Comments on: What to Do with Unwanted Christmas Presents? https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/ Mom Smarter! Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:23:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: The Jenny Evolution https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/#comment-110392 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=18889#comment-110392 In reply to Emily.

Right? And it’s a great excuse to get together with friends 🙂

]]> By: Emily https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/#comment-110344 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=18889#comment-110344 Oh so true! Great idea about the swap party!

]]> By: The Jenny Evolution https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/#comment-105175 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=18889#comment-105175 In reply to Becca.

LOL. I think you’ve made regifting an art 🙂 And don’t even get me started on how hard it is to buy for some people. At least your husband understands he’s a toughie!

]]> By: Becca https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/#comment-105159 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=18889#comment-105159 I regift a lot. I know it’s horrible; but my family and my in-laws live in different countries, and none of them know my friends (and most of my friends don’t know each other), so it’s actually really easy for me to regift and nobody is ever any wiser for it. I only do it with thing I am sure the other person will actually, genuinely like.

And oh, I feel for the first poster! It’s so hard to buy for the men in my life, especially when they don’t tell me what they like!! I know my dad likes reading so he gets books – boring; but my parents live in a small condo and books don’t take up much space and he can get rid of them without feeling guilty about it. My husband likes sailing so if I can find him something sailing-related he’ll like it; but most of that stuff is mega-expensive (sorry, honey, that 30 foot yacht you want is just not in the budget this year!) But he won’t tell me what he wants for Christmas until, you know, the night of Christmas Eve when it’s too late to do anything about it; and he just goes and buys whatever he really wants – so I tell him I’ve done my best and if he doesn’t want to keep it, don’t feel bad about getting rid of it.

]]> By: Tori https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/#comment-101641 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=18889#comment-101641 Love your post. Great idea!!

]]> By: The Jenny Evolution https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/#comment-101629 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=18889#comment-101629 In reply to Monica.

Gift giving should always be about what they person wants… not what the person wants to give! And I never feel offended when I get a gift card… it’s honest that they’re not sure what to give or would rather I pick something I actually want 🙂

]]> By: Monica https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/#comment-101614 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=18889#comment-101614 My inlaws (who I love, btw), are collectors of trinkets. Their house is FULL of trinkets. German beer steins. Horse brasses. Little woodland things. Commemorative plates. They could open a flea market. And they think everyone else loves collectible trinkets too. And when you say you DON’T like something, they get it for you for Christmas as a joke. I’m not kidding. They’d rather waste their money on something they KNOW you won’t like rather than thoughtfully spend it on something you DO like, or would use. My husband HATES lawn gnomes (I don’t like them either), so they kept giving him these heinous gigantic ceramic lawn gnomes for Christmas. We lived in a condo. We had no lawn on which to place a gnome, not that I would want to anyway. But my husband, bless his heart, wouldn’t let me throw them out, even though they were awful. So they lived on our bookshelf for years until we moved and they got “broken”.

My mom loves to buy people those little plaques or candle holders that say “Live Laugh Love” on them. This year, I told her that any trinket she gifts me is going straight to the back of the crawlspace. She gave me a prepaid visa card instead :D. It’s hard when you have someone who shows love by giving gifts, because then YOUR house fills up with junk and they get offended if you ask them to just make a charitable donation instead.

]]> By: The Jenny Evolution https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/#comment-101259 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=18889#comment-101259 In reply to Shannon.

Happens to the best of us! And some of my favorite presents have been re-gifts to me 🙂

]]> By: Shannon https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/#comment-101198 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=18889#comment-101198 Great ideas! I have that problem every year!

]]> By: The Jenny Evolution https://mommyevolution.com/what-to-do-with-unwanted-christmas-presents/#comment-101142 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=18889#comment-101142 In reply to Don.

Don — Nooooo!!!! Dads are supposed to get all of the cool gadgets and stuff. Go get what you want (that you didn’t get) and next year… put together a wish list so people will have a better chance of getting it right. Seriously, no one would get what they want for Christmas if they didn’t put together a wish list (and it’s a wish list, not a get list… so it’s not like you know exactly what you’re getting 🙂

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