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The fourth ‘R’ for this holiday season: Re-gift!
We’re all feeling the pinch. I, personally, REALLY need to hear good news from the economy before I hear more bad news from Mr Flinger’s office. Oh, Dow, you slutty ho.
So, this season, I officially declared Re-Gifting the new black. The New Financially Responsible thing to do. The “Latest Trend In Gift Giving.”
It is so because I said it is.
We’re giving the children a large piano her Uncle and Aunt purchased for her when she was 15 months old. It was a Christmas gift from 2005. We’ve moved it twice. It’s in the garage, still unopened, waiting for her to be old enough to appreciate it.
This is the year.
We’re also giving Baby O a basketball hoop for toddlers handed down from Michelle. It was handed down from another friend and a friend or a garage sale before that. It’s cleaned up, shiny, as good as new and for five dollars, it’s a steal.
My parents have not seen their gifts from Mothers or Fathers day. They will be under the tree as well.
There are plenty of lovely gifts we received, with tags on still, simply at the wrong time of development. Baby O had a growth spurt right past his 6 month sizes. I have a nephew now, right in that range, and it would be silly and a shame to not give those down to him.
I’m fairly sure a sweater my mother gave me last year, was one that didn’t fit her and had the tags on it.
She’ll be getting it this Christmas.
(Kidding, Mom!)
(Ok, maybe a little)
(I’ll find something else in my closet for you.)
This year, I’m following the biggest rule of gift giving: “It’s the thought that counts” and nothing since “I thought of you when I saw this big hunk o’ crap I didn’t want” like a gift from 2001 that still sits in your pantry.
As they say, one man’s crap is another man’s treasure.
Pass it forward. Take the oath. Re-gift this season like all the cool kids.
(Thank you for all the wonderful wonderfulness in asking about Baby O. He is doing well. Digging at his ears and needing to be looked at again but over-all he went through the surgery without a hitch. In fact, he was back to his ol’ self within three hours or so, with one minor change: He can hear me now. He can hear me sing. And this makes him scream louder. :: sigh :: )
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Glad he’s doing well!
I love the re-gifting! I am giving my own spice mixes, and other homemade goodies: cookie mixes, granola, spicy crackers and pictures… etc…
to everyone this year.
Great job on this post honey.
Genius gifts, all of them. I am going through my bookshelves and giving books that I will never read again to people that have yet to read them the first time. No sense in collecting books just to make me look smart. Now I’m re-gifting them just to make me look smarter!
I’m totally down with you on this one! My husband has taken to calling this the Ghetto Christmas. That’s probably not PC, and I prefer to think that I’m “spreading the wealth which I have been given”.
My parents are getting a gift card I got with my credit card points.
My sister is getting a set of perfume my MIL gave me.
My brother-in-law is getting a book that my husband got from his book club when he didn’t turn in his “don’t send me the monthly selection” card. I know, who does those anymore? My husband, that’s who! He’s still in the BMG music getting down with his bad self!
I once re-gifted a beautiful spice rack my sister sent me that was just too big for our tiny home. My co-worker was appalled to find a small gift card envelope addressed to me hidden away inside. Whoops! Busted!
I look great in black! Let the regifting begin.
I annoyed my husband while snickering at your post. I love it when I can do that. I have a big hunk o’ crap I’m sure someone would love and appreciate.
Hey! I have some earmuffs that Baby O could have… I’ll regift to him, then he won’t scream… and you can still sing!
I finally got a bunch of digital photos printed & am making old-fashioned photo albums and calendars with them… cheapity cheap cheap cheap!
LOL PRICELESS
Hey, that’s been the beauty of some of my contests because the prizes have been great items for easy gifts….you know, the kind of stuff you can give the family….
There’s 12 days of it, today being just day 4 and I have a day 13 blow-out coming too.
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Totally on board with all this (as you know)!
So glad he can hear you now, even if you’re singing (slightly?) off-key.
Love the re-gifting idea. You bet I’m signing on for it. I like being green…especially when it saves me cash.
Re-gifting is a beautiful thing.
Glad Baby O is back to his ol tricks and I love his “hat!”
Totally nothing wrong with recycling. At all.
My poor 6mo won’t really be getting much more than a few new girly sleepers (to help balance out all the blue/boy sleepers she’s stuck wearing as hand-me-downs from her brothers). Maybe I’ll get fancy and warp up some forgotten-in-the-basement things for the kids as well, we’ll see.
This year I saved several things from my review blog for the girls. I’ve also been saving up Amazon gift cards from book reviews I’ve written and I used those to buy gifts for our nephews. Two years ago the girls got a HUGE play kitchen that was nearly new and was a hand me down from my boss’s daughter. There’s no shame in regifting!
HA!! I was going to write about re-gifting, too! (still may…) I am an admitted transgressor.