I quickly found out who the motormouth of the office was. Everyday I would be cornered by this woman, who would go on and on about her cats, miniature pens and apple pie. I was the only one that did not act rudely to this lady and actually entertained her antics (on most days). I would calmly listen and laugh sometimes...so I just knew I was going to get a GREAT gift from her during Christmas. What do you know...Christmas time comes...and everyone in the office gets these amazing gifts from this coworker. Well...me...I get a fancy bag stuffed with tissue a miniature inkpen (that doesn't work), cat hair and a used sticky note pad from our office supplies!!
Why?? The bag was much nicer than the gift. I dont think this was even a regift..she gave me old crap from her desk! Just shameful. Now when she talks about her cats, pens and apple pie...I just ignore her or act like she isnt talking to me.

My younger sister Summer had received a ring around the rosie doll for her 5th birthday. The doll seriously freaked her out! she decided to give it to a neighbor girl, and we said we'd take it over there for her. Six months later it was Christmas morning, Summer was opening her gifts, and shrieked in terror when she found that an unmarked gift to her contained the doll! It was hilarious!!! My mother was not impressed with the actions of my sisters and I, but Summer is old enough to laugh at it, and it didn't cause any permanent damage!

Several years ago we bought a bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill (flavored apple wine) for $2 to take to a dinner party at a friend's house. It was fun to see them struggling to look delighted at our extravagant liquid gift while trying to learn how serious we were being. Of course, we also had a decent bottle of wine which we pulled out after a minute of delicious awkwardness.

The bottle of Boone's has now become a regifting tradition, passed through the hands of several more couples and even came back to us twice so far! Hopefully it will last for many more years of mirthful regifting. God forbid that anyone should ever open and drink it.

I got a gift from a friend for my birthday one year. It was a green and purple shirt that i didnt really like and it was too small. So i made it into a purse and i gave it to my other friend for her birthday and she really liked it because she is really into stuff like that!

Christmas 2007, I had a box of bath products in the closet, so for a added little gift at Christmas I wrapped a few items and gave to my Mother, Sister, and Neice. As the whole family watched them open their gifts 1 by 1...my Mother said to my sister "I gave that to her last Christmas", as my Neice opened her's my Sister said " I gave that to her on her last birthday" (her meaning me)...OMG I was so embarrased, I could have crawled under a rock..now at Christmas my mother marks all my gifts, in order to catch me next time.

thank you, Donna Sisco....