How to regift
Is re-gifting ever okay? And more important, how can you do it without getting caught? Melissa Kirsch, author of The Girl's Guide To Absolutely Everything has the answers.
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How to regift
The less personal a gift is the more likely it is to be regifted. Some gifts are more prone to regifting such as:
- Scarves
- Accessories
- Liquor
- Fruit cake (the one everyone in the world passes around)
Melissa has a few rules for regifting to help us avoid common pitfalls:
- Know your audience; don’t regift a bottle of liquor to an alcoholic friend. If you get something that is not your taste, don’t give it to a friend who has similar taste to yours.
- Make it new -- a new package, new card, new wrapping. Take out any signs or hints that it was a gift from someone else and wrap it.
- Keep impeccable records. Don’t regift to the person who gave it it you. Don’t regift too close to home, i.e., you don’t want your sister to go to your mother’s house and see the sweater she gave you last Christmas.
- Never regift anything personalized, handmade, anything opened or partially used.
- Never tell anyone that a gift is regifted. If someone asks you for a receipt, say you got it on vacation somewhere, or you got it online. If they bug you too much you have to ask yourself why you’re giving them a gift in the first place.
- Don’t feel guilty about regifting. It’s true that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure!
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Melissa Kirsch Author, The Girl's Guide To Absolutely Everything Melissa Kirsch is the author of The Girl’s Guide to Absolutely Everything (Workman, 2007). She has been writing professionally for and about young women since 1998, when she was an editor at one of the first sites for girls on the Web. more about this expert »
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