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Stefanie
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In time for the holiday season...
what's the worst re-gift you ever received?
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Posted 12/21/07 9:58 PM  |
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leighla
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Re: In time for the holiday season...
I terms of the present itself, nothing too bad comes to mind.
However the re-wrapping of the re-gift will always stand out to me:
My aunt gave us a set of Christmas Votive holders and candles.
They were ugly as sin, but DH was going to melt down the wax to make new candles.
We opened the outside box to find an inside box all wrapped with a card to my aunt. 
What's worse? We opened the inside box to find ANOTHER card inside written to the woman who gave it to my aunt in the first place.
We were double-dog regifted. 
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| Posted 12/21/07 10:04 PM |
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checka
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Re: In time for the holiday season...
Posted by leighla
I terms of the present itself, nothing too bad comes to mind.
However the re-wrapping of the re-gift will always stand out to me:
My aunt gave us a set of Christmas Votive holders and candles.
They were ugly as sin, but DH was going to melt down the wax to make new candles.
We opened the outside box to find an inside box all wrapped with a card to my aunt.
What's worse? We opened the inside box to find ANOTHER card inside written to the woman who gave it to my aunt in the first place.
We were double-dog regifted.
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| Posted 12/21/07 10:05 PM |
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Stacey1403
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Re: In time for the holiday season...
an ugly bright orange pocketbook
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| Posted 12/21/07 10:09 PM |
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sunnyplus3
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Re: In time for the holiday season...
A boss of mine years ago gave us nasty silver jewelry that I swear was regifted out of his wife's jewelry box. It pushed me over the edge & I gave my two weeks notice the day after christmas that year.
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| Posted 12/21/07 10:11 PM |
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CouponKT
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Re: In time for the holiday season...
If this counts..
one year MIL gave us a set of candles that clearly said on the box...
BONUS, Free with Your Purchase of xxx
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| Posted 12/22/07 9:05 AM |
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rose825
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Re: In time for the holiday season...
Posted by checka
Posted by leighla
I terms of the present itself, nothing too bad comes to mind.
However the re-wrapping of the re-gift will always stand out to me:
My aunt gave us a set of Christmas Votive holders and candles.
They were ugly as sin, but DH was going to melt down the wax to make new candles.
We opened the outside box to find an inside box all wrapped with a card to my aunt.
What's worse? We opened the inside box to find ANOTHER card inside written to the woman who gave it to my aunt in the first place.
We were double-dog regifted.
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| Posted 12/22/07 9:13 AM |
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JennZ
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Re: In time for the holiday season...
It wasnt a bad gift but my Grandma Re-gifted a gift I gave her the year before. It was the odd gold Candles and she gave them back to me and had NO idea. I blame her being 81 so its ok. I wanted them anyway.
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| Posted 12/22/07 9:14 AM |
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Reese32
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Re: In time for the holiday season...
We once got a decanter and liqueor (sp?) glasses made out of plastic. The decanter was blue, one glass was green one was pink, etc. And the box was dusty.
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| Posted 12/22/07 9:22 AM |
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MrsMessina
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Re: In time for the holiday season...
probably a christmas candle in a loaf pan that was already used--- the wick was black and there was a puddle of prehardened melted wax around it!!! 
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| Posted 12/22/07 9:23 AM |
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Kara
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Re: In time for the holiday season...
As originally post on LIWs (Link to LIW post) here is my regifting story from my wedding, entitled Holy Regifting, Batman!
We had several people bring boxed gifts to the wedding. Since we left for our honeymoon the next day, we didn't get to open them until we got back... and I have a great story now!
Some of you may remember the friend of my husband who got married the week before us and kept sending emails about his wedding and his registry to us, even though they never sent us an invite. Even his fiance was sending us emails about it - and neither one of us had ever met her (and my husband hadn't seen his friend since COLLEGE!) We'd been getting email after email about how we were invited, etc. -- and that's the only reason we invited them to our wedding. This started about 6 months before the wedding -- we finally got an invite about a week after the RSVP date on their invites... nevermind the fact that not two weeks earlier, we received an email about how they had updated their registries...
We couldn't attend their wedding (it was far away and we had family coming into town early for our wedding - and a million things to do). We RSVP'd no and sent a gift card (to a store where they registered) with the response.
Only DH's friend came to our wedding (one week after his wedding, without his wife). He brought a gift... it was a Williams & Sonoma cookbook and a set of 4 dessert plates we hadn't registered for (they were very pretty plates). I love to cook, and I immediately opened the cover of the cookbook. I figured everyone opens the cover of a book they get as a gift just as a reflex -- Well, apparently NOT! Inside the front cover was written THEIR names and August 4th wedding date AND a very personal note to them from friends or family of theirs...
Talk about regifting! At least make sure it's not THAT obvious when you do it!
I *almost* wrote in their thank you card "We'll think about you every time we open the cook book" - but I held back.
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| Posted 12/22/07 9:23 AM |
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