Now be honest

[4getmenot]

Have you ever got present you didnt like and given it to someoe else as a present?

[mollykins]

Yes, cos I have hardly any money and there's no point using something I don't enjoy, so I pass it on.

[mollykins]

Why, have you?

[MrIncredible]

All the time!
I like to think of it as re-cycling!

[4getmenot]

yes, I'm not a big fan of smellies. I am allergic to most and anyone who knows me knows which ones to buy. But I only pass on to people I know if I forgot to get a present and its a last minute thing and I see what I have left in cupboard from christmas. Sometimes sets of candles or drinks that I havent touched go to raffles or the local Bingo

[saxy_jag]

Yep, and the recipient loved it.

[karenmac60]

God yes - my ex's family gave us some shockingly awful wedding presents that were 'passed on' to others. I think that may be how we ended up with them too, and they're probably still doing the rounds ;)

[carmalee]

with 4getmenot on this - don't like smellies so recycle the nice ones as either pressies or raffle prizes for a couple of clubs I belong to.

[jb190281]

yep, got a special box of unwanted pressies!

[China Doll]

No. I'd think that's in really bad form, my sisters would to, I think it's something to do with how it was drummed in to us 'it's the thought that counts' by my parents... I have given them to other people if they want it but not as a present, just if they took a particular shine to something I had no use for.

[B00]

Yep, though I'm even tighter than that!

i make hampers as pressies for Christmas, and any unwanted smellies i get the previous year get divided between them.

[4getmenot]

I never recycle onto family (so dont worry redcrx) and you have to be careful you dont give back to person who gave it to you. I remember going round my nans once (she was a bit like nana from catherine tate) And she said 'oh I've got some bits and bobs I've found whilst clearing out you might want,' handing me a few bits she said 'oh and this perfume, not my thing at all' and she haned me back a perfume I'd bought her for her birthday. I took it and didnt say a thing, she died a while after and I still have the perfume as it reminds me how nuts she was lol

[4getmenot]

I'd rather give it as another present than chuck it away, someone else ill either love it or pass it on china. B00 what a great idea!

[China Doll]

It ends up in the bin after a certain amount of time if there's no sentiment attached to it... Or no one is loopy enought to want the prezzie... Books from my family go to charity shops, (my uncle picked up that I liked to read, what he did not pick up is that Barbara Cartland or whatever her name is, is not necessarilly my taste).

[karenmac60]

Every Xmas and birthday my MIL has to make out a detailed list for my SIL as she opens her presents - stating who got her what. Mr mac thought this was very strange as it included things from immediate family who she wouldn't be sending thankyou cards to. Then she gave me a present that had obviously been 'regifted' (it had been opened) and it suddenly made sense! It's so she can pass things on without giving them back to whoever gave it to her!

[brenda]

Yes , loads of times.

[4getmenot]

Oh thats the worst when you say how lovely something is just to be nice then you get it every year for the rest of your life. And china if its the thought that counts, then alot of thought goes into recycling.

[jno]

charity stuff for my unwanteds, people my age never throw things away.

[dotty.]

\Hi 4get, I think I do that, but niot having a good memory I have to be careful