When I accepted the beautifully wrapped gift, I was suspicious. Why? Because the box and wrapping was soggy and mushy. When I opened the box, I literally flushed-out the evidence as a gush of water drained onto my lap. My gift was a pulsating shower head. It was obviously re-gifted because they forgot to drain it. Grrrr!

In Kindergarten, my daughter was being invited to many birthday parties, so when I found toys on sale, I bought several in order to be prepared for upcoming birthday parties. I found several of a specific toy, and we gave them to two of her friends (friend A and friend B) as birthday gifts. Months later, my daughter had a playdate with a third friend of hers, soon after this third friend's birthday party. When I picked her up, the friend had given her one of the same gift we had given her other two friends, and her mother explained that she had received two of the gift at her birthday party...from friend A and friend B!

We have twin 11 year old boys who receive many fine gifts yearly. We started a tradition when they were 3 1/2 years old. They each donate one of their better toys to the needy in Mexico. We visit Mexico during the holiday season every year and have been making a few select boys very happy for Christmas all these years. Our boys enjoy sharing and beam with pride when they learn that the toys went to good homes. The gifts are always anonymous and my wife and I make sure the other children in the families receive gifts as well. We have been blessed with prosperity and generous employers and believe that we must give something back as thanks.

I was teaching at a small, country school and for our Christmas party, we were told to bring a gift for anyone. We did the round robin exchange, drawing numbers. #1 chose a gift, the next, #2 could choose a gift or take #1's gift. My husband was #15 and decided to choose a gift, he opened it, it was a pair of tie-dyed, not so tidy whities. The colors were pea green, browns and tans, u-u-gly. Everyone laughed, and at the end of the night, the drawers went home with my husband. Imagine, not wanting to take them away from him.The next year, took them back, and some other unsuspecting person got to take them home. It became a tradition amongst the teachers and spouses, waiting to see who would get them the next year. The tradition ended, when the one that took them home, passed away before he could give them back. I overheard one of the guys at Christmas, that year, say "Some guys will do most anything, to keep the gift they want." He would have loved it.

For many years one of my favorite Docs and I have exchanged Christmas gifts. One year I had a very interesting clock made down on Anna Marie Island. It was a beautiful handmade dolphin-blue. I was so excited to give it to him as he had a home on that very Island. Christmas came and I gave him the clock. He raved about it.. Well,my birthday rolled around in February and Doc come running in. He was so excited. He had a beautiful gift bag. He proceded to hand me a beautiful one of a kind clock-a dolphin. It was the one I had given him that Christmas. I Imagine he just pulled it out of his closet and never remembered who gave it to him. It was such a Seinfeld moment. I tried not laugh . I just thanked him so profusely for that gift. Then I ran off and told everyone in the OR. We were all cracking up. That was many years ago and to this day we never told him what he had done. We just figured he had provided us with one of our best laughs ever!

Every New Years Eve my daughters church has White Elephant Exchange. Folks get together in basement of church ea bring a wrapped gift and place it on a table The gift is an unwanted gift from a previous or present year
The exchange starts out by drawing #s from a hat The one with the lowest # chooses a gift from the table first They open it and then the next highest # chooses a gift and opens theirs That person must decide whether they want to keep the gift they opened or trade for the gift the #1 person opened Then #3 person either choose a gift from the table or take a gift from the #1 person or #2 person and so on until everyone # is been called
One year my daughter took a homemade Pouting Doll to the exchange It was a surprise to find that once the Doll was opened everyone wanted it Every time someone had the chance to take it from someone else they did By the end of the exchange it had made its rounds to almost every person in the room to some even twice Who would have thought

Do you know why we give gifts for Christmas? The 3 Wise Men gave the Baby Jesus the 3 gifts of Gold Frankincense and Myrrh as the first 3 gifts of Christmas. So the tradition was started. From that moment on 3 gifts were given to each person in a household. When the gifts were opened, each person choose one gift to be re-wrapped and given to a poor person of another household that could not afford to purchase gifts for their own family.
This fulfilled the giving of a gift to our Lord Jesus.
Matthew 25:40 says this: "Truly I say to you,as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me." ESV
What Jesus is saying is that if we give to the least of His children, the poor, we're also giving Him a gift. Another way we can give Him a gift at Christmas is to give Him our hearts. Have you given Jesus your heart?

As we sit in our house in England on the 28th Dec, my daughter has just learn't about regifting! Her father has just called to say he will be here in 2 hours to pick her up to stay with him and his new wife for the new year. We didn't realise firm plans had been made and have both has swine flu since Christmas Eve so no gifts have been bought.

As we sat here in shock we gazed around and our presents that have still not been put away, those books would be good for Daddy, and Sarah would LOVE that chocolate fondue set!!

This is SOOO wrong, she said, no I replied, it's all the rage in the USA, it's called regifting, and here I am showing her this site lmaopmp

My mother is a housekeeper and one would think that since she does this for a living, she would get cash gifts, a tip of sorts, for Christmas. But she usually gets an odd assortment of things, including spiced nuts and even oddities like a curled turquoise art-glass bowl a trio of flower pots with seed packets, and little frilly candy dishes.
While going through the pile with her to see which ones were going to the Goodwill, I spied a few that I thought would be nice gifts to stash away. Believing that my siste-in-law already owned a piece of Belleek china, I took a rectangular dish with the purpose of regifting it to her to add to her collection.
Months later for her birthday I wrapped the piece of china and gave it to her feeling very confident that she would put it with her one other fine china item. upon opening it she looks at me and said, "Where did you get this?" Caught offgaurd, I blurted out the truth while noticing that her otherpiece wasn't Belleek at all:(

THIS CHRISTMAS MY MOTHER ASKED ME TO BUY HER OXYGENE BY LANVIN PERFUME. I SEARCHED EVERY STORE FOR IT AND COULD NOT FIND IT ANYWHERE. A SALES ASSOCIATE FOR MACY'S TOLD ME THE PERFUME HAS NOT BEEN SOLD IN STORES SINCE 2007.

WELL, IRONICALLY, MY FIANCE'S SISTER GAVE ME THE EXACT PERFUME I HAD BEEN ON THE HUNT FOR! I COULDN'T BELIEVE MY EYES WHEN I OPENED IT!! THE FIRST THOUGHT WAS THAT SHE RE-GIFTED IT TO ME SINCE I JUST FOUND OUT DAYS BEFORE IT WAS NO LONGER SOLD IN STORES. NOT TO MENTION THE OLD STICKER LEFT ON THE BOX. UNLESS IT WAS A MIRACLE FIND, I BELIEVE SHE PASSED IT OFF TO ME.

MY FIANCE THINKS SHE DID FIND IT IN A STORE SINCE HE SAID SHE'S NOT THE TYPE TO DO SUCH A THING. I COULDN'T EVEN RETURN IN TO GET A SCENT I LIKE BECAUSE IT'S NOT SOLD ANYWHERE. I'M GOING TO GIVE IT TO MY MOTHER, SO AT LEAST SOMEONE WILL ENJOY IT.

IF ANYONE KNOWS OF A STORE WHERE OXYGENE BY LANVIN IS SOLD, I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW SO I CAN BELIEVE MY FUTURE SISTER IN LAW WOULDN'T BE SO TACKY.